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Women asked to be Peace Ambassadors for 2024 general elections

Reverend Mrs Patricia Akpene Tegbe-Agbo, the National Coordinator of the Women’s Ministry of the Global Evangelical Church (GEC), has asked women, particularly Christian women, to be peace ambassadors before, during and after the 2024 general elections. She said God had placed women in very privileged position and that they should not forget that they were mothers, wives, aunties and daughters of those in politics. Rev. Mrs. Tegbe-Agbo was addressing the 2024 Rally of the Kumasi Presbytery Women’s Ministry of GEC in Kumasi. The three-day event was held at the Katanga Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

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Rain destroys GH?1.2 million SOCO culvert project at Zingu

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

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SSNIT advises informal sector workers to join pension schemes

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

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