The Ghana Cocoa Board is hosting this year’s Cocoa Day celebration today October 1, at Akim-Tafo in the Eastern Region with a focus on how to attract the youth to engage in cocoa farming. The event is on the theme: “Sustainable Cocoa Production, the Role of the Youth.” The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says this […]
At least four persons lost their lives in multiple accidents involving three VIP buses , a taxi and a trailer at Asempanaeye near Nsawam in the Eastern Region on Thursday morning According to reports, the trailer rammed into a Taxi and a pick up truck, forcing it to veer off the road, crashing into the
The Adekyem Festival of the chiefs and the people of Bechem Traditional Area have been launched at Bechem, the Tano South District Capital. The Festival which has for its theme ‘’Unity and Development’’ would be celebrated in November, 2015 with a number of activities expected to be climaxed by a ground durbar. At the launching ceremony
The entire community of Apremdu, led by their Chief, Nana Egya Kwamina VI, on Sunday, mustered courage to confront Chinese illegal miners who had mounted their equipment on the Whin River, and were engaging in alluvial mining activities right under the noses of Apramdo soldiers. The decision came after the Chinese miners had defied orders
The Chief Executive Officer of Reroy Cables, Kate Quartey-Papafio says industrialists need to pace up their efforts to enable them realize the fortunes of what she describes as ‘a fortunate continent’. She claims the African industrialist has the desire and potential to power the economy with the essential support of all stakeholders. “Africa is ripe for industrialization.
Ghana’s President John Dramani has said 3,500 megawatts of power will be generated from supplemented gas, solar energy and biogas to alleviate dumsor which has crippled a lot of local industries and virtually brought small scale enterprises and the economy down to its knees. The President made the declaration when he was addressing the 70th
The Electoral Commission (EC) is expected to hold a forum on the last week of October during which political parties are expected to make presentations on whether there is a need or not for a new voters register to be complied ahead of the 2016 election. The EC expects that at the end of this
President John Mahama has admitted that the erratic power supply that has bedeviled the country over the last couple of years has affected growth and development in several aspects of the economy. Ghana has been grappling with severe power crisis for some time now. Recently the Electricity Company of Ghana was shedding between 650 megawatts
As part of revenue protecting activities initiated by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) some eight weeks ago the state power distributer has managed to retrieve GHc 5, 106, 837 from homes and corporate institutions that tap power illegally. The exercise of unearthing illegal connection in the ECG’s operational areas is on a national scale
Traders at the Tafo Market in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region have called on city authorities to improve conditions at the temporary market they have been relocated to ahead of the redevelopment of the facility. The traders are among other things asking the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) to provide adequate lightening systems and the construction
