Middle Belt Development Authority builds Health Centre for Asiri community
The Chief Executive Officer of the Middle Belt Development Authority (MBDA), Mr Joe Danquah, has inaugurated a newly-constructed GHC1 million worth Health Centre at Asiri, a farming community in the Jaman North District of the Bono Region. The facility, constructed under the government’s ‘One million dollar’ per constituency initiative, has two semi-detached quarters for health […]
Maternal mortality rises to 32 in Upper East
The Upper East Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Emmanuel Kofi Dzotsi, says the Region has recorded a total of 32 maternal deaths as at Tuesday, September 7, 2021. This, he said, was an increase from the initial 24 maternal mortalities recorded in the 2021 mid-year performance review with the Bawku Municipality […]
109 Districts/Municipalities benefit from $1m constituency initiative – CEO
The Middle Belt Development Authority (MBDA) has executed health, education, and other infrastructure development projects estimated at millions of Ghana cedis in 109 districts and municipalities, under the government’s ‘One million dollar’ for each constituency initiative. Established in 2017 by Act 962 of Parliament, the MBDA exercises its mandate in five regions – Ashanti, Bono […]
“Corporate Governance Code” for State-Owned Enterprises developed
The State Interest and Governance Authority (SIGA) has in consultation with relevant stakeholders developed a “Good Corporate Governance Code” for State Owned Enterprises. Mr Stephen Asamoah Boateng, the Director-General of SIGA, said inadequate governance frameworks and procedures were critical contributors to many specified entities’ poor financial performance in Ghana hence the initiative. Mr Boateng was […]
President Akufo-Addo ends two days tour of the Western North Region
President Nana Addo Dunkwa Akufo-Addo has rounded up his two-day working visit to the Western North Region and assured residents of more infrastructural development. He inspected some ongoing infrastructural projects in the Region including; the construction of a 38-km Benchema- Adjoafua road under construction. He also commissioned a number of completed projects including; a newly […]
Chemu SHS: Head, Assistant Head to refund GHC11,974.00 – Audit Report
The Headmaster and Assistant Headmaster of the Chemu Senior High School in Tema have been asked to jointly refund an amount of GHc11,974.00 to the School. The 2020 Auditor-General Report on the Public Accounts of Ghana – Pre-University Educational Institutions for the year ended December 31, 2020, a copy made available to the Ghana News Agency has […]
Africa must rethink Western Majoritarian Democracy to avoid coups
A research fellow in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Cape Coast, Dr. Kaderi Noagah Bukari, has urged African countries to take a second look at the “Western Majoritarian Democracy” towards ending military takeovers of governments. “It is not responding to the needs of the people, and, I think a better option […]
Akatsi North MP presents streetlights to constituents
A Member of Parliament (MP) for Akatsi North Constituency in the Volta Region, Mr Peter Nortsu Kotoe, has presented 120 pieces of LED-type streetlights to his constituents. The gesture was in fulfillment of the MPs pledge to assist all the 12 electoral areas in his constituency with streetlights for enhancing visibility at night, and also […]
Accident on Akatsi-Wute road claims life of 49-year-old man
A 49-year-old man of Mafi Kpoviadzi in the Central Tongu District, Courage Ahianyevi Agbeko, died on the spot after the motorbike he was riding, crashed into an oncoming vehicle at Lawui Junction on the Akatsi- Wute road of the Volta region. Courage Ahianyevi Agbeko was riding a motorbike with registration number M-17-VR 1125 and was […]
Jomoro MP provides desks for school
The staff and pupils of Nana Avo-Nwiah M/A Basic School in Tikobo Number Two in the Jomoro Municipality of the Western Region, have commended the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Mrs Dorcas Afo-Toffey for supporting the school with 100 desks. The donation of the desks by Mrs Afo-Toffey was made to the Human […]
Homowo Festival emanates from Bible – Rev Amarkwei
The Minister in Charge of the Calvary Congregation, Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Ashaley Botwe, Reverend Dr Charles Amarkwei, says the Homowo Festival, literary meaning ‘hooting at hunger’, emanates from the Bible as part of the works of Jesus Christ. He said Matthew 6:11, which says: “Give us this day our daily bread,” is a prayer […]
GES intensifies back to school campaign in Volta Region
Volta Regional Girls’ Education Officer, Madam Millicent Dakeh, says that the Ghana Education Service (GES) is intensifying its back-to-school campaign across the Region, to bring all children of school going age back to the classroom. She said some children did not return to school after the new coronavirus restrictions were ease for academic work to […]
Ayorkor Botchwey adjudged Outstanding Foreign Affairs Minister of the Decade
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has been adjudged by Initiators of Change Foundation, as an Outstanding Foreign Affairs Minister of the Decade. The award was presented to the Minister in Accra by a delegation from the Initiators of Change Foundation led by Reverend Dr Abogye-Mensah, Chairman of Board of […]
3,000 girls to be trained in ICT this year- Owusu-Ekuful
The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation has projected to train 3,000 girls in information and communication technology (ICT) this year in the Western North, North East and Savannah Regions. The training formed part of government’s efforts to bridge the digital and ICT gender gap and empower them in the job market. The girls would be […]
