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Agriculture Extension Officers within the Sissala East and West Municipal Assemblies of the Upper West Region are optimistic that, the IFC’s Warehouse Receipt Systems project will help farmers to improve post harvest management. They acknowledged that the WRS initiatives would help farmers to get value for their investment. At the end of a two-day training session held at Tumu in ...

African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina reminded students of the important role they have to play in the continent’s economic development, as he was conferred with an honorary doctorate in his homeland. The Doctorate of Science was awarded by the Federal University of Agriculture in Abeokuta, Nigeria, on Tuesday, in honor of Adesina’s work in agriculture and food security across ...

The UK Government is billed to leave the European Union (EU) officially on the 31st of January, 2020. After the referendum to leave in 2016, the leadership of Boris Johnson is leading the crusade to finally get out of a Union they have been part of for years. The Brexit move has caused two Prime Ministers their job, David Cameron and ...

For two decades, we have been running with the narrative of ‘a Ghana rising.’ Today, it is no longer a narrative but a reality, although in fading shadows. Ghana is now a land of economic freedom where investors from all over the world troop into to start businesses and/or takeover struggling ones that they nurture and build into multimillion-dollar companies ...

Very rich and powerful people in Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Liberia were rendered worthless and their wealth made useless by the wars that broke out in those countries in the past, so, Ghanaians must be careful about what they say concerning the 2020 general elections since their words can be a blessing or a curse for the entire country, ...

The World Trade Centre Accra (WTC Accra)  is expected to  announce a series of activities in support of Government of Ghana’s “Beyond the Return, The Diaspora Dividend” Initiative. The activities will be geared towards highlighting economic opportunities for Africans living in the diaspora and collaborating with Ghanaian public institutions to facilitate participation in these opportunities. Consequently, WTC Accra,a licensee of ...

United States and Ghana continue bilateral efforts in the areas of border, maritime, police peacekeeping, cyber security, and the administration of justice to build capable and resilient security and justice sector institutions.  Three high-level officials – U.S. Department of State Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Kirsten Madison, the U.S. Government’s Security Governance Initiative ...

A maiden national report on child poverty in the country has established that three out of every four children are poor in many ways, a situation the report describes as “multi-dimensionally poor”. The figure translates into 73.4 per cent of the country’s estimated 11.4 million child population. The Multi-Dimensional Child Poverty Ghana Report defines multi-dimensionally poor children as children deprived ...

The Parent Teachers Association (PTA) of the Achimota Preparatory School (APS) in the Greater Accra region have vowed to resist any attempt by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to take over the school. The PTA of APS said the school is a private institution and, therefore, the GES has no right to take over a private entity. In a letter ...

The Executive Director for Nuclear Power Ghana (NPG), Ing. Theo Nii Okai has said that Ghana is set to generate nuclear power by 2030. His comment comes at a time when they are working tirelessly to complete the first phase of the implementation plan by the end of 2020. In an interview with Accra-based Citi FM, the NPG boss said: ...