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Zonta e-Club Of West Africa, a member  of  Zonta International has donated items to  the Nsawam  Female Prison in the Eastern Region in support of their care. The gesture was to mark the Zonta Rose Day, March 8, a day also marked as  International Women’s Day; a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played extraordinary roles in the history of their countries and communities. It was also to visit and interact with the inmates and assess how best the group could come to…

Hajia Samira Bawumia, wife of vice president Bawumia has said it was through the grace of God that she became the second lady of Ghana. But for the intervention of God, she said, she could not have risen to that high status in the country. Speaking on Asempa FM as part of the celebration of the International Women’s Day, she underscored the need to educate the girl child. Hajia Bawumia thanked her parents for sending her to school, noting it made her the “first graduate in her family from both mother and father’s side”. She said that if her parents…

Ghana get its first-ever Payment Systems Advisory Committee to guide the Bank of Ghana on regulation and oversight, operational and technical stands of the payment systems, and any other matters affecting payment services clearing and settlement of payments. For effective discharge of its responsibilities, the Advisory Committee will harness the expertise of stakeholders through the establishment of working groups on the various thematic areas of the payment systems operations. Inaugurating the Committee, the Governor of Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr Ernest Addison said the formation of the committee marked an important milestone in the history of the development of payment…

Operational and administrative protocols are to be reviewed at the Sogakope Police Station where a police service riffle has mysteriously disappeared. Two police officers have been arrested and detained in connection with the missing riffle, which the police say, has no connection whatsoever to the murder of the assembly member for Sogakope South electoral area, Marcus Mawutor Adzahli. “The weapon in question disappeared on 07 March 2020 whereas the unfortunate killing of the assemblyman happened on 01 March 2020. This is only an unfortunate coincidence and the command is resolved to get to the bottom of it,” a statement from…

Four persons have been arrested in the Volta Region for their alleged complicity in the murder of the Sogakope South Electoral Area assembly member Marcus Mawutor Adzahli. A police statement issued Sunday evening said the four suspects are assisting police in investigations into the gruesome murder which triggered violent protests in the Sogakope township. Details of the suspects have however been withheld by the police. They are expected to be put before court Monday. The police is working assiduously in partnership with all relevant stakeholders to arrest anyone involved in the killing of the assemblyman and also calls on the…

A former deputy Finance Minister under the John Mahama administration has issued 230 questions and statements on the country’s economy to vice president Dr Mahammudu Bawumia to answer. Kweku George Ricketts-Hagan wants Dr Bawumia to answer the questions before the December 7 general elections. He said having attentively listened to Dr Bawumia’s town hall speech, he has “found a number of issues you raised quite disturbing and factually inaccurate”. The former deputy minister said although the vice president is entitled to his opinion, he cannot be entitled his own facts. “It is for this reason that I found it necessary…

Hundreds of Ghanaian and non-Ghanaian students on Friday came together in Aberdeen in the United Kingdom to celebrate Ghana’s 63rd Independence Day. While Kumasi was busily hosting the national event, the ecstatic students gathered at the Students Roost on the Pittodrie Street, with the black star, red, yellow and green colours of Ghana celebrate. They marked the day with singing of patriotic songs. Also featuring prominently were varieties of Ghanaian local dishes, good Ghanaian music and dance as most of them were clad in various Ghanaian traditional outfits. According to the students who participated in the event, it reminded and…

Two police officers have been picked up by the Police at Sogakope for what sources claim, in connection with the murder of Marcus Mawutor Adzahli, the assembly member for Sogakope South Electoral Area in the Volta Region. According to sources within the police, the two were picked up based on alleged information that they rented gun to the suspected armed robbers who broke into assemblyman’s residence last week Sunday to murder him in cold blood. Although the Volta Regional Police PRO confirmed two of their men have been picked up, he debunked claims that they are linked to the murder…

Government is digitising the Kpong Left Bank Irrigation Project with an automation system to enable it to demand due payments from commercial farmers for water used for irrigation on their farms. The 35 million-dollar World Bank funded project, expected to cover 2000 hectares of land, would enable the project scheme managers to monitor the level of water in the supply canals and the quantity of water that farmers use for irrigation so that they could be charged the right amount of fees. The project, implemented under the Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP) of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, is…