In a drive to continuously support the Creative Arts Industry in Ghana and Africa, Access Bank Ghana Plc has sponsored the Gallery 1957’s Cultural Weekend, started on Friday, 28th and ends on Tuesday, 31st August 2021. Though dubbed Cultural weekend, it is a week-long programme comprising a gallery visit, art fairs, tour of historic monuments …
A delegation of Ghana International Trade and Finance Conference (GITFIC) will tour some West African countries to firm up some collaboration on African trade with regional dialogues. Some of the countries slated to be visited are Nigeria, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Cote d’Ivoire, Togo and Senegal. Mr Selassi Koffi Ackom, Chief Executive Officer of GITFIC, disclosed …
The Krontihene of Sunyani Traditional Council, Oboaman Bofotia Boamponsem II, has maintained that strict enforcement of sanitation bye-laws devoid of political interference could go a long way in dealing with sanitation challenges facing the country. He explained that ensuring strict compliance of sanitation bye-laws by the various District Assemblies as well as imbibing in the …
The Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council (G/A-RCC) has donated various food items and GH¢18,000 to the people of the Kpone Traditional Area to support the celebration of this year’s Homowo festival. Each of the 10 family houses and Osheleroi (two war songs groups) including Ejorshie and Alata, in addition to their GH¢1,000 share of the …
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Tano North Constituency in the Ahafo Region, Dr Freda Prempeh, has challenged members and supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to concentrate and tout the achievements of the party to break the eight-year- political-party-rule cycle as that is surmountable. She threw the challenge while addressing polling station executives …
The National Dean of Presiding Members (PMs), Joseph Korto, has charged his fellow PMs to place premium on education to increase internally-generated funds of the Assemblies to transform communities. “As education is the bedrock of growth and development and the only weapon that society can use to level up, I suggest we intensify education in …
The Head of the International Relations Desk of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alex Segbefia, has asked the Electoral Commission (EC) to stop its confrontational stance and take the proposals made by the NDC aimed at reforming the country’s electoral system seriously. He bemoaned the entrenched position taken by the Commission on the party’s proposals, …
While growing up in the remote village of JINJINI, near Berekum, in the 1960s, one Akanproverb that I found very difficult to understand was: /I Ennye da a wobeto boo atraFirawnampafebesi wo” (Literally translated it is “it is not the day that you will throw a stone across
Tens of thousands of people are fleeing the US state of Louisiana as Hurricane Ida closes in from the Gulf of Mexico. Ida is now a category four hurricane, one below the highest level, with up to 150mph (240km/h) sustained winds. It is expected to make landfall on Sunday, bringing a “life-threatening” storm surge. Ida …
Italian coastguard vessels have rescued 539 migrants from a fishing boat drifting off the island of Lampedusa. The rescue on Saturday delivered one of the largest numbers of migrants to the Italian island in a single day. Women and children were among those on board. Some of the migrants – who had been travelling across …
Another attack on Kabul airport is highly likely, US President Joe Biden has warned, saying commanders have told him it could come as early as Sunday. The state department has urged all US citizens to leave the area near the airport because of a “specific, credible threat”. The US is continuing evacuations but the final UK …
Libya’s interim prime minister (PM) has pushed back against parliament’s threats to withdraw confidence from his unity government, as a burgeoning rift raises fears over the continuing peace process to end years of war. Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, who took office in March, said the eastern-based parliament’s reasons for not approving his repeated budget proposals were …
Mali’s former interim president Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister (PM) Moctar Ouane have been released from house arrest by the authorities who ousted them in May, a committee monitoring the post-coup transition said on Friday. Their detention by military officers in May marked Mali’s second coup since the overthrow of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita the …
Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 19 people in a raid on a village in eastern Democratic Republic (DR) of Congo, local authorities said. The attackers looted houses and started fires in Kasanzi-Kithovo near Virunga National Park in North Kivu province overnight between Friday and Saturday, they said. “I don’t know where to go with …
The Ministry of Roads and Highways (MRH) on Friday inducted local Grievances Redress Mechanism Actors (GRMA), into office at Atebubu in the Bono East Region. Under the Transport Sector Improvement Project, GRMA is aimed at capturing complaints of residents affected by roads construction in the Atebubu-Amantin municipality and addressing them amicably. The actors, included nine-member …
“Books are a bridge between the past and the present and run across cultures and generation,” Mr Abdourahamane Diallo, the representative of United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to Ghana has said. He made the statement at the opening ceremony of the 18th edition of the Ghana International Book Fair (GIBF) in Accra …
A total of 148 new students on Saturday took the oath at the 17th matriculation ceremony of the School of Post-graduate Studies at University of Mines and Technology (UMaT),Tarkwa in the Western Region. Led by the Registrar,Mr Mathew KwabenaOkrah, the students pledged their allegiance to UMaT, to be of good behaviour, conform to regulations and …
A TOTAL of 122 communities in the Nkwanta North District of the Oti Region have now attained Open Defecation Free (ODF) status. This brings to 87.1 per cent the district’s ODF rate. The feat was realised through a USAID-supported Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) for Health (W4H) project and implemented by Global Communities, …
Government must initiate steps to revive the defunct Black Star Shipping Line to create employment for the youth in the country, former Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Nii Armah Ashitey, has suggested. He said the establishment of local shipping line had become necessary to help absorb the graduates and trainees of the Regional Maritime …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says Ghana has tackled the structural challenges that have inhibited the country’s drive towards becoming Africa’s investment hub “This has been done through the implementation of targeted policies across focus areas, such as establishing macro-economic stability, enhancing domestic revenue mobilisation, improving fiscal risk management, and strengthening our business, legal and …
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