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African states have been called upon to be more proactive in the quest for effective intra-African trade. Prof DeValera Botchway, an associate professor of history at the University of Cape Coast made the call when delivering the keynote address at the 3rd National Rastafari Conference in Ghana. According to Prof Botchway, intra African trade is not new to the continent. ...

Work on the $250-million Terminal 3 project of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) is 91 per cent complete and due to be inaugurated later this year. When completed, the project can handle five million passengers a year, up from the approximately 2.5 million passengers that used to be handled at Terminal 2. The Managing Director (MD) of Ghana Airports Company ...

Ali Baba Awini, the Upper East Regional Administrator of the National Ambulance Service  on Monday appealed to government and NGOs in the country to support the region with ambulances. He said the Upper East Region, with a population of about 1, 124,193, had only two national ambulances serving the entire Region, and that compelled relatives of most referred patients from ...

The President of the Glaucoma Association of Ghana (GAG), Mr Harrison Kofi Abutiate, has called on the government to provide the necessary support to the Association to enable it to hold free medical screening for farmers on every Farmers’ Day. He said this will help the Association contribute meaningfully to national development by creating awareness on the dangers of the disease ...

The Dormaa Poultry Farmers Association has appealed to the government to waive the new 15 per cent Value Added Tax(VAT) imposed on imported day-old chicks. The association pleaded with the government to maintain the old tax of five per cent and scrap the new 15 per cent VAT rate it has started implementing since the beginning of March, this year. ...

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have been put on high alert to deal with any global and regional threats of terrorism, violent extremism, transnational organised crime and human trafficking that continue to threaten the peace and security of nations globally. The General Officer Commanding (GOC) the Northern Command, Brigadier-General Francis Ofori, expressed this readiness of the GAF to deal with any threat of such situation at the ...

The Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has revealed that government will be constructing 570 dams under the One-Village-One-Dam policy initiative. The construction of the dams will begin this year, 2018, according to the Vice-President. Ahead of the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections, the then main opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo made a ...

The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged all Ghanaians to support the Free Senior High School (SHS) Policy of the government. The President at the 65th Speech and Prize-giving Day of Seventh Day Adventist Senior High School, in Bekwai, in the Ashanti Region on Sunday, March 18 said: “If the Free SHS policy is to succeed, and if we ...

Policy Think Tank, the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD), has initiated a framework to deepen social auditing and accountability on projects yet to be executed under the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Program (IPEP). The Centre undertook a monitoring exercise to assess, in particular, the level of stakeholder awareness and knowledge about the IPEP intervention and the work of the ...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the strategy of his government is to expand technical and vocational opportunities at both secondary and tertiary levels, and, thereby, strengthen the linkages between education and industry, as well as empower young people to deploy their skills, to employ themselves and others. According to President, Government is paying critical attention ...