The Navrongo-Bolgatanga Catholic Diocesan Development Office (NABOCADO) has constructed a solar mechanized farm for rural women in Gorogo in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region. The intervention is to empower rural women by providing them with an alternative livelihood, through irrigation farming, to enhance their income levels and reduce rural-urban migration. Speaking at […] The post NABOCADO
The Northern Advocacy Centre for Peace and Climate Change [NACPaCC] has called for collaborative efforts in accelerating afforestation in the country. NACPaCC is currently collaborating with the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources on their Greening Ghana project where various tree seedlings are being planted in the Savannah Region. Also, NACPaCC has initiated some programs […] The post Collaborative
The Northern Advocacy Centre for Peace and Climate Change [NACPaCC] has called for better collaboration among various stakeholders in accelerating afforestation in the country. NACPaCC is currently collaborating with the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources on their Greening Ghana project where various tree seedlings are being planted in the Savannah Region. Also, NACPaCC has […] The post Collaboration
There was no show in court at the trial of the embattled Member of Parliament for Assin North, Mr James Gyekye Quayson over his citizenship suit. This was because Mr Quayson is yet to be served with the motion-filled by his Counsel, Mr Abraham Amaliba to withdraw his services. At the last court hearing, the […] The post No show at hearing of Assin North MP’s
An Australian family living in Ghana has donated educational materials to help promote quality education in the rural areas of the Lower Axim Traditional Area in the Western Region. The siblings, Jeremy List, Cameron List, and Joshua List, who live in Ghana, presented one hundred and eighty (180) sets of stories, reading and textbooks, fifty […] The post Australian
In response to the growing mistrust and scams within the e-commerce space, a new Mobile Money escrow service known as Move Secure by Nsano, has been launched to facilitate safe and secure transactions on Mobile Money. The service operates by “holding money in trust till both vendor and buyer” confirm their satisfaction with a transaction, […] The post Tech
Over 2.18 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered worldwide so far, figures compiled by Our World in Data showed on Tuesday. China leads the global count with over 794.13 million jabs, followed by the US with 302.85 million, according to the tracking website. India has administered 236.19 million shots, Brazil 71.69 million, the […] The post Over
The Lands Commission has dismissed claims of the existence of a ‘Shadow Search’ syndicate operating under its watch. According to the Commission, its official search services are to help facilitate applicants’ land transactions and can be accessed through the commission’s Client Service Unit. “The Lands Commission wishes to state emphatically that, there is nothing known […] The post There’s
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reiterated the need for all Ghanaians to get involved in the 2021 National Population and Housing Census. President Akufo-Addo insists the involvement of all Ghanaians will help the government in decision-making. He therefore charged opinion leaders in various communities to rally their people to participate in the exercise. […] The post We’ll
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reiterated the need for all Ghanaians to get involved in the 2021 National Population and Housing Census. President Akufo-Addo insists the involvement of all Ghanaians will help the government in decision-making. He therefore charged opinion leaders in various communities to rally their people to participate in the exercise. […] The post We’ll
The Appointments Committee of Parliament will continue the vetting of Deputy Ministerial nominees later today, Wednesday, June 9. In all, four nominees are expected to be questioned today. The exercise will begin with the public hearing for a Deputy Minister-designate for Interior, Naana Eyiah Quansah, Deputy Minister-Designate for Transport, Hassan Tampuli, Deputy Minister-designate for Finance, […] The post John
The Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, and his colleague North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, are in disagreement over the status of former’s questions on President Akufo-Addo’s alleged luxurious foreign travels. It emerged from some Parliamentary documents on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, that the North Tongu MP had put in two questions; one […] The post Afenyo-Markin
The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, is of the view that the Speaker of the 8th Parliament, Alban S.K. Bagbin, has been more accommodating of both sides of the house than the immediate past Speaker, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye. In an interview on Face to Face on Citi TV, Mr. Ablakwa […] The post Bagbin has been a more accommodating Speaker
A major outage has affected a number of high profile websites including Amazon, Reddit and Twitch. The UK government website – gov.uk – was also down as were the Financial Times, the Guardian and the New York Times. Cloud computing provider Fastly, which underpins a lot of websites, said it was behind the problems. The […] The post Websites begin to work again after
A 27-year-old hairdresser, Hilda Asomani, is in the grips of the Sunyani Police Command for allegedly stabbing her husband, 30-year-old Prince Aboagye, to death at Abesim in the Sunyani Municipality of the Bono Region. According to the Sunyani Municipal Police Command, a misunderstanding ensued between Hilda Asomani and her husband, whom she accused of dating […] The post 27-year-old
Parliament’s Appointments Committee has finally recommended for approval, the nomination of Andrew Egyapa Mercer as a Deputy Energy Minister. A Committee member earlier insisted on the suspension of the nomination due to some unfavorable answers to questions posed by members of the Committee in relation to the botched PDS deal in which he acted as […] The post Appointments
Details claiming to reveal how little income tax US billionaires pay have been leaked to a news website. ProPublica says it has seen the tax returns of some of the world’s richest people, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett. The website alleges Amazon’s Mr Bezos paid no tax in 2007 and 2011, while […] The post Tax details of US super-rich allegedly leaked
A member of Parliament’s Appointments Committee, Mahama Ayariga has dismissed claims that the minority caucus on the Committee has made a u-turn to approve a deputy energy minister nominee, Andrew Egyapa Mercer. According to him, the minority never took a decision to stop Egyapa Mercer’s approval but rather asked for time to deliberate on some […] The post We
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