[Ghanaian Times] Kpaala -- The Upper West Regional Director of the Department of Gender, Ms Charity Bature has said that child marriage is a major cause of poverty among people living in rural communities.

[Ghanaian Times] A lecturer at the Ghana institute of Journalism (GIJ) has recommended that the government consider making District Assembly elections partisan just like national elections.

[Ghanaian Times] Cape Coast -- The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has begun a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programme for 43 health personnel towards improving the capacity of members of health training institutions in the country.

[Ghanaian Times] Kumasi -- Senior High Schools (SHSs) participating in the Energy Commission's Renewable Energy Challenge, are to enjoy patent rights to their technologies.

[Ghanaian Times] Last Friday, the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, addressed the media on a number of issues currently going on in the education sector, including interventions instituted by the government to transform it.

[Ghanaian Times] Ampain -- Chief Executive of CocoBenz, Bender Owusu Bediako Antwi, says the coconut husk has great potential for the Ghanaian economy which must be harnessed to reduce poverty and promote prosperity of the country.

[Ghana Presidency] The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will from Monday, 22nd August, 2022, begin a four-day working visit of the Upper West and Savanna regions.

[VOA] Accra, Ghana -- Ghana has raised its benchmark interest rate to a record-high 22% as the country struggles to check soaring prices caused in part by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

[GhanaToday] Despite having no legal responsibility to compensate Appiatse accident victims, the government is committed to assisting the victims through the Appiatse support fund.

[GhanaToday] President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reassured of the government's determination to return Ghana's economy to a high rate of growth as recorded three years before the COVID outbreak in 2020.

[GhanaToday] The Government of Ghana is collaborating with the authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to evacuate 431 stranded Ghanaians misled by unscrupulous agents who promised them jobs in Dubai and the UAE.

[GhanaToday] The Minister for the Interior, Ambrose Dery, has by Executive Instrument renewed the curfew hours imposed on Kandiga and Doba Townships and their environs in the Kasena Nankana Municipality and Kasena Nankana West District in the Upper E...

[Ghanaian Times] Former President of the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) Ambassador George Haldane Lutterodt, has called on the National Sports Authority (NSA) to institute a probe into the reason behind the disqualification of Ghana's 4x100m relay...

[Ghanaian Times] The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has initiated a raft of policies to stem rising inflation and depreciation of the cedi as part of measures to shore up the economy.

[Ghanaian Times] Bosomtwe -- Residents of the Bosomtwe District of Ashanti have expressed concern about the deplorable state of some schools and lack of other developmental projects, in the area.

[Ghanaian Times] The Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana (IAEAG) yesterday revealed that there was an influx of smuggled wheat flour into the Ghanaian markets.

[Ghanaian Times] Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) and Presiding Members (PMs) have been advised to be bold and communicate the challenges facing the nation to the citizenry.

[Ghanaian Times] MTN Ghana has introduced an Electronic Voucher Distribution (EVD) Denomination Change to enable pre-paid customers who purchase airtime from retailers to receive the same value purchased.

[Ghanaian Times] Obrempong Dr Arafat Sulemana Abdulai, the Chief Executive Officer of the Zongo Development Fund (ZoDF), has urged communities who have benefitted from the construction of Community Sports and Social Centres (Astro Turfs) to "cooperat...

[Ghanaian Times] Director-General of the Internal Audit Agency, Dr Oduro Osae, has urged Parliament to expedite the passing of the new Internal Audit Service Bill into an Act to resource, employ more staff and empower them to effectively and efficien...

[Ghanaian Times] Berekum Chelsea secured a comfortable 2-0 victory over Tarkwa-based Me-deama SC in the day-two of the GHALCA G6 tournament at the Accra Sports Stadium yesterday.

[Ghanaian Times] The National Youth Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Opare Addo, has asserted that the NDC is battle ready to win Election 2024 to uplift the crest fallen spirit of the citizenry.

[Ghanaian Times] The Education Ministry has asked Information Technology company, TANIT Limited to refund GH¢859, 115.46 it received for a contract to provide digital teacher training content and platform in 2021 but failed to deliver.

[Ghanaian Times] The government must initiate measures to shore up its revenue generation from the extractive sector to address the financial challenges facing the country, the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) have suggested.

[Ghanaian Times] Kumasi -- A Deputy Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Ms Linda Asante, has called on motorists to buy quality petroleum products at the fuel filling stations.

[Ghanaian Times] The newly constituted board of the Twifo Oil Palm Plantation (TOPP)has been inaugurated in Accra.

[Ghanaian Times] Not a single prospecting licence has been granted any company to prospect for minerals in the country's Forest Reserves since March 2021, the Minerals Commission has said.

[Ghanaian Times] The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has urged the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the National Identification Authority (NIA) to expedite action on the integration of their systems in order to rope in eligible taxpaying Ghanaians ...

[Ghanaian Times] Wa -- The Vice Chancellor of the Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS) at Wa in the Upper West Region, Professor Philip Duke Osei, has called for more opportunities for women partic...

[Ghanaian Times] Drobonso -- The Sekyere Afram Plains District Assembly (SAPDA) in the Ashanti Region spends GH¢25,000 monthly, especially during the dry season,to cater for the security agencies deployed to maintain peace during outbreak of conflic...