Mr Matthew Ndaa, Managing Director of the Kumasi Abattoir Company Limited, has said that the facility currently operates under capacity as they only slaughter an average of 200 animals a day, instead of the normal capacity of 400 animals in a day. He attributed the situation to the illegal and unhygienic slaughtering of animals [...]
Read the rest of this story »Mr Mahamud Issahaku, a cattle dealer at the Kumasi cattle market, has attributed the high cost of meat in the southern part of the country to too many unauthorized police and customs barriers on the route, where the dealers are forced to pay huge sums of money before being allowed to pass with their [...]
Read the rest of this story »Four days of continuous rains have exposed the shoddy work done on some of the principal roads in the Tema metropolis, leading to the creation of manholes which have collected stagnant water making driving difficult. The conditions of the roads have slowed down traffic as drivers have to meander to get to their [...]
Read the rest of this story »The Friends of the Nation (FoN), a non-governmental organisation, and the Ngyeresia Community, a slum and fishing community near Sekondi, have signed memorandum of understanding to work together to enhance the living standards of the community and the inhabitants over a period of six months. Mr Donkris Mevuta, Executive Director of FoN and [...]
Read the rest of this story »Professor James Hawkins Ephraim, Vice-Chancellor of the Catholic University College of Ghana, on Monday urged the Brong Ahafo Regional Co-coordinating Council to assist in the maintenance and construction of the only access road to the university. “In view of the state of the road, taxi and bus drivers are hesitant to ply the road, [...]
Read the rest of this story »Mr Kwadwo Nyamekye-Marfo, Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, has urged the media to provide information that would help the government to work towards alleviating the plight of the vulnerable having disseminated credible information that made the 2008 general election peaceful. Mr Nyamekye-Marfo, commended the media for the critical role it played in the elections when he [...]
Read the rest of this story »An American Prosthetics, (limb fabrication organisation), has chosen Ghana as its centre in the West African sub-region to provide free care to thousands of patients in dire need of artificial limb fitting services. Management of the organisation, Standing With Hope (SWH), which has operated in Ghana for more than five years assisting the [...]
Read the rest of this story »The Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the Hockey Africa Cup for Nations, Ghana 2009, on Monday organized a training seminar for sports journalists in the country. The one-day event, attended by media personnel from both the electronic and print media was aimed at equipping journalists with the appropriate terminologies for the competition that spans July [...]
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