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Mr Stephen McClelland, Chief Technical Advisor, International Labour Organisation (ILO), has advocated for incentives for poor families in cocoa growing communities to enroll their children in school to curb child labour. He said…

The Child’s Rights International (CRI) in collaboration with Action for Rural Education (ARE) on Tuesday launched a 2012 Civil Society Education Manifesto to guide the next political administration for the period 2013-2016. Mr Ransford…

Eight Ghanaians would attend the forthcoming G8 Summit, scheduled in the US to participate in the 2012 Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security. This is to promote cooperation between Ghana and the G8, towards promoting food…

The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has restructured its revenue generating portfolio to focus more on raking in funds from the landside of Kotoka International Airport  (KIA) instead of the orthodox means of gathering monies. Mrs…

A 21-year old drug peddler caught with 156 wraps of cannabis weighing 435 grammes has appeared before a Kumasi Circuit Court for dealing in drugs. Martin Adongo alias “Kallyx” pleaded not guilty to the crime. Police Chief Inspector Isaac…

The Water Research Institute (WRI) has trained 30 people in fish farming to help manage the two dugouts stocked with 3000 fingerlings  in Mbatinga and Kpabia in the Yendi Municipality. The special breed of tilapia called oreochromis…

Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday announced that government has embarked on a number of programmes that would improve the sheanut industry and uplift women in the country from abject poverty. He said, "Statistics indicate…

The Most Reverend Gabriel Justice Anokye has been appointed as the new Metropolitan Catholic Archbishop of Kumasi by Pope Benedict XVI. This was announced to the clergy and the religious at the Saint Peter’s Basilica by the Apostolic…

The remittance arm of the Jamaican National Building Society, JN Money Services (JNMS), on Tuesday made another strategic move in its investment across the world with the launch of Ghana International Money Transfer Service in Ghana. The…

Ms Vicky Okine, Executive Director of the Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR) on Tuesday appealed to Government, Trade Unions, the private sector and other industrial stakeholders to advocate for the enactment of a Work-Family…