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A TOTAL of five million coconut trees are expected to be replanted in the Western Region of Ghana. The replanting campaign, according to the Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko Mensah, and Executive Governor of Akwa Ibom, Uboh Emmanuel would be launched by the end of May 2019. The Region is joining forces with Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria in ...

President of the 73rd session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, touched down in Accra yesterday to begin a four-day official visit. Accompanied by Mr Kwabena Osei-Danquah, Chef de Cabinet to the President, the top UN official was received by a government delegation led by the Minister of Planning, George Gyan-Baffour and the UN Resident ...

A total of 81 more people, including two women believed to be members of the Homeland Study Group which has been agitating for autonomy for the Volta Region were arrested in a joint police-military operation in Ho yesterday. This comes four days after the leader of the group, Mr Charles K. Kudzordzi and seven others were picked up from their ...

The National Identification Authority has called on politicians to desist from ‘needlessly’ politicising the national registration exercise fraught with delays. Its Chief Executive Prof. Ken Attafuah has singled out NDC deputy General Secretary – who claims ‘massive fraud’ in the process to grant Ghanaians a biometric identity to access several social services – for caution. Peter Otokunor has alleged, the ...

The Chamber of Pharmacy Ghana has commenced a survey to ascertain the number of unregistered pharmaceutical products in the country. According to the Chamber, the report seeks to raise public awareness to ensure patients safety and also improve the sector’s contribution to GDP. The Chamber of Pharmacy Ghana has commenced a survey to ascertain the number of unregistered pharmaceutical products ...

A young Ghanaian from Nankese in the Eastern Region, Osei Godfred Amankwah, who’s pursuing an MPhil in Peace and Development at the University of Cape Coast, School for Development Studies, was selected as one of the top three winners of the 2019 Tana Forum Essay Competition. Out of the over 50 essays received, the team of experts reviewed the essays ...

AngloGold Ashanti is looking at options to dispose of its remaining assets in SA, arguing that investments needed to extend their lives would secure better returns elsewhere in the portfolio. AngloGold, the world’s third-largest gold mine, has extensively restructured its SA portfolio, selling mines to Harmony Gold and others, leaving it with a single underground mine at Mponeng and two ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that the disbursement plan for Senior High/Technical Schools’ incentive package had been revised. It said 80 per cent of the total amount would be allocated to teaching, while the 20 per cent goes to the non-teaching staff. These were contained in a release signed by Ms Cassandra Twum Ampofo, the Head of the ...

The staff of the National Identification Authority (NIA),Timothy Wuni who was arrested for attempting to register two Nigeriens to obtain Ghana cards in the ongoing registration exercise was yesterday granted police enquiry bail to a sum of GH¢10,000 with two sureties. The Kaneshie Divisional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Edward Faakyi-Kumi told the Ghanaian Times in Accra yesterday. ...

President Akufo-Addo has approved the Public Holidays (Amendment) Act 2019, (Act), on 16th April 2019. In December 2018 a bill was laid before parliament to amend the Public Holiday Act 2001 to provide for three different holidays. These new holidays were 7th of January which will be observed as the Constitution Day, the 4th of August will be described as ...