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Wa, Ghana – Preterm babies and other newborn babies with complications have had their survival chances greatly boosted following the inauguration of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for the Upper West Regional Hospital in Wa. Equipment of the newborn care facility was acquired with the support of a private …

Tamale, Ghana – Former Member of Parliament for Elembele East and Acting National Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, has been overwhelmingly endorsed by the executives and members of the party in the Northern Region. Unanimously, the leadership of the party in the Northern Region, led …

Tamale, Ghana – The Northern Regional Manager of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), Eric Affram, has observed that despite government’s efforts to arrest the endemic unemployment situation in the country through the introduction of many skills training projects, they have failed to bring any significant changes. The …

Tamale, Ghana – Regional Advisory Information and Network Systems (RAINS), a Tamale-based non-profit nongovernmental organisation in partnership with African Biodiversity Network (ABN), has embarked on an initiative aimed at saving indigenous seeds from extinction. Dubbed: “Seed Mapping Exercise”, the initiative is an activity under the Zero Hunger project seeking to …

Accra, Ghana – The Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold and Zylofon Group of Companies, Nana Appiah Mensah, under the aegis of his charity wing, NAM Mission – has set up ‘The Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu Educational Fund’. The announcement was made when the Chief Imam, Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu …

Accra, Ghana – The Minister for Special Development Initiatives, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has said that her ministry has started the construction of 1,000 community mechanized water system with solar pumps in the 275 constituencies across the nation. She also pointed to 1,000 10-seater community/institutional water closet bio-digester toilets with mechanized …

Chereponi, Ghana – The youth and people of Chereponi and executives of the Chereponi Youth for Peace (CYP) have called for peace and ceasefire between Konkombas and Chokosis. A fortnight ago, a group calling itself the ‘Konkomba Youth Association’ called for the dismissal of the district chief executive for the …

Tamale, Ghana – The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) has urged herbalists who claim to have a cure for HIV/AIDS to make available their herbal preparations for scientific testing or desist from deceiving the public that they had found a cure for the disease. Such tests, it said, would determine the …

Walewale, Ghana – Frustrated members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) seeking jobs in Walewale, the West Mamprusi district capital Wednesday morning shut down the Zoomlion agency in the municipality, the local head of the agency, Abdulai Mashud confirmed to Starr News. About nine muscled men intruded with padlocks and …

Accra, Ghana – The Israeli government has sponsored some 50 Ghanaian graduates in agriculture to Israel for education projects. This follows collaboration between the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) and its partners in Israel to provide state-of-the-art training, as well as opportunities for young graduates in agripreneurship and agribusiness. …