Surveillance In Galamsey Areas To Be Increased - Eastern Regional MinisterWednesday, May 22, 2013 Asikam E/R, May 21, GNA - Ms Helen Adjoa Ntoso, the Eastern Regional Minister, has said that a 24-hour surveillance would be instituted to check illegal mining in all mining areas in the region. She urged the Police and the other security forces to beef up personnel at areas known for galamsey ... |
Workshop on Internet Governance opens in AccraWednesday, May 22, 2013 Accra, May 21, GNA - A three-day Internet Governance and Standards Development workshop to sensitise the internet community on key issues affecting the sector opened in Accra on Tuesday. The workshop, organised by the Internet Society ISOC, Ghana Chapter, was to build technical capacity in int ... |
President Mahama inaugurates a 16.8 million-dollar GRIDCo projectTuesday, May 21, 2013 Tema, May 20, GNA - President John Dramani Mahama on Monday inaugurated a 16.8 million-dollar systems control centre constructed by the Ghana Grid Company at Kpone with the assurance to build a resilient power transmission in the coming years. He said government was committed to ensuring adequat ... |
Ghana hosts AFRA workshop on Learning Management SystemsTuesday, May 21, 2013 Accra, May 20, GNA - Ghana is hosting a five-day African regional workshop on the implementation of e-learning platforms for networking nuclear education and training. The workshop, which is being sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, aims at using Information and Communica ... |
Ghana spends 70 million dollars annually on disasters-Dr. NormanTuesday, May 21, 2013 Dungu N/R, May 21, GNA - Dr. Ishmael Norman, Director of the Center for Disaster Resilience and Leadership Studies of the University for Health and Allied Science UHAS has revealed that Ghana spends 70 million dollars annually on disasters alone. He said the country also spends 4 million dol ... |
Ghanaians urged to embrace the use of weighing scalesTuesday, May 21, 2013 Nii Lante Vanderpuye Accra, May 20, GNA - The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Nii Lante Vanderpuye has called on Ghanaians to embrace the use of weighing scales in their interactions and business transactions. He said measurement played a crucial role in peoples daily lives and was impor ... |
ADB inaugurates water project in Burkina FasoMonday, May 20, 2013 Dakola, Burkina Faso, May 20, GNA- The African Development Bank ADB, at the weened launched its Water Project at Dakola in Burkina Faso at the cost of 134,553, 405 CFA. Burkina Faso is expected to bear 20 per cent of the total cost of the facility. The Water Project, which has a sanitati ... |
Obuasi Municipal asked to allay fears about telecom mastsSunday, May 19, 2013 Obuasi, May 17, GNA - Communications Minister Dr. Edward Omane Boamah has asked the Obuasi Municipal Assembly to allay fears that telecommunication masts pose health threats to people in the area. In a speech, read on his behalf at a days workshop on electromagnetic fields EMF exposure and he ... |
Stakeholders in agriculture sensitised on WAAPP IISunday, May 19, 2013 Bolgatanga, May 18, GNA- Agricultural extension officers and farmers in the Upper East Region have been sensitised on the implementation of the second phase of the West African Agricultural Productivity Programme WAAPP II at a workshop in Bolgatanga. WAAPP is an initiative of the Economic Comm ... |
Ghana to pilot climate change and health projectsSunday, May 19, 2013 Apam C/R, May 18, GNA - Three districts have been selected to implement climate change and health projects on pilot basis. The districts are Gomoa West in the Central Region, Keta in the Volta Region and Bongo in the Upper East Region. Dr Yaw Ofori Yeboah, Gomoa West District Director of t ... |
Trade Ministry and Google launch 'Innovation Ghana' to support SMEs using InternetThursday, May 16, 2013 Accra May 15, GNA - The Ministry of Trade and Industry supported by Google, has launched an initiative dubbed: Innovation Ghana to celebrate the creativity of individuals and small businesses using the Internet to stimulate socio-economic growth and development. The launched coincided with the ... |
CRI Director appeals for more supportThursday, May 16, 2013 Femuasua Ash, May 16, GNA - Dr Hans Adu-Dapaah, Director of the Crops Research Institute CRI of the Council of the Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR, has called for more support for the Institute, to enable it to research and develop more varieties of maize and legumes. He appealed t ... |
Israeli company launches first smartphone that offers multiple medical testsThursday, May 16, 2013 Accra, May 16, GNA - A unique smartphone that does not only makes calls but performs and analyzes a whole range of medical tests and sends a report of the results to the user and his physician has been launched by an Israeli company, LifeWatch Technologies. Experts say it is the worlds first sm ... |