Breaking News

The Ghana Standard Authority (GSA) and GS1-Ghana, a global organization that specializes in management of barcodes system, has held a joint workshop on standards and labelling requirements for local businesses. The one-day workshop, which assembled manufacturers and retailers, was aimed at providing an avenue for stakeholders to discuss issues related to standardisation and labelling requirements to promote trade. It was also to ...

The Alliance for Development and Industrialization (ADI) is asking the government to establish a US$1billion commodity diversification and alternative livelihood for cocoa farmers as well as the non- traditional export sector in the country. This commodity diversification could triple the country’s agriculture export income within 3 to 4 years. As the country’s export earnings increases it would stabilize the fiat ...

Since Marie Chantal Akingeneye lost her only cow to an unknown illness, she has no source for manure for her fruits and vegetables – but she hopes a new phone app could help. After attending a training by the United Nations, which developed the technology, she thinks the app will help to keep her goats and pigs healthy and modernise ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has said the Germany Ghana Investors Forum is a platform set to boost trade ties between the country and Europe. Mr. Ofori Atta said, “What we’re seeing is a certain clarity with regards to the Compact Africa and how Germany is looking at interventions to make sure that we sustain the type of progress that we ...

Basic schools in the country could study lesser number of subjects from the next academic year, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has hinted. It said the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) has been tasked to carry out the review with a view to reducing them. The review of the subjects would be done at the kindergarten, primary and ...

Figures from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) reveal that 53,114 abortions were supervised in public health facilities in the country in 2017. Unsafe abortion also recorded 13,918 in the same period as compared to 15,325 unsafe abortion cases in 2016, Mr Raphael Godlove Athena, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF), a health-inclined non-governmental organisation, has said. In ...

Most women from Sub-Sahara Africa entering Italy are trafficked for sexual exploitation, an official of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday. According to Mrs. Florence Kim, a Communication Expert at the IOM, the situation between Ghanaian and Nigerian women was not very different, as many of them were engaged in commercial sex work. Human trafficking, she added ...

In his visit to flood-hit areas recently, the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, announced that Cabinet will meet to discuss the construction of the Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam{PMD} on October 1. This is good news and the timing is epic; it were as if Dr Bawumia listened in on the high-level meeting held in Bolgatanga a few days before. At the meeting, ...

The Wa Airstrip in the Upper West Region is virtually wasting away over a year after rehabilitation and expansion works on it were completed for use. So far, it has been limited to presidential flights to and from the regional capital with no sign of the much anticipated commercial flights happening any time soon. Staff at the Airstrip refused to ...

The Ghanaian pilot who historically flew the world’s biggest passenger Aircraft to Accra this week, Captain Solomon Quainoo, has made a passionate appeal to the government to invest more in the country’s aviation industry to help the country produce more local pilots. According to the Emirates Airline pilot, the high cost of educating and training pilots have contributed to the ...