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MTN MoMo Has Empowered Individuals and Transformed Businesses in 15 Years – Nii Adotey Mingle

Tamale, Ghana – Nii Adotey Mingle, Northern Sector General Manager of MTN Ghana, has observed that after 15 years of existence, MTN Mobile Money Limited has grown beyond just a mobile money service into “a platform that has empowered individuals, transformed businesses, and strengthened communities.” According to Mr. Mingle, MTN …

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Melcom Supports Upper West Regional Hospital With a Medical Refrigerator

Accra, Ghana – Melcom Care Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of Melcom Group, has made a generous donation of twenty-five medical refrigerators to health facilities across the country including the Upper West Regional Hospital. The donation, which happened on Wednesday July 31, 2024 at Melcom Spintex in Accra, was …

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Why We Are Against Genetically Modefied Organisms – CCCFS States Position

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐆𝐌𝐎𝐬 Below are some highlighted reasons CCCFS is against GMOs in any form. 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐭𝐲 ✓ GMOs are patented, giving corporations ownership and control over the seeds ✓ Farmers may be required to sign agreements not to save or exchange seeds ✓ Traditional seeds …

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CEO of Nextdoor Ghana And Wife Donate Furniture to Tamale Central Prison

Tamale, Ghana – Chief Executive Officer of Next Door Ghana Limited, Alhaji Abdul-Majeed Issahaku and his wife, Senior Chief Officer (SCO) Majeed Mariam of the Ghana Prison Service, have donated office furniture to the Tamale Central Prison command in the Northern Region. The items which included chairs, tables and cabinets, are …

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President Biden Appoints Ghanaian Dr. Edjah Nduom to National Cancer Advisory Board

  MAY 10, 2024 President Biden Announces Key Appointments to Boards and Commissions Washington, USA – Today, President Biden announced his intent to appoint Ghanaian American neurosurgeon Dr. Edjah Nduom and other individuals to serve in key roles. They are: Callisia N. Clarke, to be a Member of the National …

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NACOC/Prisons Search For Narcotics At Nsawam Prison

Nsawam, Ghana – A nine-member team from the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) in collaboration with 20 Operations officers of the Ghana Prisons Service (GPS) have embarked on a security search at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison (NMSP), at Nsawam, in the Eastern region. The aim of the exercise which took …

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Tamale – A City With Cars, Motorbikes And Accidents!

TAMALE – A CITY WITH CARS, MOTORBIKES AND ACCIDENTS! THE PROBLEM It is just absolutely incredible to see an entire family of 5 (sometimes six) crammed up on the back of one motor bike- (bikes that are designed to take carry a maximum of two persona – without helmets and …

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Tony Elumelu Foundation Set to Announce 2024 Cohort of its Entrepreneurship Programme

Lagos, Nigeria –The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading philanthropy empowering African entrepreneurs, will announce 1,200 African entrepreneurs across 54 African countries as beneficiaries of its flagship Entrepreneurship Programme. The announcement will be made on March 22, 2024. The new beneficiaries will become the 10th cohort of the 10-year-long TEF …

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MTN Ghana Foundation Invests Ghc19 million in a New Mother And Child Facility

Accra, Ghana – MTN Ghana Foundation has invested a significant amount of money in women’s health by completing a state-of-the-art maternity and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) block at the Keta Municipal Hospital. This project, which cost over Ghc19 million and took 15 months to complete, is the largest of …

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National Blood Service Commends MTN Ghana Fdn For National Blood Donation Campaign

Accra, Ghana – MTN Ghana has collected over 5, 909 units of blood at its 2024 Save-a-Life campaign. The annual campaign organized to augment shortfalls at blood banks in Ghana, saw thousands of people participating at designated bleeding centres in all 16 regions across the country. Adwoa Wiafe, the Chief …

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