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The staff of the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has appealed to the Government to address their poor conditions of service. They are therefore requesting for…

Parliament on Tuesday tasked African Women Leaders Network (AWLN), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) to set-out components of Gender Budgeting as means of shaping government fiscal policy directives. Mr James Avedzi, Chairman of the…

A circuit court in Kumasi has remanded into prison custody a 44-year-old woman for allegedly possessing 20 parcels of leaves suspected to be cannabis. The plea of Akosua Konadu was not taken, to allow for further investigations and samples…

Mr Robert Wisdom Cudjoe, District Chief Executive for Prestea Huni Valley District, has said the Assembly has targeted to include fourteen additional schools in the ongoing school feeding programme. He said the program which started from a…

The World Bank has allocated $2.8 million to the Business Development Service Fund (BDS) this year. Out of the amount, $1.5 million would be released for the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and $1.3 million for the Renewable…

Cabinet has approved a waiver of import duty on vehicles for foreign service officers and Ghanaian international civil servants (GICS). The issue has been a matter of considerable interest to foreign service officers and GICSs (that is,…

A Kumasi Circuit Court on Tuesday granted bail to 22 illegal gold miners to the tune of GH¢8,000.00 each with a surety. They were arrested in a joint military-police operation in the Subriso Nfante Forest Reserve, and have been on remand…

A 37-year old John Eshun, unemployed, has been jailed for 10 years for possessing narcotic drugs by a Takoradi Circuit Court. Inspector Bernard Annor told the court presided over by Mr Kwasi Boakye that on March 22, personnel from the Drug…

The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning has warned Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) that the law would deal with them if they are found using the names of workers who are either dead or who have vacated their…

The National Lottery Authority (NLA) on Tuesday said it was temporally withdrawing the ‘Mobi-Game jackpot’ and ‘Mobi-Game 2sure’ products. The move is to enable the authority to repackage the two products to make it more rewarding and…