March 2018

Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire on Monday signed onto the Abidjan Declaration", an agreement to address the challenges of the cocoa sector. The agreement, which is within the framework of the implementation of the Strategic Partnership…

A Land Division of the High Court on Monday granted a self-recognisance bail to Dr Stephen Opuni together with his accomplice Mr Seidu Agongo in the sum of GH¢300,000 on 27 charges including causing financial loss to the State. The…

The government has denied that it was focusing much attention on the food crops under the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme to the neglect of the livestock and poultry sub-sectors. Dr Owusu-Afriyie Akoto, Minister for Food and…

Mr Henry Orah, the Managing Director of Zenith Bank, has said the Bank had met the Bank of Ghana' minimum capital requirement ahead of the deadline. He said the Bank met the requirement from its return earnings and not from any…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured private sector investors that Ghana was a safe destination for their investments, as government's push is making the country a business-friendly one on the Continent. “Ghana is…

An Accra High Court has sentenced Kofi Seidu, a driver and a farm manager, who murdered and buried a British Missionary in an old farm at Nsawam in 2010, to death by hanging. This was after a seven member jury unanimously returned a…

The Wa Collection of Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) mobilised a total amount of GH¢4,690,000.00 in 2017 in excess of its revenue target of GH¢4,250,000.00 for that year. The Customs Division therefore exceeded its…

The members of Civil Society Forum have called for more commitment on the part of stakeholders to ensure that new HIV and AIDS infections were stopped as a means of ending the epidemic by 2030. They argued that prevalence rate among the…

A two-day training workshop to sensitise mining communities on the mineral and mining laws has opened at Daboase in the Wassa East District , with a call on mining firms to engage the local communities to obtain their social license for…

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has called for inter-agency and international collaboration in the area of awareness creation on the high abuse of Tramadol among the public in order to curb the social menace. Tramadol abuse has an…