[ads2] The Minister for Works and Housing Francis Asenso-Boakye has tasked the country’s engineers to come up with innovative technologies that would see to the production of cost-effective building materials to support the government’s priority of heavily subsidizing the provision of housing units to the citizenry. With rising cost of building materials posing significant practical challenges to the achievement of government’s Affordable Housing Strategies, the Sector Minister believes, such a move would go a long way to reduce the overall cost of safe, decent, and secured housing units for the low to middle earning Ghanaians, while boosting the local economy.…
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[ads2] Goldstar Air, the 2021 Most Promising Airline of the Year, has made a special donation to the Wisdom Boxing Gym and SM Boxing Management in order to revitalize juvenile and professional boxing in Ghana. SM Boxing Management is a professional boxing management company, owned by respected boxing matchmaker Mr. Solomon Otoo Lartey. The management company have mentored and organized fights for male and female boxers under its care, as well as other boxers to fight within Ghana and outside. Recently on March 25th 2022, Mr Otoo had four boxers on Lasgidi Pugilists Park Four(4)Bill at Yucateco Arena, Plot 700…
[ads2] 2nd Vice-President of Ghana Athletics (GAA), Mr Charles Osei Asibey, insists that Ghana Athletics is not dead or dwindling as is being suggested but rather the sport lacks investment. Responding to journalists in Koforidua during the Circuit III Athletics organized by the Ghana Athletics Association, Mr Osei Asibey who also doubles as the Secretary General for the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG), said “Athletics is Ghana’s prime and image saving sport as it often has climaxed Ghana’s participation in major international events.” He recounted the breaking of about 80 per cent of existing national athletics records, the latest…
[ads3] Goldstar Air, a wholly owned Ghanaian airline, presented boxes of personal protective equipment (PPE) and T-shirts to the Ghana Tourism Authority at their Head Office on March 21, 2022, as a support for the upcoming public private partnership forum, which will be held on Thursday, March 24, 2022 at Noda Hotel, Fumesua Kumasi under the theme “Scaling up Public Private Partnership for Inclusive Tourism Growth” and the topics: “Promoting Investment into Tourism and Hospitality Sector” and bridging the skills gab in the industry. In donating the items, Mr. Eric Bannerman, Executive Chairman and CEO of Goldstar Air, and his…
[ads3] Wholly-owned Ghanaian airline company, GoldStar Air, has been recognized for the second time as the most promising airline company of the year at the Gome Awards 2021. The awards which was held on Friday February 25, 2022 at the Accra Metropolitan Snap Hall in Accra was aimed at centralizing the strength and to promote, empower, recognize, and emerge great personalities, corporate bodies, and individuals working together for the development and betterment of Ghana. The award was presented by Mr. Socrate Safo, a Ghanaian director, filmmaker, and Director for Creative Arts at the National Commission on Culture in Ghana which…
[ads2] The Governments of Nigeria and Ghana have assured of hitch-free 2022 FIFA World Cup playoffs between both countries later this month. The Sports Minister of Nigeria, Sunday Dare, and the Ghana High Commissioner to Nigeria, His Excellency, Rashid Bawa gave these assurances in Abuja on Wednesday. H.E. Bawa had paid a courtesy visit to the Sports Minister in his office to deliberate on areas of interest as the dates for the crucial playoff games draw closer. Sports Minister Sunday Dare said Nigeria would continue to maintain the long-standing relationship with Ghana and the tension around the playoff games will…
[ads2] The Minister for Works and Housing, Francis Asenso-Boakye has expressed grave worry about peoples’ subculture of dumping household solid waste into open drains, which continue to have adverse effect on government’s efforts in improving communities’ resilience to flooding. Asenso-Boakye said the safety of communities especially those in flood-prone areas should be a shared responsibility, adding that citizens owe it a duty to support government’s effort in maintaining drainage capacity and reducing the likelihood of flooding by desisting from indiscriminate disposal of solid waste into drainage channels. The Works and Housing Minister made these appeal when he inspected ongoing dredging…
[ads2] The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) has, indefinitely, suspended its administrative manager, Farida Ayishatu Iddriss over gross disrepect to authority. A statement signed by the General -Secretary of the committee, Mohammed Sahnoon, indicate that Farida Ayishatu Iddriss has been handed an indefinite suspended for her numerous indiscipline behaviors as the administrative manager of the committee despite several cautions from her superiors. Farida Iddriss has been accused of traveling to the committee’s meetings on several occasions without the knowledge of the President and the General-Secretary, an act which is considered to be against the regulations of the committee.[ads2] In a statement…
[ads2] The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) has been thrown into turmoil less than five months to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games as the President and Secretary-General battle in a turf war over who has the right to suspend an employee by the name Farida Ayishatu Iddriss. The development gives credence to reports that have emerged about a rift between the top two officers of the GOC which is evidenced by two different communication teams at the NOC, while rumours of a vote-of-no-confidence in the Nunoo Mensah administration continues to abound. It will be recalled that the third vice president of…
[ads3] The Ghana-Barbados Business Roundtable hosted by Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has been held successfully at the Kempinski Hote in Accra, on Monday 7th March, 2022. Prime Minister of Barbados, Her Excellency Mia Amor Mottley was the Guest of Honor for the Roundtable Business forum. The Ambassador of the Barbados High Commission in Ghana, H.E Juliette Babb-Riley, the Commercial and Cultural Attaché, Mr C. Phil Phillips and other government officials from Barbados were present. The Ghana Investment Promotion Center led by the Deputy Chief Executive Officer Mr Yaw Amoateng Afriyie, Mr Charles Opoku Mensah and other GIPC officials were…