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The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI) in the Northern Region has launched a Core Of Excellence Initiative to enable SARI increase its production of breeder and foundation seeds to support government’s Planting for Food and Jobs Programme. The $5.5 million paid to SARI in 2015 which is a USAID-sponsored programme through its Feed the Future Initiative was hitherto aimed at improving the infrastructure of the research institute. But upon review, it has been channeled into developing seed production, business development, and communication units to better place SARI to diver on its mandate.…

Legendary Ghanaian high-life musician Paapa Yankson has passed away. Born Benjamin Paapa Kofi Yankson on June 22, 1944 at Winneba, the Tena Me Nky3n composer passed on after an illness, which has kept him in a wheel-chair for the past months. Paapa Yankson has plenty works to his canon spanning close to four decades. Songs of his like Okukuseku, Show Your Love, Wo Yere Anaa Wo Maame and Wiase Mu Nsem became hits when they were released. He also played an instrumental role in the setting up of music bands such as Western Diamonds, The Gold Nuggets and Carousel Seven.…

Customer service has become one of the major factors that differentiates businesses that work and the ones that fail. It is therefore important for businesses to align with current trends in the market place to be able to survive. The Ghana Customer Experience Summit comes at a time when businesses are on the lookout for new ways to sustain their bottom line as well as make profits. The Summit is expected to give practicalities in the service sector targeted at keeping customers loyal to the business and improving profitability through good customer service and using technology to enhance service delivery.…

The General Secretary of the Professional Football Association of Ghana (PFAG), Anthony Baffoe, has admitted that the fight against racism has not been easy. He also believes that the canker will never stop but Blacks need to be respected. Baffoe, who played 13 times for the Black Stars and played most of his peak seasons in Germany, made this comment following the rate at which Blacks, especially Africans, are racially abused in Europe and elsewhere. Several references can be made on this issue: Sulley Muntari later last season was racially attacked when he was playing for Pescara against Cagliari in…

The US is to ban its citizens from travelling to North Korea, according to two agencies that operate tours there. Koryo Tours and Young Pioneer Tours said the ban would be announced on 27 July to come into effect 30 days later. They were informed by the Swedish embassy, which conducts US affairs in the country. The US has not yet confirmed the ban but there has been momentum, given the worsening ties and the death of jailed American student Otto Warmbier. Mr Warmbier travelled to North Korea with Young Pioneer Tours. He was arrested in 2016 for trying to…

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Charlotte Osei, has rubbished allegations of abuse of office, causing financial loss to the state and breaches of the country’s procurement law leveled against her as totally baseless. Some staff of the Commission have petitioned President Akufo-Addo to cause the Chief Justice, Ms Sophia Akuffo, to initiate impeachment proceedings against Ms Osei. The staff are claiming Ms Osei without recourse to laid down administrative structures and the Public Procurement Act, singularly abrogated contracts, secured a V8 Land Cruiser for her use, and awarded contracts worth thousands of dollars. The petitioners also claim a contract…

The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has launched the prestigious Ghana Club 100 (GC100) Awards at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel in Accra. The Awards will be under the distinguished patronage of the President of the Republic Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. This year’s event will mark the 16th edition of the highly anticipated awards ceremony. It will be themed: ‘Industrialisation: A Tool for Job Creation and Accelerated Economic Development’. The theme is in line with Government’s vision to use manufacturing through the ‘One district, One factory’ initiative as an economic development and job creation tool. The GIPC also intends…

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Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is meddling in the affairs of the Electoral Commission at his own risk. According to him, the Akufo-Addo-led government wants to follow through with its ploy to oust heads of all public institutions but the opposition, he resolves, will not see that succeed at the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC). A petition has been filed with the president to initiate proceedings to get Charlotte Osei, the Chair of the Commission, removed from office. According to the petitioners, who refer to themselves as the Concerned EC Staff, Mrs Osei has engaged in…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that if African leaders are to succeed in improving the living standards of their peoples, a critical piece of the puzzle has to be the availability and use of information and data. According to President Akufo-Addo, the rapid evolution of the advanced and emerging market economies have been made possible largely as a result of the employment of information and data. “If we, in Africa, are to emulate them and be an integral part of the on-going data revolution, there is the need, firstly, for us to require the owners of data to…