General News

Ghana has set a replanting target of 30,000 hectares of destroyed forests every year, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Forestry Commission (FC), Mr Samuel Afari Dartey, has announced. This followed the revival of the forest…

Mr Oduro Sarpong, Sales Manager at Antrak Air, a domestic airline on Tuesday discounted claims by some media houses that their aircraft scheduled to fly from Tamale to Accra in the morning had caught fire. He said there had never been a…

Isaac Quayson, a 20-year-old porter has been remanded into prison custody for stealing provisions valued GH¢200 by the Tarkwa Circuit Court. He pleaded not guilty and will re-appear on June 1. Mr Samuel Obeng Diawuo, the judge who…

A $25 million sugar processing factory and a $2 million tomato processing plant, with majority Indian government funding are to be established in the Keta Municipality of Ghana. Discussions are far advanced between the Indian Government…

Mr Bernard Guri, Executive Director, Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development, (CIKOD) has stressed the need for Africa to find solutions to her own food security problems. "We must begin to look for African solutions…

Ghana is hosting a four-day ECOWAS Regional Workshop to examine the role of women in the search for food security in West Africa. It is being attended by representatives of ECOWAS Member States from Ghana, Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger,…

A special land use planning bill has been presented to Parliament by the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology. It seeks to harmonize all laws and Acts that had been in existence in the country to ensure effective planning and…

Registered households in Sunyani Municipality are to benefit from a free distribution of 84,538 pieces of Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LLIN), as part of the national campaign to curb the incidence of malaria. The LLIN hang-up…

Government is sourcing $990 million from the Investment and Commercial Bank of China for rehabilitation works on the Eastern Rail lines; Nsawam to Accra and Achimota to Tema. Another $1.95 billion is being sought from the Exim Bank of…

Mr Mahama Ayariga, a Deputy Minister of Education, was on Tuesday prevented from laying five papers on behalf of Dr Kwabena Duffuor, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning and his Deputies in the House. Mr E. K. Doe-Adjaho, First Deputy…