The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided $ 382,957.00 to two agricultural firms to aid the multiplication of improved quality root and cereal crop varieties for distribution to farmers across the country. The Josma Agro-Industries at Woraso, near Asante Mampong in the Asante-Mampong Municipality and Pee Farms at Ejura in the Ejura-Sekyedumase […]
President John Dramani Mahama has handed over the ECOWAS leadership baton to President Macky Sall of Senegal who was elected Chairman by the ECOWAS Authority of the Heads of States and Government. President Mahama whose tenure of office has ended was elected Chairman of ECOWAS on February 17, 2013 at Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast. Mr Sall, […]
Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), has said the stride to eradicate guineaworm, has chalked another milestone with Ghana, which once saw 180,000 cases now certified free of the disease in January. She said Nigeria looked extremely encouraging, with no cases reported in the past nine months. Dr Chan stated these […]
The Czech Ambassador, Margita Fuchsova has called for closer collaboration in the area of arts and culture between Ghana and her country. She made the call during a courtesy call on the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Mrs Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare in Accra. A statement from the Ministry and copied to the Ghana News […]
The Faculty of Law, University of Milan is to offer a six-month internship opportunity to two Ghanaian best female law students in experienced law firms in Italy. The students would be provided with an all-expense trip to Italy to enrich and broaden their perspectives on international law. They would receive an all-expense trip of 5,000 […]
President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday said members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) would in the coming years focus on job creation in the sub-region. He said the population of Africa is growing annually than any other continent and therefore the dereliction of job creation in their political agenda could result […]
Ghana is among six other nations appearing before the 69 session of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UN-CRC) to respond to issues raised by the committee. The issues are on the implementation of the convention on the rights of the child. Eritrea, Ethiopia, Honduras, Mexico, Nepal, and the Netherlands are […]
Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General (D-G) of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday said the organisation is creating a single new response programme for health emergencies across the globe. She said the programme is designed for speed, flexibility and rapid impact with benchmark reactions. Dr Chan made this known in a speech to the 68th […]
Ghana faces a possible ban on groundnuts exported to the EU following high recorded incidence of aflatoxin contamination of the crop yields. The European Commission recently conducted a thorough examination on vegetables, groundnuts and other cereals produced in Ghana, and found that a large quantity of these produce are vested with high level of aflatoxin, […]
The Bureau for Internal Affairs (BIA) an anti-corruption organisation and a centre for information gathering on public concerns, has called on the authorities to investigate allegations of intimidation by traders who ply the Ghana-Ivory Coast Border. The BIA said most of the traders complain of harassment by security officials, which they view as having a […]
