Ghana and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have agreed to review bilateral cooperation in various sectors to support the attainment of the Ghana Beyond Aid Vision. To this end, a working group is to be set up at the political and technical levels to draw awork plan to concretise this understanding. This decision was reached when Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of ...

A two- day football competition dubbed ,  Sabon –Zongo Inter Area Football Competition  has ended at Nsawam  in the Eastern  Region with a call on zongo communities to  eschew violence and ensure peaceful coexistence among their neighbours. The gala competition which was organized by the Chief Abdul MajidYakubu of Sabon- Zongo, Nsawam   and his able lieutenants Galadima Alhassan Suleman and ...

Government is being accused of relegating the concerns of Persons with disability to the back-burner following its failure to give attention to several calls to review the persons with disabilities Act 715, 2006, which is deficient in many aspects. According to the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations (GFD), Mind Freedom-Ghana and the Media Caucus on Disability, the current disability law, ...

The vigorous implementation of Ghana’s local content and local participation regulation is not to stifle multinational oil companies but to ensure that contractors use of local companies, service suppliers and workforce as a deliberate business strategy, Chief Executive Officer of the Petroleum Commission, Mr Egbert Faibille has stated. Mr. Faibille indicated that “one of the Commission’s key mandates is the ...

The Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations and member representative organizations of Persons with disabilities are working tirelessly to ensure that bills that do not address their issues are not passed into law. They bemoan their concerns have mostly been relegated to the back burner and thus, time has arrived for them to press for inclusion of their issues into the ...

Professor Yaa Ntiamoah Badu, the Board Chair of the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA), has said education is the most potent tool that could break the poverty cycle in the society. She said education was the surest way to uproot poverty and significantly uplift the masses from their present low socio-economic conditions. Professor Badu said this at a fund raising event ...

Cashew processors have called on the government to impose taxes and levies on the exportation of raw cashew nuts to protect the local cashew processing industry. Aside from the fact that the country did not earn much revenue from the exportation of the raw nuts, the processors said foreigners rather benefited more from the export while they collapsed the local ...

The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has signed an agreement with Appolonia City to build an industrial park within the large-scale urban development. The agreement will see up to 1,000 acres of Appolonia City designated for use by some of Ghana’s leading manufacturing and industrial companies and provide significant employment opportunities for the area. “Signing this agreement aligns with the ...

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) in Yendi, in the Northern Region, has closed its water treatment plant in the town. The shut down follows the low level of the Dakar River where raw water is taken for the production drinking water for thousands of residents. The situation has compelled the residents to buy water at higher prices from private ...

The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture has set up a taskforce to patrol coastal areas to check open defecation along the beaches. The sector Minister, Mrs Catherine Afeku, said the taskforce, which would be headed by workers in charge of dungeons and forts along the coast from the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB), would be pivotal to ensure ...