Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced that he will not run in a ruling Liberal Democratic Party leadership race later this month, setting the stage for his replacement after just one year in office. “Running in the race and handling coronavirus countermeasures would have required an enormous amount of energy,” he told reporters in Tokyo …

A defrocked US Roman Catholic cardinal has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy in the 1970s. Theodore McCarrick, 91, entered the plea at a court in Massachusetts, where he faces indecent assault and battery charges for the alleged 1974 incident. The former Washington DC archbishop is thought to be the highest-ranking US …

Heavy fighting continues between the Taliban and resistance forces in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley as the armed group tries to seize the last holdout province. Resistance fighters said on Sunday that they captured hundreds of Taliban troops as well as their equipment and vehicles. Afghanistan: Panjshir forces claim hundreds of Taliban captured Afghanistan: Mullah Baradar promises ‘inclusive’ government …

The newly reconstituted governing council for the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) was on Friday inaugurated, with a call on members to guard against ‘mission drift’ of the institution. The 14-member council is chaired by the Omanhene of the Bompata Traditional Area, Nana Effah Appenteng. Others members are: Professor Mrs Rita Akosua …

The newly reconstituted governing council for the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) was on Friday inaugurated, with a call on members to guard against ‘mission drift’ of the institution. The 14-member council is chaired by the Omanhene of the Bompata Traditional Area, Nana Effah Appenteng. Others members are: Professor Mrs Rita Akosua …

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Dafiama-Bussie-Issa, Dr Sebastien Sandaare, has appealed to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to consider his constituency in the next phase of COVID-19 vaccination, to stop the spread of the disease. His appeal followed the death of two people of the six confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Daffiama, in the Dafiama-Bussie-Issa District …

The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation is scheduled to launch the National SIM Card Registration Exercise (NSCRE) across the country next month. The six months exercise which is expected to commence on October 1 this year and end on March 1, 2022 is in line with the Subscriber Identity Module Registration Regulations, 2011, L.I 2006 …

Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccination exercise on Saturday received a shot in the arm when she received her first shipment of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines totalling 1,229,620 million doses. The double-dose vaccines which are by far the largest to be shipped into the country is from the United States (US) government through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) …

Prices of foodstuff at major markets in Tema and its environs bounced up in the first week of September picking up from the unpredictable activities in August where commodity prices fluctuated. A GNA-Tema market survey conducted in major markets in Tema at the weekend revealed that while the prices of some commodities recorded a reduction …

Efforts to reduce youth unemployment in the country and provide alternative livelihood to people has received a boost with the launch of Agritrak. Agritrak is a hands-on and practical programme to train the youth in agribusiness ventures in areas of livestock, poultry, ruminant, horticulture production and fish farming. An initiative of the University of Ghana …

Ghana Cocoa, Coffee and Shea-Nut Farmers Association (COCOSHE) in the Bono East Region has lauded COCOBOD for introducing a standard digital weighing scale, to streamline the purchasing of cocoa in the country. This, according to the farmers, would do away with misunderstandings between purchasing clerks (PCs) and farmers. Nana Kwasi Adjei, the acting Bono East …

A seven-member board of directors for the Bui Power Authority (BPA) was over the weekend inaugurated by the Minister of Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, in Accra. The board has the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Sunyani East Constituency, Kwasi Ameyaw-Cheremeh, as the chairman, with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the authority, Samuel …

President Nana Addo Dankwa -Akufo Addo, said the reconstruction of the 66-kilometre Tarkwa -Agona Nkwanta highway, was fulfillment of government’s vision to make Tarkwa a viable growth pole, to stimulate development in the mining enclaves of the Western Region. The President, who was speaking at Tarkwa, as part of his two-day tour of the region, …

A group of aggrieved teachers in the Ho Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) District, have expressed misgivings over the teacher licensure examination, saying it lacks transparency and an affront to the teaching profession.   The Ho GNAT District is made up of teachers from Ho municipality, Agotime-Ziope, Adaklu and Ho West districts. The teachers, …

The much awaited general elections of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) is to come off latest by October 3, 2021 following an out-of-court settlement reached between the Association and an aggrieved member. Ms Caroline Boateng of Daily Graphic in May this year, sought an injunction on   the elections challenging the eligibility of the Affail Monney …

Nana Kugbeadzor-Bakateyi II, Queen of the Likpe-Gudeve in the Oti Region, has entreated communities in the area to harness the vast natural and human resources at their disposal to build school blocks and refrain from the over-reliance of donor support for such projects. The queen, who is also the Oti Region Director of Education, was …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured of Ghana’s readiness to partner any well-meaning entity to industrialise the country for more jobs and economic empowerment under the One District, One Factory (1D1F) initiative. “Our country doesn’t believe in discrimination, be it Ghanaian or foreign business, we are prepared to provide support under our IDIF to …

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has inaugurated a 10-member governing board of the Medical and Dental Council (MDC) to oversee effective regulation of the medical profession in the country. The board is chaired by Prof. Paul Kwame Nyame with Dr Divine Ndonbi Banyubala, Dr Constance Addo-Yobo, and Prof. Margaret Yaa Lartey as members. Other …

Ghana on Saturday received its first shipment of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines totalling 1,229,620 million doses. The double-dose vaccines which are by far the largest to be shipped into the country was from the United States (US) government through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) facility. A delegation led by the US Ambassador to Ghana, Stephanie …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has revealed Ghana’s vision to develop and produce vaccines in the next five years. The desire, he explained, is to achieve a universal coverage of vaccination and also contain the spread of the virus “whether rural or urban and nobody will be left out.” President Akufo-Addo gave the assurance in …