The Minister designate for Roads and Highways, Mr Kwesi Amoako-Atta, has said the second administration of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will concentrate on the dualisation of all major roads across the country to significantly cur…
Dr Julius C. Ahiekpor, the Head of Bioenergy, Kumasi Technical University, on Tuesday said Ghana within few years can significantly control its energy and sanitation problems if she paid particular attention to ‘waste-to-energy’ generation…
The Sefwi-Wiawso branch of the National Youth Authority has embarked on a campaign to educate market women and commercial drivers on the need to adhere to the COVID-19 safety protocols.
As part of the campaign, the Authority visited Dwe…
Professor Christopher Adjei Okpoti, former Dean, School of Business, University of Education, Winneba, has underscored the need for policy makers to undergo orientation courses in Mathematics and Statistics.
He said that way, they would…
The Maternity and Children’s Block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in the Ashanti Region is set to be pulled down to allow for the construction of an entirely new edifice.
The is because the facility which has been abandone…
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says a second Coronavirus Testing Centre will soon be set up in the Central Region to augment its work.
Dr Kwabena Sarpong, Deputy Director in-charge of Public Health for the Region, said the facility woul…
The Chief Executive Officer of Focus1 Group of Companies has donated items worth over GH?20,000.00 to the Sekondi Prisons as part of the Valentine's Day celebrations.
The items included food stuff, 600 pieces of alcohol-based hand sanit…
The Western Regional Office of the Ghana Tourism Authority has presented chocolate products to the Effia-Nkwanta Regional hospital as part of activities to mark Valentine's day celebration.
Mr George Nkrumah Ansere, the Western Regiona…
Mr Fred Obeng Owusu, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Old Tafo, has led a team of officials from the Assembly to distribute face masks and hand sanitisers to identifiable groups in the Municipality.
Accompanied by the Member of P…
The European Union (EU) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) have held a two-day orientation programme on the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration.
The training for some selected Officers of…
Mr Mohammed Adjei Sowah, the Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), has called on teachers to inculcate facemask wearing in pupils while ensuring they comply with the other protocols to curb the spread of Covid-19.
"I have noticed th…
The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has engaged the Engineering Council of Ghana on the need to use its advocacy power to help enforce the Authority's mandate of checking and sanctioning manufacturers of sub-standard products.
Specifica…
Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, GES, Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa has hinted that barring any last minute hitches this year’s Senior High School placement will be out on Sunday February, 21.
The placement covers candid…
The ‘One Million-Free-Waste Bin’ project being rolled out by the waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), takes off in five metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) in the Greater Accra Region.
The MMDAs in…
The global pandemic has accelerated the need for true digitisation as African customers demand a more seamless digital customer experience from their communications service providers (CSPs), writes Pikie Monaheng, CEO at Amdocs South Afric…
This year’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation shortlist includes the creators of a low-cost ventilator powered by water instead of electricity, a digital financial services solution that audits users based on their online social prof…
After the suspension of the 2020 recruitment campaign due to the Covid crisis, the French-African Foundation is relaunching and expanding its Young Leaders programme, designed to identify and bring together engaged young African and French…
They are designed to support malaria-affected countries in their efforts to reduce and, ultimately, eliminate a disease that continues to claim more than 400 000 lives each year
The WHO Guidelines for malaria, launched today, bring toge…
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed all regional and district directors of education to observe February 17 this year as National Mathematics Day in all first and second cycle schools across the country.
It reminded the direc…
The Police Administration has sought the intervention of the Psychology Association of Ghana to deal with the recent upsurge in suicide cases among police officers.
Mr Ambrose Dery, the Minister-designate for the Interior, said this whe…
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says it has recieved confirmation of seven cases with three fatalities of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Guinea.
The Service has, therefore, informed all Regional Directors , Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) …
The Virology Laboratories of Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana has been equipped with a digital laboratory information system to enable it to expand its COVID-19 testing capacity.
The SchuyLab digital …
The Cuban Government has offered to transfer technology on a COVID-19 vaccine — currently undergoing trial in that country — to Ghana through an agreement with the Ghanaian pharmaceutical industry.
Under the agreement, the Cuban Governm…
Ghana has within 24 hours recorded nine more deaths increasing the total number of deaths from COVID-19 to 542 as of February 11, 2021, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) said has disclosed in an update.
The death toll from the illness was …
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has sensitized artisans and schools in Akim Oda on the new variant of Covid-19, as part of its first-quarter activity for the year 2021.
The sensitisation programme sought to raise awar…
Dr Davidson Iroko, Medical Officer-in-charge of the Volta Regional COVID-19 Isolation Centre, an extension of the Ho Teaching Hospital (HTH) has disclosed that some 24 patients are currently undergoing treatment at the Centre.
He said …
Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, Finance Minister-designate Monday, February 15, arrived safely in the United States for the treatment of Covid-19 complications.
In a tweet on his official Twitter page, Mr Ofori-Atta said he was in good spirits and e…
Nana Yaw Barima-Barnie, Western Regional Communication Manager of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has urged residents in the Sekondi-Takoradi and its environs to store more water to be used for at least three days during this period…
The Volta Regional Police Command in partnership with Zoomlion Ghana Limited has fumigated Police installations in the region to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
The Regional Police Headquarters, Police Clinic, Barracks, rented qu…
The Western North Region has recorded sixty-two new COVID-19 cases with one death.
This brings to a total of 791 confirmed cases in the Region with 729 fully recovered and discharged with five deaths.
The Region now has 57 active cas…
A survey conducted by the Western Regional office of the Ghana Health Service has revealed low patronage of the nose masks among Residents.
The survey conducted on 5099 persons showed that 34 per cent wore the masks the right way., 35 p…
The Mental Health Society of Ghana (MENSOG) has called on the Government to scale up mental health services in all parts of the country to help curb COVID-19 related mental health complications.
Madam Esenam Drah, Projects Coordina…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved two versions of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, clearing the way for the vaccines to be shipped to African countries through the Covax scheme.
Covax is a global…
The maiden Pan African Heritage Conference has been slated for August 5-7, this year, a statement issued by the Communication Department of the Pan African Heritage World in Accra and copied to the Ghana News Agency has said.
The confer…
As part of its annual programme to celebrate and honour Ghana’s most hard-working youth, leading PR and rating firm Avance Media has published the sixth edition of the annual 50 Most Influential Young Ghanaians ranking.
The list which i…
On 18 February, when the Perseverance rover lands on Mars, the Thales laser will enter service as part of SuperCam, the ‘eyes’ of the rover, to determine the chemical and organic composition of Martian rock samples.
The Thales laser at …
The Minister-designate for Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has advocated private sector participation in certain strategic operational areas of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
He said the participation of the private sector in…
Ghana is close to signing onto a global central identity registry to better safeguard the use of mobile phones, according to the Communications and Digitisation Minister-nominee, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful.
This will be a by-product of the pol…
Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Minister Designate for Communications and Digitalization has revealed that the introduction of the Kelni GVG platform made a cost saving of US$1.1 million monthly to government.
According to her all the laws reg…
An arbitration tribunal has ordered the government of Ghana (GoG) to pay $137.9million to Ghana Power Generation Company (GPGC), an independent power producer (IPP), for terminating a power purchase agreement (PPA) between the two parties …
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced a suspension of the 64th Independence Anniversary parade, which had been scheduled to take place on March 6, 2021.
The suspension follows a directive from the Office of the President as a …
Mr Godfred Yeboah Dame, the Minister-designate for Justice and Attorney-General, says the Ministry would collaborate with the Finance Ministry to release funds to recruit an extra 500 state attorneys, if given the nod.
Answering questio…
Mr Francis Ennor, the Upper East Regional Director of the Department of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), says the Region needs 20 combine harvesters to boost services to rice farmers, who annually lose their harvest for lack of the machines.
…
Regent University College of Science and Technology, a private university, took the third spot of universities in Ghana ranking for impact, according to the Webometrics Ranking of World University for January 2021.
The Webometrics Rank…
The Eric Danquah Foundation (EDF), has launched its flagship programme, the Highflyers in Plant Breeding and Genetics Programme at the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana, Legon, Accra.
The Foundation, s…
The Kumasi South Hospital has received varieties of items to inspire frontline workers of the health facility in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The items, consisting mainly of cocoa-processed food products, including quantitie…
The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), Tema Regional Secretariat at the weekend marked the National Chocolate Day with a donation to the "Save Them Young Mission," an Orphanage at Ashaiman.
The GTA-Tema Team interacted with the children and…
The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) at the weekend said from this month its health facilities will be opened to the Ghana Health Service for the testing of suspected COVID-19 cases.
Dr. Vitus Victor Anaab-Bisi, General Manager…
The Health Promotion Division of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has embarked on series of COVID-19 prevention and awareness campaign in principal markets and hotspots in the Greater Accra Region.
The campaign, on the theme, "mask i…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over the resurgence of Ebola in West Africa and activated response efforts.
WHO's Regional Director Matshidiso Moeti said the agency was "ramping up readiness".
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