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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday addressed the 74th session of the United Nation’s General Assembly on the theme “galvanizing multilateral efforts for poverty eradication, quality education, climate action and inclusion”. Below is his full speech Mr President, Secretary-General, Your Excellencies, Ghana presents her compliments to you Mr President, worthy representative of our great neighbour, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and extends hearty congratulations on your election to preside over this 74th General Assembly. We extend our appreciation to the President of the 73rd Session for her work, and commend the brave theme that has been selected for our…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday addressed the 74th session of the United Nation’s General Assembly on the theme “galvanizing multilateral efforts for poverty eradication, quality education, climate action and inclusion”. Below is his full speech Mr President, Secretary-General, Your Excellencies, Ghana presents her compliments to you Mr President, worthy representative of our great neighbour, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and extends hearty congratulations on your election to preside over this 74th General Assembly. We extend our appreciation to the President of the 73rd Session for her work, and commend the brave theme that has been selected for our…

Gospel artiste Chosen YesuBa, known in real life as Listowell Acquaye, has released Soul Grind music video off his 7-track Last Days EP. The fast-rising Gospel Contemporary/Urban artiste released the Last Days EP on Saturday, September 21, 2019. According to Chosen, ‘Soul Grind’ is a piece that speaks about the day-to-day lifestyle of all Christians. The video was shot by Director Tee, fast rising video director with over 25 music videos to his credit for the past 5 years in the showbiz industry. The music video focuses and touches on a lot of social vices that many have accepted to…

Ghana won two prestigious awards at the ongoing International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO, 40th Assembly in Montreal, Canada. Ghana was awarded the International Civil Aviation Organization Council President’s certificates for maintaining one of the highest aviation safety and security standards globally. The safety award is in recognition of Ghana obtaining Africa’s highest score in Aviation Safety Oversight after scoring a provisional Effective Implementation (EI) rate of 89.89 percent. This was after the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) concluded its Coordinated Validation Mission (ICVM) on April 3, 2019, in line with the United Nations Aviation Agency’s Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme. The award…

Government has directed the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) to purchase all fertilisers necessary for the growing of cocoa and other crops from local sources, beginning next year. The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, who disclosed the directive on Wednesday 25th September, 2019, said such an order had become possible because Government, through the ‘One District One Factory’ initiative, had built up the necessary local capacity to meet and exceed Ghana’s fertilizer demand, which stands at about 600,000 metric tonnes per annum, according to officials of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Speaking at the 20th anniversary celebration of Olam Cocoa…

Government has directed the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) to purchase all fertilisers necessary for the growing of cocoa and other crops from local sources, beginning next year. The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, who disclosed the directive on Wednesday 25th September, 2019, said such an order had become possible because Government, through the ‘One District One Factory’ initiative, had built up the necessary local capacity to meet and exceed Ghana’s fertilizer demand, which stands at about 600,000 metric tonnes per annum, according to officials of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Speaking at the 20th anniversary celebration of Olam Cocoa…

The Dagliboari Primary and Junior High Schools have been closed down following the outbreak of strange skin disease in some communities in the North East region. 3news.com gathered that the schools were closed down on Tuesday September 24, after medical professionals from the Gambaga Municipal Health Directorate confirmed a widespread of scabies in the Dagliboari community. The Gambaga Municipal Director of Education, Hawa Yussif Pont who disclosed this to 3news.com said the Municipal Assembly is considering closing down more schools. Madam Hawa Pont pointed out that the closure was based expert advice. “Information my HR brought from the municipal assembly…

Cousin to Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo, Gabby Asare Otchere Darko has questioned the motive behind Prince Kofi Amoabeng’s disclosure that he once funded the president and finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta. The former Chief Executive of the defunct UT Bank, Kofi Amoabeng had in an exclusive interview on TV3’s Business Focus program on Monday said UT bank once rescued Ken Ofori-Atta’s business from collapsing and also supported Nana Akufo-Addo with a loan facility. Mr Amoabeng was making a strong case for local businesses and why they should be supported. Read: UT saved Ofori-Atta’s company from collapse, gave Akufo-Addo loan – Amoabeng …

Management of Afropop musician Kelvynboy Burniton Music has announced the artiste is no longer under the music label. In a statement released by the music label, it has been stated that Kelvynboy’s contract ended 8 months ago, but they continued to work with him as the company was undergoing auditing to decide the way forward for the two parties. After auditing its structures and activities, the company decided to part ways with the Afropop singer and not trigger the part of the contract which makes room for an extension of 4 years.. “Following the audit, the company has considered the…

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…