The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has initiated moves to complete all abandoned projects being funded by the Getfund and help give the institution a facelift. The Chancellor, Dr Sam Jonah said this when together with the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Domwini …

The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) has rolled out six projects to enable the Authority increase the performance of its Non-Traditional Exports (NTE) sector by 35.24 per cent this year. The projects include Product Development, Strategic Marketing Agenda and Research, …

Ghana loses GH¢420 million yearly due to poor sanitation, according to a desk study carried out by the Water and Sanitation Programme of the World Bank in 2010. Sixteen million Ghanaians, also use insanitary or shared latrines, whilst 4.8 million …

Five government departments are expected to appear before the Judgement Debt Commission on Tuesday, January 15 and Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at the Old Parliament House. A statement issued by the Commission’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. George William Dove, to …

Properties worth GH¢330,500 were destroyed by fire in Brong-Ahafo Region in 2012, Mr Kwame Adomako,  the Acting Brong-Ahafo Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), has said. He told the GNA in an in interview that …

Gender Advocates across the country on Monday hailed the nomination of Nana Oye Lithur as the Minister designate for the Gender, Children and Social Protection by President John Dramani Mahama. The Gender Advocates consider the nomination as an endorsement by …

The television network TV3, one of the leading private television stations in Ghana, has extended its services to the Upper West Region. Communities which fall within 45 kilometers from Wa can now enjoy programmes of the network which is currently …

Scores of workers at the ‘Ministries’ section of Accra on Monday called on President John Dramani Mahama to either appoint an independent team or use a private agency to elicit the concerns of workers, saying that their true concerns were …

Kpandu Municipal Assembly is to go into commercial farming of chili-pepper for export. The venture, likely to begin this year, is to help create employment in the area Mr Francis Ganyaglo, Kpandu Municipal Chief Executive, told the Ghana News Agency …

Spare parts dealers operating at Bogoso Junction were thrown into a state of wailing in the early hours of Monday when fire destroyed six container shops stocked with vehicle spare parts. The fire destroyed spare parts and electrical gadgets running …

The transformation of Africa’s socio-economic status is one that leaders of three key continental-based institutions have been brainstorming. The President of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, and the Executive …

Ghana says it will support ECOWAS in the contribution of troops to Mali. An official of the Ghana Armed Forces said January 14, 2013, that the country will send about 120 troops to help the West African neighbour. “We are …

Dr. Toni Aubynn – CEO of Ghana Chamber of Mines The Ghana Chamber of Mines is advocating a national mining vision and policy to direct as well as regulate the inflows from that sector into proper development projects. Dr. Toni …

Seventeen out of 25 rooms were last Thursday gutted by fire at the Sunyani Newtown causing extensive damage to property. The cause of the fire is not immediately known but a family source told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that …

Remittances have become a very important part of Ghana’s economy. In nine months, between January and September 2012, the total foreign exchange inflows into the country through the banks amounted to 13.4 billion. In 2012, it was $13 billion in …

STEGINA Investment Ltd, an agricultural investment company based in Tamale, is to assemble agricultural equipment for farmers on credit to give agricultural development in the area a boost. The beneficiary farmers will get tractors and combine harvesters with their spare …

Reverend John Azumah, Leader of Heart to Heart Campaign Team, has observed that People Living With HIV and AIDS (PLWHAs) are not cursed by God as some religious leaders have made their followers to believe. He said these men of …

President John Dramani Mahama has filed his response to a petition by three personalities of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) challenging his election as President in the December 7, 2012 presidential election and indicated his intention to call 4,800 witnesses …

United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), has opened nomination for UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize 2013. UNESCO invites Member States, as well as regional and international organisations and professional and non-governmental organisations working in the field of journalism …

Personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) at Denu, Keta, and Akatsi, mobilised early Saturday morning and entered Togo to help fight a ferocious fire that gutted a four-storey complex block of stores. Mr Emmanuel Fordjour, Ketu-South District GNFS …