The breeding of Red Locusts and African Migratory Locusts in Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia is likely to affect food security in East and Southern Africa. According to Wikipedia, red locusts are large nomadic grasshoppers which are mostly found in Sub-Saharan Africa while the African Migratory Locust is mainly found in Africa south of the Sahara Desert and […]
A former Member of Parliament (MP) for Bantama in the Ashanti Region, Henry Kwabena Kokofu has indicated that he is not disappointed a post he was penciled to be assigned has been given to Lawyer Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie. The former lawmaker last month was reportedly appointed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the Chief Executive
A project to minimize the misuse and waste of food in Ghana has been launched at the University for Development Studies UDS, Wa campus in the Upper West Region. Dubbed “Campaign Against Food Waste and Overeating”, the project is to encourage Ghanaians to make judicious use of available food at their disposal. Though there is
The hostess of the defunct popular women TV programme, Mmaa Nkommo, Madam Afia Ansaa Ampene, and her son have been dragged before the Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defrauding a woman of GH¢265,988. In 2016, the TV host and her son, Stephen Kwabena, were alleged to have collected goods from a dealer of Nestle and
The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Hon. Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has made strong case for development partners and the private sector to continue to invest in Ghana’s agricultural sector. Hon. Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto says Ghana’s agricultural sector has lots of potentials which he said have been left untapped, particularly by development partners and
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday admitted that his generation has failed Nigeria in their efforts at taking it to the ‘Promised Land.’ He, however, quickly added that what they missed out in growing the nation economically, they have been able to deliver in a united and stable country under a democratic dispensation. Obasanjo spoke in
Some market women who trade in dried tilapia popularly known as ‘Koobi’ are threatening to stage a naked demonstration if “false” reports that the fish is preserved with a cancer-causing substance, formalin are not stopped. Formalin, which is a chemical used to prevent dead bodies from decomposing, is allegedly being used by the traders to
“Afrophobia”? “Xenophobia”? “Black on black racism”? A “darker” as you can get hacking a “foreigner” under the pretext of his being too dark — self hate par excellence? Of course all of that at once! Yesterday I asked a taxi driver: “why do they need to kill these “foreigners” in this manner?”. His response: “because
The Foods and Drugs Authority (FDA) has criticized Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng for failing to first inform the Authority about the use of cancer-causing agent, Formalin in preserving ‘koobi’, dried tilapia, before he put it out in the public domain. Prof Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, during a working visit to the Food Research
Former President J.A Kufuor is livid over comments by his counterpart JJ Rawlings that he softened his stance on prosecuting a son of former Speaker of Parliament Peter Ala Adjetey. “The 31st December Movement suffered bankruptcy in supporting Atta Mills. How many of us bothered to show up in court to offer her moral support
