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Ashanti Records More Teenage Pregnancies

The low level of reproductive health education is a contributory factor to teenage pregnancies. A total of 6,269 teenage pregnancies were recorded in the Ashanti Region between January and June this year, Dr. Kwasi Yeboah-Awudzi, Deputy Regional Director of Public Health, Ghana Health Services (GHS), has disclosed. Out of this, 192 fell below age 14. The region also recorded 12,723 ...

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Poultry farmers urged to apply right nutrients

Poultry farmers have been admonished to provide their birds with the right feed to ensure healthy and optimal growth of their birds in order to boost the poultry industry and their incomes. They have also been encouraged to adhere to best poultry production practices and seek information from relevant institutions to help them improve on their business. The Deputy Chief ...

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Bagbin given 4days to apologize to PWDs

The Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations {GFD} has given the MP for Nadowli West Constituency and Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin an ultimatum of 4 days starting from today  to come out and render an unqualified apology to persons with disabilities and the people of Ghana. The demand by the GFD followed what many described as reckless statement ...

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China’s investment in Ghana hits three billion Dollars

Mr Shi Ting Wang

Ghana’s exports to China increased by 41.3% last year.  China’s non-financial direct investment to Ghana reached US$3.213 billion by the end of 2017, involving electricity, aviation, building materials and other fields said Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, H.E Shi Ting Wang. Today, China is the largest trading partner of Ghana. The trade volume between the two countries has soared from less ...

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Ghana loses 7% of GDP to psychological distress

Chairperson of the Ghana Psychological Council Professor Angela Ofori Atta says Ghana loses 7% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to psychological distress cases. She made this revelation at the 4th Scientific Conference held at UPSA in Accra. According to Professor Ofori Atta, the loss is because the nation is not taking mental well-being as seriously as it ought to. ...

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Post us by August or face street protests – Unemployed Nurses

Unemployed nurses have given government an August 2018 deadline to post them or face unabated street protest dubbed ‘one million walks’ through the principal streets of Accra to the Jubilee House, the seat of government. “If eight (8) months into the year, the government is unable to employ a single nurse, how convincing is it that over twenty-seven thousand (27,000) ...

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Govt to earn US$100m annually from E-Waste project

The government is expected to rake in an annual revenue of US$100 million from the electronic waste project which involves the responsible collection and recycling of electronic waste. The project, which is in partnership with Societe General De Surveillance SA (SGS), is also expected to create over 20,000 full-time jobs for the youth within the first year of implementation. The ...

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Local Assemblies must help tourists stay in host communities -GTA

Mr Akwasi Agyeman

 Mr. Akwasi Agyeman, Chief Executive Officer, Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has urged local Assemblies to invest in social amenities at tourist sites to encourage guests to stay in host communities. He said the lack of accommodation and toilet facilities compelled tourists to live outside host communities, which negatively affected the local economy of such communities and the Assemblies. Mr Agyeman ...

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Engage children before rolling out child-based interventions

Mr Bright Appiah

The Executive Director of Child Rights International{CRI}, Mr Bright Appiah, has called on the government to enagage with children before rolling out social intervention programmes that target them as beneficiaries. He said half of the challenges that had characterised the educational sector, in particular, could have been avoided if children, who were the beneficiaries, had been involved in planning the ...

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Kofi Annan was the United Nations – Guterres

Mr Antonio Guterres, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, says the late Kofi Annan was an embodiment of the UN, and has expressed profound sadness at the news of his passing. “In many ways, Kofi Annan was the United Nations. He rose through the ranks to lead the organisation into the new millennium with matchless dignity and determination,” he said. The UN ...

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