One hundred and forty-three children, including 85 orphans from Akyem Oda Zango, were feted last Saturday as part of the Eid-ul-Fitr celebration.

A Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana, Kwasi Agyei, has been appointed by President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the Controller and Accountant-General.

The African Freelancers (TAF) College, a tuition-free applied business school of creativity and entrepreneurship in Accra, has introduced a programme intended to train former illegal miners (galamseyers) to equip them with entrepreneurial skills.

The Kpando Municipal Command of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has impounded three trucks carrying cocoa beans at Torkor in the Volta Region.

The World Bank has entered into a partnership with the Ghana Consulting Engineers Association (GCEA) to offer continuous training and capacity building in contract management within West and Central Africa regions.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a five-year Performance Accountability Activity (PAA) project in the Volta Region.

The Chairman of the National Peace Council (NPC), Reverend Ernest Adu-Gyamfi, has stated that this year’s election will test the peace, unity, stability, cohesion and resilience of the county, and has consequently charged all religious bodies to use their platforms to preach and demonstrate peace for the citizenry to follow. 

Two thousand four hundred fifty-six (2,456) pharmacies have been onboarded on the National E-Pharmacy Platform, representing a major milestone for the digital platform and for Ghana.

The Ghana Enterprises Development Agency (GEDA) has initiated plans to provide a crusher machine for the beads market at Koforidua in the Eastern Region.

The Central Region recorded a 23 per cent reduction in fire outbreaks in the first quarter of this year as compared to figures for the same period last year.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has fined the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) GH¢5.86 million for 163 breaches in its service delivery and obligations to stakeholders.

GOIL has donated quantities of food items to the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Usmanu Nuhu Sharabutu, towards activities marking the end of this year’s Ramadan.

A team from Hydrological Environmental and Engineering Consulting Limited (HEE Consulting) has paid a courtesy call on the Awoamefia of Anlo Dukor in the Volta Region, Togbi Sri III, to dialogue on the development of the enclave.

A Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana, Kwasi Agyei has been appointed as the new acting Controller and Accountant-General by President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has refuted claims by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) that outages during peak hours of 7pm to 11pm were as a result of overloaded transformers. 

The High Court in Accra has handed a 10-year jail term to a former boss of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Sedina Tamakloe Attionu for causing financial loss of GH¢90 million to the state. 

A group of climate change experts and academics have warned of an imminent food shortage in the country if drastic measures are not taken to reverse the adverse effects of climate change.

Three teacher unions have expressed disappointment over the government’s negotiating approach concerning their working conditions.

A ten-year national policy that sets out a broad framework for transforming the National Service Scheme (NSS) has been launched.

Efforts to construct detention ponds, a major intervention in Accra floods control project, upstream of the Odaw Basin are being hampered by the encroachment of suitable lands by some private individuals.