Kofi Ahovi

The Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed, has cut sod for the construction of the solid and liquid waste treatment plant at Gbalahi in Sagnarigu Municipality in Tamale. He observed that the facility, which is expected to create 75 direct and over 200 indirect jobs, will help address the unemployment in the region while addressing the rural-urban migration. The project will help in creating job for the teaming youth which will help curb rural-urban migration” he stressed.  The minister further stressed that the waste treatment plants will enhance cleanliness in the region and improve on the sanitation which was becoming a concern to the municipal and district assemblies.   With Tamale being adjudged the third largest and fastest growing city in the country, the minister said “A very clean environment will give the city a dignified look". He therefore urged the citizens to practice preventive measures to avoid contracting diseases as "poor sanitation goes with health pr...

The Minerals Commission has held a two-day capacity building workshop for a cross section of media professionals in the bid for them to have a general overview of the minerals and mining operations in the country. The training workshop forms part of the commission’s drive to engage journalists on the emerging trends in the mineral and mining space as well as the challenges pertaining in the sector and the role of the media to report accurately. Participants were taken through topics such as Overview of the Mineral Commission Act, 1994 (ACT 450) and 2006 (Act 703), Types of Mineral Rights and Licensing Acquisition Procedure, Mining life cycle (stages of mining) and Statutory Reporting. Read also: Air Malta to start operations in Ghana this year The rest are Small Scale Mining in Ghana, Community Mining Scheme, Act 995-Offences under the Minerals and Mining Act 703, Support Service and Local Content, Fiscal Regime in Ghana and Compensation and Settlement. In an address, the Chief Execut...

  MTN , Ghana’s leading Telecommunications Company is set to host the 29 th edition of MTN Business World Executive Breakfast Meeting on October 8, 2020, under the theme, ‘ The Changing Face of Retail in Ghana: Scaling Successfully With Innovation And E-commerce ’. The breakfast meeting which will stream live on MTN Ghana’s Facebook page (mtnghana) and on YouTube (@mtnghana) from 10:0am is designed to give startups a unique opportunity to interact with distinguished speakers who are making great strides in their businesses through e-commerce and innovative services. Speakers to join the discussion are Kosi Antwiwaa Yankey - Executive Director, National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), Emi-beth Aku Quantson , CEO of Kawa Moka Coffee, Alex Bram , CEO of Hubtel, Gwen Gyimah Addo - CEO The Hair Senta/Business Strategist and Violet Amoabeng - CEO of Skin Gourmet Ltd. According to Industry Intelligence Experts, E-commerce in Ghana is growing and changing in terms of innovation...

Eastern Region became the eighth region to benefit from the on-going integrated recycling and compost plants being constructed across the country by Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) and its partners, Komptech, in partnership with government. With the exception of Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions whose plants have been inaugurated, work was currently on-going on solid waste treatment plants in Western, Western North, Ahafo, Bono and Bono East Regions. The Eastern solid waste treatment facility, which is expected to be completed within four months, would be sited at Akwadum, a suburb of Effiduase in the New Juaben North Constituency . It has the capacity to process tonnes of solid waste a day into compost to be used for agricultural purposes among other useful end products. When completed, the facility would receive waste from municipalities including New Juaben North and South, Effiduase, Suhum, Abuakwa North and South, Yilo Krobo, Koforidua, Okere and others. This means that the facility ...

Apostle Dr. Alfred Koduah, the Head of the Church of Pentecost, Teshie- Nungua Area has called on society including men to be wary of post modern ways of living that seem to separate society from God. Speaking at the climax of the Pentecost Men’s Ministry (PEMEM) week celebration at the Pentecost International Worship Centre (PIWC) Graceland, Nungua, Accra, Apostle Dr. Koduah said Secular Humanism is a dangerous philosophy and should not be entertained among Christian circles. He explained that the Secular Humanist theory believes that people can be good without God. “They do not believe in God and the afterlife, they do not believe in the Bible, and Jesus Christ at all,” Apostle Koduah emphasized. They believe in evolutionism as against creationism, they believe we were once Chimpanzees and yet there are a lot of Chimpanzees still in the bush for centuries and I wonder why they have not yet joined the human race after all these years of our existence,” Apostle Dr. Kodauh said. Secular...