NEWS IN GHANA

Airtel Ghana the leading telecommunications network in Mobile Banking has up-graded and expanded its mobile money platform by making it simpler for its customers to transact business. Launching the  platform in Accra, the CEO of Airtel Ghana Philip Sowah stated Ghanaians live in a world where time is becoming an essential commodity and people  spend long hours in queues just to access goods and services, make payments or in traffic trying to move from one place to another. All these he believes is done at the expense of productivity and stress on the body. In his speech, he noted since the introduction of Airtel Money on the Ghanaian market, Airtel customers have enjoyed a variety of services nevertheless Airtel kept expanding the eco-system by working with numerous partners to bring convenience to the doorstep of consumers. “As the leader in mobile banking our platform allows customers to transfer money from their bank accounts to their mWallets and vice versa, ...

The Allied Atlantic Distilleries Limited (AADL), Africa’s biggest maker of ethanol from cassava, says improved varieties and best-bet agronomic practices in the production of cassava, which it obtained from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and passed on to farmers have almost doubled the yield of the root crop, making it possible for farmers to supply more of this raw material to the industry than earlier expected. Commissioned on 30 January (Thursday) in Lasada, Igbese community in Ogun State, the ethanol factory will produce 9 million liters per annum of extra neutral alcohol, requiring approximately 250 tons of cassava per day. Already over 8,000 farmers located within 70-km radius of Igbesa covering Ogun and Oyo states, southwest Nigeria, have been engaged and the factory is providing more than 40,000 indirect jobs to people in the area, Mr Ola Rosiji, Chairman of AADL said.  “With the support of IITA, our farmers have doubled their yields fro...

Mr E. Awunyo Secretary, VEGGHANA delivering his welcome address @ the launch The International Vegetarian Union (IVU) has chosen Ghana as the first African country to host the 42 nd International Vegetarian festival for the first time ever since its inception. The World Vegefest is an annual event which is rotated among six regions mainly Africa,Asia Pacific,Asia South and west,Europe,Latin America and North America. Last year witnessed the whole world converged at Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia to mark the 41 st edition of the World Vegefest event in grandeur, this year Ghana is blessed to be  honored as the first African Nation to host it come  this October 2014. Members of the high-table look-on The 42 nd World Vegefest 2014 event   is scheduled to come off in Accra from 1 st  to 6 th October, 2014 was launched yesterday on the 5 th of February in Accra at the International press Conference centre on the theme:”Miraculously Preserved: ...

In efforts to reduce child mortality rate or preventable deaths of children under five years, World Vision Ghana has launched an initiative dubbed Child Health Now Campaign which took place in Accra on the 28 th of January 2014 at the Mensvic Hotel. The Child Health Now campaign project which has been launched today was first implemented by the world Vision Ghana in the year 2012 to contribute towards improvements in Child and maternal health in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4 and 5. Speaking at the formal launch of the campaign project, National Director of the World Vision Ghana Mr. Hubert Charles disclosed the campaign is aimed at supporting and engaging the Government to speed up efforts to attain Millennium Development goals 4 and 5, especially to increase access of the poor to quality health services in the country. According to him world vision aspires, in partnership   with the government to ensure that children enjoy good health and ar...

A new multi-year project assessing sustainable weed management technologies for cassava-based farming systems in Nigeria is being launched by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and its partners in Ibadan, 28 - 31 January 2014. The project is seeking to find solutions to the labor-intensive weeding usually performed by women and children and to increase cassava productivity for 125,000 Nigerian farm families. The project has the potential to serve as a livelihood transformation model for all cassava-producing states in Nigeria. Cassava is generally grown by smallholder farmers, who appreciate its tolerance of drought and poor soils. However, its prospects in Nigeria—the world’s largest producer—is being threatened by insufficiently developed weed management practices. Hand and hoe weeding are the predominant weed control practices on smallholder cassava farms and takes 50 - 80 percent of the total labor budget of cassava growers with women contributing more ...

 In efforts to step up towards delivery of prompt service to meet customer demands and satisfaction in terms of constant power supply, the Achimota District Branch of ECG has launched a project dubbed the One-Day-Service Connection Innovation in Accra last Friday 17th January, 2014 at the Achimota district branch of ECG. The initiative which is now being implemented throughout the company was conceived and piloted by the Achimota District branch of the ECG. Speaking during the launching of the project, Managing Director of ECG, Ing. William Hutton Mensah disclosed the major positive effect of this innovation is that it will help eliminate customer apprehensions and frustrations in getting electricity service connection, this he believes will in turn lead to reduction of illegal connections. According to him the innovation has a number of benefits dedicated to valued customers and also to the company as a whole. He lauded   the efforts of the Dis...

Nigeria and Kenya has kicked off massive tourism marketing campaigns in West Africa by launching travel trade training sessions in different regions of Ghana and Nigeria. Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) says the two countries have shown all the indications of contributing to the Kenya's tourism growth as Kenya turns to emerging markets and the Africa region for more tourists. "West Africa is potential to us and this is the beginning of our efforts to tapping into the market that has high spenders with willingness to spend" says KTB Regional Marketing Manager Fred Okeyo during the launch of travel trade training and media engagement programs underway in the cities of Ghana and Nigeria. KTB is training about 200 travel agents in West Africa as well as media engagement programs in a bid to equip them with information on Kenya's tourism products. Last year Ghana and Nigeria recorded about 23,000 arrivals to Kenya, a figure KTB says will be increased significantly soo...