Author: Krobea

Round One of the polio vaccination exercise began in five regions on Wednesday, September 25 and scheduled to end on Saturday, September 28. The vaccination exercise targets all children Under 5. The Zero Round began from 11 September and ended on 14 September. At a stakeholders meeting to update the media on measures put in place by the Ghana Health Service and its partners on how it’s addressing the reported cases of polio in the country, Greater Accra Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Charity Sarpong, indicated the service has intensified surveillance. “In order to prevent further transmission, a comprehensive…

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Government of Ghana and Government of Switzerland through the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), on Tuesday launched the Global Quality and Standards Programme (GQSP) to improve standards and quality of exports. The GQSP is a new innovative global programme developed by UNIDO and funded by SECO that addresses country-specific quality and standards compliance capacity challenges in partner countries to facilitate market access for SMEs in selected value chains. As part of the launch, a short ceremony was held to outdoor COCOBOD Quality Control Company Limited accredited laboratory and cocoa inspection activities supported…

The Overlord of Dagbon, Yaa-Naa Abukari Mahama, has pledged support for the Investment Week Promotion of the Ghana Free Zones Authority (GFZA). He expressed his readiness to personally work with the GFZA and assured the team of his full support. He made the promise when the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GFZA, Michael Okyere Baafi, led a delegation to pay a courtesy call on him at the Gbewaa Palace in Tamale. The Northern Region capital – Tamale – is the host of this year’s Investment Week Promotion. GFZA is of the firm belief that it was necessary to take the…

IAAF President Sebastian Coe was elected for a second term at the 52nd IAAF Congress in Doha on Wednesday, September 25 while Ximena Restrepo, Sergey Bubka, Geoffrey Gardner and Nawaf Bin Mohammed Al Saud were elected Vice Presidents. All 203 voting members of Congress voted for Coe; there were no abstained votes. Restrepo, the 1992 Olympic 400m bronze medallist from Colombia, will become the first woman to serve as an IAAF Vice President. As part of the widespread reforms adopted by the IAAF Congress at the end of 2016, the IAAF added minimum gender targets into its constitution to establish…

Ghana-South Africa wine trade was boosted over the weekend as some South African wine companies introduced their class of wines to the Ghanaian market. WESGRO, the official Tourism, Trade & Investment promotion agency for Cape Town and the Western Cape in South Africa assembled some of SA’s best wine brands in separate wine pairing and exhibition programmes aimed at enhancing wine trade between Ghana and South Africa. Ghana’s hospitality industry interfaced with the South African wine industry as seven South African wine companies – Libby’s Pride Wines Cc, M’hudi Family Trust, Aslina Wines, Siwela Wines (Pty) Ltd, Ses’Fikile wines (Pty)…

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi won the best men’s player at the Best Fifa Football Awards in Milan as Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo and Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk missed out on the top prize. It is the sixth time Messi has been voted the world’s best, after wins in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015. The 32-year-old Argentine helped Barcelona win La Liga and reach the semi-finals of the Champions League. Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was named men’s coach of the year. Klopp was nominated for the award along with two other Premier League bosses – Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola and Tottenham’s Mauricio…

The Rotary Club of Accra Osu Oxford Street has officially handed over a renovated four-classroom block and furniture to the Manhia Primary School and JHS in Accra. The handing over of the project last Friday at a cost of GH¢100,000 was  according to the President of the club, Della Kwaku Porbley,  “to enhance the learning environment” and in line with the club’s ideas of undertaking impactful projects within its area of operation. In addition to the renovated classroom block complete with new writing boards, the Rotary Club of Accra Osu Oxford Street also refurbished the toilet facilities at the school and…

An attempt by some persons to destabilise the government has been foiled by the state’s security agencies. A joint operation conducted on Friday, September 20 led to the arrest of three persons and the retrieval of several arms. The operation was at Alajo and Dodowa in the Greater Accra Region. A statement issued by the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, on Monday said the operation by personnel drawn from Defence Intelligence, Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) of the Ghana Police Service and Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) was “to neutralize an elaborate plot targeted at the Presidency, and with the…

Two hundred students from the six coastal districts of the Western Region have earned an AKER Energy-GNPC scholarship for the 2019/20 academic year. This will be a fulfillment of a promise to increase the number of beneficiaries from 150 to ensure that more brilliant but needy students are able to transit from Junior High School to Senior High School and in doing so inching closer to the realizing of their dreams. The AKER Energy-GNPC Scholars Programme is presently the flagship social investment project of the upstream petroleum company operating the Deepwater Tano/Cape Three Points oil bloc. The Scholars Programme, which…

Black Stars B went 0-1 down at home in their final qualifier for the 2020 African Championship of Nations. The goal for the Stallions of Burkina Faso came four minutes after full regulation time. The match, played at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium, was the first leg of the final round of qualifiers for the tournament, which takes place in Cameroon next year. The visitors had eliminated Ghana in the last qualifiers in 2017 and seem to be on their way to a repeat with Sunday’s late win. The second leg is scheduled to be played on October 18, 2019…