Farmers in the Northern Region have lamented bitterly about the rate at which their produce get spoilt and wasted at the various farms due to the bad nature of roads in the region. Earlier, a diesel man truck loaded with yams with registration no. BA 93 P, which was travelling from Bimbilla to Kumasi, capsized after getting stuck in the ...
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Do African Leaders Listen At All?
All across the continent, there seems to be a simmering movement among young people to challenge their leaders because of unemployment. Sadly, from the body language, utterances and policy announcements, it does not look like the governments are providing the answers. This is because they are not listening. But, if they cannot see, don’t they hear? Should they wait till ...
Read More »Traders losing hope as gov’t loses hold on Cedi
A sluggish Ghana Cedi coupled with an apparent weak foreign exchange law is a potentially calamitous combination, traders worry. The Ghana Cedi trades on the interbank market at ȼ4.94 to $1, and sells at ȼ5 on the black market eating away the capital of exporters, importers and automobile spare parts traders. It is becoming increasingly difficult to do business because ...
Read More »UNICEF calls for health infrastructure in Bolga as 611 mothers died at birth in 2017
About 611 women died at birth at the Upper East Regional Hospital in 2017. This was more than 4 times the number that died in 2016. Medics at the hospital blame this mainly on the lack of health facilities to handle the increasing number of referral cases that the hospital receives. “We are doing our best but the pressure that ...
Read More »Stop Fronting For Foreign Companies – Amewu Tells Local Firm
John Peter Amewu, the Minister of Energy, has advised indigenous Ghanaian companies to stop becoming frontiers for other international companies in the oil industry. He said fronting for international companies had become “so common that the bases of Ghanaians becoming participants of the industry had been denied and the international Oil companies see us as people who are joking”. Mr. ...
Read More »GRA Develops App To Check Abuse Of Temporary Vehicle Importation
The Ghana Revenue Authority Customs Division says it has developed a new mobile application to help check the abuse of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Protocol on Temporary Vehicle Importation (TVI). Known as the Vehicle Importation Monitoring System, the new application helps to identify uncustomed cars that come into the country with TVI. The ECOWAS Protocol allows ...
Read More »Punish Judges Who Deliver Poorly – GBA President
The Ghana Bar Association has called on the Judicial Council to be bold and Sanction Judges who deliver atrocious judgements. According to the association, atrocious judgements make it difficult for the citizenry to repose confidence in the judicial system of the country. Speaking at the 2018/19 Annual General Conference of the Association in Koforidua in the Eastern region, President of ...
Read More »GNECC Calls on stakeholders to Support Roll-Out of Double-Track System
The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has observed with concern, the reaction of various stakeholders, especially the media in the wake of the release of SHS placements as part of the roll out of the double track system. GNECC wishes to submit that, “the design and consultative stages of the double track policy is over. All stakeholders with divergent ...
Read More »Re-examine mindset on Charity-Archbishop Naameh
To promote the mission of charity in Ghana, Most Rev. Philip Naameh, Metropolitan Archbishop of Tamale and President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference called on the Church to show leadership in championing charity works. He made the called in Accra during the opening of the National Conference on Integral Human Development, on the theme “The Church in Ghana Today, ...
Read More »We’re ready for double track system – CHASS
The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), has indicated its preparedness ahead of the implementation of the newly introduced double track system. The new system, which begins on Tuesday, September 11, 2018, is expected to create space to accommodate more students due to an increase in enrollment. It is also expected to reduce class size, increase contact hours, ...
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