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Graphic designers in Ghana have proposed the establishment of a regulatory council to among others, ensure professionalism in the industry. The regulatory body, to be called the Ghana Design Council, will also help promote the activities of graphic designers in the country. Speaking at the third Graphic Designers’ Awards held in Accra, seasoned graphic designer, Felix Dartey, said the establishment of the council will help the operations of graphic designers.“We are a looking at working with government to establish the Ghana Design Council. It will be a body that will bring all of us together for a common good,” Mr.…

A leading Ghanaian pharmaceutical company, Entrance Pharmaceuticals and Research Center, has received international certification, ISO 9000:2015, having successfully passed rigorous assessment. The pharmaceutical manufacturing company was given the certification after it passed all service testing quality and inspection portfolio tests conducted by the TUV Nord group, a technical service provider headquartered in Hanover, Germany. Entrance Pharmaceuticals & Research Centre is committed to achieving product quality in compliance to EU GMP, US FDA, TGA standards for  quality, safety, efficacy and affordable healthcare. A subsidiary of Tobinco Group, Entrance Pharmaceuticals has since 2014 produced numerous pharmaceutical products onto both Ghana and other…

Former caterers under the School Feeding Program in the Central Region Monday morning demonstrated at Elmina in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem Municipal Assembly, demanding payment of arrears owed them. Some of the old caterers said they have not been paid for 125 days. According to the leader of the group, Emilia Hasford, government has refused to pay them, but after pressing hard they were only paid 7 out of the 125 days that are in arrears in October. She told Onua FM’s Kwame Kakraba at Elmina that government revoked their contract in July this year without paying them the outstanding arrears. “This morning,…

President Nana Akufo-Addo has lauded President Alassane Ouattara for his show of statesmanship, in the aftermath of the decision reached by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on Ghana’s maritime dispute with Cote d’Ivoire. “We realised there was a delicate moment, when it came to this dispute over our maritime border but your statesmanship, friendship and regard for the interests of our two countries, made it possible for us to overcome that delicate moment, and use it as a basis for forging even stronger relations between us,” President Akufo-Addo said The President said this on Monday…

Management of Marwako Fast Food has commended its workers for their strict adherence to the company’s safety mechanisms, which prevented an escalation of a gas leakage at its La branch in Accra Monday. It has meanwhile, apologized to customers for the inconveniences caused them by the Monday morning incident which led to the suspension of operations for Monday. A worker of the Fast Food Company on Monday detected the gas leakage during a daily routine check and immediately alerted supervisors who called in the Ghana National Fire Service to empty the gas from the cylinder. The metal stand holding one…

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly has asked management of State Transport Corporation (STC) to temporarily halt their operations at the Neoplan bus terminal at Asafo. The move is aimed at ensuring calm and order at the Asafo bus terminal where VIP bus operators are preventing STC from also operating from the commercial transport hub in Kumasi. Operators of the two bus companies clashed Monday morning over space to operate. Passengers onboard the STC bus were held hostage for hours as the operators of VIP blocked STC buses from departing, an eyewitness onboard STC told Onua FM. READ: Chaos as STC clashes…

Hip Life artiste, Atom Reloaded, has cautioned the Swedru-based musician, Patapaa, not to get carried away by the fame and hype he’s enjoying with his ‘One Corner’ hit because it will not last. For Atom Reloaded, Patapaa should consider releasing another hit song to be able to sustain the popularity he’s enjoying at the moment otherwise he will fade out in no time. “It is only best for Patapaa if he follows it up [One Corner] with another banger,” the Ye Wo Krom hit maker advised Patapaa “Ghanaians are expecting another banger from Patapaa after One Corner and from my…

Alistair Mathias, a Canadian businessman who was accused of stealing from his Ghanaian partner has been acquitted. Mathias, who is based in Dubai with a company incorporated in Ghana, was reported by his Ghanaian partner Henry Osei, owner of Gulrest Resources Company Limited (Ghana) to authorities in Dubai and Ghana alleging that the former owes him $9.2 million in a gold business. However, Mathias who is the director of M.A Resources Limited, a company incorporated in Ghana, which he runs along with another trading and investment company which deals in gold, with Dubai as principal market in a global catchment,…

A tigress that killed four people in the west Indian state of Maharashtra died on Saturday, days after a court upheld an order to kill it. The animal was electrocuted by a fence erected by a farmer to keep out wild boar, wildlife officials said. Officials called off their hunt for the two-year-old tigress after they found its body by the fence early on Sunday. Animal rights activists have criticised the forest department for failing to save the big cat. Wildlife activists had challenged the shoot-to-kill order issued by the state forest department on 23 June, but the court rejected…