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A $1.3 billion fertilizer project would soon be established at Nyankrom, a village in the Shama District of the Western region. The Ghana-Indian Joint Venture, which is expected to boost agriculture and help increase crop production in…

The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) has banned fishing and farming activities in and around Butuah Lagoon estuary at New Takoradi. A release  issued from the Public Relations Unit of the assembly announced on Thursday said…

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is procuring 80,000 new electricity poles for service connections countrywide to expand access of electricity. A total of 40,000 of the poles have already arrived and the ECG is also acquiring…

The Kotoka International Airport (KIA) has been awarded the Routes Africa Airport Marketing Award for the second time in a row; the first time that an airport has won and retained that award. The award, which was presented at the Routes…

This year’s seminar series of the Food and Agricultural Show (FAGRO) is aimed to advocate measures to address weaknesses in Ghana’s agricultural value chain process. The fourth edition of Ghana’s only Agric Expo, dubbed: "FAGRO 2012", is…

A two-day workshop on African Risk Capacity (ARC) project, which seeks to pull financial resources for African governments to fall upon to manage disasters is underway in Accra. “This would provide African governments with timely, reliable…

Stakeholders in the maritime industry were on Tuesday tasked to come out with strategies and a road-map that would effectively curb the scourge of maritime piracy and insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea. Mr Peter Issaka Azuma, Director…

Government is to pay another $1.3 million judgment debt to a Spanish company, INSOFOTON SA, for a breach of contract, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Deputy Minister of Information has said. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday in Accra, the…

The Fast Track High Court on Tuesday began the open trial of Christian Asem Darkey who allegedly imported 77 parcels of cocaine on board the MV Benjamin when the state produced the fifth prosecution witness. The four earlier prosecution…

Professor Sakyi Awuku Amoa, Former Director-General of the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) is dead. A statement issued by the family said Prof Amoa whose death occurred at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital on Monday July 9, 2012, died after a…