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Nourishing the Future: How NESTLÉ is Providing Affordable Nutrition in Central and West Africa

Malnutrition and food insecurity are key challenges for many of Africa’s communities, and innovative solutions are needed to address this double-edged sword. The nutritional...

Two to stand trial for soldier’s murder at Ashaiman

Samuel Tetteh and Abubakar Sadick, have been committed to stand trial at the High Court for murdering 21-year-old Private Sherif Imoro at Ashaiman by...

Npontu partners with MTN for the 2024 MTN 30 Days of Yellow Care

Npontu Technologies has partnered telecommunications giant, MTN Ghana to roll out its 2024 Yellow Care initiative which was held under the theme “Learn Today,...

Australia’s Orion Minerals to Participate at Critical Minerals Africa Summit

Orion Minerals CEO Errol Smart will participate at the upcoming Critical Minerals Africa (CMA) Summit, taking place on November 6-7 in Cape Town. Smart...

First son of Kwame Nkrumah passes on

Professor Francis Nkrumah, the eldest son of Ghana’s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, has passed on. The cause of death is not immediately known. But...

SSNIT halts negotiations with Rock City on hotel sales

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has revealed that it has halted negotiations leading to the sale of a 60 per cent...

Tension mounts at Kakpayili after discovery of bodies of 2 children

Two children have been found dead at Kakpayili in the Tamale metropolis of the Northern Region. The residents suspect that the children were murdered for...

African Development Bank and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Align Priorities Ahead of 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9) Summit

The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have underscored the critical need for blended and innovative finance mechanisms...

Asantehene asks deep questions on why people are scrambling to be in Parliament

The Asantehene Otumfuo Tutu II is seeking answers to the growing interest of people, causing a scramble for everyone to be in Parliament. He made...

Juapong section of Ho-Accra road re-opened to traffic after floods

The Atimpoku–Asikuma road in the Eastern Region remains open to road traffic a day after floodwaters took over the road at Juapong. A downpour on...

Sahl: Revolutionizing Bill Payment in Egypt and Showcasing Innovations at Gitex Africa 2024

Sahl, Egypt's premier mobile bill payment app, recently attended Gitex Africa 2024 (www.GITEXAfrica.com), Africa's largest and most renowned technology event. This milestone underscores Sahl's...

Bawumia urges religious harmony, kindness as he commissions mosque in Sorbelle

The Vice President and flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has urged the largely Muslim community of Sorbelle, in the...

Petrol price to go up 2%, LPG by 5% – IES

The price of petrol is expected to go up by 2.0% from July 1, 2024, for the next two weeks, the Institute for Energy...

Dalberg Implement: Integrating Strategy Design with Execution

Dalberg (www.Dalberg.com) is a strategic advisory firm that combines the best of private sector strategy skills and rigorous analytical capabilities with deep knowledge and...

Freddie and Kwame Blay sue Okudzeto Ablakwa and media outlets for defamation

In two separate lawsuits, former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman Freddie Blay and his son, Kwame Blay, have sued Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa for defamatory...

Two elderly suspects excrete 150 wraps of cocaine at airport

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two passengers traveling to Doha on a Qatar Airways flight at the screening...

‘Galamsey’ activities blamed for Nkawkaw flooding

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Kwahu West, Lawyer Yaw Owusu Addo, has attributed the recent flooding in Nkawkaw to the activities of illegal...

Atimpoku-Asikuma road reopens after severe flooding

The Ministry of Roads and Highways has announced that the Atimpoku-Asikuma road, which had been affected by severe flooding following a heavy downpour on...

Land guards’ alleged plot on Okyeman Environmental Protection brigade exposed

The Okyeman Environmental Protection Brigade has raised alarm over an alleged plot by land guards associated with estate developers in Adoagyiri and Okanta to...

UGMC successfully performs 6 kidney transplants

The University of Ghana Medical Centre has announced the successful completion of its first six kidney surgeries. In a press statement on Sunday, the Centre...

Mortuaries, funeral agency react to viral video of Asante Akyem mourners carrying corpse

The Mortuaries and Funeral Facilities Agency (MoFFA), established under the Health Institutions and Facilities Act, 2011 (Act 829) of the Ministry of Health, has...

Confusion as Lil Win receives ‘miraculous healing’ months after accident

Comic actor Lil Win, who has been recovering in the hospital following a severe car accident last month, astonished onlookers today by receiving what...

NHIA fulfills payment promise for dialysis patients

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has announced the payment for its free dialysis coverage for certain vulnerable patient categories for the month of...

Ghanaian man tragically shot dead in US buried

Edward Nana Kwame Fordjour, a Ghanaian man who was tragically shot dead in the United States, has been laid to rest in a solemn...

Critically ill man dies after being allegedly abandoned at UDS campus

A critically ill man died in front of the University of Development Studies (UDS) Tamale Campus after being abandoned by his brother and allegedly...

Kpatia health center gets maternity ward

Kpatia Health Centre has received a new maternity ward following a report by Adom News last year highlighting the inadequate infrastructure, particularly in the...

One shot dead in Yunyoo in renewed communal clash

A male adult has been killed with more than 10 houses torched in a renewed chieftaincy and land clash between two Konkomba factions at...

60-year-old man accused of attempting to kill people spiritually burnt to death

Six individuals have been apprehended by the Ahanta West Municipal Police Command in the Western Region for allegedly setting ablaze a 60-year-old man, Isaac...

Man sentenced to 25 years in hard labour for stealing a motorbike

24-year-old Kwame Adjei has been sentenced to a term of twenty-five years in imprisonment in hard labour on his own plea. The accused was a...

15-year-old girl battles for her life after brutal attack by 21-year–old suspected ‘rapist’

A fifteen-year-old girl is in critical condition at the Sogakope District Hospital following a brutal attack by a 21-year-old man who allegedly attempted to...

Kenya: Launch of the National School Deworming Campaign

The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Ministry of Education will on 4th July 2024 launch  the 12th round of the National School Based Deworming...

Kenya: The Ministry of Health to Host the 21st Health Sector Intergovernmental Consultative Forum

The Ministry  of Health is this week hosting the 21st Health Sector Intergovernmental Consultative Forum at Kenya School of Government in Nairobi.  This forum unites...

Kenya Secures $407 Million Global Fund for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria

Kenya and the Global Fund have signed a $407,887,067 grant to combat HIV, TB, and malaria.  Previous grants have led to significant achievements, including a...

Don’t let Ghana Publishing Company collapse; commit resources to it – Otumfuo

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, has urged the government to allocate more resources towards revitalizing the Ghana Publishing Company Limited. During a meeting with...

IGP has not been sacked – Police

The Ghana Police Service has reacted to reports that, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare has been sacked. It described as...

Tax policies on products with negative health impacts beneficial – FDA

The Chief Executive of the Food and Drugs Authority, Delese Mimi Darko, says tax policies on products like tobacco and alcohol, with negative public...

NHIA praises F. Alpha and Omega Specialist Hospital for exemplary services

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) is extremely happy with the F. Alpha and Omega Specialist Hospital in Madina, management's voluntary registration of more...

It is a taboo to sell kenkey in Aburi on Thursday – Chief

It is a taboo to sell kenkey in Aburi on Thursday, Adonten Asokwahene, Nana Okyere-Kwame has said. This, he explained is because the gods who...

Plot to attack Okyeman environmental protection brigade uncovered

The Okyeman Environmental Protection Brigade has uncovered a plot orchestrated by land guards working for certain estate developers in the Adoagyiri and Okanta areas. The...

Government to introduce strategies to retain medical professionals – Okoe Boye

The Minister for Health, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye has unveiled plans aimed at curbing the increasing trend of Ghanaian medical professionals emigrating for better...