The Deputy Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Hon. Alexander Ackon, has disclosed that the ministry would be expanding the legibility criteria of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty(LEAP), programme by adding pregnant women and infants in extreme poor households under a "LEAP 1000" initiative.

The Deputy Managing Director of UT Bank, Pearl Esua-Mensah has asked people to imbue in themselves the habit of saving in order to accumulate funds to meet their needs. Her remarks come following the launch of UT Bank’s save and win promotion dubbed “100 for 100, 000” in a bid to enhance the bank’s deposits mobilisation efforts. Mrs. Esua-Mensah noted that many Ghanaians are unwilling to save but rather prefer to carry huge sums of money, which she said needs to change. She said the ‘100

The Ebola outbreak could have a catastrophic impact on the economies of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the World Bank says. The organisation says the economic impact of the virus could “grow eight-fold” in the “already fragile states”. However, it says the cost can be limited if the epidemic – and the accompanying fear – ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Twifo Atti-Morkwa Constituency, Hon. Samuel Atto Amoah together with two officials from Ghana Education Service in the District have gone to some schools in the district to welcome the children who for the first time are stepping their feet into the classroom (that is those kindergarten and basic stage one pupils) to school.

EBay has been compromised so that people who clicked on some of its links were automatically diverted to a site designed to steal their credentials. The spoof site had been set up to look like the online marketplace’s welcome page. The US firm was alerted to the hack on Wednesday night but removed the listings ...

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Gunshots and an explosion have been heard at a teacher training college in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Students were seen fleeing from the city’s Federal College of Education. One student told the BBC by phone that he had seen 17 dead bodies at the scene. It is not clear who was responsible, although ...

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