Is It Safe To Drink Fanta and Sprite?
A recent court case in Nigeria has highlighted concerns that locally made soft drinks may be considered unsafe for human consumption elsewhere, as Ijeoma Ndukwe explains. There has been uproar in...
Tag: Food and drink
Butcher Shops Razed Amid Crackdown On Beef In India
Arson has not been ruled out after blazes tore through three butcher's shops in Uttar Pradesh, days after the state's newly-appointed chief minister promised a crackdown on slaughterhouses. The...
Coconut Improves Sex Life
The sale of coconut has taken centre stage in Kumasi, following a revelation that it can cure erectile dysfunction among men. As a result, thousands of people are patronising coconut juice on a...
Brewery Uses Recycled Toilet Water To Make Beer
San Diego-Based Stone Brewing, the ninth-largest brewery in the United States, recently unveiled its newest creation – a pale ale brewed using recycled water that “comes from the toilet.” Aptly...
Ghana Likely To Miss 2017/18 Cocoa Target Over Unfavourable Weather
Ghana may miss its cocoa production target for the 2017/2018 crop season if the weather pattern forecast by the Ghana Meteorological Service is anything to go by. The service has predicted severe...
USAID, Partners Discuss Collective Progress On Food Security In Ghana
On March 21 and 22, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) met with the Government and partners working to advance food security goals under the U. S. government’s global...
UN Releases $22 Million To Fight Famine Threat In Somalia
The United Nations has approved an emergency loan of $22 million (20.3 million euros) in a bid to prevent another famine in drought and crisis-hit Somalia, its food agency said Tuesday. The Central...
Hong Kong Bans Brazilian Meat Imports
Hong Kong became the latest government to suspend imports from Brazil Tuesday in the wake of a rotten meat scandal. China, which with Hong Kong is Brazil's biggest meat export market, already...
Sweet-Toothed Japan Thief Nabbed After Ice Cream Binge
A hapless Japanese thief has got himself into a sticky spot with police after being arrested for breaking into offices and raiding refrigerators to binge on sweet treats. Yasuhiro Wakashima, 51, is...
Mexico Threatens To Ditch US Corn Imports
Mexico has identified a potential weapon in its trade wrangle with US President Donald Trump: lucrative yellow cobs of American corn. The Latin American nation imports billions of dollars' worth of...
UDS Student Electrocuted
A level 100 student of the University for Development studies (UDS) Navrongo campus, Fusenu Mohammed Amin Saha has been confirmed dead after being electrocuted while on a mango tree on Saturday 18th...
UDS Student Electrocuted To Death
A level 100 student of the University for Development studies (UDS) Navrongo campus, Fusenu Mohammed Amin Saha has been confirmed dead after being electrocuted while on a mango tree on Saturday 18th...
Government To Review Operations At Komenda Sugar Factory
Government has given the latest indication that it will review operations of the Komenda Sugar Factory commissioned last year by former President Mahama to get that factory running optimally, Mr...
Government Commits To Reducing Cost of Doing Business
Ghana's Trade and Industry Minister, Mr. Alan Kyeremanten, has reiterated government’s commitment to putting in place measures that will reduce the cost of doing business in the country. The...
Coca Cola Nominates Yaw Poku For Ghana@60 Entrepreneur Award
Yaw Poku, a chemical engineer, social entrepreneur and founder of Peini, a socially conscious premium cosmetic brand has been recognized by Coca Cola Ghana, as a part of its Ghana @ 60 celebrations...
Cashew Generates US$244.5m In Export Revenue
The total export revenue realized from cashew in 2016 was US$244,500,000, making the commodity the leading non-traditional crop export revenue generator. The President of the Ghana Cashew Industry...
Politics Responsible For Suspension of Programme
A survey carried out by the members of Parliament has shown that the decision by the Ejura Sekyeredumase Assembly to suspend the Ghana School Feeding Programme is frustrating the country’s basic...
Ban Poultry Importation
The Ghana Charismatic Bishops' Conference (GCBC) has said that instead of pursuing a one district one factory policy, the government should rather ban the importation of poultry and revive the...
Man, 31 Caught Having Sex With A Pig
'I saw the man groping and having sex with my pig' The Amansie West District town of Agroyesum in the Ashanti region has been thrown into a state of shock after a 31-year old resident reportedly...