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Retired Police Officer and MP for Wa West Peter Toobu has urged the police service to station officers at the GIMPA-Legon bypass which has become notorious for attacks on drivers. Road users have over the last few months reported attacks on them and their vehicles by criminals who have made the enclave their haven. Some Ghanaians have also complained over ...

The Police say they have increased motorbike patrols on the GIMPA stretch in order to reduce the spate of crimes on it. Road users have over the last few months reported attacks on them and their vehicles by criminals who have made the enclave their haven. Some Ghanaians have also complained over the lack of streetlights on that stretch. On ...

Amplified, a social marketing project by the Ministry of Information that seeks to highlight and promote young Ghanaian entrepreneurs has shortlisted 258 young entrepreneurs, Head of Social Media and Digital Innovation at the Ministry, Nathaniel Alpha has said. According to him, the Ministry is impressed with the level of interest and enthusiasm that has greeted the program since it was ...

Ghana has asked the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to increase the funding it offers private enterprises in Ghana from the current $5 million to between $15 million and $20 million per business. The Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, who made the call, also asked the corporation to raise the level of investment committed into core sectors of the economy, ...

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has explained that the Ghana government was unable to obtain direct supplies from Russia for the supply of Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines hence the use of middlemen who offered to sell the vaccine at US$19 per dose instead of the US$10 at ex-factory price. The Chief Director at the MoH, Mr Kwaku Boadu Oku-Afari gave ...

Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) will plant over 1.6 million forest trees in the 2020/2021 cocoa crop year on cocoa farms across the country as part of its National Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme. COCOBOD is embarking on the rehabilitation program to replace about 40% of the country’s cocoa tree stock which are either overaged or affected by the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus ...

The Minority Leader of Parliament, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, Hon. Alhassan Suhuyini and other members of the minority in parliament have complained of the unjustifiable and undue delay by the Government in constituting governing boards of certain statutory bodies and corporations affected by the Presidential (Transition) Act, 2012 (Act 845) which has seriously impacted on the discharge of the constitutional functions ...

British-born Ghanaian Lorraine Wright (@Lorrainehwright), has been recognised alongside other Brits by Her Majesty The Queen and is expected to receive the honour of MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2021. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), is a prestigious award in recognition of the achievements and service of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom. Wright ...

President Akufo-Addo has launched a one hundred and forty-five million Ghana cedis (GHc 145,000,000.00) grant fund to support micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) as part of the government’s efforts to help MSMEs recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their businesses. Speaking at the official launch of the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA), an agency of the Ministry ...

Government has called on Ghanaians to rally behind its Green Ghana initiative as it plans to re-green Ghana and protect the country’s forest reserves. The Green Ghana Day which is slated for June 11, 2021, is a national effort at planting more than 5 million trees in a single day to preserve and protect the country’s forest cover and the ...