The Community Development Alliance (CDA-Ghana) has called on government to conduct a thorough audit into the subsidized fertilizer programme introduced in 2017 because it is fraught with widespread irregularities and corruption. The local non-governmental organisation operating in the Upper West Region said it has uncovered mass fraud and smuggling of the fertiliser meant for local farmers after a baseline study ...

Samson A. Asaki, Executive Director of Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana, says the successful implementation of any trade policy must involve the country’s private sector. Speaking at a forum jointly organised by the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation (GATF) and the International Chamber of Commerce Ghana in collaboration with the Ministry of Trade and Industry Tuesday in Accra, he ...

The Archbishop of the Cape Coast Diocese of the Roman Catholic Churc, Most Rev. Charles Palmer-Buckle, has admonished Ghanaians to try and bury their dead within a week. He also urged them to desist from organizing flamboyant funerals to save cost, time and other resources. “Let’s all try our best to bury our loved ones between one week. I believe ...

To establish an Association is not an easy job, and especially when it becomes a journey to undertake. The first major step was taken by the Osagyefo, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, when on August 18, 1961, he and his host, President Liu Shaoqi signed the first FRIENDSHIP TREATY between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Ghana. This was ...

Authorities at the Bechem Government Hospital in the Brong Ahafo Region have to rely on taxis to transfer patients from the hospital to other facilities because of the absence of an ambulance. Bechem Government Hospital, established decades ago, is a major referral facility for patients in the Tano South Municipality as well as communities from the Ashanti Region. The facility ...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is to launch a Human Development Report on Northern Ghana entitled “Bridging the Poverty Gap and Fostering Socio-Economic Transformation for All”. The report explores development challenges and opportunities in Northern Ghana and offers suggestions for poverty eradication in the zone. The Northern Ghana Human Development Report (NG-HDR) is based on a study that investigated ...

Hundreds of patients were today (Thursday) stranded at the Tamale Teaching Hospital where the health professionals are on strike. Despite the arrest and subsequent release of some members of the NPP Kandahar Boys group, the striking health professionals are yet to rescind their decision. The situation has compelled families of some patients on admission to move them out of the referral ...

Regular physical activity lasting 45 minutes three to five times a week can reduce poor mental health – but doing more than that is not always beneficial, a large US study suggests. A total of 1.2 million people reported their activity levels for a month and rated their mental wellbeing. People who exercised had 1.5 fewer “bad days” a month ...

Mr Joseph Homenya, Volta Regional Director of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has asked health facilities in the region to desist from charging members of the National Health Insurance Schemes (NHIS) GHC100.00 for every pint of blood. He also cautioned them against detaining clients of the scheme at the health facilities for their inability to pay for blood used ...

Ninety-seven people including six children below 15 years were killed by the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) disease in the Central Region in 2017. Five teenage pregnant girls also tested HIV positive and were put under strict surveillance to protect their babies from contracting the disease. Mrs Margaret Schandof-Woode, Regional HIV/AIDS Coordinator of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) who announced ...