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Over 800 people in Nkawkaw and Asubone Rail in the Kwahu West Municipality has benefited from a free eye screening exercise. A medical team from the Third Eye Care and Vision Center, an optometry center in Accra, on Thursday undertook the…

The government of Netherlands has given government of Ghana €100 million to support the management of liquid waste management in four municipalities towards the attainment of goal 7 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015,…

Mr Cletus Avoka,  Majority Leader, has cautioned Ghanaians not to use the 2012 elections to commit atrocities to mar the democratic dispensation the country has enjoyed over the years. Mr Avoka, who is also the Member of Parliament (MP)…

Some stakeholders in the agricultural sector in the Upper West Region has expressed disappointment about the frequent changes in the formulation and implementation of policies and programmes in agriculture. They advised government to come…

Mr. Cezar Kale, the Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, has said a land dispute between the Sissala and Dagaaba in the Sissala West District is the greatest security threat to the people of the region. He described the situation as being…

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has called for peace as political parties strive for power in elections in 2012. “I pray that despite the keen competition that may ensue from the politicking, there will be no violence or civil…

The Akuapem North District recorded 6,730 teenage pregnancy cases from 2009 to November 2011. The District Director of Health Services, Dr Opare Larbi, who disclosed this at a meeting of the assembly at Akropong on Thursday, described the…

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have released the first draft of a guidance document that aims to help policymakers and government authorities tackle the thorny issue of child…

A driver has diverted more than 600 bags of cocoa, worth GH¢120,000, which were in transit to a warehouse at the Commodity Village at Apowa for onward shipment abroad. The cocoa was being hauled from Enchi in the Aowin-Suaman District in…

The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), is to benefit from an $18 million facility from the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom (UK) to start a Millennium Villages Project (MVP), in 2012.…