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Presidency To Begin Weekly Media Interaction At Flag Staff House

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) on Monday announced the resumption of the weekly media briefing by the Government at the Flag Staff House from Thursday, April 11. The press briefing is to be attended by either a News Editor or the Deputy, but where it becomes impossible for the News Editor or the Deputy to attend; only the Head of a Desk will be allowed to participate on behalf of the media house. A statement signed by Bright Blewu, GJA Out-going General Secretary to the Ghana News ... Read More

GJA Elects New Executives

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Ghana Journalist Association has elected Affail Monney as its new President. The Editor at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation stood unopposed and was elected accordingly. Other national executives elected include, Mathias Tibu as Vice president, Dave Agbenu, General Secretary. Mr Tibu, a staff of the Ghana Institute of Journalism polled 316 votes to beat his closest challenger Abu Issa Monnie of Peace FM who got 216. The election was conducted in some selected media houses across ... Read More

Google Ghana Partners Local Media To Produce More Online Content

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Google Ghana is committed to assisting the Ghanaian media to make their online presence more relevant and generate additional revenue, Estelle Akofio-Sowah, Country Manager of Google has said. ?The media and journalists in particular are the main producers of content online and that is where our (Google) engagement is with the media, Mrs Akofio-Sowah said in a chat with executive members of the Network of Communication Reporters, Ghana, (NCR Ghana) in Accra. She said the online department ... Read More

GJA Appeals To President To Resource GNA For Efficiency

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Mr Ransford Tetteh, President of the Ghana Journalists Association on Friday appealed to President John Dramani Mahama to adequately resource the Ghana News Agency for them to recapture their primary role as the main news distributor. He said the National Wire Service organization had over the years gone through financial turbulence which had brought its performance from excellent to the lowest ebb. Mr Tetteh made this appeal when a section of media associations called on President John ... Read More

Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly Demolishes Unauthorised Structures

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly has demolished over 2000 unauthorised structures dotted along major streets within the municipality in an effort to beautify the regional capital. Also pulled down during the exercise were all unauthorized bill boards, sign boards of various departments, ministries, NGO?s and other business enterprises. Mr. Edward Ayagle, Municipal Chief Executive told The Ghanaian Times that the exercise was also aimed at ensuring that those intending to do business ... Read More

MFWA Train Journalists On Local Governance

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), has commenced a three-day capacity building programme for 12 journalists drawn from six radio stations in the Western Region. The training programme forms part of the organisation?s on-going projects activities aimed at strengthening the media to play a more effective role in promoting participatory, transparent and accountable local governance. A statement issued by Professor Kwame Karikari, Executive Director of MFWA and copied to the Ghana ... Read More

Ghana News Agency Gets New General Manager

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Mr Bernard Otabil was on Wednesday appointed the new General Manager for the Ghana News Agency (GNA)for a four-year term, effective Friday March 1, 2013. The National Media Commission (NMC) made the appointment in consultation with the President in fulfilment of its constitutional mandate. Article 168 of the 1992 Constitution states: "The Commission shall appoint the chairmen and other members of the governing bodies of public corporations managing the state-owned media in consultation ... Read More

Pay Less Attention To Funerals - Ashanti residents advised

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

THE Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Ghana Employers Association, Dr. Kwaku Adu Aninkora, has asked Ghanaians, espeicially people in the region to stop paying too much attention to funerals to the neglect of work. He said the practice was affecting the growth of businesses and productivity in the region. ?Ashantis pay too much attention to funeral,? he stressed, noting that ?an employee could ask for permission as many as 10 times to attend funerals of relatives and could take as much as ... Read More

Voltic Ghana Finances Water Project

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A GH¢20, 000 mechanised borehole for the Meyah Preparatory School at Medie in the Ga West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, has been inaugurated. It was financed by Voltic Ghana Ltd, a leading mineral water producer, in fulfilment of the company?s aim to support the provision of social amenities within areas where it operates. Until the construction of the borehole and its additional provision of a storage water tank, the Meyah Preparatory School, with a fast growing population of ... Read More

Let's Partner In Our Efforts To Foster Development - Mahama Ayariga

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Mr Mahama Ayariga, Minister for Information and Media Relations on Friday stressed the need for Ghanaians to come together to foster national development. Speaking at the official launch of Ghana?s 56th Independence Anniversary Celebrations in Accra the Minister said, "We need to put aside our political differences and unite to develop our dear country Ghana." The theme for this year?s celebration is ?Partnership and Innovation for Building a New and Better Ghana?. Mr Ayariga said the ... Read More

US Ambassador Calls On Minister Of Information

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A three-member delegation from the US Embassy led by Mr Gene Cretz, the Ambassador to Ghana, on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on Mr Mahama Ayariga, Minister of Information in Accra. Mr Cretz commended Ghana for exhibiting high democratic credentials and peaceful transfer of power in the December 7 elections where President John Dramani Mahama won. He also congratulated the Minister on his appointment as Minister of information and urged him to deplore social media in information ... Read More

Major Don - Chebe Re-Elected IPR President

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Institute of Public Relations Ghana (IPR) has re-elected Major Albert Don-Chebe as the president of the institute for another two-year term. Major Don-Chebe would be assisted by the newly-inducted Executive council for the year 2013/2014 to improve upon his pervious works. He was inducted at a ceremony administered by Justice Patience Mills-Tetteh, Justice of the High Court of Ghana in Accra. In his inaugural address, Major Don-Chebe stated that his administration would put in ... Read More

Greenwich Meridian YPG Donates To 2 Institutions

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Youth Fellowship of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (YFPG), Greenwich Meridian Community One, has donated assorted items worth GH¢2,000 to two institutions in the Afram Plains of the Eastern Region. It presented fruits, toiletries, provisions, gari, stationery, used clothes, toys shoes, and GH¢500 to the Forifori Prisons and GH¢1,500 to Donkorkrom, orphanage. The donation, according to Mr. Andy Ofori Kumah, chairman of the Anniversary Committee was part of the year-long activities ... Read More

Upper Manya Will Benefit From Social Amenities - DCE

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The DCE for Upper Manya Krobo Nr. J.T. Angmor, has assured the numerous communities in the area, especially the rural ones, that the assembly has an elaborate programme to provide every community with social amenities. The people, he said, should therefore have patience and wait for their turn since not all the communities could be provided with the social amenities at the same period. Mr. Angmor was reacting to earlier media publications about the poor state of school facilities in the ... Read More

President Mahama Presents To Lepers

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

President John Dramani Mahama has presented 30 bags of rice and 15 gallons of cooking oil to lepers in the country as part of the celebration of World Lepers Day. The Christ the King Church, Domod Aluminium and the District Common Funds, have also presented items such as mattresses, cooking utensils, food, drinks to lepers in Kpandai in the northern region as part of the celebration. Reverend Father Andrew Campbell, Committee Chairman of Lepers Aid Committee, said President Mahama made the ... Read More

24 Die In Accident On Tamale-Buipe Road

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Twenty four persons have been confirmed dead in an accident that occurred on the Tamale-Buipe road in the Northern Region Monday morning. The twenty four included 23 persons on a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vehicle with registration number AS 8931-12 traveling from Kumasi to Tamale and the driver of a KIA truck with registration number AS 8833-11 traveling from Tamale to the Buipe market. DSP Owusu, who confirmed the accident to Joy FM?s Super Morning Show Monday, said there was head-on ... Read More

Address Poor Roads Network In NR - Drivers

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Drivers in the Northern Region have appealed to the government to as matter of urgency address the poor road network in the region. Members of the Northern Region Sand, Stone Worker and Tipper Truck Association made the appeal and argued that the deplorable nature of the roads in the area were not only affecting the economic empowerment of the people but affect human resource ?as many precious lives are being lost daily?. They cited Tamale Nawuni road in the Kumbungu District as one of ... Read More

U/E REGSEC Orders Work To Resume On Vea Dam

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Upper East Regional Security Council on Wednesday ordered the contractor working on the Vea Dam to resume work in spite of protests from spiritual lords that the gods detest the blast and use of rocks in the area as raw material for the work. Work on the rehabilitation of the dam, which started about two years ago, was stalled as the ?Tindamas? (Spiritual Landlords) claimed their ancestral spirits resided in the rocks which they worshipped and so denied the contractor access to ... Read More

Universal Wonderful Street Academy Launched In Accra

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A new Non-Governmental Organisation, the Universal Wonderful Street Academy has been launched, at Jamestown in Accra. The launch which was characterised by cultural drumming and dancing was attended by very important dignitaries including chiefs. In an address, Mr. Louis Yeboah Wonder-Doe, Managing Director of the academy said, the organization was established with the aim of providing non-formal education, basic needs and healthcare to deprived children in Accra, especially in Jamestown ... Read More

Fetish Priests Stall Progress Of The Vea Irrigation Dam

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The unwillingness of the Tindamas (Land owners) to allow the use of rocks in the vicinity of the Vea Dam as raw material for rehabilitation works on the Irrigation dam in the Upper East region is stalling the project. The work has delayed because the fetish priest, and Tindamas who are the ?spiritual heads? in the community are claiming that the rocks in the ares that have been earmarked for breaking and use as raw material for the project cannot be used because the rocks represent the abode ... Read More

2 Projects Commissioned At Vakpo

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Two projects which are to showcase Vakpo?s potentials as commercial capital of North Danyi District have been commissioned. The two projects which cost a total of GH¢187,365 are a 20 room market stall building and sanitary facilities comprising a 10 seater water closet toilet, a bath house and a urinary. They were commissioned by Mr Francis Ganyablo, the Kpando Municipal Chief executive, assisted by Mr George Loh, MP for North Danyi Constituency and Togbui Asamoah IV, a divisional chief of ... Read More

NMC Sets Up Committee To Monitor Electronic Media

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

THE National Media Commission (NMC) and the National Communication Authority (NCA) have set up a Joint Consultative Committee to monitor the performance of broadcast and other electronic media to ensure compliance with their licence and other regulatory requirements and professional standards. Members of the general public who may have any concerns about any material disseminated by or the professional performance of any service provider may report their concerns to the Joint Consultative ... Read More

Over 9,000 Journalists Apply For Elections Accreditation

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Bernard Benghan About 9,000 journalists have applied for accreditation from the Electoral Commission (EC) to cover Friday?s general elections. They are made up of 6,000 foreign and 3,000 local journalists, respectively who would observe and report on the election. The Director of Logistics of the Commission, Emmanuel Asante Kissi, who disclosed this in an interview with the Ghanaian Times, said in view of the huge numbers, the ... Read More

We'll Close Down Media Houses Which Incite Violence - NMC

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The National Media Commission (NMC) and National Communications Authority (NCA), regulators of the media and broadcasting frequency, have said they will not hesitate to close down any electronic media which incite violence and preach hate speech during and after the general elections. This is by virtue of the reach of the electronic media and their potential to incite one group against the other during elections as has happened in other parts of Africa. The Chairman of the NMC, ... Read More

MELCOM Disaster Survivors Join In Thanksgiving Service

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

SURVIVORS of the recent Achimota Melcom Disaster last Friday brought tears to the eyes of some worshipers at the special praise and thanksgiving church service organized by the Management of Zoomlion and Jospong Group of Companies at their Ashle-Botwe Headquarters near Madina in Accra. The Melcom Disaster Survivors numbering more than 15, showed up at the praise and worship service by the Company to express their thanks and appreciation to the Zoomlion who upon hearing of the collapse of ... Read More