Pharmacy Chamber applauds Ghana Standards Authority, Foods and Drugs Authority harmonisation
The Ghana National Chamber of Pharmacy (GNCoP) says the harmonisation of processes by the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) and the Foods and Drugs Authority is a good business enabler. A statement signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Chamber Mr Anthony Ameka commended the Government, related Ministries, FDA and the GSA for agreeing to […]
Ghana Passport Office relocates, service delivery to be disrupted until 26th October
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has announced that the relocation of the Passport Office, Ridge to a new office building is scheduled from Tuesday, 20th October to Friday 23rd October. The Ministry in a statement noted that this would result in the disruption of service delivery to the public. It said however, […]
State calls second prosecution witness in Ofosu Ampofo, Boahen EC chairperson attack trial
The state has called its second prosecution witness in the case in which two executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are charged with conspiracy to commit crime and assault on public officers. The executives are Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, Chairman of the NDC and the first accused and Kweku Boahen, a Deputy Communications Officer of […]
NDC to set-up coal plant at Ekumfi Otuam
The Flagbearer of National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, has announced plans by the Party to establish a coal plant at Ekumfi Otuam in the Central Region. The envisaged 2,000 megawatts (MW) plant will significantly augment the country’s hydro, thermal and solar sources of power generation of which work had earlier started by […]
Scientists map 1.8 billion trees across Sahel and Sahara regions of West Africa using Artificial Intelligence
Scientists have mapped 1.8 billion individual tree canopies across millions of kilometres of the Sahel and Sahara regions of West Africa. It is the first time ever that trees have been mapped in detail over such a large area. So how was it possible? Researchers analysed a huge database of satellite images using artificial intelligence. […]
Johnson: Brexit trade talks ‘finished’ unless EU changes approach
Post-Brexit trade talks with the European Union are “finished” unless there is a significant change of approach from the bloc, Downing Street said on Friday. “From our point of view, the trade negotiations are finished. The EU has de facto put an end to them and it will only be worth talking to each other […]
Complementary Education Agency Bill 2019 passed
Parliament has passed the Complementary Education Agency Bill, 2019 on Friday 16th October, 2020. Objective of the Bill is to establish the Complementary Education Agency to provide for educational programmes outside the formal education system in Ghana. The Non-Formal Education Division, now changing to Complementary Education Agency, of the Ministry has been in existence since […]
One American, two Russians set off to International Space Station
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday and successfully reached orbit, live footage broadcast by Russia’s space agency Roscosmos showed. The crew members traveling to the International Space Station (ISS) are Kate Rubins, a NASA microbiologist who in 2016 became […]
Twitter: Major outage affects users around the world
Twitter has experienced a major outage, with users across the world affected. The social media giant said the issue was caused by an “inadvertent change” it made to its internal systems. People in countries including the US and UK were unable to use the platform for more than an hour, with many receiving error messages. […]
WhatsApp hacking: the new method hackers are using
Who would have thought that the way of logging into WhatsApp accounts could be misused to hack user data without their knowledge? How is it done? If you receive a message on your phone explaining that an error has been made and that you have received a message containing a code from another person allowing […]
Chamber of Petroleum Consumers seeks petroleum taxes increase restriction law
Executive Secretary of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers, Duncan Amoah says the Organisation is sending a memorandum to Parliament to initiate discussions on the need to enact a law to prevent a sitting Finance Minister from increasing petroleum taxes at will to the detriment of the Ghanaian. Speaking to Radio Ghana on issues confronting the […]
Political activities have taken over COVID-19 education – UE residents
Residents in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region say political activities have taken over the media space to the detriment of the COVID-19 education for the past months. The Region currently has 21 recorded cases of the virus with two victims on admission at the Regional hospital in Bolgatanga, which serves as the […]
Upper East: 268 pregnancies, 105 marriages recorded among school girls in nine months
About 220 Junior High School girls and 48 Senior High School girls have been confirmed pregnant in eight districts of the Upper East Region, provisional figures from the Regional Directorate of the Ghana Education Service has revealed. This occurred between January to September, 2020 and the districts are Kassena-Nankana Municipal, Kassena-Nankana West, Talensi, Nabdam, Pusiga, […]
We will give you cars for ‘work and pay’ – NPP
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has promised to lease cars to commercial motor (Okada) riders, under a Transport Recapitalisation Policy as an alternative to the ‘risky’ commercial motor business. The Party said the policy would provide a better livelihood alternative, with beneficiaries paying for the car in a ‘work and pay’ fashion. Mr Sammi Awuku, […]
