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Persons With Disability Get Government Support During Lockdown

Sammy Heywood Okine - Apr 17, 2020 0

The Government of Ghana has donated assorted food items to Persons with Disability through the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection today Wednesday...

AU calls for expediting ratification of free movement of persons towards socio-economic advancements

xinhuanet.com - Nov 11, 2019 0

Member States of the African Union (AU) have been urged to expedite ratification of the AU protocol on free movement of persons towards the...

DYC Choir Supports HIV Persons and Street Children

Ghana News Agency - May 6, 2019 0

The Dynamic (DYC) Choir, a choral group and non-profit body, has donated stationery, clothes and food items to the ‘Motherly Love Foundation,’ people on...

Visually Impaired Demands Inclusion onto PFJ

Ghana News Agency - Apr 10, 2019 0

Some visually impaired persons in the Ho Municipality have appealed to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to engage them in government’s flagship Planting...

Highway Director Assures Affected Persons That They will be Compensated

Ghana News Agency - Mar 27, 2019 0

The Eastern Regional Director of Ghana Highway Authority, Mr Charles Adubofour has promised to compensate property owners affected by the on-going dual carriage being...

Tech Era and Partners to Design Assistive Technology for PWDs in Ghana

Ghana News Agency - Mar 11, 2019 0

Tech Era, a tech non-profit based organisation in Ghana has partnered with Dextra, a Canadian social enterprise and engineering company to create affordable assistive...

Eighteen Persons to Contact Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Ministry

Ghana News Agency - Feb 26, 2019 0

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has requested the following persons to contact the Director of Legal and Consular Bureau of the...

NIPDA Supports 69 PWD with Various Items

Ghana News Agency - Feb 8, 2019 0

The Ningo-Prampram District Assembly (NIPDA) on Thursday, presented entrepreneurial items to 69 local persons with disability to enhance their livelihoods. The items worth GHs121,864.00 includes...

Mr. Daniel Domlevo Auditor General of Ghana

Auditor-General Recovers GH¢ 67,315,066.12 Into Government’s Coffers

Sammy Adjei - Jan 3, 2019 0

In fulfilment of Article 187(7)(b) of the 1992 Constitution, the Auditor-General has on 31st December, 2018, submitted a special report on Disallowing items of...

Government Workers Asked to Live Exemplary Lives

Ghana News Agency - Jan 2, 2019 0

The Right Reverend Dr Emmanuel Asare-Kusi, Bishop of the Koforidua Diocese of the Methodist Church, has called on people in government to live by...

Persons with Disabilities Gets Support from Global Aid

Global Aid Goes to the aid of PWDs in Mamprobi

News Ghana - Jun 29, 2018 0

The Global Aid for Marginalized Ghana in partnership with Mamprobi Church of Christ has brought smiles to some persons living with disabilities in the...

2,000 Persons Captured Under Catherine Afeku’s NHIS Mother’s Day Celebrations

Ghana News Agency - May 15, 2018 0

Mrs Catherine Abelema Afeku,Member of Parliament for Evalue-Adjomoro Gwira Constituency, has rolled out a package to register 2,000 people in Axim and its environs...

Three grabbed over marijuana sale

Ghana News Agency - May 4, 2018 0

The Dormaa Central Divisional Police Command has detained three suspects for possessing and transporting a quantity of dried leaves suspected to be marijuana (weed). The...

GFD bare teeth at MMDAs for failing to disburse funds to Persons with Disabilities

News Ghana - May 2, 2018 0

The Ghana Federation of Disability Organization (GFD) has frowned against the slow pace in which the disbursement of the 3% District Assemblies Common Fund...

Bolga: PWDs Take Business Management Training

Ghana News Agency - Mar 30, 2018 0

Persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the Bolgatanta Municipality have been trained in financial management and money literacy to help them manage their businesses well. About...

Persecute Persons Who Flouts Our Laws – Amnesty International

News Ghana - Feb 2, 2018 0

Amnesty International has condemned the inhuman and degrading treatment metered onto the alleged “fake soldier." In a press release from Amnesty International and copied to...

Photo taken on June 26, 2016 shows a landslide happened in a mountain village in Meigu County, southwest China's Sichuan province. [Photo: Chinanews.com]

Landslide kills 3 in southern Burundi

News Ghana - Nov 27, 2017 0

Some three persons died in a landslide which occurred on Thursday night at the Burunga area in the Gasanda zone, Bururi Province, southern Burundi,...

Court fines 3 for improper disposal of refuse

ABK - Nov 25, 2017 0

The Abeka Sanitation and Motor Magistrate Court has fined three people GHȼ360.00 each or in default spend ten weeks imprisonment for dumping refuse at...

Minister Calls For Gender Responsive Budgets To Eradicate FGM

ABK - Nov 17, 2017 0

Madam Otiko Afisah Djaba, the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, on Friday appealed to African governments to improve upon their national budgets...

More efforts urged for inclusion of persons with disabilities in Africa

News Ghana - Nov 15, 2017 0

Policymakers and experts attending an international meeting here on persons with disabilities (PWDs) on Tuesday called for more efforts to include PWDs in Africa's...

Stakeholders Reflect On Needs Of Sekondi -Takoradi Metropolitan

ABK - Nov 6, 2017 0

The Sekondi -Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly together with Friends of the Nation have hosted communities and other stakeholders within the Metropolis to discuss the Assembly’s...

West African states move to remove obstacles to free movement of persons, goods

News Ghana - Sep 19, 2017 0

Ghana on Monday officially launched a National Steering Committee for the implementation of the regional monitoring mechanism (RMM) for the free movement of inter-state...

VOICE Ghana gives support to PWDs on local level development

News Ghana - Sep 9, 2017 0

VOICE Ghana, a disability focused non-governmental organisations with support from STAR-Ghana is promoting “stronger voice” for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in local level development...

SSNIT extends support to the physically challenged

News Ghana - Aug 11, 2017 0

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has provided an amount of GHC 10,000.00 to support six physically challenged persons to fit artificial...

Whats New, 11 Years On After The Persons With Disability Act, 2006 (Act 715)?

News Ghana - Aug 10, 2017 0

Today marks exactly eleven years when the Disability Act, Act 715, which was passed by the Parliament of Ghana on Thursday, June 23, 2006...

KMA Inaugurates Unit Committees After 2 Years Of Waiting

ABK - May 3, 2017 0

Unit Committees of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) have been inaugurated after about two years of waiting, with a call to the members to...

Ghana Amputee Association Visit Victims Of Agbobloshie Clash

ABK - Apr 20, 2017 0

The leadership of the Ghana Amputee Football Association has visited the victims of the Agbobloshie clash at the Korle-Bu teaching hospital. According to Rev Richard...

Kwahu: Police Arrests 8 Over Easter Crimes

News Ghana - Apr 19, 2017 0

The Police have arrested six persons in connection with different crimes committed during various Easter festivities in Kwahu in the Eastern Region.The suspects include...

GRA Announce Penalties for Defaulting Persons, Companies

News Ghana - Apr 15, 2017 0

The Ghana Revenue Authority(GRA) has announced that it will slap the statutory 125% interest fine on persons and companies that fail to pay their...

Chereponi: Renewed Clashes Leave Scores Injured

News Ghana - Apr 14, 2017 0

Renewed violence has erupted in Bumbruriga, in the eastern part of the Northern region in the Chereponi District between Chokosis and Bimobas. It is unclear...

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