NEWS IN GHANA

In a bid to boost horticultural production and promote commercial fruit and vegetable sector development in Ghana and Ivory Coast, the HortiFresh West Africa programme has been launched at the plush La Palm Royal Beach Resort on Thursday September 20, 2018 in Accra. The program which aims at establishing a sustainable and internationally competitive fruit and vegetable sector that contributes to inclusive economic growth, food and nutrition security in Ghana and Ivory Coast is being implemented by a consortium of Wageningen UR, SNV Ghana, Resilience, Advance Consulting and SENSE. It is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands which has prioritized commercial agriculture in its strategic plan of moving from aid to trade. At the launch, the Deputy Minister for Horticulture, Mr. George Oduro and the Netherlands Ambassador to Ghana, H.E. Mr. Ron Strikker, cut a mango cake to officially launch the program. Speaking at the launch, Mrs. Sheila Assibey

Fatima Ali Mohammed, Representative for Ghana and Nigeria, Superbrands UK Superbrands UK representative for Ghana and Nigeria, Ms Fatima Ali Mohammed has observed that lack of proper research on part of both regulators and marketers in the country has been a major cause of worry, leading to the collapse of local banks including non-performance of brands, businesses and institutions among others in recent times. She averred that most often due diligence was not employed by marketers and regulators in taking critical decisions which pertains to smooth running of local banks, businesses, institutions and building of brands among others, a situation contributing to significantly to failure and loss of consumer trust. Highlighting on importance of research to growth of businesses, she posited: “Research is crucial because it gives you the pulse otherwise you walking into market very blindly with blindfold, you don’t know who to target and why you’re targeting them” she stress

The International Director of Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches for Africa(FGFMCI), Bishop Jerry Augustus Sowah has waded into the controversy surrounding the proposed national cathedral, declaring his full support and urging government to proceed with urgency, barring any unforeseen circumstances. The highly revered man of God sharing his views on the contentious matter in an interview said: “We have a national mosque for Moslems and the government uses taxpayer’s money to sponsor hajj trips now, what is wrong with the President saying that this cathedral is not going to serve only Christian but a monument to serve other purposes? he quizzed, adding, I see nothing wrong about that, as a matter of fact it is not the taxpayer’s money that is going to be used to build it”. He furthered: “The government is only part of this by providing the land. It’s the church that is going to facilitate the building process that’s it, so I see nothing wrong with that and I’ll support it

Editor-in-Chief of  GhanaNewsOne.com , Joseph Kobla Wemakor has called on all Ghanaians to consider payment of TV license fee an obligation and ensure its full compliance in order to enable the state broadcaster discharge its constitutional mandate effectively to the satisfaction of all and sundry in country. He averred the weakness of the state broadcaster to function meritoriously in delivery of quality contents for public consumption could be blamed on lack of funds. “GBC is our very own and it behooves on all of us to make it function to our satisfaction by ensuring that we pay our TV licence regularly”. Mr. Wemakor was speaking as one of the panelists at the second edition of the Ghana Institute of Journalism’s (GIJ) Media Roundtable Dialogue Series, on the theme ‘If Not the TV License Fee then What? Funding GBC and the Future of the Public Service Broadcasting in Ghana’s Highly Commercialized Media Space’. The forum which seeks to shed more light on the way

“Before I got married to my wife 11 years ago, I've heard people telling me all kinds of nasty things. Not to talk about the discouragement I even got from my church leaders. But I said to myself, since I'm even called Thomas, I'll try and play the doubting Thomas in the Bible just to doubt the things they were saying. So I challenged myself I’m going to be the different one among all the Thomas’s at least to prove to the world that persons with epilepsy deserve the right to be happy and to be cared for and that’s why I’m living with this challenge. I thank God we’ve been very successful to be able to go out and talk to a lot of people about this condition", Thomas Larbie, an advocate for epilepsy revealed. “I’ve realized that the condition is not the problem but the behavior of people surrounding the condition. It is the people around us that make the condition a problem. I remembered in my school days growing up as a child and what happened was, we dread