The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Government of Ghana and Government of Switzerland through the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), yesterday launched the Global Quality and Standards Programme (GQSP) to improve standards and quality of exports. The GQSP is an innovative new global programme developed by UNIDO and funded by SECO that addresses […]
Forty-one per cent of Ghanaians say drought has worsened by 30% in the last 10 years. Consequently, they said agricultural production has also worsened in the past decade blaming the situation on climate change. According to the Afrobarometer report on experience and awareness of climate change in Africa, 52% of Ghanaians have heard of climate […]
When President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo set foot on the tarmac of the Luanda Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport in the Angolan capital on August 8, 2019, it was soon to be recorded as the deepening of another strategic diplomatic ties and the opening of a new chapter for mutually beneficial co-operation between the two […]
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, yesterday arrived in the Angolan capital, Luanda, to begin a two-day official visit to that country. The visit, the first by a sitting Ghanaian president, was at the behest of the Angolan President, Joao Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço. The visit is expected to, among other things, strengthen further the longstanding […]
A young man has shared a rather unfortunate story on social media about how his friend found out his girlfriend has been cheating on him for almost two years. According to the guy who shared the story on Twitter, his friend traveled all the way to Kumasi to surprise his girlfriend on her graduation only […]
The Government of Cuba has accepted to train forty (40) brilliant but needy medical students a year from Zongo, inner city and other deprived communities in Ghana. This follows a proposal by the Vice President of the Republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, to the Government of Cuba to extend the special arrangement between the two countries […]
A Ghanaian man based in London has threatened to commit suicide after his wife he brought from Ghana betrayed him. According to the man, initially, his family was against his marriage to his wife but he went against the orders of his family. The 40-year old man explained that since his wife arrived in London, […]
The High Commissioner of Canada to Ghana, Dr Heather Cameron, has said that Canada remains open to the world and will welcome over 300,000 new residents this year. Very soon, she said, many more students would be heading to Canada for world-class education, adding that Canadian alumni were active in Ghana and continued to grow […]
Ghana is ready to donate $10 million to the African Union to support the operationalisation of the secretariat of the African Continental (AfCFTA) Free Trade Area. Consequently, government has set up an inter-ministerial committee to work with the African Union (AU) Commission towards this end. The Extraordinary Summit of the Assembly of Heads of State […]
Ghana came third after Botswana and Malawi respectively in the most peaceful country in Africa in the latest Global Peace Index. Ghana placed 44th in the world with Iceland leading the overall chart as the most ‘peaceful’ nation on Earth in the 2019 Global Peace Index. In addition, the world’s overall ‘peacefulness’ has improved for […]
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has agreed in principle to send about 375 Ghanaian nurses to Barbados to work in government medical facilities in that country. The Prime Minister of Barbados, Ms Mia Amor Mottley, put in the request for the services of nurses from Ghana during bilateral talks with President Akufo-Addo in Bridgetown, […]
Some nurses who are yet to get married have threatened a demonstration this year, should men not approach and propose to them. They argue that they are increasingly becoming frustrated because of their unmarried status and that their plight is further exacerbated by the fact that their parents and family members are mounting pressure on […]
