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Participants at a day’s National CSOs Dialogue on Enhancing Excise Taxation in Ghana has called for an upward adjustment of the excise taxes on tobacco products, alcoholic and sugar-sweetened beverages to help prevent diseases and increase…

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 18-year-old unemployed to seven months imprisonment for stealing GH¢3,500 and mobile phones valued GH¢4,000 from a shop. 

Infants who are fed with breast milk substitutes (Formula), have higher risk of developing Type One and Two diabetes in the future, irrespective of parents’ diabetic status.

Mr Benjamin Afagbegee, an Architect and Senior Conservator of Monuments, Ussher Fort, Accra, has encouraged Ghanaians to preserve heritage sites to boost the nation's socio-economic development.

The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) has committed €4 million to support GIZ’s “Participation, Accountability and Integrity for a Resilient Democracy (PAIReD)” programme to improve Ghana’s local governance systems.

The Ghana Export-Import (GEXIM) Bank says it is committed to breaking the age-long financial constraints of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana through concessional loans and grants.

According to 2022 estimates, over 15,000 people in Ghana died from hepatitis B and C-related liver diseases, amounting to some 42 deaths per day, while an estimated eight per cent of babies are born to mothers who tested positive for…

The Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC), the Ghana Shippers' Authority (GSA), and 17 shipping lines  have agreed to an average of five per cent increase in the basic freight rate for the 2024/2025 cocoa season.  

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." - Socrates

The current administration under the leadership of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has added a total of 12,830 kilometres to Ghana's road network as of December 2023, Mr. Francis Asenso-Boakye, the Minister for Roads and Highways,…