Farmers Call To Return Home
Farmers and fishermen displaced by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria want to return home, saying it will help ease chronic food shortages for the remote region's starving millions. Subsistence...
Tag: environment
Floating Solar Farm Reflects China’s Clean Energy Ambitions
As the United States was withdrawing from the Paris climate pact, China's clean energy ambitions were being reflected in the launch of the world's largest floating solar farm. The 40-megawatt power...
11% Use of Improved Seeds Threat To Ghana’s Food Security
The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has indicated the use of improved seeds by maize farmers in Ghana poses a serious threat to food security in the country. Speaking at...
Desist From Using Fuel Stations As Lorry Terminal
The Ashanti Regional Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) honourable Kwabena Nsenkyire has cautioned drivers in the Kumasi Metropolis to refrain from turning fuel and...
Top Forestry Official Selling Forests To Chinese Miners – Baako
The editor of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul-Malik Kweku Baako, has disclosed that there is a “big man” at the Forestry Commission selling Ghana’s forest reserves and concessions to Chinese and...
ECG Spends Over GHC94,000 To Replace Burnt Poles
The Central Regional Office of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) spent GH¢94,671.24 to replace electric poles burnt through bush fires in 2016, the office has stated. According to the Regional...
Task Force Arrests 13 Illegal Miners In Offin River
Thirteen illegal miners have been arrested for allegedly mining in the Offin River and the Ntobroso Forest in the Atwima Mponua District in the Ashanti Region. A task force formed by the Ghana...
Macron Trolls Trump With ‘make Our Planet Great Again’ Recruiting Site
French President Emmanuel Macron is zinging U. S. President Donald Trump again for pulling out of the Paris climate accord. Now he has launched a Make Our Planet Great Again website aimed at openly...
COCOBOD Launches Artificial Pollination Programme
A Hand Pollination Piloting Program has been launched by the Ghana Cocoa Board to boost production of cocoa to 1million tonnes by 2020. According to the Board Chairman of COCOBOD, Mr. Joseph Boahen...
Let’s Protect Our Planet
There is the need for speedy implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change if the world’s marine environment, which is on the verge of destruction as a result of climate change, is to be...
Sanction Owners of Illegal Fishing Vessels – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has strongly advocated for enhanced international co-operation for effective monitoring, and a severe sanctions regime to address the problem of illegal and...
Delays In Supply of Seeds Affect Planting For Food and Jobs Programme
Only 90 farmers out of the 1,000 registered farmers enrolled on the Planting for Food and Jobs Mr Francis Ennor, the Sunyani Municipal Director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, says delays in...
Akufo-Addo Advocates Severe Sanctions Against Illegal, Unregulated Fishing
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has advocated a severe sanction regime against those engaged in illegal and unregulated fishing as a means to addressing the problem. “The growing incidence of...
Groups Demand the Over GHC100 Million Accrued From Environmental Tax
“One and a half years ago, our enquiries at the Ghana Revenue Authority and Ministry of Finance indicated that we had paid in over 45 million Ghana Cedis,” Mr Daniel Yaw Mensah Tornyegah,...
40% of Cocoa Trees To Be Cut; No Bonuses For Farmers
Ghana’s desire to increase cocoa production has suffered a major setback as it has been revealed that 40% of all cocoa trees in Ghana are not productive. Out of the 40%, 17% have been affected by...
10,000 Residents Evacuated Amid Fire
Up to 10,000 people have been evacuated from a scenic coastal town in South Africa that has been devastated by wildfires, officials have said. Military equipment was being deployed to douse more than...
Total Blackout Hits Volta Region
This has brought a lot of inconvenience to candidates writing the BECE. Power is yet to be restored to major parts of the Volta region more than 12 hours after the region was hit by an unexpected...
40% of Cocoa Trees To Be Cut, No Bonuses For Farmers
Ghana’s desire to increase cocoa production has suffered a major setback as it has been revealed that 40% of all cocoa trees in Ghana are not productive. Out of the 40%, 17% have been affected by...
South African Fires Force ‘10,000 To Flee’
Up to 10,000 people have been evacuated from a scenic coastal town in South Africa that has been devastated by wildfires, officials have said. Military equipment was being deployed to douse more than...
Solar Power Price Slump Casts Shadow On India’s Green Future
Solar power prices in India have hit rock bottom, but it is not all good news for the electricity-starved country as the phenomenon has hit investor confidence and threatens the country's effort to...