The Ministry of Education has expressed its profound condolences to the fam­ilies of the three students who tragically lost their lives during a shooting incident at Nkwanta in the Nkwanta North District of the Oti Region. The three, all students of the Nkwanta Senior High School, were said to have been caught in a crossfire, … The post Education Ministry

 The police in the Bono Region have intensified patrols on the Sunyani-Atronie stretch of the main Sunyani-Kenyasi road. This follows recent surge in armed robbery attacks by highway robbers on drivers and commuters who plies that stretch of the road. The 38-kilometre stretch, a key route linking Ahafo and Bono Regions, has become a safe … The post Police intensify patrols on Sunyani-Atronie

The Minister of Food and Agricul­ture, Eric Opoku, has held a bilateral meeting with the Director-Gener­al of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Dr QU Dongyu, at the FAO headquarters in Rome, on the sidelines of the 44th Session of the FAO Confer­ence. The meeting focused on strengthening cooperation be­tween Ghana and the FAO in … The post Ghana secures FAO support for agric sector

 Over the past four years, the Kasse­na-Nankana West District (KNWD) in Ghana’s Upper East Region has been a major beneficiary of the Euro­pean Union-funded Landscapes and Environmental Agility Across the Nation (LEAN) project. It is a project being imple­mented by World Vision Ghana, in collaboration with Rainforest Alliance, Tropenbos Ghana, and EcoCare Ghana. It is … The post Sustaining

Ghana continues

In my work and daily life I have seen many attitudes toward AI and AI tools. Some fear these tech­nologies, others accept them cautiously and some avoid them altogether. Though these reflections come from my Chris­tian worldview, the ideas are meant for anyone navigating the evolving world of AI. I intentionally omitted a formal definition … The post The place of AI in our world reflections

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 The Member of Parliament (MP) for Kpando, Sebastian Deh, has been appointed as Chairman of the Governing Council of the Ghana Technical and Vocational Training Education (TVET). The Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, who inaugu­rated the Council in Accra on Friday, charged members to work hard in order to position TVET as a vital component … The post Kpando MP appointed TVET Governing

Former GIHOC boss arrested by national security operatives over alleged corruption

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By Juliet ETEFE (Juliet.etefe@thebftonline.com) Renowned tax and legal expert Professor Abdallah Ali-Nakyea has called for urgent amendments of Ghana’s anti-corruption laws to close longstanding legal loopholes that continue enabling impunity and eroding national development efforts. Speaking at a multi-stakeholder forum in Accra organised by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Prof. Ali-Nakyea emphasised that although […] The post Amend

By Kizito CUDJOE The Bank of Ghana (BoG) plans to introduce new regulatory frameworks for open banking, digital banking and digital credit by end of the year as part of efforts to expand financial access and support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), according to first Deputy Governor Dr. Zakari Mumuni. Speaking at a public-private roundtable […] The post BoG

By Ebenezer Chike Adjei NJOKU Traditional banks in the country must urgently integrate blockchain technology into their operations or risk being displaced by decentralised finance platforms, Sammy Crabbe, a technologist and business leader, has said. In a recent and exclusive interaction with the B&FT, Mr. Crabbe stated that while decentralised finance (DeFi) offers “faster, cheaper, […] The post Banks