2023

Mr. Joe Anokye, Director General of the National Communications Authority (NCA) has said that plans are far underway for Ghana to hook on to the 5G wireless data communication for mobile carriers.        

Civil society actors in Ghana, led by Vision for Alternative Development (VALD-Ghana) have expressed their support to the Food and Drugs Authority’s (FDA) position to ban alcohol advertisements by celebrities.

The University of Ghana Medical School (UGMS) and the University of West Indies (UWI) have signed an agreement for a joint medical exchange programme. 

More than 175 undergraduate students have received scholarship from Perseus Mining Ghana Limited (PMGL) to continue their education at the tertiary level. 

Nana Akosua Gyamfiaba II, Queen Mother of Nyankrom and Acting Paramount Queen Mother, Shama Traditional Council has decried the increasing illegal mining activities in the country.

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has ranked the Nabdam district of the Upper East Region as the area with the highest multidimensional poverty in the country.

Concerned Traditional Leaders in Effutu and Gomoa Akyempim have called on the Minerals Commission to rescind its decision to grant mining concessions in the Muni-Pomadze Ramsar Site and Yenku Forest Reserve in Winneba.

As Ghana struggles with housing, the most important resource needed to close the country’s housing gap – land, is also the resource surrounded by the most conflict.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Ghana (PwC), an auditing and tax firm, says if negotiations with external creditors and debt holders are not concluded expeditiously, Ghana’s economic recovery could stall.

A research conducted by Euromonitor International Limited has revealed that illicit cigarette trade accounts for 39 per cent of total cigarette volume sales in 2018, up from 35 per cent share in 2017.