*World Bank affirms A World Bank official, on Monday commended Ghana for her efforts towards narrowing gender gaps, particularly in primary school education, but stressed there remained constraints to achieving gender equality in other sectors. Senior Economist at the Office of the Director Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Africa Region at the bank, Dr. [...]
Read the rest of this story »The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Monday said it had recorded a significant surge in the number of Liberian refugees registering for voluntary repatriation from Ghana following announcement of the cessation invocation which takes effect on June 30, this year. “Nearly 400 Liberian refugees registered for voluntary repatriation in January alone, nearly equal [...]
Read the rest of this story »*On school feeding Former President, John Agyekum Kufuor, left Accra on Monday night for a one-week visit to the United Kingdom (UK), to address a high level forum on the linkage between agriculture, nutrition and education. The Forum aimed to stimulate discussions on current innovations to improve food security and the need to link agriculture, [...]
Read the rest of this story »A string of financial inconsistencies had auditors asking questions at the National Health Insurance Agency (NHIA). The NHIA is quickly growing into one of Ghana’s largest and most profitable insurance companies. With a flood of money flowing in, some are worried that white-collar crime is inevitable after the NHIA recovered a total of more than [...]
Read the rest of this story »The Parent-Teacher-Association (PTA) of Academy of Christ the King Senior High School in Cape Coast on Saturday gave the school a big boost when they presented a brand new Tata bus to the school to help in transporting the students. The PTA, which has been assisting the deprived school over the past years, [...]
Read the rest of this story »A group, calling itself Movement for Peaceful Ghana, last week embarked on a peace march through the principal streets of Cape Coast. The protest march was aimed at raising awareness among residents on the need for peace during this year’s elections in December. The match, which started from Siwdu, a suburb of [...]
Read the rest of this story »A BLAST from the past has left tantalising hints that volcanic eruptions could be predicted decades in advance. Volcanoes can signal their intent to erupt days or months ahead of time, giving authorities a chance to evacuate the area. Now evidence of the events leading up to a Bronze Age eruption suggests it might be [...]
Read the rest of this story »A new planet, probably a rocky super-Earth has been found squarely within its star’s habitable zone, making it one of the best candidates yet to support life, its discoverers say. The planet, dubbed GJ 667Cc, orbits a red dwarf star 22 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Scorpio. Binary pair of orange dwarf stars are [...]
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