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Security officials in Yemen confirm that a boat carrying at least 150 African migrants has capsized off a southern province, killing at least 30 people including five women and children. The officials said on Tuesday that the boat capsized on Sunday off the coast of Shabwa province. They say most of the passengers were Somali migrants. The narrow waters between the ...

A Market Surveillance conducted by the Ghana Standard Authority (GSA) has revealed that 96 per cent of electrical products sold at the Opera Square and Zongo lane, in Accra were counterfeit and failed to meet standards. The Surveillance discovered that, out of the 204 electrical products sampled for laboratory testing, more than 92 per cent of them failed to meet ...

The National Service Scheme (NSS) is set to deploy an enforcement team to all private and public organisations across the country to weed out workers who have not undertaken their mandatory national service. A statement issued by the NSS said the enforcement team would visit both private and public organisations across the country to ensure that Act 426 (1980) of the NSS is complied with, and ...

The National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan-NEIP, under the Ministry of Business Development has announced the call for application under the WINDOW 2 of the NEIP Presidential Business Support Programme. NEIP is a flagship program of the Government of Ghana to support and promote entrepreneurship and business development. NEIP was launched by the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo with a seed ...

Assistant coach of the Black Stars, Maxwell Konadu has emphasized the need for the government to pay attention to grassroots football in the country. Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the Accra edition of the Betway Talent Search tryouts, Maxwell Konadu who expressed excitement with the talents discovered by the initiative made a passionate appeal to the government to ...

Zoomlion Ghana has delivered 500 new waste management trucks to Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDA’s) across the country in a response to government’s agenda of a good environmental health condition within cities. It is projected that the move will create additional 300 direct jobs and 1,000 indirect jobs in various MMDA’s. The trucks, however, are expected to go to ...

Education consists not only in the sum of what a man or woman knows, or the skill with which he or she can put this to his or her own advantage. A man or woman’s education must be measured in terms of the soundness of his or her judgment of people, situations and of things, and in his or her ...

One of the purposes for which God created man was to have him function as His development partner on this earth, the very reason why He created man in His own image and likeness. God is a visionary, imaginative, an awesome creator and innovator, a strategic thinker, long term planner, an efficient organiser, accurate implementer and a brilliant Achiever. All ...

Travellers who cross the Oti River at Dambai in the Krachi East Municipality of the Volta Region risk their lives daily as they cross the river without life jackets. Hundreds of passengers who travel on the Oti River at Dambai stand the risk of losing their lives when a disaster strikes without steps taken to ensure that the boats observe ...

More than 2.8 million Ghanaians, representing about 10 per cent of the population are living in extreme poverty. The vast number are said to be living below the global poverty line of a $1.9 spending a day. According to the report by the World Poverty Clock, real-time data projections show that about 28 Ghanaians escape extreme poverty every hour, giving ...