Day: September 25, 2024

The Ghana National Association of Small-Scale Miners (GNASSM) has pledged to collaborate with all stakeholders to minimise illegal mining activities in the country. Although, the association said they disagreed with the Trades Union Congress, University Teachers Association of Ghana, Ghana Medical Association, and a section of the public calling for a total ban on all forms of small-scale mining, they would not sit aloof. Mr Godwin Armah, the General Secretary, announced this at Teberebie in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality, when the association held a press conference on the activities of illegal miners. The association said it had noted with great

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme {UNDP} in Ghana, has launched an initiative to increase awareness about the ozone layer. The initiative aims to involve community members, institutions, and students at all educational levels in understanding the importance of the ozone layer and the challenges associated with its depletion. A statement issued to the Ghana News Agency in observance of World Ozone Day, said the goal as to raise awareness and promote action to protect that vital component of the atmosphere. This year’s celebration dubbed ‘Montreal Protocol: Advancing Climate Action’ highlights the critical

A Kumasi magistrate court has invalidated more than 1,000 voter transfers to the Manhyia South constituency, ordering the Electoral Commission (EC) to take immediate steps to return all the affected voters to their original constituencies. The court, Presided by the Magistrate, Gyaawa Donkor, arrived at the verdict after complaint brought before the court by Lawyer Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Manhyia South, after detecting that the transfers had been orchestrated by the National Democratic Congress (NDC), traveled its judicial course. Mr Awuah, after uncovering the illegal transfers, had mobilised polling station executives and

Residents in the Accra suburbs of Lapaz and Nii Boiman have expressed concern about consistent stench that had engulfed their environment which could lead to an epidemic. Most alarming was how cooked food was being sold to the public from positions very close to the stench exuding gutters with the potential outbreak of environmental related diseases such as cholera and typhoid. Mr Emmanuel Tei, a resident of Mouldkrom, near Lapaza expressed this sentiment in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), after a clean-up exercise in the area organised by Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources to commemorate the

The Women’s Wing of the Islamic Mission Secretariat (IMS) has donated sanitation improvement items to the Suntreso Government Hospital in Kumasi. The items included several waste bins, tissue papers, diapers, sanitary pads, mobs, buckets, brushes, and detergents. They cleaned and scrubbed the special male and female wards of the hospital too. They also donated assorted food items to the inmates at the Asuofia Prisons in Kumasi. According to Hajia Mariam Suleiman Nketia, the General Secretary of the IMS, the donation formed part of their social responsibility in giving back to society, as the Wing held its 26th Annual General Conference

Mr Joseph Opoku, the Chief Actuary, Social Security National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has advised workers in the informal sector to join and contribute to the Trust Pensions, especially the ‘Pension for life Scheme’. That would provide them with sound financial security in old age, he told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the SSNIT Self Employed Enrolment Drive (SEED) campaign organised by the Trust at Techiman in the Bono East region. ‘In fact, under the Life Scheme, the Trust is in the position to provide benefits that other institutions might not be ready to provide,’ he stated, saying the Trust

A culvert at Zingu, a community in the Wa Municipality constructed under the Gulf of Guinea Northern Regions Social Cohesion (SOCO) project, has been washed away after a heavy downpour last month. Following this, the chief and people of the community expressed concern that the state of the culvert had left users of that road in despair. Mr Nuhu Abdul-Wahab, the Assembly Member of the Zingu Electoral Area, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the culvert, which sought to bridge the valley that had cut the Zingu community from Wa, formed part of a GH?1.2 million Zingu-Wa road project