A national organising committee has been inaugurated and tasked with the responsibility of engaging various stakeholders in preparations towards the launch of the Planting for Food and Jobs programme.
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Dr Abdul-Nashiru Issahaku has explained that he resigned as Governor of the Bank of Ghana on personal grounds.
Confirming to Graphic Online Wednesday evening, that he has presented his resignation letter earlier in the day, Dr Issahaku said: “They did not force me out. It was a personal decision".
The Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Abdul-Nashiru Issahaku has resigned, a highly placed source at the Presidency has confirmed to Graphic Online.
Dr Issahaku was said to have presented his resignation letter on Wednesday.
He visited the Flagstaff House on Wednesday and informed the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo about his decision.
His last day of work would be Friday, March 31, 2017.
What started as a control of turf and show of supremacy by two rival gangs in the small scale mining community in Odumasi in the Asante Akyem Central District of Ashanti, has ended in the untimely death of a leader of one of the gangs.
The gang, said to be attacking each other for the control of the site and bragging about their spiritual fortification to withstand knife wounds embarked on a stabbing spree.
Yaw Boateng, 24 also known as Ramsey, lost his life when he clashed with Arafat Hakeem Mohammed on Wednesday afternoon. He was stabbed in the chest with a dagger which got stuck. He bled and died instantly.
A total of about 126 police personnel have been deployed on the campus of the University of Cape Coast, ahead of hall week celebrations following a recent violent clash between some students.
The police have been stationed at vantage points on campus and according to some students, the heavy police presence was making them a bit worried and expressed the hope that the hall week celebrations would pass without negative incidents.
People living in Ghana’s mining communities may now be better protected from deadly mercury poisoning. On March 23, Ghana ratified the Minamata Convention on Mercury – a real step forward for communities affected by mercury pollution.
Mercury, a toxic liquid metal, is used in small-scale gold mines all over the world to separate the gold from the ore, and then released into air and water. Ghana is one of Africa’s top gold producers, and about a million people work in its small gold mines. Workers and nearby communities are directly exposed to mercury.
Seven communities within the Dzita-Anyanui Traditional Area in the Keta Municipality have risen against alleged ritual killings that have been going on in the communities.
A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Project Maji, has inaugurated two new solar-powered water kiosks in Gaymtutu, a community in the Northern Region, and Otuaplem in Amasaman in the Greater Accra Region.
A former United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Dr Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella, has challenged the youth of Ghana to seize the abundant opportunities Africa provides in order to be agents of transformational change on the continent.
He said there was too much negative information on Africa in the international news media, which generalised and exaggerated incidents happening in a country as though they were happening in the whole continent.
Queenie Akuffo, the 26-year-old woman accused of inserting a dildo into the vagina of a friend, was yesterday acquitted and discharged by the Accra Circuit Court.
Queenie was freed by the court, presided over by Mrs Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku, after it concluded that per the evidence on record, the alleged victim, Janet Amankwa, 22, who claimed she had been drugged, had actually consented to the act.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the government is committed to raising the country's cocoa production to one million tonnes and also ensuring that 50 per cent of the beans is processed locally.
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr David Asante-Apeatu, has assured the public that the Ghana Police Service (GPS) will not relent on its mandate to provide maximum security for all.
He said resident non-Ghanaians had nothing to worry about concerning their safety, as the GPS was committed to ensuring their safety.
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources (MLNR) has inaugurated a five-member audit committee as part of a mandatory requirement to build a robust financial management regime in the ministry.
Parliament yesterday passed the Earmarked Funds Capping and Realignment Bill, 2017 into an Act, to free up public funds in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) for other uses.
The Act provides that the earmarked funds for each financial year should be equivalent to 25 per cent of revenue.
More than 3,000 women on social protection intervention programmes are receiving skills training as part of efforts to wean them off the programmes.
Rolled out in January 2015 and expected to end in May 2018, the project, known as the Ghana Support for Rural Income Generation to Targeted Poor Persons Pilot, is benefiting 4,194 vulnerable persons of which 83 per cent are women.
The Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) and other media partners have agreed to launch a campaign against galamsey activities to save the country’s water bodies and vegetation.
The Media Coalition Against Galamsey will be launched on Tuesday, April 4, 2016 at the Alisa Hotel in Accra.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Builsa South, Dr Clement Apaak, has expressed alarm at the increased rate of illegal felling of rosewood, an endangered tropical hardwood specie, in the Builsa South District and surrounding areas.
He told the Daily Graphic last Thursday that in spite of the ban on the cutting of rosewood by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, the illegal felling, harvesting and export of rosewood had gone up significantly.
The Vice-President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has announced that the government will soon introduce the necessary legislation to provide permanent funding for the Zongo Development Fund to ensure its sustainability.
The reason, he said, was to ensure that no government used the excuse of no funding to scrap it.
“The axe will fall where it should fall,” a source close to the committee that investigated the allegation that the Minister of Energy, Mr Boakye Agyarko, had bribed Minority members on the Appointments Committee of Parliament (ACP) through its Chairman to approve his nomination has hinted as the committee is expected to submit its report today.
The source told the Daily Graphic that findings would represent the truth about the alleged bribery saga.
An environmentalist, Mr Emmanuel Ocran, has urged the government and environmental agencies in the country to urgently come up with strategies aimed at restoring damaged rivers and other water sources in the country.