Mr Akwasi Oppong-Fosu, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, has launched an education project in the Wassa Amenfi East District, to improve the quality of teaching and learning in the area. The project would benefit more than 400 pupils, between the ages of four and 14 years, in 23 primary schools in the district. The project being facilitated [...]

The Lambussie-Karni District  Assembly in the Upper West Region has engaged external examiners to teach final year junior high school pupils the skills and technique involved in answering questions during formal examinations. The move, an initiative of Mr Bom Kofi Dy-yaka, the District Chief Executive, is intended to improve on the abysmal performance of the pupils at the Basic Education [...]

The Vice- President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur has urged West Africans to rally together, regardless of status, ethnic association and religious persuasion, to help Nigeria overcome the threat and activities of the terrorist group, Boko Haram. Addressing the ECOWAS Parliament on behalf of the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the ECOWAS, John Dramani Mahama, on [...]

A Koforidua Magistrates Court A, has adjourned to May 30, the case in which a 51-year-old prophetess is standing trial for allegedly stealing a baby at Nkurakan, in the Eastern Region. The adjournment was necessitated by the unavailability of an interpreter to translate the court proceedings in Krobo to the victim, Paulina Sasraku. Agnes Obodiah, the prophetess and the accused [...]

STANBIC Bank Ghana has presented an amount of GH¢130,000 to the Ministry of Youth and Sports towards Ghana’s preparations   to the World Cup and the Commonwealth Games in Brazil and Glasgow on Monday. Out of the amount, GH¢100,000 was to help with the preparations towards the upcoming World Cup in Brazil while GH¢ 30,000 was for the Commonwealth Games in [...]

BRAIMAH Kamoko will be forced to pull out of his impending WBC Silver Cruiserweight title fight against Rakhim Chackhkiev in Russia on May 30 after injuring his right hand in training. Kamoko, famously nicknamed Bukom Banku is coming off a unanimous points’ decision victory over local rival, Ayitey Powers and was billed to take on the 31 year old Russian [...]

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has offered an  GH¢8,000 reward for anyone who would volunteer information leading to the arrest of four people in connection with the murder of a 35-year-old man at Ash Town, in Kumasi, on Saturday. Kwame Antwi, said to be a securityman at C. Woerman Company Limited at Atonsu, was shot at the back of his [...]

Plus-One Company, producers of butternut squash and other vegetables has exported 18 tonnes of butternut squash to the European market in the first quarter of this year. The Chief Executive Officer of Plus-One Company, Mr. Alhassan Sadat speaking to some selected media personnel yesterday at Buipe said the company was expecting to export about 20 tonnes in the next two [...]

Kasapreko Company Limited, a leading producer of alcoholic beverages in the country has acquired 40 per cent shares in cassava plantation for the production of ethanol at Hodzo in the Ho municipality of the Volta Region. The move is part of the company’s measures to source for its raw materials locally and cut down on imports. A joint venture investment [...]

The President of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe says the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) reason for boycotting the National Economic Forum (NEF) “was a joke.” “That thing was a joke to say I won’t go,” he opined. He mentioned that the rank and file of the NPP have been recently complaining bitterly about the state of the country’s economy and how [...]