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World Vision Ghana supports flood victims

World Vision International Ghana (WVIG) has begun distributing relief items to flood victims in the Northern Region. In all, WVIG is targeting to present 1,000 pieces of 30 litre water storage containers, 1,000 pieces of 20 litre buckets for water purification, 1000 sieving mesh, 2,251 laundry and bathing soaps and 331,700 P&G water purifiers. This intervention, which forms part of ...

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Ghana launches online mall to create jobs

The Ministry of Business Development has launched a digital platform, Ghana Online Mall, to create jobs and also serve as a start up for micro, small and medium scale businesses in the country and to revamp marketing opportunities for the private sector. An initiative under the ministry’s National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan (NEIP), the Ghana Online Mall will also serve ...

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Corruption is the greatest evil – Socioserve-Ghana

Corruption is the greatest evil of our time and has become a household name in Ghana, Mrs Josephine Sackey, Chief Executive Officer, Socioserve-Ghana, has stated. She said every Ghanaian whether old or young now agrees that corruption had eaten deep into our society. “Corruption widens inequality, creates distortion and destroys all constructive efforts at good governance in any society and ...

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More individual efforts and collective commitment to end hunger

Bukar Tijani

The FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa, Bukar Tijani, says individual efforts and collective commitment at all levels will propel the Africa region in meeting the Zero Hunger targets of the pan-African 2025 Malabo Declaration and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. “As individuals, we have to take concrete actions to end hunger, poverty and malnutrition,” he said, further ...

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We must use oil to promote inclusive growth

The petroleum industry is one of the largest and most important sector of Ghana’s economy measured in terms of value addition, revenues to government, investments and export value. It is, therefore, essential that the way the industry is organised and the division of roles and responsibilities take all important public interests into account and ensure that value creation from petroleum ...

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E/R: 293 die in road crashes; 1,600 injured in 2018

Latest statistics from the Motor Transport and Traffic Department (MTTD) indicate a total of 293 died through road crashes between January and September 2018 in the Eastern region. This is against 270 recorded same period in 2017. Also, a total of 1,615 were injured during the same period in 2018 as compared to 1,515 recorded in 2017. To this end, ...

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Mobile Money Interoperability transactions exceed 1m mark

Latest data from Ghana interbank Payment and Settlement System has seen Mobile money interoperability record over 1.1 million volume of transactions, five months after its inception. According to the latest data, over 1.1 million transactions were recorded at the end of September. The total value of cross-network transactions amounted to about 99.3 million Ghana cedis In its first month of ...

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Cases of FGM still common in Brong-Ahafo

Cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) are still common in parts of the Brong-Ahafo Region despite intensified public campaign to eradicate the practice. Mrs Joyceline Adii, the Regional Director of the Department of Gender, said this in a meeting with journalists over the weekend. The perpetrators, mostly aged women, according Mrs Adii, have changed their modus operandi as they transported ...

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“Let’s condemn child marriage outright” – Sissila East MCE

Sissala East Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Karim Nanyua has called on stakeholders in the Upper West Region to denounce forced marriage including teenage pregnancy to allow young girls receive better education for holistic development. He said promoting empowerment of the girl child to overcome their challenges and also meet their needs in life could only be attained when their fundamental ...

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Ghana urged to remove death penalty from its laws

Mr Robert Akoto Amoafo, the Country Director of Amnesty International Ghana has disclosed that as at the end of 2017, there were about 160 prisoners on death row. He said they comprised 154 men and six women who remained locked up under death sentence at Nsawam prison complex. Mr Amoafo who recently mentioned this during this year’s Day Against Death ...

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