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Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck Germany, in partnership with Ghana’s First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has launched a campaign to overcome the stigma associated with infertility among women. The “Merck More Than a Mother” campaign would leverage on the power of the mass media to educate and help everybody to have better understanding of fertility issues. It would ...

The Goaso District office of the Forestry Services Division( FSD) of the Forestry Commission has impounded about 3,000 chainsaw machines used by illegal operators to fell trees within forest reserves in the area over the past one year. Also impounded are 18 motorbikes, while 23 persons, who were arrested by a special task force, have either been jailed or fined ...

The Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mr Joseph A. Whittal, contends that the country will lose the fight against corruption if its leaders fail to take steps to strengthen statutory anti-corruption institutions. He also said it was needless to set up more bodies to fight corruption, adding that the legal framework establishing statutory anti-corruption ...

The Managing Director/CEO of Zeinth Bank Ghana, Mr Henry Oroh, has said that the recent recapitalisation exercise that has seen 23 banks increase their minimum stated capital to GH 400 million will increase competition in the industry which will subsequently drive interest rates down. He said the recapitalisation exercise meant that every bank was now a big bank and ready ...

Tax expect and Managing Partner of Ali-Nakyea and Associates, Mr Abdallah Ali-Nakyea, has urged the government to fully operationalise the National Single Window and Paperless regime at the country’s seaports. This, he said, would help the government achieve its ambitious target of GH¢7.42 billion from import duty this year. “Granted that the National Single Window and Paperless Port System will ...

A US-based non-profit organisation headquartered in Ghana, the Amazing Grace Children’s Foundation (AGCF), has organised a medical outreach with the aim of promoting maternal and infant health. The medical screening took place at Jamestown and Odorkor-Otaten in the Ablekuma South and the Ablekuma North municipalities, respectively, in Accra from January 7-9, this year. The AGCF undertook the exercise in collaboration ...

Fast population growth offers some great investment opportunities, but the west is missing out. During the past decade, China has been investing a lot of money in sub-Saharan Africa: Some Western observers worry that this represents a new form of colonialism. Given the continent’s history with European conquerors and rich countries trying to cheaply exploit its natural resources, that suspicion ...

The Ministry of Education is planning to introduce a placement system for the admission of students to tertiary institutions. The new system will replace the current stressful and expensive system where applicants purchase separate application forms for each university. The proposal for the adoption of the centralised system was submitted by a nine-member committee the ministry set up to holistically ...

The Municipal Chief Executive for Sagnarigu and President of REFELA Ghana Chapter, Hon Iddrisu Mariam has reiterated the committed of government in addressing issues that affects women development and empowerment. According to her, the intentions of government is to bring women vulnerability to a halt through deliberate initiatives and programmes to protect women rights and empower them, adding that, Ghana ...

Madam Cynthia Mamle Morrison, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), has expressed concern over the increasing rate of teenage pregnancy in the Central Tongu District of the Volta Region and called for stiffer punishment for perpetrators. Reports from the Ghana Health Service for 2016 and 2017 indicated that teenage pregnancy in the District increased from 490 to 522 ...