The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has met stakeholders in the fishery sector to brief them on the Revised National Fish Standards and to discuss issues affecting the sector. The stakeholders, comprising vessel and land establishment operators, discussed how they could help implement the relevant quality and safety standards in the fishing industry to ensure safe fish for consumption. Safe fish […]

A private citizen, Mr Robert Aggrey-Fynn Amissah, and others have served notice to the Vice-Chancellors of the University of Ghana to vacate his posts because he is occupying the office illegally. Mr Amissah and the other “public-spirited Ghanaians”, acting through their solicitor, argue that in a High Court ruling in Winneba, it was declared that the extension of the mandate […]

The Ministry of Health through the Ghana Health Services is taking steps to deploy midwives to all Community-based Health Planning Services (CHPS) compounds across the country as part of efforts to address maternal and neonatal mortality. Task sharing has also been introduced for Community Health Nurses to enhance the accessibility of midwifery services at all CHPS zones. These were contained […]

Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has revealed what pushed a staunch member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Hajia Fati to assault a female journalist at the party’s Headquarters. According to Pratt, Hajia Fati who’s a friend, informed him in a conversation that she was led to attack the media practitioner because she was frustrated. […]

Telecom industry players have insisted they are not taking the place of banks with the launch of the mobile money interoperability. The telecom operators however believe the new system should help reduce the number of people not captured within the banking population. The comment comes less than a week to the official launch of the mobile money interoperability. The mobile […]

Deputy General-Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho, has launched a sharp criticism of the government over he says is the politicisation of the civil service. His criticism follows a recent press conference by the leadership of the Civil and Local Government staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) to complain about secret attempts to replace them at their jobs. […]

Agricultural scientists across the country are calling on government to revive the interest of agric in the youth by incorporating agriculture back into the curriculum of basic, secondary and tertiary institutions. According to the scientists, such a move will make government’s flagship policies in Agric like the ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ and the ‘One District One Factory’ very relevant […]

The absence of clear criteria for the eventual selection of personnel into the Nation Builders’ Corps (NaBCo) is a major concern for a Vice President at IMANI Africa, Selorm Branttie. Noting how various modules under the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) are run, Mr. Branttie bemoaned the fact that recruits onto such programmes are announced out of the blue. “For some […]

A Senior Lecturer at the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Kwabena Obeng Duedu, has denied news making rounds that lecturers and some residents among whom are chiefs engage in open defaecation around the University premises. Reacting in a tweet, Kwabena Obeng Duedu, who is the Head of the Biomedical Department of UHAS, stated that where open defaecation may have […]

Nine-hundred and eighty-six adolescent girls in the Greater Accra Region in 2017, engaged in illegal termination of their pregnancies. The figure comprised of 31 girls aged between 10 and 14, and 955 adolescent girls aged between 15 and 19 years. Madam Diana Bona, Greater Accra Regional Adolescent Health Coordinator, disclosed this on the sidelines of the Kwesi Plange Adolescent Health […]