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Accra: Fidelity Bank Ghana has launched its third annual Sustainability Month, reinforcing its commitment to climate action and sustainable development by aligning finance with environmental and social transformation. The initiative is themed ‘Sustaining Our World: Collaborating for a Greener Future’. According to Ghana News Agency, the 2025 edition of the month-long campaign, popularly known as Orange Goes Green, challenges the bank, its partners, customers, and the wider public to reimagine their role in building a more sustainable future. The initiative reflects Fidelity Bank’s growing leadership in integrating climate-smart financing with community-centered actions to promote environmental responsibility and inclusive growth, a

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: A former Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, Mr. Abu Kasangbata, has joined growing calls for a forensic audit into the $30 million Savelugu-Walewale road contract. He also accused government institutions, particularly within the road sector, of deep-rooted negligence, mismanagement, and a culture of impunity that had cost the nation a lot of fortune. According to Ghana News Agency, Mr. Kasangbata in a statement copied to the agency in Accra, declared that the Savelugu-Walewale road contract was a reflection of systemic corruption and a clear example of how the misuse of public funds undermined national development. ‘How can a government

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

Bamako: Four Moroccan truck drivers, kidnapped in January 2025 in northeastern Burkina Faso near the border with Niger, were released on the evening of Sunday, August 3, 2025, the government of the Republic of Mali has announced in a statement. According to Ghana News Agency, the Republic of Mali’s government informed both the national and international community that the drivers, who were abducted on January 18, 2025, were released unharmed. The statement, which was read on national television, confirmed that the Moroccan drivers had been held by the Islamic State terrorist group in the Sahel province, known as the Sahelian