Day: August 5, 2025

Accra: Presiding Members across the Volta Region convened in Ho for their 2025 Annual Conference on the theme: ‘Resetting Local Leadership for National Rebuilding: Advancing Decentralization, Participation, and Sustainable Development.’ According to Ghana News Agency, the three-day conference aims to deepen collaboration between Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MDCEs) and Presiding Members (PMs) to enhance effective local governance. Delivering the keynote address during the opening ceremony of the conference, Mr. Gabriel Tanko Kwamigah-Atokple, Volta Regional Representative to the Council of State and Special Guest of Honour, emphasized the urgent need to reorient local leadership. He noted that Ghana’s progress depends

Keta: Over 300 flood-affected victims in the Lawoshieme Electoral Area in the Keta Municipality of the Volta Region have received relief items from the Municipal National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) to alleviate their plights and challenges. According to Ghana News Agency, the relief items donated to victims at Lawoshieme, Agorvinu, Hagodzi, Mamime, Songbe, among others, included bags of rice, a box of cooking oil, mosquito nets, and other essential supplies. Mr. Wonder Setsoafia Deynu, the NADMO Director at Keta, highlighted the devastating impact of the floods that occurred between May and June 2025 on these communities. He stated, “Many residents

Accra: Mr Daniel McKorley, the Executive Chairman of the McDan Group of Companies, has been crowned the Most Influential Entrepreneur of All Time at the 15th Anniversary Edition of the Ghana Entrepreneurship Awards. The Awards ceremony organised by the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Ghana (EFG) also saw Mr McKorley being ranked number one on the list of the Top 25 Most Influential Entrepreneurs in Ghana. According to Ghana News Agency, the honour recognises Mr McKorley’s decades of impact in entrepreneurial leadership, innovation, job creation, and national development. As the Founder and Executive Chairman of the McDan Group, a diversified conglomerate with

Dormaa-ahenkro: Mr Edwin Akai Nettey, the Dormaa-Ahenkro Branch Manager of the Brong-Ahafo Catholic Cooperative Society for Development (BACCSOD), has praised the government’s intention to re-capitalise the National Investment Bank (NIB). According to Ghana News Agency, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, the Minister of Finance, announced this decision during the presentation of the Mid-Year Budget Review to Parliament. The government also aims to list NIB on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE). In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Dormaa-Ahenkro in the Bono Region, Mr Nettey described this move as appropriate and necessary, citing the negative capital adequacy ratio of

Takoradi: Prices of vegetables and other consumables have experienced a significant rise on the Takoradi central market. According to Ghana News Agency, a market survey revealed that prices of some food items like vegetables and plantain have increased over the past months. Madam Esi Mansa, an onion seller, explained that the producer price of onions had gone up, impacting sales on the market. She noted that a sack of onion now costs between GHC1,300 and GHC1,500, with a plastic bowl-sized portion priced at GHC150 to GHC200, compared to the previous GHC100. ‘Initially, one could get about 10 to 13 pieces

Kumasi: Some teachers sexually harass pupils/students, either male or female. This is a growing canker and a disturbing issue for many learners and their parents, schools, and society as a whole. A parent or guardian enrolls his or her female ward in a school, investing the last pesewa in her education, anticipating a successful completion and a bright future for her, only for a teacher who is expected to impart positive knowledge into that child to make her an object of sexual desire. According to Ghana News Agency, the horrific trend now is that some male teachers even sodomize male

Accra: The Board of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has appealed to the Government to intervene in the alleged sale of its former Accra Regional Office. The Board said the land, located within the Energy City enclave, was compulsorily acquired by the Government for redevelopment, prompting the relocation of the DVLA’s Greater Accra Regional Office. According to Ghana News Agency, a site inspection led by Mr. George Spencer Quaye, Chairman of the DVLA Board, on Monday revealed that the old office premises had been converted into a bonded warehouse and ‘rented out’ to a private entity. Speaking to