Two non-governmental organisations {NGOs}, Yapa Environment and Sulabh International Centre for Action Sociology { SICAS}, have started the construction of one million ”Twin Pit” toilet facilities across the country in an effort to end open defecation. The project, which is in collaboration with the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, is also aimed at helping the country to tackle the ...
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Electricity Consumers To Choose Their Own Suppliers By 2023—Energy Commission
Energy consumers will by 2023 choose their own power suppliers as part of reforms to make the power supply subsector more competitive. Per the new arrangement, smaller private entities will be given the license to distribute power regardless of the meter they use. The current system limits consumers to purchase power from only one source including the Electricity Company of ...
Read More »Professor Akosa urges Ghanaians to adopt healthy lifestyle
Professor Agyemang Badu Akosa, former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, has called on Ghanaians to adopt a healthy lifestyle so as to prolong their lives and contribute to national development. He said diseases that have bedevilled the country is as a result of bad eating habits and lack of exercise thereby giving ailments to more room to operate. Prof ...
Read More »We’ll work on Ghana Mental Health LI — Speaker
The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, has assured stakeholders in mental health care that the House will work towards the passage of the Legislative Instrument{LI} on Ghana’s Mental Health Act. Prof. Oquaye made the statement at a stakeholders’ meeting in Accra yesterday, at which a number of speakers expressed worry over the delay in the passage of the ...
Read More »Ghana has 70 per cent more resources in the sea compared to land
Dr Kamal-Deen Ali, the Executive Director of Centre for Maritime, Law and Security (CEMLAWS) has said maritime is critical to national development and should be considered whenever boundaries were being drawn to measure the landmarks within the country. “We have not paid enough attention to maritime and some of the few we have paid attention to, are having declining implications ...
Read More »PWDs receive employment opportunity
A project to create employment and livelihood opportunities for the vulnerable such as people living with disabilities {PWDs}, women and children, has been unveiled in Accra. Named the “Thankful Hearts Project,” it will entail the training of selected persons in mosaic artworks, in partnership with some individuals, corporate bodies and government stakeholders, after which jobs and projects would be secured ...
Read More »Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire close to adopting single cocoa trading system
The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo has revealed that Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire are close to harmonising their system of trading cocoa at the world market. This is to give the two major producing countries some control, at the cocoa market. The harmonisation will help the two countries in their quest take a strong position on ...
Read More »Youth unemployment threatens Africa’s security – Nana Addo to African leaders
President Akufo-Addo wants African leaders to address the growing youth unemployment situation in Africa as it threatens the stability of the continent. According to him, urgent attention is required to tackle the situation which has become a security threat on the continent. Speaking at the opening of the 9th AU High-Level Retreat on the promotion of Peace, Security and Stability ...
Read More »Tarkwa: Police arrest Nigerian woman for trafficking; rescue 10 girls
Police at Tarkwa in the Western region have arrested a Nigerian woman for allegedly trafficking a number of girls from her country to Ghana to engage in prostitution. Victoria Omotayo promised to offer the young ladies lucrative jobs in Ghana because her company was in need of sales girls. “She approached them and her parents and told them that she is a ...
Read More »Businesses urged to give employment opportunities to PWDs
Mr Gyimah Minkah Andrews, Chief Executive Officer of the Nana SKB Foundation, a non- Governmental Organization based in Asokere in the Ashanti Region is encouraging the business community in the country to give employment opportunities to Person with Disabilities(PWDs) as they have a lot of competencies imbedded in them. Mr Andrews who is a visually impaired graduate of the University ...
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