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President Nana Akufo-Addo says the late former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Busumuru Annan, gave him sensitive advice when he took over as President of Ghana. Nana Akufo-Addo said he appreciated the advice from the late diplomat. “He gave me sensitive, deeply appreciated advice when I became President of the Republic,” Akufo-Addo said when he read his tribute at Kofi Annan’s ...

The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has eulogised Kofi Annan as a great leader, describing the former UN boss as “one-of-a-kind”. “He was an exceptional global leader,” Mr. Guterres said in Accra Thursday during the burial service of Mr. Annan at the Accra International Conference Centre. Mr. Annan who died on Saturday August 18, 2018 in a ...

At least fourteen teacher trainees who sat for the just ended teacher licensure examinations are currently in police custody for their roles in the alleged leak of exam questions. Reports emerged on Wednesday that some of the questions for the exams leaked, while long delays characterised the exam at various centres across the country. The teachers arrested over the leakages, ...

The School of Agriculture at the University of Cape Coast has demonstrated a greenhouse production and the greening of the environment in urban residential areas in Cape Coast. The project seeks to test an idea of greening, actively managing and using urban spaces that are currently unmanaged or unused to produce vegetables and green landscape. The project mobilises regulations, policies ...

The Headmaster of Mfantsipim Senior High School in Cape Coast, Mr Manfred Barton Oduro has described the former United Nations Secretary-General and an old boy of Mfantsipim School as a perfect gift to Mfantsipim and strongly believes the next Kofi Annan will be from the same school. Kofi Annan who was the first black African to lead the United Nations ...

The Ministry of Trade and Industry, in collaboration with B5Plus Limited, a foreign steel manufacturing and distribution company, has cut sod for the construction of a steel company in the Ningo Prampram District. The project is part of the Government’s efforts to establish one factory per district to reduce the unemployment rate in the country. The project is fully funded ...

Management of Menzgold has announced Thursday morning that it has temporarily halted its collectables and any new business related to its gold vault market with immediate effect. According to the company, the halt of what is also called extra value payments takes effect from today Thursday, September 13 and will be in place for six days, “by which time we ...

The First lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has called on the Ghana Health Service and the Ministry of Health to take urgent steps to prioritize breastfeeding as one of the major public health interventions in the country. She said the early beginning of breastfeeding in infants and sustained exclusive breastfeeding among babies, especially in the first six months in life, would ...

The Management of uniCredit has called on its customers to remain calm and ignore rumours that the firm is facing challenges following the consolidation of its sister company – uniBank- with others into the Consolidated Bank of Ghana (CBG). The BoG merged uniBank, Sovereign bank, Beige bank, Royal bank and Construction bank under the new name CBG. The merger, according ...

As the nation pays her last respects to the memory of one of the greatest Ghanaian and African of all time, His Excellency Kofi Atta Annan – an iconic global statesman and international diplomat par excellence, the Minority Caucus in Parliament joins his family, Ghanaians home and abroad, the African people, the United Nations and the international community in bidding ...