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A Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture in Charge of Crops, Yaw Frimpong Addo has called Ghanaians to disregard the propaganda peddled by the main opposition National Democratic Congress’ Member of Parliament for Asunafo South Constituency in the Ahafo Region, Eric Opoku that Ghana imports a large number of cassava from China to augment its food stock. The Deputy Minister ...

Ghana’s land and sea borders have been reopened effective today, Monday, 28 March 2022. The country’s land and sea borders were closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The closure affected trade between Ghana and ner neighbouring countries. Announcing the lifting of restrictions imposed on the country, as part of measures to fight the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sunday, ...

A group calling itself Concerned Youth of Suhum in Eastern Region have accused a presidential staffer Frank Asiedu Bekoe popularly known as Protozoa of influencing the polling station executives and electoral area coordinators elections with money in his quest to unseat the Member of Parliamentary Oboafo Kwadwo Asante. The aggrieved youth group alleged that, the Presidential staffer who is also ...

Introduction Policies emerge in response to specific needs of the society at a point in time. A cursory look at our development trajectory reveals that in terms of tertiary education financing, we have moved from a free tertiary education policy to a cost-sharing model all in response to peculiar challenges of the time. Through the changing dynamics of these financing ...

The wearing of face masks is no more mandatory across the country. “From tomorrow, Monday, 28 March, the wearing of facemasks is no longer mandatory. I encourage all of you, though, to continue to maintain enhanced hand hygiene practices, and avoid overcrowded gatherings,” President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced while addressing the nation on Sunday, 27 March 2022. According to ...

Former President John Mahama says the National Democratic Congress has problems with the judiciary and called on the Chief Justice to institute reforms within the courts. “We do have problems with the Judiciary, I must say. I think that it is necessary for some internal reforms to take place there. It is necessary for the Chief Justice or whoever is ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said he and his wife, Rebecca, are still healthy a year after taking the COVID-19 vaccine, and has, thus, urged Ghanaians who have not yet been vaccinated to do so. Demystifying the conspiracy surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine by some groups of persons that taking the jab will cause one to be ill, impotent among ...

The first-ever model of unintended pregnancies and abortion rates for 150 countries has estimated that 266,000 abortions were done in Ghana between 2015 and 2019. The Guttmacher Institute, the World Health Organisation and the UN’s Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) released the model-based estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion rates highlighting major disparities in access to sexual and reproductive health care. ...

The Teacher Trainees’ Association of Ghana is demanding that the government immediately pay its allowance that has been in arrears for the past four months. The president of the Association, Jonathan Jonu made this demand speaking in an interview on the mid-day news on Accra 100.5 FM, Friday, March 24, 2022. Lands For Sale In Acres at Aburi Amanfrom, Watch ...

The Russia-Ukraine war will soon cause Ghana to run out of diesel by May if the government does not act quickly to make sure there is a continuous supply of the commodity, Bongo MP Edward Bawa has warned. Mr Bawa, who is a member of the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament told Nasaria Abdul Rahman that this is because ...