Tag: Koforidua
GNCCI establishes credit union to support businesses
The Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GNCCI) has established a credit union to help raise funds to support businesses of members.
Its establishment...
Beneficiaries of Vodafone’s Homecoming Initiative laud company
Beneficiaries of Vodafone Ghana Foundation’s “Homecoming Initiative” have expressed joy over the support given by the Foundation to free them from detention at the...
Technical Universities advised to avoid subverting their essence
The Deputy Minister of Education in-charge of Technical Education, Professor(Prof) Kwesi Yankah has advised managers of technical universities to guide against the temptation to...
Doctors, nurses donate blood to save lives
Doctors, nurses and other staff of the Koforidua Regional Hospital have donated blood to the Blood Bank to improve the blood stock to help...
Sixty-six foreigners identified to be trading illegally in Koforidua
Sixty-six shops belonging to foreigners have been identified to be operating illegally in the Central Business District of Koforidua.
They...
“Follow developmental projects with keen interest” – NCCE
Mr Francis Cobbah, New Juaben South Municipal Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has urged community members in the Nyamekrom...
GUM vows to battle NPP and NDC for parliamentary seats
The Eastern Regional Chairman of the Ghana Union Movement(GUM), Rev Michael Manfred Martey, has said the party is strategizing to win the majority of...
GHS to organize two mass polio vaccination this year
The Ghana Health Service is to organize two rounds of polio immunization this year to help eradicate the virus identified at 150 surveillance sites...
Students start enjoying one hot meal in New Juaben South
Some teachers in Junior High Schools in the New Juaben South Municipality have described the government's ‘’One hot meal’’ for final year students as...
Voter registration of 18 persons in NJSM cancelled
The New Juaben South Municipal Voters Registration Review Committee (VRRC) has cancelled the registration of 18 persons who were challenged at the just ended...
Covid-19: Is it fear or stigma?
Fear is defined as an unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by a threat of danger, pain, or harm whiles stigma involves negative attitudes or...
GUTA calls for the establishment of Bank for traders
The President of the Ghana Union of Traders Association(GUTA) has called for the establishment of a special bank to offer loans at a special...
Okere DCE awarded at the 2020 ‘Achievers Leadership’ Awards
Mr Daniel Kenneth, Okere District Chief Executive (DCE), has been honoured with the Community Impact Personality 2020 Award for Excellence in Leadership, at the...
Eastern Region developing into a major rice production area
The Eastern Region is gradually developing into a major rice growing zone in the country.
Under the Planting...
GES commended for timely sanctions against marauding students
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Sub-Platform 4 (SDG4), a civil society organization, has commended the Ghana Education Service (GES) for the timely sanctions against...
Forty-five research assistants of NCCE undergo training
The Research, Gender and Equality Department of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has organised a training programme to equip 45 Research Assistants...
NDC urges all to adhere to the coronavirus safety protocols
The New Juaben South Municipal branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has urged Ghanaians to continue to adhere to the COVID-19 safety protocols...
NGO calls for a bill to outlaw witch camps
A non-governmental organization(NGOs) has called on the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to introduce a bill to Parliament to outlaw witch camps.
...
President Akufo-Addo cuts sod for Nsukwao Drainage Improvement system
President Akufo-Addo on Tuesday cut sod for the construction of a 16-million-cedi basin drainage Improvement at Nsukwao, a suburb of Koforidua.
The project scheduled...
NPP urge Ghanaians to go out and register
Mr Jeff Konadu Addo, the Eastern Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party( NPP) has called on the Ghanaians to go out and...
President Akufo-Addo to use second term to industrialize Ghana
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana has said, if Ghanaians give him a second term, he would use it to build on...
NDC to cancel the teacher’s licensure examination
The Deputy Eastern Regional Youth Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC)Mr Richard Nyarko said if the NDC wins the 2020 elections, they will...
Traditional authorities urged to join fight against human trafficking
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection(MOGCSP) has called on traditional authorities to join the fight against human trafficking in the country.
...
NDC says satisfied with the voter registration exercise
The Eastern Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress( NDC) has expressed satisfaction with the ongoing voter registration exercise in the region.
...
PPP calls for a change in the mentality of the voter
The Eastern Regional Progressive Peoples Party (PPP), has inaugurated a 12-member regional executive to run the affairs of the party in the region.
The Regional...
Juaben Serwaa market burnt down
Juaben Serwaa Market in Koforidua in the Eastern Region has gone up in flames.
The cause...
StanChart supports government with 78 million Euros for new Eastern Region Hospital
Standard Chartered has announced the completion of an agreement for a EUR 78 million UKEF (UK Export Finance) supported financing to the Ministry of...
Population Officer calls for education to reduce teenage pregnancy
The Acting Eastern Regional Population Officer, Mr Kwasi Owusu Obeng, has called for the intensification of education on sexual and reproductive health for girls...
Thirteen communities in E/Region declared child marriage-free
Thirteen communities in the Eastern Region have been declared child marriage- free after an intervention by some organisations to halt the trend.
What this means...
NPP aspring Parliamentary candidate donates to constituency executives
The New Patriotic Party(NPP) aspiring Parliamentary Candidate for New Juaben South, Mr Michael Okyere Baafi, had donated 10 motor cyles, 20 megaphones and an...