The National Lottery Authority (NLA) has licenced KGL Technology Limited, the parent company of Keed Ghana Limited - which is a wholly Ghanaian-owned entity combining local expertise across diverse fields, as a digital/online lottery operator.
The licence was presented to KGL Technology Limited by the authority’s Board Chairman, Togbe Francis...
People living along the banks of the Odaw River, Circle, have been given a 48-hour ultimatum to move their makeshift structures without delay or face eviction by the city authorities - Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA).
The directive is to facilitate the on-going dredging works in the Odaw by Dredge Masters...
The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) and Mastercard Foundation have initiated a programme dubbed Young Africa Works to create some 39,000 jobs for the youth through entrepreneurship.
The three-year programme is an entrepreneurship development and employment programme targeted at young people, particularly young women, in Ghana. The project...
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has issued its preliminary comment on the mid-year budget review and says the measures announced by the Minister for Finance in the mid-year budget review have come at the right time.
“TUC fully supports these initiatives and is ready to work with government and all...
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO chief executive, is to reconvene the agency’s emergency committee this week to assess the pandemic.
He admitted that the world has made a huge effort, but conceded that there is “a long hard road ahead of us”.
The WHO first declared the spread of the...
The Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mrs. Barbara Oteng Gyasi, marked this year’s Emancipation Day with wreath-laying ceremonies in Accra.
A delegation comprising government officials, traditional rulers, and members from the Diaspora laid wreaths at the grave-sites of renowned Pan-Africanists W.E.B Dubois, George Padmore and Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
Recounting the...
The pandemic has led to a surge in pollution from disposable products like plastic face masks and hand sanitiser bottles. Effective trade rules can help limit the spread of coronavirus waste.
Historical data tell us that about 75% of coronavirus plastic will likely become waste, clogging our landfills and floating...
Former Finance Minister Seth Terkper has said that the expenditure related to the coronavirus pandemic should not be solely considered as responsible for the widening fiscal deficit but rather what is driving the debt is the funds used to resolve financial institutions and energy sector debt which were excluded...
You may not plan to retire, but your employer and your own body may have other ideas. Change of a company’s strategic focus or technological base can render people redundant. However, more likely than rare, such situations can reasonably be predicted.
Sicknesses or accidents on the other hand, by no stretch...
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has trained media practitioners to enhance their understanding and interpretation of results from Ghana’s maiden multidimensional poverty report, which examined poverty beyond monetary deprivations.
The national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report looked at how people experience poverty in their health, education, and living standards.
The report,...