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The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MOFAD) and the U.S. Government through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), held a signing ceremony for the fisheries sector’s new Anti-Child Labor and Trafficking Strategy. The strategy outlines the Ministry’s plans to reduce and eventually eliminate child labor and trafficking in the fisheries sector.   The USAID Sustainable Fisheries Management Project ...

The Electricity Company of Ghana Limited (ECG) has announced to its customers and the general public that there would be an interruption in power supply on Thursday, 25 October 2018 from 9 am to 5 pm. A statement issued by the company on Tuesday, 23 October, said: “This is to enable ECG to carry out its maintenance works to reinforce ...

The National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) has directed public universities to remove all staff aged above 65 years from the government payroll. According to a letter from the NCTE to all public universities, only academic staff aged between 60-65 years must be given post-retirement contracts effective October 31, 2018. The letter signed by the Executive Secretary of the NCTE, ...

The Brong Ahafo Regional Police Command has deployed over a 100 police personnel supported by the military, to restore law and order at Drobo, Japekrom and six other communities in the Brong Ahafo Region. The communities were on Thursday slapped with a dawn to dusk curfew after some unknown assailants shot and killed two people from Japekrom and injured several ...

Dr. Herbert Gustav Yankson, Director in charge of Cyber Crime Unit at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) headquarters has noted that Ghana’s vulnerabilities and lack of awareness of risks in the internet space was worrying. He said it was contributory to increases in cyber fraud cases in the country and exposed Ghanaians to risks of on-line attacks to children, increasing ...

M-TEchX Inc, a Japanese Nano Technology Company, is to establish a plant in Ghana to produce Nano fibre for oil and gas and medical cleaning. The company would partner Waste Management companies to collect the plastic waste generated as a raw material for the production of the nano fibre. Nano fibre made from plastics is used for cleaning spillages in ...

The Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have been urged to construct teachers’ bungalows in deprived communities to solve the residential accommodation problems facing them in the country. This would motivate teachers to accept postings to work in rural communities to improve on the standard of education in those areas. Mr. Ebenezer Asare-Baah, the Nkoranza District Secretary of the Ghana ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...