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President Akufo Addo has announced an eighty (80) million dollars Swiss Corporation Strategy for Ghana aimed at supporting and enhancing the competitiveness of Ghanaian enterprises and the diversification of the Ghanaian economy. Addressing a joint press conference after holding talks with the visiting Swiss President Doris Leuthard, he said the support is a welcome news for the country and everything ...

President Akufo Addo has announced an eighty (80) million dollars Swiss Corporation Strategy for Ghana aimed at supporting and enhancing the competitiveness of Ghanaian enterprises and the diversification of the Ghanaian economy. Addressing a joint press conference after holding talks with the visiting Swiss President Doris Leuthard, he said the support is a welcome news for the country and everything ...

President Akufo-Addo has cited lack of jobs for the youth as the single biggest challenge facing the country. Addressing the president of Switzerland, Doris Leuthard, who is on a day’s official visit to Ghana, Akufo-Addo bemoaned the seriousness of the challenge, saying there are too many young people in the country without jobs because the economy has stagnated for so ...

The President of Switzerland, Doris Leuthard, will give a speech tonight, Wednesday, July 12, ahead of an event organised by policy think-tank IMANI Africa. The speech, which will be delivered from the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City in Accra, will be live on radio from 6:30pm and online at http://tunein.com/citi973. Doris Leuthard’s address will precede a panel discussion on the ...

The death toll in the Afia Kobi Nursing Training College accident has risen to two. One of the casualties who had been in coma at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital since last week’s tragedy, passed Sunday night. Reports of Paulina Brogya’s death come as her colleague who died earlier, Christiana Asare, is laid to rest Tuesday. Hundreds of mourners joined ...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) communicators in the Ashanti Region, have accused their leadership of pocketing monies meant to reward members for their contribution towards the 2016 election victory of the party. The communicators alleged their director in the Ashanti Region, Mr. Kwasi Kyei Danso has allegedly kept an amount of Ten Thousand Ghana cedis supposedly from the presidency through the ...

Inflation has dropped again for the month of June from 12.6 percent in May to 12.1 percent. This is the lowest since December 2013. The marginal reduction in the price of fuel was mentioned as one of the factors that contributed to the reduction. Acting government statistician, Baah Wadie, the media in Accra the main price drivers for the down ...

A 21-year-old boy has allegedly committed suicide at Tweemu, a fishing community near Moree in the Central Region. It is unclear what caused Felix Dorde, alias Selorm, a senior high school graduate, to hang himself with a rope onto a ceiling joint in his room. He is said to have left a note for his girlfriend saying he loves her. ...

The Ho West district Assembly in the Volta region has evacuated school children who have been stranded in some farming communities in the district following the flooding of the access route to the communities. Recent torrential rains in the Bokorvikope, Andokope and Dakekope communities, located about 7km away from Awudome-Tsito, off the Ho-Asikuma-Accra highway, have caused a nearby river, Tsawe, ...

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako aka Chairman Wontumi has vowed to resign from politics if President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo fail Ghanaians. According to him, he is very optimistic that the nation will see a major transformation due to interventions being put in place by the current administration. “I will resign ...