US Peace Corps is Sixty Years in Ghana
To say that the activities of US Peace Corps have made tremendous impact in many communities across Ghana is an understatement. Ever since the first group of volunteers touched the soil of Ghana some six decades ago, many lives have been positively impacted and destinies changed for the good of society. The little things that […]
SHS placement out
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has released the placement of Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates into senior high, technical and vocational schools. The rollout which went live last night, followed rigorous work by officials of the GES to ensure that the exercise went live. When the Daily Graphic visited the Computerised School Selection and […]
Ivory Coast to kickstart Covax vaccines rollout
Healthcare workers in Ivory Coast city of Abidjan will be the first to be inoculated as the west African nation kicks off its Covid-19 vaccination campaign on Monday. It is the first national rollout of the UN-backed Covax programme – the global vaccine sharing initiative to help poorer countries control the pandemic. The programme will […]
Central Region NCCE to step up education on COVID-19 vaccination
The Central Region Office of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) is to step up public education on the COVID-19 vaccination scheduled for March 2, 2021. More than 20 million Ghanaians are expected to be vaccinated during the exercise estimated to cost $52million. The vaccination exercise is in three phases, beginning with health workers, […]
Ghana working to develop COVID-19 vaccines
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says a committee is working to formulate a concrete plan of action towards the development and manufacturing of a COVID-19 vaccine in Ghana. The Committee, he said, under the leadership of Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, the former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, a world-renowned scientist, was studying the variants […]
Vaccines are safe, get the jabs and protect yourself – President urges
As Ghana kicks off its COVID-19 immunization process on Tuesday, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged citizens to come out and get vaccinated. The president implored Ghanaians not to take in the negative narrative about the coronavirus vaccines, as the jabs remained the only protection against the impact of the pandemic, assuring that the […]
Galamsey fight hasn’t failed – Samuel Abu Jinapor
The Minister designate for Lands and Natural Resources, Mr. Samuel Abu Jinapor, has said the government’s fight against illegal mining cannot be labelled as a failure. He said no government had shown such commitment to fight illegal mining, also known as ‘galamsey’, under the Fourth Republic as had been done by the Nana Addo Dankwa […]
45-year-old KATH abandoned maternity block needs to be demolished
The construction of a new maternity block for the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, is to go ahead following a determination that the old and abandoned 45-year-old uncompleted structure is weak. The Ministry of Health (MoH) and the management of the KATH together with Contracta UK Company Limited, the contractor working on rebuilding […]
Agona Swedru: Two injured after KIA truck runs into six cars
A Kia Rhino truck fully loaded with bags of rice, on Monday run into six cars and injured two persons in the process at Agona Swedru in the Central Region. The truck, with registration number GM 6125-14, which caused the accident at Swedru at around 3pm was heading from Tema. According to eyewitnesses, the truck […]
Jailed India activist, 81, granted temporary bail
A jailed 81-year-old Maoist ideologue and activist Varavara Rao has been granted bail for six months on medical grounds by a court in India. For several months Varavara Rao has been in poor health and spent more than 150 days in hospital in the past year. Mr. Rao espoused radical thinking and revolutionary ideas in […]
Five more die from Covid-19 with 29 others in critical condition
Five more people have died from COVID-19 in Ghana, taking the country’s death toll to 577, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced. The latest update from the GHS on Sunday, February 21, also disclosed that 113 people were currently in severe conditions, while 29 others were in critical condition. Additionally, the country’s active cases […]
Five arrested in Yong Dakpemyili chieftaincy clashes
The police have arrested five persons in connection with renewed chieftaincy clashes at Yong Dakpemyili, a farming community near Tamale in the Northern Region. The suspects were arrested on Friday, February 12, for allegedly causing unlawful damage to buildings and rioting with weapons. Briefing the media on the arrest in Tamale, the Northern Regional Police […]
Govt not insenstitive to plight of students, parents – Afenyo-Markin
The Majority Group in Parliament has described as mischievous the accusation by the Minority Group that President Akufo-Addo is insensitive to the plight of tertiary students and parents in the payment of fees. It said the government had since 2009 been subsidizing 70 per cent of the various fees paid by students, including the academic […]
Benin presidential hopefuls to declare bids
Benin has been known as one of Africa’s most stable democracies. The electoral commission in Benin has begun accepting nomination papers from presidential candidates in the upcoming elections in April. The candidates are expected at the commission’s headquarters from Monday. The head of the commission Emmanuel Tiando said the next presidential elections will be governed […]
