There is more hope for entrepreneurs in the agribusiness space in scaling up their business operations. The assurance is coming from Absa Bank Ghana which is ever-ready to provide financial and technical assistance for such enterprises including start-ups to thrive and boost the local economy. Head of Agribusiness at Absa Bank Ghana, William Nettey on […] The post ‘Come
A Deputy Attorney General-designate, Mr. Alfred Tuah-Yeboah has opposed calls for the abolishment of the death penalty from Ghana’s statutes. The nominee believes Ghana is not yet at the level where it will do away with such a law. Groups like Amnesty International Ghana has called on President Akufo-Addo, the Attorney General, and other stakeholders […] The post Deputy
The Inspector General of Police (IGP) James Oppong-Boanuh has met with officials of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) over recent attacks on officers providing security for vehicles carting money. Citi News sources say the engagement was meant to finalise deliberations on the replacement of Soft-Skinned Cash-in-Transit vehicles with armoured-plated ones. The said meeting comes on […] The post IGP
The Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Agrocenta, Francis Obirikorang is urging people interested in venturing into agriculture to conduct enough research and consult widely before venturing into the space. According to him, many people fail in agribusiness because they fail to do due diligence before investing in farming. Mr. Obirikorang, speaking on the topic, […] The post Agribusiness:
A retired police officer and Member of Parliament for Wa West, Peter Lanchene Toobu says the recent attack on a bullion van at Jamestown in Accra is not surprising because it is an effect of a systemic challenge. He said the lack of communication and collaboration between the Bank of Ghana and the Ghana Police […] The post Bullion van robbery incident
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, released the list of Deputy Ministers for his second term. In all, President Akufo-Addo named 39 persons as Deputy Ministers. In the said list, the President nominated two persons for the position of Deputy-Minister Designates for Attorney General and Justice. They are Mr. Alfred Tuah-Yeboah and […] The post Profile
A former Member of Parliament for the Okaikoi North Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Fuseini Issah, has asked the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), to sit up and deal with increasing cases of armed robbery in parts of the country. According to him, these incidents are quite troubling for the country and must be tackled […] The post Attack
The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon Alban Bagbin, has urged the government and other stakeholders in the country’s education sector to find innovative ways of imbibing the habit of reading into the younger generation. According to him, the time is now for such initiatives to be taken. The Speaker insists the decline in reading culture […] The post Revive reading
The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon Alban Bagbin has charged the government and stakeholders in the country’s education sector to find innovative ways of imbibing the habit of reading into the younger generation. According to him, the time is now for such initiatives to be taken. The Speaker insists the decline in reading culture amongst […] The post Bring
A Non-Governmental Organisation, Afrika Nyorn Organisation, has called for the involvement of boys in menstrual hygiene education to enable them to better position themselves to assist their sisters and partners. The founder of Afrika Nyornu Organisation, Mrs Gifty Maloe Nartey said both sexes should be engaged in issues of menstrual hygiene and should not be […] The post Involve
The President of the Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG), Dr. Akurugu Bingana says negotiations with government on their conditions of service will begin on June 29, 2021. According to him, the association was able to secure a letter to this effect after a meeting with the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations amidst […] The post TUTAG
A new report by Afrobarometer measuring the progress of countries towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has found that bribery is worsening in Ghana. The report further found that Ghana is not making progress in increasing access to health care, neither is it making progress in bridging the gender gap in unemployment. […] The post Bribery,
Ghana will from Tuesday 15th June to Saturday 19th June, 2021, host the mid-year statutory meetings of the Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS). Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, who announced this at a press conference in Accra on Monday June 14, 2021, said the meetings will be […] The post Ghana
Global businesses, donors and governments have each pursued a Green Revolution agenda in Africa, Asia and South America since the 1960s. Its aim was, in theory, to produce more food, reducing food insecurity and poverty. This was done via improved seed varieties, chemical fertilisers and other agrochemicals. However, rates of hunger continued to increase alongside […] The post Ghana’s
The Accra Regional Police Command says it has swung into full action to track down and arrest the perpetrators of Monday’s fatal robbery incident that took the life of a police officer and a trader at James town in Accra. The incident comes at a time when there is heightened public concern particularly over the […] The post ‘We’ll work to arrest
Some banks across the globe have responded to the pandemic by focusing on employee and customer health, payment relief and immediate business stabilisation (capital preservation, in particular). For the majority of organisations, sustainability became less of a priority, or was, at the very least, relegated to the bottom of the boardroom agenda. Despite this, many […] The post Banks
Senegalese President Macky Sall has called for urgent action after at least eight people died off the beaches in the capital Dakar. “The death of young people by drowning on the beaches of Malika is intolerable,” he said in a statement on Twitter. Seven bodies were recovered on the beach on Sunday, and one was […] The post Senegal president seeks action over beach
The government of Ghana has acknowledged the difficulties in acquiring COVID-19 vaccines to vaccinate a chunk of the population. It says the scarcity of vaccines is not a peculiar challenge to only Ghana, but other countries across the globe and Africa in particular. In the wake of the scramble for vaccines for the COVID-19 inoculation, […] The post Scarcity
The Minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has blamed the increasing reports of armed robbery incidents in parts of the country on what he calls a “breakdown in law and order.” Haruna Iddrisu’s assertion comes on the back of the latest robbery attack in broad daylight on Monday, June 14, 2021, leading to the killing of a […] The post Increasing
The General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has petitioned the Director of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Ken Yeboah, over a video accusing him of being involved in illegal small scale mining popularly known as ‘galamsey’ in Ghana. According to him, the said video claims that together with some supposed […] The post John
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