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Strategic Roadmap Needed To Address Sanitation Condition – Minister

Kofi Adda

Mr Kofi Adda, the Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, says a strategic roadmap is required to address sanitation conditions in the country. “The Ministry is a new one and things cannot happen overnight, but in order to have everything right systematically, there is the need for a strategic road map,” he said. To this end, Mr Adda has called ...

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Government Stands To Lose Over Ghc274 Million Revenue If…

Government of Ghana stands to lose over two hundred millions Ghana cedis revenue from the mining operations of RCP quarry concession at Ablekuma in Accra if concrete measures are not put in place to enforce existing rules and regulations with law and order. The RCP, a quarry company was established in 1999, and commenced business operation on January 1st 2000, ...

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30 per cent deliveries in Ghana occur among teenagers

Dr Leticia Adelaide Appiah

The Executive Director of the National Population Council, Dr Leticia Adelaide Appiah has expressed concern over what she says are the escalating Ghanaian population and reproductive health issues. According to her, many Ghanaian teenagers are getting pregnant particularly along the coastal communities, explaining that 30 per cent of women who are delivered of babies in the country are teenagers. Statistics She ...

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Tax Compliance Key To “Ghana Beyond Aid” Push

The Manager of the Asokwa Small Taxpayer Office of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Mr. Sakyi Duodu, says voluntary tax compliance is vital to government’s push towards “Ghana beyond aid”. Every income earner should accept to voluntarily pay their tax to achieve this vision. Mr. Duodu identified taxation as the lifeblood of every economy and said the economies of the ...

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Women’s group builds farmers capacity on ecological Farming

Environment and Agriculture Farmers Association of Ghana (EAWAG) in collaboration with the Department of Gender and Climate Change of the University of Energy and Natural Resources, (UENRY) Sunyani, have organized a day’s capacity building training workshop on Ecological farming for selected women farmers within Sunyani West District. The Workshop which was held on the theme “Improving Farmers Knowledge on Ecological ...

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CSOs demand compensation packages for relatives of deceased

Civil Society Organizations working within the Ahafo Mine catchment area of Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL) are calling on government to ensure that adequate compensation packages are paid to the families and relatives of the deceased persons. While condemning the disaster that occurred at the Company’s plant site recently, killing six people and injuring four others, the Civil Society Organizations ...

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NaBCo will restore the self-esteem of graduates – Akufo-Addo

Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has urged unemployed graduates to sign up to the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo) programme to assist with the public sector service delivery in the country. According to him, the programme, aside giving graduates the opportunity to help build the country, would also enhance their dignity and self-esteem. Launching the NaBCo programme in Kumasi as part ...

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Amend Labour Act to prevent frequent lay-offs—TUC

  The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has described the frequent redundancy at workplaces as a worrying development in many working environments in the country. It has therefore called on the government to amend the country’s Labour Act, Act 651 to help protect Ghanaian workers from exploitation, mainly by foreign-owned firms. Speaking at the May Day celebration in Accra on behalf ...

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