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Farmers in the Upper East Region in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) and the Tono Irrigation Programme are cultivating 1,700 hectares of rice. The fields that are expected to yield about 7,000 tonnes of the…

The United Nations says organised crime is "plundering" West Africa, as illicit goods flood through the region. A report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime says the smuggling of oil, arms, toxic waste, diamonds and cigarettes continues to…

Valuation of ordinary stocks is perhaps the single most important area of investment analysis that is common on the Stock Exchanges of less developed markets. Generally, analysts apply the so-called Gordon's growth model as one of the…

Ghana and Brazil have signed a $7 million agreement for the establishment of a shea nut processing plant at Buipe in the Northern Region. The facility, which would start operations in August, would be the first of three plants to be…

Clients of the Ho Municipal Mutual Health Insurance scheme have to pay for drugs under the scheme through suspected manipulation by some service providers and below-the-market-price quotations by the National Health Insurance Authority…

The Private Enterprises Foundation (PEF) has proposed the establishment of an Agriculture Fund for accelerated economic growth. The Director General of PEF, Dr Osei Boeh-Ocansey, said agriculture, which is the single largest contributor to…

Dzigbordi Kumatse, a brother of a suspect in police grips on narcotics charges, has been arrested for attempting to bribe Detective Corporal Mawuli Owusu-Agbe of the Nkwanta Police. Kumatse deployed bribery as a tool to demand the release…

Participants at a conference on patient safety and quality healthcare at Fiapre in the Brong Ahafo Region were at the weekend hit with a report by the Institute of Medicine that each year close to 100,000 people die in United States…

The Ghana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) says it would battle any attempt to delay the implementation of the New Pensions Scheme, “whether it came from government or the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT)”. Speaking to the…

The low pay package of journalists in Nigeria, Ghana and  Uganda plus lack of freedom of  information laws have been identified as major obstacles impeding journalists’ profession in these countries, a survey by students of Columbia…