General News Politics

Manhyia South MP Equips Youth To Reduce Unemployment In His Area

1,871  The Member of Parliament for Manhyia South Constituency in the Ashanti Region,Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has equipped 16 trainees who have completed a 3-month vocational skills training at Inner Culinary Arts Institute with start up tools to start their own business. Beneficiaries are youth and residents of the constituency. Their training focused specifically on […]

General News Politics

Parliament to petition Local Govt on behalf of Akyemansa district

1,837  The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee in Parliament, James Klutse Avedzi, has expressed the committee’s intention to petition the Local Government and the Administrator of the District Assemblies Common Fund, urging the release of funds designated for development in the Akyemansa district. “We are going to make a recommendation to the Ministry of […]

General News Sanitation

Small-scale mining fetched Ghana almost $1.2bn in 2022 – Minister

1,899  The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has stated small-scale mining has been contributing increasingly to the nation’s gold output as the sector produced a total of 712,405 ounces of gold last year. He said it brought to the nation almost US$1,200,000,000 in export receipts, adding that all diamonds produced in […]

General News Health

Ashanti Regional Health Directorate reaches out to PWDs on World Hypertension Day

1,657  The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate is focusing on extending screening services on hypertension to Persons Living with Disabilities (PWDs) as Ghana joins the rest of the world to mark World Hypertension Day. The day, which was celebrated in the Kwadaso Municipality on the theme, ‘Measure Your Blood Accuracy, Control It, Live Longer’, was used […]

General News Politics

IMF deal will affect fiscal space for future government – Haruna Iddrisu

1,687  The Member of Parliament for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu is worried about portions of the agreement entered into by the Government of Ghana and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He described the deal as extremely ambitious, considering some of the conditionalities proffered. “It appears to me that the IMF ECF that the government of […]