Cholera cases in the worst affected areas in Accra have begun seeing some level of decline. In the La Dadekotopon area, the infection rate has decline by about 50% in the last thirty days. In the Accra Metropolitan Assembly the number of reported cases has decline by about 20%. Below is an infograph showing details: ...
United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon has appointed Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas of Ghana as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA). Dr. Chambas, a former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Education in Ghana will succeed Said Djinnit of Algeria. A release issued in New York by the ...
More than $1bn (£618m) is needed to fight the West Africa Ebola outbreak – a tenfold increase in the past month, the UN’s Ebola co-ordinator has said. David Nabarro made the announcement as the World Health Organization (WHO) described the health crisis as “unparalleled in modern times”. It has killed 2,461 people this year, half ...
The Minority in Parliament has said Ghana’s economy has deteriorated, despite desperate measures by the Mahama government to arrest the decline. At a News Conference on Tuesday, Minority Spokesperson on Finance, Anthony Akoto Osei, said as a result of the weakening economy, Ghana is heading into Wednesday’s an International Monetary Fund(IMF) bailout negotiations with a ...
Caterers of the of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), could be paid before the end of this week, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the programme, Mr Siiba Alfa has disclosed. He said the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning is working around the clock to ensure the monies owed the caterers are paid. ...
Revelations by the Health Directorate of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) indicates that cholera cases within the metropolis have decreased. According to the Public Health Director of AMA, Dr Simpson Anim Boateng, the vigorous education campaign undertaken by the Metropolitan Assembly has begun yielding some results, hence, the drop in figures. The Accra metropolis has been ...
Vodafone Ghana has announced mouth watering prices for winners of this year’s Vodafone Icons Remix. For the first time in the history of the country’s top-rated music reality show, Vodafone Icons all the top three finalists will enjoy recording contracts and cash prizes. This year, the Vodafone Icons Remix edition winner will walk away a ...
A former Commissioner of the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Short, has stated that the official accommodation of the head of CHRAJ was habitable when he left it. Responding to a Tuesday Daily Graphic publication that said the state had spent $203,500 on rent in 37 months for the CHRAJ boss because ...
Samsung Electronics has been awarded a certification of 20 year lifespan durability from the renowned VDE Testing and Certification Institute for the Samsung Digital Inverter Motor (DIM) and Arno Washing Machine. “VDE is a leading agency for testing electrical equipment in Europe†said Vishwas Saxena, Director for Consumer Electronics at Samsung Ghana. “VDE Life time ...
Two flagbearer aspirants of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have petitioned the leadership of the party to consider re-scheduling the date for the party’s national delegates’ congress slated for October 18. The two, Francis Addai Nimoh and Alan Kyeremanten are pleading for more time to allow them reach out to the larger number of delegates ...
The President and Chief Executive Officer of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, Boo-Keun Yoon has called on the consumer electronics industry to improve their respective industry standards in order for people to meet and adapt to unique needs and lifestyle. “The home of the future is not about the technology, nor is it about being smart ...
ABANTU for Development has, in a report, highlighted gender gaps on policy formulation in the oil and gas industry. Reporting on the Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIAs) using Tullow Oil Plc and Kosmos Energy as case study, ABANTU said it analysis has shown that there is as yet no policy level commitment and direction ...
Growing up there was a peculiar football game the young boys in my area (Mamprobi) played called “Mo kye ndiâ€Â- (share and spend). It was the neighbourhood’s version of the Premier league. The game usually took place at “Indadfa Park†during vacation or Saturdays. In the “Mo kye ndi†game a “manager†had his team ...
The CEO of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has expressed shock that his outfit paid for Black Stars friendly matchess even after the Ghana Football Association (GFA) had received payments from agents for the same matches. Alex Mould, making his first appearance at the ongoing Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Ghana’s participation at the ...
The Trades Union Congress(TUC) has hinted to Citi Business News it will resist any program from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that leads to job cuts in the public sector. Ghana’s economic team is currently locked up in a meeting with the IMF to salvage the country’s ailing economy. The TUC earlier warned government not ...
The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) 2012 presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo has declared zero tolerance for cheating during the next general elections. He said the Electoral Commission (EC) “will find it tough manipulating results” to favour a particular party in 2016. Nana Addo was addressing Northern NPP delegates who gave him 88.5 percent during the party’s ...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that the first round of discussions on a possible IMF-supported programme for Ghana will last for ten days. The discussions will begin on Tuesday September 16 and end on September 25, 2014. The IMF team, led by Joël-Toujas-Bernaté begun talks with the Ghana team which is led by ...
Jealousy can be a problem in any type of relationship and can appear in anyone’s life at any time. You can have jealousy with other people’s things, their success, their beauty, their athletic prowess, their relationship, their kids, their education, their money, and their life. It can be a tiny feeling in your gut or ...
The Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Lauretta Vivian Lamptey has disclosed that she was willing to live in her uncompleted official residence to save the Commission from spending a whopping sum on a rented apartment. Lauretta Lamptey explained on the Citi Breakfast Show that she was forced to rent ...
Day 20 of the sittings of the Justice Dzamefe Commission revealed that a Brazilian agency was paid almost $20,000 in commissions by the Ghana 2014 World Cup Planning Committee for giving directions to a Brazilian supermarket where ingredients could be bought for cooking meals for supporters during the World Cup. This information emerged from ...
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