NEWS IN GHANA

The Ghana Association of Vegetable Exporters (GAVEX) has expressed concern about the current state of Ghana’s vegetable export sector describing it as only “existed by name”, calling on all stakeholders in the country to rise up to the challenge and ensure that the once vibrant industry which has been left dormant is restored back to its full force. The association maintains the move is in the right direction to guarantee every Ghanaian enjoy the enormous benefits embedded in the industry. “We in the vegetable business believe that the industry needs to be relooked at critically by all stakeholders, taking into account our actions and inactions of the past with the aim of positioning Ghana’s vegetable export sector to where it belongs, in order to derive the full benefits it can bring to us as a people and as a country” Daniel Aladi, General Secretary of GAVEX made the call at the opening of the   2 nd Ghana Veg vegetable fair held on Wednesday, June 15, 2016 ...

Smart Studykit: Ghana’s biggest and comprehensive online educational platform hits the streets of Accra Barely two weeks after its introduction into the market, providers of the ‘Smart Studykit’ Ghana’s biggest online educational platform, Africa Worldview Ltd. has hit the streets with   passion and drive to raise awareness and serve the public on the importance of the product   with the aim of meeting   the educational needs of every Ghanaian. Smart Studykit sales team in a pose at the UT Bank Head Office, Airport Branch Currently, Smart Studykit sales team can be spotted at the Airport branch of the UT Bank, Head office in Accra, engaging the public with either free registration unto the platform, selling scratch cards or offering education on the uses and benefits of the product in order to promote it. According to Chief Operating Officer of Africa Worldview Ltd, Kojo Impraim, the move is geared towards creating more awareness and visibility on the prod...

Gender ministry holds stakeholder consultative forum on adoption, foster care regulation   As part of measures to ensure greater protection for children   in the country especially in the area of alternative care, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has held a stakeholder consultative forum aimed at reforming and strengthening adoption and foster care processes in the country. Nana Oye Lithur,Minister of Gender,Children and Social Protection interacting with the media   According to the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, the forum seeks “to collaboratively engage stakeholders on alternative care reforms and to develop innovative strategies that ensure the reform process contributes to the development needs of all children and our great nation”. Ghana has been ranked among the top twenty countries with the highest rates of inter-country adoptions over the years raising great concerns. A situation...

Africa Worldview launches biggest online educational platform in Ghana As part of efforts to enhance teaching and learning in the country and beyond, Africa Worldview Limited, a leading Ghanaian research and knowledge-based IT firm has introduced an online educational platform dubbed “Smart StudyKit” which seeks to offer  students, teachers and school administrators the easy way to learn online via Web and Mobile Applications.  C.O.O of Africa Worldview Limited, Kojo Impraim According to Chief Operating Officer of Africa World View Ltd., Kojo Impraim the product seeks to facilitate easier, interactive, lively and comprehensive teaching and learning at Junior and Senior School levels. It also seeks to leverage access to quality education for both regular and remedial students offering them the opportunity to determine their learning pace and not the reverse where the teacher decides the pace. “The advantage is that you are able to learn and comple...