NEWS IN GHANA

The world cannot wait any longer as climate change and its impacts on humans remain crucial, with world leaders embarking on a  plan to decide the fate and future of our God-given planet, the devastating effect of climate change on health still remain a contentious issue to deal with.  Mr. Joseph Kobla Wemakor, a Senior Journalist and leader of a  Climate Change Activists group  in Ghana The Sustainable Development Goals( SDGS) conference which is slated for September 25-27, 2015 in New York and the much waited 17 strong sustainable Development Goals have a direct implication on lives and properties. Already in Nepal, Haiti, Niger, Ghana, East to West, South to North. The Caribbean   and other nations are yet to recover from the shocks associated with devastating nature of climate change on health   after the most recent past disasters they   faced with loss of lives and thousands exposure to the incidence of malaria, cholera and other related i...

Global warming or climate change is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. Global surface temperature increased during the last century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that increasing greenhouse gas concentrations resulting from human activity such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation are responsible for most of the observed temperature increase since the middle of the 20th century. The IPCC also concludes that natural phenomena such as solar variation and volcanoes produced most of the warming from pre-industrial times to 1950 and had a small cooling effect afterward. These basic conclusions have been endorsed by more than 45 scientific societies and academies of science, including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries. Countries around the world suffer from historic droughts. Unless we take immed...

Mobile Financial Service is a generic name referred to all kinds of mobile money service transactions in Ghana. However, various telecommunication network Providers in Ghana have different names for it. For example MTN calls it MTN Mobile Money, while Airtel calls it Airtel money, and for Tigo users, it is known as Tigo Cash. But have no doubt at all about the name it’s still the same business. Cash transfer has often been considered a cumbersome process especially when it is between banks and requires elaborate paperwork. To add to the discomfort, a transfer could take hours or even days but same cannot be said of mobile money transfer services which are done with just clicks of buttons on the mobile handset and it appears this is creating a jobs for many. In Tadzevu, a small town located in the Ketu District of the Volta Region with a population of about 25,000. Most of the people living here are peasant farmers and petty traders. There are no banks here for m...

An NDC  youth group, Diplomatic Platform has presented   assorted food   items including an unspecified amount of cash meant to put smiles on the face of the ace Ghanaian highlife musician, Jewel Kofi Ackah whose immense contribution to the NDC  has propelled the party  into greater heights.  The items included 3 bags of rice, carton of corned beef, a carton of milo, a carton of milk, 3 boxes of water, a box of sardine, a gallon of oil, 3 boxes of tuna flakes and 3 boxes of Don Simon fruit Juice. The group showed the appreciation when they paid a courtesy call on the highlife hitmaker at his residence located in Tema Community 3, within Tema metropolis last Saturday August, 1. Diplomatic Platform administrator, Julius Logass, who spoke on behalf of the group during the presentation, disclosed the donation amounts to a just little token the group intended to offer in order to help cushion him in order to meet his ...