Agona West’s Charity Akortia is 2023 National Best Farmer
Madam Charity Akortia, 57, has been adjudged the 2023 Overall National Best Farmer at the 39th National Farmers’ Day Celebration, held at Tarkwa, in the Western Region.
39th Farmers’ Day in Pictures
Farmers’ Day falls on the first Friday in December each year, when the Ministry of Food and Agriculture honours deserving farmers and fishers with special awards based on their adoption of modern agricultural practices and output.
Top Stories
One delegate arrested for taking photographs of ballot paper
By Rosemary Wayo, GNA Tamale, Dec 02, GNA – A young man has been arrested by the Police at the Tamale Cental constituency where the New Patriotic Party’s…
NPP Orphan Primary: ‘Voilet bag’ causes ‘voilence’ at Ablekuma Central
Agnes Ansah Accra, Dec. 2, GNA – Pandemonium broke at the Mataheko Police Station Park in the Ablekuma Central Constituency where the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is conducting…
Agona West’s Charity Akortia is 2023 National Best Farmer
By Stephen Asante/James Amoh Jnr Tarkwa (W/R), Dec. 01, GNA – Madam Charity Akortia, 47, has been adjudged the 2023 Overall National Best Farmer at the 39th National Farmers’…
We are working to get our farmers in flood areas back to work — Dr Letsa
By Samuel Akumatey, GNA Ho, Dec. 1, GNA – Dr. Archibald Yao Letsa, Volta Regional Minister, has assured farmers that lost their farmsteads in the spillage of…
Minimum capital for Credit Bureaus now GHS6m
Accra, Dec. 1, GNA – The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has increased the minimum paid up capital for both existing and new entrant Credit Bureaus to GHS6 million…
Afriwave Telecom transforms Teshie Orphanage Library into state-of-the-art facility
Accra, Dec. 1, GNA – The management and children of Teshie Orphanage were filled with happiness and excitement when Afriwave Telecom Ghana Limited upgraded their library to a…
Business community asked to consider Anloga District for investment and doing business
By Caleb Kuleke, GNA Ho, Dec. 1, GNA – Mr Emmanuel Dzakpasu, Anloga District Coordinating Director, in the Volta Region, says the district is ripe for investment and…
AfCFTA Chief of staff challenges AGI to explore automobile industry value-chain under agreement
By Maxwell Awumah, GNA Ho, Dec. 1, GNA – Mr Silver Ojakol, Chief of Staff, AfCFTA Secretariat, has challenged the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) to take advantage…
Domestic Debt Exchange Programme blighted many businesses severely — AGI
By Edward Williams, GNA Ho, Dec. 1, GNA – Dr Humphrey Ayim-Darke, President of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), says the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) has…
Economy
Minimum capital for Credit Bureaus now GHS6m
Accra, Dec. 1, GNA – The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has increased the minimum paid up capital for both existing and new entrant Credit Bureaus to GHS6 million…
Business
KIA introduces self-service check-in for seamless facilitation
By Stanley Senya Accra, Dec. 1, GNA- International passengers travelling through the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) have the option of accessing the self-service kiosks at ‘Terminal 3’ for…
Politics
One delegate arrested for taking photographs of ballot paper
By Rosemary Wayo, GNA Tamale, Dec 02, GNA – A young man has been arrested by the Police at the Tamale Cental constituency where the New Patriotic Party’s…
Social
Chiefs in Ketu North, Assembly ready to welcome potential investors
By Caleb Kuleke Ho, Dec. 02, GNA – The Chief of Dzodze-Kuli in the Ketu North Municipality, Togbe Avorkliya V, has indicated the readiness of traditional authorities and…
Court & Crime
Man jailed 48 months for car theft
By Joyce Danso, GNA Accra, Dec. 01, GNA – An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a businessman to 48 months imprisonment for stealing a 2015 Model Toyota Corolla…
Education
KOSMOS energy builds dormitory for blind pupils at Ashanti School for the Deaf
By Samuel Ofori Boateng Jamasi (Ash), Dec. 02, GNA – KOSMOS energy has constructed a 60-bed dormitory block for the blind unit of the Ashanti School for the…
Health
HIV on the rise in the Northern Region
Tamale, Dec. 02, GNA- A total of 6,072 persons have been reported to be living with HIV in the Northern Region as of June 2023. Out of the…
Science
We’ll promote research, technology in transforming agriculture – Dr Bawumia
By Stephen Asante/James Amoh Jnr. Tarkwa (W/R), Dec. 02, GNA – The Government will continue to assist universities and researchers to proffer smart solutions for sustainable agricultural development…
Environment
Set up National Sanitation Authority to give priorities to Sanitation issues
By Joyce Danso, GNA Accra, Dec. 1, GNA – Mr Yaw Attah Arhin, WASH Technical Specialist, World Vision Ghana, has called for the setup of a National Sanitation…
Features
Radiation Metrology Practice in Ghana – Supporting the Secondary Standard Dosimetry Laboratory is key
By Collins Kafui Azah Accra, Nov. 24, GNA – Many different concepts and factors are measurable. Most often, Length, Area, Volume, Mass, and Time are measured on daily…
Women participation in politics, a challenge
A GNA Feature by Fatima Anafu-Astanga Bolgatanga, Nov 21, GNA – The low level of women participation and representation in politics, stemming from economic, financial, and cultural barriers…
Mobile money fraud: A threat to financial inclusion
A feature by Isaac Obour Accra, Nov 18, GNA – For many years, attaining financial inclusion for all, especially persons within the informal sector of the Ghanaian economy…
Petroleum, other Minerals ownership, legal frameworks, and trickling down of Socio-economic benefits to Ghanaians
A GNA Feature by Frank Yao Gbadago Accra, Nov 18, GNA – Petroleum and other minerals ownership Ghana’s legal foundations for the ownership of petroleum and other minerals are…
Ghana: Betting tax sparks public outcry and economic skepticism
Accra, Nov 17, GNA – Ghana’s government implemented a controversial 10 per cent withholding tax on betting and lottery winnings last August, accompanied by a 20 per cent…
“Employed by My Body”: Inside Accra’s growing hook-up business
It is 2200 hours on Friday. About 100 girls actively pitch for clients on a Telegram platform with the hope of catching the eye of men who would pay for their body and have them for the night.
Foreign Features
China: An active participant in promoting human rights within the framework of global governance
Liu Huawen, executive director and researcher at Human Rights Research Center of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, wrote a book review on Xi Jinping: On Respecting and Protecting…
China Matters’ Features: An astrophile of “chasing” space station
On November 28th, China’s Tiangong space station has been photographed in its complete form for the first time. The space station’s main purpose is for scientific research. In 1992, the Chinese…
Good Media: Futian District in Shenzhen, China looking for FDI
Morgan Stanley, Siemens Energy, Starbucks, more than 156 of the Forbes global top 500 companies have invested in this region in China. The region is Futian District in…
Sports
CAF Champions League: Kamaradini spares Medeama blushes with late goal
By Yussif Ibrahim/Emmanuel Ofosu Kumasi, Dec. 01, GNA – Kamaradini Mamudu’s late goal saved the day for Medeama SC who were on the brink of dropping vital points…
Entertainment
Spanish Embassy, Latif Abubakar’s Afrocentric ‘Life is a dream’ goes to Takoradi
Nii Martey M. Botchway Accra, Dec. 01, GNA – Theatre lovers in Takoradi and its environs will be thrilled this weekend as celebrated Ghanaian playwright, Latif Abubakar stages…
World
COP28: Germany and UAE pledge $200m to compensate for climate damage
Dubai, Nov. 30, (dpa/GNA) – Germany and the United Arab Emirates pledged $200 million to compensate particularly vulnerable countries for climate damage, as the UN’s climate summit kicked…
Africa
‘Ghana Must Go’ bags: Ethiopian Airlines bans the well-known luggage
Dec 1 (BBC/GNA) – Ethiopian Airlines in Nigeria has banned the infamously nicknamed “Ghana Must Go” bags from their flights there. The luggage got the nickname in Nigeria…
Americas
Indicted Republican lawmaker George Santos expelled from U.S. House
Washington, Dec 1 (Reuters/GNA) – Indicted Republican George Santos’ brief career in the U.S. House of Representatives came to an end on Friday, when fellow lawmakers voted to…
Asia
India expects ‘clear roadmap’ on climate finance at COP28
New Delhi, Nov. 30, (dpa/GNA) – India expects agreement on a clear roadmap on climate finance at the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, the country’s top diplomat…
Europe
2023 Bulgarian University Ranking: Sofia University Remains at the Top, Number of Unemployed Higher Education Graduates “Seriously Down”
Sofia, Dec 1 (BTA/GNA) – The number of unemployed holders of higher education degrees in Bulgaria is seriously decreasing, the unemployment rate of some professional fields is below…