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Agric Minister, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto as cited the low welfare of smallholder farmers as the leading challenge to improving crop yields in Ghana. The minister, at the Leadership for Agriculture Forum, has revealed that some radical programs will be adopted in the coming weeks to make Ghana’s smallholder farmers well-resourced and competitive. “Our smallholder farmers are one of the poorest ...

Ghana has not yet put in place contingency measures to safeguard its citizens in South Africa despite escalation of xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals, including Africans living in that country. Outbreak of xenophobic violence has in the last week seen South Africans loot foreign-owned shops. One person is reportedly shot dead with several others injured in parts of the southern ...

Prices of various petroleum products have started going up from Monday after the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) were directed by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to start applying revised Energy Sector Levies. The NPA’s directive is as announced in the Supplementary Budget presented by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Attah. Based on the revision petrol would witness a ¢0.20 adjustment, while Diesel ...

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has asked the government to re-table the Conduct of Public Officers Bill in Parliament for passage. The commission said doing that would show the government’s commitment to the fight against corruption, so that it would not be seen as merely paying lip service to the campaign. The Conduct of Public Officers ...

Three men have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the shipment of some 59 AK-47 assault rifles from Accra to Walewale in the North East Region. The suspects were picked on Friday, August 30, at Nsakina near Ablekuma in the Greater Accra Region. They are reported to be part of a highly networked syndicate that buys weapons and sends them to ...

The Energy Commission (EC) has expressed concern over the alarming rate at which climate change is causing damage to the country’s energy infrastructure, threatening to disrupt the stability of power supply. It said rising sea levels and storm surges in the coastal areas were damaging pillions that carried high tension cables and thermal plants that provided 58 per cent power ...

The Chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), Dr Steve Manteaw, has raised concerns with the overall management of the country’s oil revenue, calling on the government to publicly explain how the money was being used. According to him, although the country’s law states that 70 per cent of the revenue should go into capital expenditure, the chunk ...

The counter-terrorism division of the police has arrested nine members of a highly sophisticated and armed land guard syndicate. The gang engaged a fierce gun battle with the police at Kokrobite, a suburb of Accra, on Friday afternoon. There were no casualties but the police say the fighting went on in the open for more than two hours before police subdued them. ...

An academic and legal practitioner, Mr Ernest Kofi Abotsi, has condemned bullying in schools, saying it should be discouraged because it destroys the future of students. “Bullying demoralises students and destroys the ego and confidence of others.   The scars of bullying have been physically written on some and psychologically imprinted on the minds of others,” he said. Anniversary lecture ...

Director, Technology Programme at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Professor Samuel Mensah Sackey has called on the Government to help establish Ghana’s maiden Technology Park at KNUST, to help transform the nation into major technology giant. A Technology Park is an area where companies have offices and laboratories and do work involving science and technology. Prof Sackey ...