Public Agenda articles from September 2010

Public Agenda archives from September 2010

32 PWDs Benefit From Nyep.
September 3, 2010... Byline: K. John Paul Thirty-two physically challenged persons in the Bole District of the Northern Region have benefited from the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP). Speaking at a ceremony in Bole, where the beneficiaries were...

Locals Urged to Reject Payments in Foreign Currencies.
September 3, 2010... Byline: Mohammed Bello Sanda A renowned entrepreneur and a patron of the Northern Ghana Association of Entrepreneurs (NORGAE), Mr. Benjamin Anyanah, has expressed anger at the situation where Ghanaians are made to pay for goods and services...

Cancer Conference Focuses On Awareness And Cure.(Conference news)
September 3, 2010... Byline: Roberta Dzifa Kodzitse In order to deepen the awareness and eliminate the myth that cancer is incurable, Emofra Africa in collaboration with Ridge Hospital and supported by Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has organized a cancer conference...

Educate Users On Side Effects of Contraceptives.
September 3, 2010... Byline: Linda D. N. Godji As Government, non governmental organizations and other institutions continue to advocate for the use of contraceptives especially among women, they should also see it as their duty to educate the users on the side...

Private Sector Crunching to a Halt.
September 3, 2010... Byline: Irene J Mensah Government has been challenged to institute urgent measures to save the private sector from imminent collapse. The Chief Executive Officer of KAMA Industries, Dr Michael Agyekum Addo, who made the call, noted that...

Developing Countries Urged to Pool Resources Together.
September 3, 2010... Byline: George Amexo A South African academic and activist, Dot Keet has urged countries of the South to work more at developing co-operation among themselves than depending on the rich countries of the North. This, she said, would end...

CSOs Call on Government to Make Practical Its Commitment to Water Sector.
September 3, 2010... Byline: Irene J Mensah Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working in the water and sanitation sector of the economy have vowed to continue to engage government until a substantial amount of the country's budget is channeled into the...

Students Riots Could Deepen the Woes of Youth in the North.
September 3, 2010... The culture of students rioting which has reared its ugly head in a number of Senior High Schools in the Northern part of the country recently could worsen the already trying conditions many of them have to cope with and thereby affect education...

Debar Lamptey-Mills From School Management.
September 3, 2010... Byline: Prosper M. Ashiagbor The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC), a civil society organization, has asked Government to take over the management of the Great Lamptey Mills Institute in the short term and have the...

Our Oil - Lessons From the Niger Delta.
September 3, 2010... Byline: Dr. Kwame Osei Come November this year Ghana will join the oil producing club by producing its first barrel of oil off the country's west coast. This will be Ghana's first foray into the oil industry and the general expectation is...

Collectively, We Can Deal With Challenges.
September 3, 2010... No nation on earth is without developmental challenges and problems. The advanced countries of this world have once travelled the trajectory our dear nation Ghana is charting and were equally buffeted by all the scourges one could imagine. But...

Stanbic to Leap Big Into Agricural Lending.
September 3, 2010... Several months after its botched attempt to annex government.s stake in the Agricultural Development Bank, Stanbic Bank Ghana has announced its intent of expanding its business in Ghana into agricultural financing. "When we put in our bid for...

Ghana Sits on Asbestos Time Bomb.
September 3, 2010... Byline: Cindy Dilys Maade Asamoah Research shows that Asbestos roofing sheet is a hazardous material which causes cancer of the lungs in people who are exposed to it and also in persons who work in the factories that produce them. The use...