Day: January 24, 2022

Kadjebi (O/R), – The Kadjebi District Directorate of the Department of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) in collaboration with Iribov Laboratories at Sogakofe has organised a stakeholder meeting with farmers to introduce them to the new Peruvian Ginger. It was also meant to build the capacity of the farmers on the new ginger variety to increase […]

Kumasi, – The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has ushered in 14 new veterinary medicine doctors, with a call on them to strengthen research into the numerous outbreaks of diseases in animals. Professor Christian Agyare, Provost of the College of Health Science, KNUST, said veterinary medicine had become more important in view […]

Yamfo, (A/R), – Police in Ahafo Region are investigating the mysterious death of a 54-year-old farm labourer, whose body was found on a farm at Aboabo, near Yamfo in the Tano North Municipality of the region. The body of Dominic Adewuah has since been deposited at the Sunyani Regional Hospital for preservation and autopsy. According […]

Moree (C/R), – Mr Matthew Ekow Boison, Assemblyman for Bentsi Electoral Area in Moree, a fishing community in the Central Region, has appealed to the government to include the town in the ongoing sea defence project along the region’s coastal stretch. He told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) Moree in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese district needs to […]

Ejisu (Ash) – Mr John Kumah, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ejisu, has inaugurated ultra-modern six-seater toilet facilities, and boreholes at six different communities in the constituency. The beneficiary communities are Bonwire, Besease, Boankra, Donyina, Akokroamon, and Essienimpong, all within the Ejisu Municipality. The MP, at a brief ceremony to inaugurate the projects, said […]

Tutuka (Ash), – Madam Faustina Amissah, Obuasi East District Chief Executive has reiterated the government’s commitment to empower every Ghanaian irrespective of their circumstances in life. She said the government would continue to initiate and implement pro-poor policies and programmes to improve the socio-economic lives and living conditions of the people. Madam Amissah, was speaking […]

Accra, – Three farmer-based organisations have expressed disappointment at the government’s decision to suspend indefinitely the implementation of the benchmark value reversal policy. The Rice Millers Association of Ghana, Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana and General Agricultural Workers Union said the decision had serious consequences on the survival of the local rice industry and appealed […]

Cape Coast,Inusa Osmanu, a 25-year-old trader, has been granted a GHC30,000 bail for alleged drug peddling. The Cape Coast Circuit court presided over by Mrs Dorinda Smith Arthur ordered that four persons should stand as sureties and two of these sureties should be justified. The accused denied possessing illicit drugs or control of narcotic drugs […]