In a bid to improve its revenue mobilization drive, the Akatsi North district assembly in the Volta region has run a day’s capacity building programme for its revenue officers as well as members of Finance and Administration sub-committee of the assembly. The training facilitated by a private agency, ‘the Pool’ consult was to equip the […]
So I am back from work and expecting to watch a local movie to relax after my stressful day, yet the TV station decides to show a flagbearer who is making noise. Mere political talk, same promises every time. Like seriously? You lie to me for power? Yes it is true a president cannot implement
The remains of Osei Tawiah, the young man who was allegedly brutalised to death by the police at Krofrom, a suburb of Kumasi, on May 26, 2016 were interred yesterday, amidst a great display of grief and drama. Family members placed a sharpened machete, a broom and ammunition in the coffin and ‘charged’ him to
Ghana Association of Persons with Albinism (GAPA), have embarked on an awareness walk through the principal streets of sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region with the aim of creating awareness about their existence. As the association recognizes and celebrate the struggle of persons with albinism globally, they also commend United Nations (UN) for the creation
Three mining companies, one licensed and two said to be operating illegally, are locked in what has been described as a hopeless clash in the Bawku West District of the Upper East region. The companies are in fierce fight over some acres of land reported to be rich in gold and diamond among other minerals.
Statistics at the Brong Ahafo Regional Mental Health has it that 627are on the various streets of towns and communities in the region. Marijuana and Laka which is a mixture of Akpeteshie and marijuana have been attributed to the many mental health problems in the Brong Ahafo region. The Brong Ahafo Regional Mental Health Coordinator,
Dr. Charity Kruger, Chairperson of FARA, has expressed confidence that Africa will definitely get to the point of achieving food self-sufficiency, given all the initiatives and investments being made to reach that goal. “Already in Africa we have achieved a lot, and we need to scale-up communications on our achievements,” she said. She was responding
Pineapple farmers in the Brong Ahafo Region are frustrated at the unresolved challenges in the farming business which has seen production yields decline sharply, threatening new investments into the fragile business. Non-availability of mechanised farming machinery such as tractors; difficulty in accessing subsidized fertilizers; lack of guaranteed market for the produce; lack of quality pineapple
Beleaguered national chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Paul Afoko, and other suspended national executives of the party must reconsider their court case against the party and return ahead of the 2016 elections, according to the Minority Leader. Kwabena Agyepong, general secretary of the Danquah-Busia-Dombo tradition and Sammy Crabbe, the first vice chairman of the
The Supreme Court of Ghana, has struck out an application for a review, brought before it by Lead Counsel for the disgruntled Member of Parliament for Korle Klottey Constituency, Nii Armah Ashitey. Lawyer Garry Nimako Marfo, on his own volition, withdrew the application for the review, praying The Court to interprete Article 94{1}, of The
