The National Youth Authority (NYA) has urged the youth to develop the habit of volunteerism to advance the socio-economic development of society. In a statement issued on Wednesday to mark this year’s Founders Day celebrations, the Authority entreated young people to build “selfless and patriotic traits that will go a long way to equip them assume roles as productive and [...] The post NYA
The maternity unit of the Tema Polyclinic has operated for about a decade without a blood bank, Dr Sally Quartey, Medical Superintendent of the facility has disclosed. She said pregnant women who suffered hemorrhage during parturition had to be referred to the Tema General Hospital, which was the nearest referral centre, where obtaining blood was sometimes quite challenging. [...] The post Tema
The government yesterday presented assorted items to the Shai Traditional Council at Dodowa in the Greater Accra Region towards the celebration of their annual Ngmayem festival which comes off on Saturday October 6. The items included a bull, bags of rice, cartons of mineral water, crates of alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages, a carton of schnapps and an undisclosed amount [...] The post Govt
A Naturopathic Doctor, Mr Emmanuel Kwame Asenso has drawn a strong linkage between an efficient educational system and a healthy populace. He has thus called for a complete overhaul of the current educational system which he believed was based on foreign and borrowed cultures “if we are to build a healthy society.” Speaking at a news conference to highlight the [...] The post Efficient
The Accra Ridge Church (ARC) Men’s Fellowship has donated items worth GH?3,000 to the Dzorwulu Special School in Accra. It included a gallon of Frytol oil, one box of powdered milk, 24 tins of milk, two bags of beans, one bag of maize, a bag of gari, and two bags of rice. Presenting the items at the school, Captain Samuel [...] The post Church donates to Dzorwulu Special Sch appeared
Nana Ewiamale VI, chief of Akwidaa Industrial Town in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region, has expressed worry over the deplorable state of the only bridge linking five adjoining communities in the area. The wooden bridge, constructed through self-help, has been in a bad state for some time now, posing danger to lives, and all the calls to [...] The post Chief of
Out of 4,198 different diseases in the world, 3,558 are from animals, Dr Bashiru Bio Kikimoto, head of Public Safety at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), has disclosed. He also revealed that, there were 146 zoonotic diseases from cows, 56 from goats, 28 from cats, 29 from dogs and 41 acquired from grasscutters. Dr Kikimoto appealed for support [...] The post Animals cause human
Residents of Asuatuare and Osuwem in the Shai Osudoku District of the Greater Accra Region, as part of activities making this year’s Founder’s Day celebrations, on Friday undertook a clean-up to rid the area of filth. They cleared bushy paths along the Asuatuare-Osuwem road, filled pot holes with gravels, and desilted choked drains in the two communities. The exercise was [...] The post Asuatuare,
The 15th Births and Deaths Registration (BDR) Awareness Creation Day has been launched on the theme: “Early Births and Deaths Registration: The key to providing Legal Identity for all”, on Thursday, in Accra. The day would be preceded by public engagements and climaxed with a national durbar at Agona Nkwanta in the Ahanta West Municipal Assembly, on September 28, 2018. [...] The post Births
The Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) has formed a five-member taskforce, to remove all illegal structures erected on land reserved for road construction in the Ashanti Region. This was in compliance with GHA Act 540 of 1997, which seeks to protect land reserved for the building of roads by the GHA. The team is led by the Regional Safety and Environmental [...] The post GHA
The Regional Commander for Tema Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD), Chief Superintendent Joseph Owusu-Bempah, has cautioned that the police will ruthlessly deal with recalcitrant drivers, who drive carelessly and violate traffic regulations on the stretch. He lamented that drivers violate traffic rules, while others reverse on the motorway, contrary to the Ghana Highway Code. Speaking in an [...] The post Police
Government has been urged to intensify the expansion of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure to rural areas, to empower the people economically. Dr Kwasi Adu-Baohen Opare, a lecturer at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), who made the call, noted that the development of science and technology could help [...] The post Govt
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has hinted of government’s plans to construct the Pwalugu Multipurpose dam in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region to help harvest the annual spillage of the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso which often causes floods in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions. The Vice President dropped the hint at [...] The post Govt to construct Pwalugu
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and Accra Technical University (ATU) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enable the latter use the metropolis as a laboratory for academic work. The AMA would grant ATU access to its offices, sites and data on the metropolis for research and practical purposes as well as create internship opportunities for students and staff. [...] The post AMA,
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), has given a week ultimatum to all manufacturers, importers and retailers to affix tax stamps on their products or face the full rigours of the law. Issuing a final warning in Accra yesterday, the Authority signalled a full scale nationwide enforcement and compliance of the policy, beginning Monday, October 1, 2018. Commissioner General of the [...] The post GRA
The Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has stated that the government will not be forced to take political decision that will throw the economy out of gear. Rather, he emphasised that the government would continue to focus on the fiscal discipline and measures that would help build resilient and strong fundamentals for economy growth. “We will not be forced into [...] The post Govt
The Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has indicated the need for countries to invest in infrastructure and technology in schools in order to create an environment for digital intelligence skills training. Schools and teachers, he said, must collaborate to ensure that in the home, the skills learnt in school are applied by children under parental supervision and guidance. [...] The post Countries
Members of the Ghana National Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union (GNPTDU) yesterday commenced a sit down strike to compel the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to address underground short delivery at filling stations. For close to five hours, members of the union singing war songs refused to load fuel or prevented other gas trucks from loading at Tema Oil Refinery, Fuel [...] The post Striking
A total of 12,811 students were admitted into the University of Ghana last Saturday to pursue various undergraduate and post-graduate degree programmes for the 2017/2018 academic year. Out of the number 11,216 were admitted to undergraduate studies out of which 5,828 representing 52 per cent were males while the remaining 5,388 representing 48 per cent were females. One thousand five [...] The post University
Hajia Laadi Ayishetu Ayamba, Member of Parliament (MP) for the Pusiga Constituency, has called on educational authorities in the district to assign professional teachers to Kindergarten and class one levels. Hajia Ayamba said the perception that Kindergarten and class one pupils were young and do not need professional tuition was wrong, because such levels needed good and strong educational foundation [...] The post ‘Engage
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