News headlines in Ghana
The Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese (AAK) District Assembly and the management of the Centre for Awareness (COA) have jointly initiated a campaign to ensure clean communities in the district.
A new mission house attached to the St. Dominic Parish of the Catholic Church at Adweso, a suburb of Koforidua in the New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern Region, has been inaugurated.
AngloGold Ashanti (AGA), Obuasi Mine, has partnered indigenous company, Mac Partners, to train 101 youth in Obuasi to equip them with practical employable skills to become relevant and self-reliant.
The Tamanaa Rice Company Limited in the North East Region, producers of Nasia Star Rice, has launched a charity programme to support a number of poor and needy widows in the region.
Hitherto, it was a privilege to stay in residential areas like SSNIT flats because of its aesthetic beauty and well-managed facilities, especially roads and water systems, among others.
The chiefs and the people of Agotime Afegame in the Volta Region have called on the government to fix the Beh-Afegame road as its poor state is affecting economic activities in the area.
Customers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Ltd in Akrokeri, Obuasi and its environs will soon experience an improvement in power supply as the company has embarked on a massive maintenance exercise in the area.
The Director-General (DG) of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Mr. Eric Nana Agyeman-Prempeh, has given his full backing to a road map for a lasting solution to the perennial flooding in the northern sector of the country.
The Akyem Manso Development Union (AMDU) has undertaken a number of development projects valued at about GH¢228,800 at Manso to raise the quality of life of the people.
The Electricity Company of Ghana in the Volta Region has taken a swipe at assembly members who engage in smuggling electricity meters from Togo to sell in the region at exorbitant prices.
The Methodist Church Ghana has inaugurated and handed over a 50-bed capacity hospital at Aburaso near Agric-Nzema in the Atwima Nwabiagya District of the Ashanti Region.
Some residents of the Chirapatre Estate in Kumasi have threatened to hit the streets if authorities do not demolish a washing bay and its adjoining welder’s shop that is hindering the reconstruction of the Chirapatre Estate roads.
Residents of Kwabeng, a predominantly farming community in the Atiwa District of the Eastern Region, say they are on the verge of an environmental crisis following years of mining in the community without appropriate environmental interventions.
The Upper East Regional Crops Officer of the Department of Agriculture, Mr Joshua Diedong, has called on policy makers and stakeholders in agriculture to help introduce to farmers, new technologies of storing their produce to boost food security in the north of the country.
