The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has intercepted 119 bags filled with compressed dried substance suspected to be Indian Hemp at Wute, near Akatsi, in the Volta Region. The contraband item was being transported to an unknown location on a Ford Transit van and a truck that broke down along the way. […]
The government is rolling out a GH¢10-billion package over three years as support for start-up businesses and youth entrepreneurship ventures in the country. In line with this, the government, through the E-Levy, proposes to use GH¢1 billion each year to catalyse an ecosystem to create one million jobs. In partnership with its development partners, the […]
Two regions – Volta and Bono – kicked off their vaccination against COVID-19 Thursday. The exercise started with health workers at the frontline in the fight against the pandemic. Volta Region In the Volta Region, about 14,450 health workers will receive the vaccines, reports Graphic Online’s Mary Anane-Amponsah. The exercise is expected to cover staff […]
The Paramount Chief of Afife and President of the Afife Traditional Council, Torgbui Adrakpanya VI, has described the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as a competent, compassionate, great and visionary leader who is deserving of second term in office. According to Torgbui Adrakpanya VI, “We have been keenly monitoring your development focus […]
The First Lady of the Republic, Mrs. Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo has called for collaboration between The Rebecca Foundation and Paramount Queen Mothers in the Volta and Oti regions to empower young women in their communities, as part of a working visit to Ho in the Volta region. The First Lady acknowledged the immense responsibility […]
“No one who is committed to the Ghana Project, as I am, can have an ethnic agenda. Rather, we should shun all those who would promote ethnic sentiments and divisions amongst us for selfish, partisan, political ends. There are people from this region, some of whom are well known to you here in Amedzofe, who […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the Volta Region was not singled out for any special military operation in the run-up to the conduct of the voter registration exercise, and there was certainly no political or ethnic agenda. According to President Akufo-Addo, despite the fact that deployment of the military personnel […]
The National Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic has posited that every vote earned by the Party in the 2020 elections will be worked for. According to Mr. Sammi Awuku the NPP is poised to take its campaign message to every nook and cranny of the country including households and communities irrespective of where they […]
The National Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Mr. Sammi Awuku and the Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Mr. Perry Kwabla Okudzeto over the weekend stormed the Volta Region to monitor the ongoing voter registration exercise. The visit took the duo and their team comprising of the NPP UK Organiser, Kwame Boateng, […]
President Akufo-Addo says the military deployments at the country’s borders are not in any way intended to intimidate or prevent eligible Ghanaians from registering to vote in December. He said “they are there for their express purpose, which is to guard our borders. That is the limit of their remit, and they will not be […]
Volta Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police Edward Oduro Kwarteng has called on police personnel in the region not to be complacent as the novel COVID-19 is a killer and can infect everyone. For that reason, he stressed that it was about time Ghanaians came to terms with the reality of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic. […]
Some residents of the Volta Region have issued a two-week ultimatum to the government to fix all the deplorable roads in the region or face their wrath. The group which is trumpeting a campaign dubbed Fix Volta Roads Now, say the bad nature of roads in the region had increased the number of vehicular accidents, […]
