BY: Hani Elsadani - Salem, IFAD Country Director, Ghana
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Ghana will remember the former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, the late Kofi Annan, for his passion for creation of jobs and employment of the youth in productive sectors of the economy. He demonstrated this when he paid a working visit to the IFAD and AfDB-financed Rural Enterprises Programme (REP) site at Mankessim on March 9, 2017.
In the Akan tradition of Ghana, we have a saying that goes, Efiekaniaedum. Na ye be ye den ni? The literal English translation is, “The light at home has gone out. What shall we do?”
The Paternal and Maternal families of Kofi Annan, have paid glowing tributes to their beloved kin, saying they will remember him with deep respect and affection.
The Forestry Commission (FC) has reviewed allowances of employees under the Youth in Afforestation Programme to align with allowances of employees under the Nation Builders Corps (NABCo) programme.
Bad blood is brewing between the Auditor-General and the Audit Service Board. The two sides are trading allegations and counter-allegations, resulting in both writing separate petitions to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
From the four corners of the world, more than 1,500 dignitaries, including heads of state and the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Mr António Guterres, are converging on Accra today for the burial service of Mr Kofi Annan in what is expected to be a historic celebration of life.
As many as 26 individuals Wednesday, September 12 savored the goodness in the ongoing Devtraco/Graphic Dream Home Promotion, winning either cash prizes or high value mobile phones.
Lawyers for troubled gold dealership firm, Menzgold Ghana, say the company cannot comply with a directive by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to shut down its trading activities for alleged infractions.
A Deputy Minister of Information, Mr Pius Enam Hadzide has explained that the decision to organise a closed-casket funeral ceremony for the late United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is in line with the global icon's wishes to have a modest funeral.
The Auditor-General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo, has sent a complaint to the Presidency over what he describes as interferences by the Board Chairman, Prof. Edward Dua Agyeman.
The President of the Kofi Annan Foundation, Mr Alan Doss, has said the foundation is determined to advance Kofi Annan's vision for a fairer and more peaceful world.
The President of the Institute of Internal Auditors Ghana (IIAG), Ms Juliet Aboagye-Wiafe, has advised heads of public institutions to invest in the training of their audit staff.
A non-governmental organisation (NGO) is challenging government’s decision to conduct a referendum for the creation of new regions in only the affected areas.
A former Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Mr William Ampem-Darko, has called for the television (TV) licence fee to be scrapped and replaced with a public service broadcasting tax to help generate sustainable funds for the corporation.
Two persons, including a banker at the Takoradi branch of the GCB Bank, have been put before an Accra circuit court for conspiring with nine others and allegedly stealing an amount of GH¢1.158 million from the bank.
