Youth urged to protect, promote, preserve culture at NAFAC 2022

Nov12022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Youth urged to protect, promote, preserve culture at NAFAC 2022

The Director of the Volta Regional Centre for National Culture, Bernice Ann Deh-Kumah has called on the Volta Regional Minister to complete the Volta Regional Theatre for the people of the region as a vehicle to preserve and promote culture. She made this remark at the 60th anniversary celebration of this year’s Regional Festival of Arts and Culture (NAFAC) dubbed; “Reviving Patriotism, Peace and Unity through Cultural Diversity for Sustainable Development” at Agogoe Lume, a farming community in the Ho Central Constituency of the Volta Region. According to Mrs. Deh-Kumah, the festival is a courtesy call to revive lost culture, as indicated by this year’s theme. ”It is no doubt that our culture lays emphasis on communal values such as family, respect for the elderly, honouring ...

Nov12022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Ghana to assume Presidency of UN Security Council on Nov. 1

Ghana News, International

Ghana will on Tuesday, November 1, assume the Presidency of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, which is a historic moment in the country’s two-year tenure at the Security Council. The UN Security Council is the principal organ for the maintenance and furtherance of international peace and security. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration in a media release, copied to the Ghana News Agency, outlined some programmes of activities in November towards Ghana’s Presidency of the UN Security. It said on Tuesday, there would be a press briefing by Mr Harold Agyeman, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations in New York, to the UN Press Agencies at 1630 hours. On the same day at 1900 hours, Mr Agyeman would also brie...

Oct282022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Develop a taste for Made-in-Ghana goods to boost cedi – Economist to Ghanaians

Ghana News

Economist, Professor Eric Osei Assibey has called on Ghanaians to develop a taste for locally manufactured goods as a means of stalling the cedi depreciation. According to him, without shifting away from imported goods, the country will continue to lose much needed dollar bills which will drive the demand for the dollar up consequently leading to the cedi depreciating further. Speaking on JoyNews’ PM Express Business Edition, he explained that this is a measure that could be used to stabilize the cedi for a short period while the government implements other policy measures for long term effects. “I think this is the time that all Ghanaians have to realize that we need to shift away from imported products. Immediately we have to begin to look within, our tastes and preferences shou...

Oct252022 by adminPentTVNo Comments

Current economic crisis won’t stop donation for Cathedral project – Joyce Aryee

Ghana News

A member of the Board of Trustees for the National Cathedral project, Reverend Dr Joyce Aryee, says she is hopeful the country’s current economic crisis will not affect donations for the construction of the project. Speaking at a news conference in Accra to announce the establishment of a call centre for the project, Rev Aryee said the resilience of human beings in worse situations encouraged her that the economic hardship would not deter individuals from donating towards the project. “You know, human beings are so resilient. I am 76. I have lived through worse economic times in our country, therefore, I know economic times are as transient as the seasons of life,” she said. She added that: “God has a way of touching our lives in ways that sometimes we don’t unde...

Oct212022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Ghana should have signed up for Debt Service Suspension Initiative – World Bank President

Ghana News, International

The World Bank Group President, David Malpass, has expressed disappointment over Ghana and Nigeria’s decision not to sign up for the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI). Established in May 2020, the DSSI expired at the end of December 2021. The DSSI, put together by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank offered countries an opportunity to freeze debt servicing, whiles they concentrate on using their minimum funds to deal with other commitments. Mr. Malpass was responding to questions at a programme in Washington DC, on suggestions that the Bretton Wood institutions are not doing enough to help cancel the debts of some African countries in distress. But reacting to the question, he pointed out that Ghana and Nigeria failed to apply for the DSSI, which would ...

Oct192022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

I know Ghanaians are suffering – Akufo-Addo

Ghana News

Oct112022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Nearly 80,000 girls in Ghana already married or living with a man – Statistical Service

Ghana News

Nationally, 79,733 girls in Ghana aged 12 to 17 have been in union i.e. married or living together with a man according to the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC). Out of this number, 25,999 are girls of Junior High School going age (12 to 14 years). The regions with the highest percentage of girls ever in union are North East (13.0%), Savannah (10.9%) and Northern (10.6%) all with rates more than twice the national average (4.0%). The census questionnaire collected information on marriage for persons 12 years and older.Marriage of children is prohibited under Section 14 of the 1998 Children's Act which states that "The minimum age of marriage of whatever kind shall be eighteen years." Despite free and compulsory universal basic education, almost a quarter of a million...

Oct52022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

World Bank cuts Ghana’s growth rate to 3.5% in 2022

Ghana News, International

Growth in Ghana is expected to slow in 2022 to 3.5%, far below the country’s average pre-pandemic performance of 7%, the World Bank has pointed out in its October 2022 Africa Pulse Report. According to the Bretton Wood institution, the Ghanaian economy has been struggling with various setbacks, including rising public debt (104.6% of Gross Domestic Product), elevated inflation (33.9% in August 2022), and a depreciating currency. “In Ghana, the S&P Global Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) dropped from 48.8 in July to 45.9 in August 2022—the lowest reading in 28 months. The subdued level of the PMI reflects private sector weakness—with activity being held back for seven straight months.” “New orders and output have been trending down for many months. Rising input costs, on the bac...

Sep52022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

All unregistered SIM cards to be blocked for 2days each week till September ending

Ghana News

From Monday, September 5, 2022, mobile network subscribers in Ghana who have still not re-registered their SIM cards and has done only stage one re-registration will start receiving punitive actions including the blocking of all their outgoing calls and data services for 48 hours (2 days) per week. This will be done in a sequential batch of numbers on a rotational basis weekly as a second punitive measure. The first punitive measure includes re-routing of all outgoing calls for a message to be played before all calls go through everyday. This is part of punitive actions the National Communications Authority (NCA) has communicated to all Mobile Network Operators (MNO) for them to institute against users who have still not re-registered their SIM Cards beginning Monday, Se...

Sep52022 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Online education receives boost as KNUST invests ¢17m on multimedia equipment

Ghana News

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has set up a $1.3 million e-learning centre with additional ¢17 million in multimedia teaching equipment. According to the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Rita Akosua Dickson, the move forms part of efforts to improve online teaching and learning. “We will commission this facility to serve as the symbol of our continued commitment to digital education. I believe this infrastructure is just what we need to compete with the rest of the world in this era of digital Education. “I am sure we have set ourselves on the path of success and nothing can stop us now,” she said this in a speech read on her behalf by The Pro-Vice Chancellor of KNUST, Prof. Ellis Owusu-Dabo. The commissioning of the state-of-the-art studios marked the end of...

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