Transport owners and drivers in the Ashanti Region have undergone a day’s seminar on Best Practices in Customer and Business Management in Kumasi. The corporate seminar, organized by UT Financial Services, is the first of a series lined up by the company for its clients and the general public in various industries and areas in Kumasi. It sought to teach the participants the art of simple book keeping... 

Newmont Ghana, one of the leading names in gold mining, over the weekend held a two-day workshop for media practitioners in Accra. The workshop, which brought together about 30 journalists, focused on Minerals and Mining law in Ghana. The workshop was on the theme: “Minerals and the Mining Law in Ghana, Land Access and Compensation and Effective, Fair and Balanced Reporting on mining and its related... 

OVER the weekend delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) convened at the Accra International Trade Fair Centre, to hold a two-day Extra Ordinary National Delegates Conference. The conference dubbed “Reflect, Rebuild and Recapture 2009”, enabled the party to make some amendments to its constitution. KEY among the amendments was that at end of deliberations, the party settled on five candidates... 

Major Courage Quarshigah, a former Minister of Health in the erstwhile NPP government has dropped hints that he may bow to pressure from well meaning Ghanaians to run for president on the ticket of the opposition NPP. Major Quarshigah says many people both young and old have made direct and indirect calls on him to join the flagbearship race of the NPP. Just last week, one youth group called the Activist... 

Painstaking investigations conducted by TODAY have uncovered that Great Nana Azumbi, one of the leading names in spiritual voodoo powers, otherwise known as Sakawa, has swindled over 73 people. The latest discovery of fraud on the part of Nana Azumbi, aka Motia Father, TODAY gathered is about the third time that the self professed spiritual King-Kong is involved. Sometime this year, Nana Azumbi defrauded... 

This year’s top four competition is already promising to be exciting. This is because the teams involved in the competition showed enough character in the just ended league, compelling football fans to wonder which one of the teams would be winners. Although champion club Accra Hearts of Oak showed a bit of luster in their performance at a certain point in the just ended Ghanaian premiership, their... 

The Minister for Women and Children’s Affairs, Mrs Akua Sena Dansua, has called on women especially those in deprived areas to desist from the practice of compelling their children to live with their relatives in the cities. She explained that this practice often contributes to child trafficking and therefore advised that when this is stopped it will help reduce child trafficking in the country. The... 

Majority Leader and Member of Parliament (MP) for Nandowli West in the Upper West Region, Hon Alban Kingsford Sumani Bagbin, says Ghanaian MPs are the worst paid in the sub-Saharan region. He explained that even though the economic conditions in the country are better compared to Zimbabwe, MPs in that country enjoy better working conditions than their counterparts in Ghana. Speaking on Citi Fm, an... 

WACAM, an environmental and human rights advocacy non-governmental organization, has disclosed that mining activities in Ghana are destroying water bodies in mining communities According to WACAM, though mining in Ghana brings huge revenues to the country, it has impacted negatively to the depletion of water bodies in communities. This, the NGO stated, has deprived many of the local indigenes especially... 

THE future of Ghana’s development would depend largely on a youth who are robust and willing to support the country’s development efforts. They must bear in mind that they have a shared responsibility in ensuring that Ghana becomes a better place not only for us but future and yet unborn generations. THEREFORE, it is imperative that our young men and women learn to acknowledge and appreciate the...