Kosmos Innovation Centre (KIC) has signed an agreement with five universities to expand its programme across five regions in Ghana. The five universities; University of Ghana, University for Development Studies, SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, University of Cape Coast and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology will be working with […]
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The Black Stars of Ghana maintained their top position on the AFCON 2023 qualifying Group E table despite sharing the spoils with Central African Republic (CAR) in their match day two game played in Angola, yesterday. They share the position on four points with Angola after also playing a 1-1 draw encounter against Madagascar, yesterday. […]
The summit of the Authority of Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Accra last Saturday to deliberate on the political situations in Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso was very important. The importance of the extraordinary summit was based on the fact that it reviewed reports presented by former […]
The Child Rights International (CRI) has condemned and described as dangerous practice where the faces of children’s who suffer ill treatments and abuses are vidoed and broadcast publicly. Speaking in reference to a viral video of a 11- year old girl whose father allegedly picked her from school and took her to a traditional herbalist […]
The government last Wednesday concluded phase one of its YouStart stakeholder engagements after engaging the last batch of government institutions, regional ministers and Municipal, Metropolitan and District Chief Executives (MMDAs) from the Eastern, Volta and Oti regions in Koforidua. The government is expected to begin phase two of the stakeholder engagements from today during which […]
The immediate past President of the Calvary Apostolic Revival Church, Apostle Ismael Anum Sai has admonished the youth to be law abiding in order to become responsible leaders in future. According to him, the living conditions of the country could only change for the better, if the next generation of leaders were responsible and eschewed […]
Rabat — Morocco booked its place for the 2022 FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup in India on Saturday following positive second leg result in the final round against Ghana (4-2 on penalties), Saturday at Moulay El Hassan Stadium in Rabat. The U17 national Squad clinched a 4-2 win on penalties after a 2-2 aggregate score, […]
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Wednesday inaugurated a $50 million Bulk Power Supply Point at Kasoa in the Central Region. The 435 MVA project, funded by the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) under the Ghana Power Compact Agreement with the Government of the USA, is the second-largest bulk power supply under the agreement after […]
Johannesburg — In April 2022, the Centre for Human Rights (CHR) and the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS, and Gender (CSA&G) at the University of Pretoria together with the Center for Gender Studies and Feminist Futures (CGS) and the Center for Conflict Studies (CCS) at the Philipps-University Marburg launched the first edition of the Pretoria-Marburg Queer […]
Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE) has launched ‘An Accord for a Healthier World’ to address the inequities in the global health system. The initiative aims to provide all of Pfizer’s patented, high-quality medicines and vaccines available in the U.S or the European Union on a not-for-profit basis to 1.2 billion people in 45 lower-income countries. Pfizer […]
The African Research University Alliance (ARUA) on Friday launched a five-year Strategic Plan (2022-2027) to enable public universities support the transformation of Africa through research and innovation. The plan would align ARUA’s current initiatives with its core vision of significantly expanding and enhancing the quality of research carried out in Africa, by African researchers, to […]
The Managing Director of Consolidated Bank Ghana (CBG) Limited, Mr Daniel Wilson Addo, has announced that CBG is expanding its Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) capabilities by partnering with the new Development Bank Ghana (DBG) to deliver technical and financial support to the sector. Speaking to a section of the media on CBG’s agenda for […]
The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has called for the provision of rest stops along major highways to help tackle growing incidence of road accidents. According to the acting Director-General of NRSA, David Osafo Adonteng, the unavailability of rest stops on the major highways in the country was leading to fatigue-driving and increased road crashes. […]
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has underscored the fact that Ghana will not need to look outside when it comes to dredging works. Dredging activities in the country, he said, included dredging of dams, reservoirs, ports, harbours, land reclamation among others could be done effectively by local firms. President Akufo-Addo made the observation while […]
The United States (US) government is to partner with Ghana to avert violent extremism and other forms of conflicts and vulnerabilities that threaten the country’s stability. The country and four other Coastal West African states; Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire, Togo, and Benin are beneficiaries of a 10-year US Strategy aimed at preventing conflict and promoting stability […]
The Deputy Minister for Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, has hinted that the Education Ministry will from July this year begin the training of 100,000 public pre-tertiary teachers from the northern sector of this country in digital literacy. The training which would be supervised by the National Teaching Council (NTC) would be executed by SteadyX, […]
The Eastern Regional Police Command is on a manhunt for six armed robbers, who allegedly made away GH¢ 1 million after attacking a shop that deals in gold at AsamangTamfoe, in the Atiwa East Municipality of the region. The unmasked robbers reportedly fired guns sporadically throughout the broad-day light operation that lasted about 11 minutes, […]
A Justice of the High Court in Ghana and The Gambia, Justice Alexander Osei Tutu, has authored a book titled “Essential Themes in Land and Customary Law.” The highly acclaimed book provides a comprehensive insight into understanding the Land Law in Ghana. It also gives details of the provisions of Act (1036) and their application […]