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The Nigerian government has prohibited hunters and dealers of “bush meat” from the practice forthwith to avoid any possibility of “spillover” of Monkeypox in Nigeria. The Federal Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development (FMARD), made this known through the Department of Veterinary & Pest Control Services. FMARD urged Veterinary epidemiology …

The government has given more than 400 acres of state lands, including a section of the military barracks in Kumasi, to the Asantehene. The Fourth Estate has sighted a directive to public institutions to that effect. It is signed by the Chief Director of the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council, Mrs. …

The Gambian government has said it will prosecute former President Yahya Jammeh for murder, rape, torture, and other alleged crimes committed during his more than 20-year rule. The Ministry of Justice said on Wednesday that it accepted all but two of the 265 recommendations made by a commission that probed …

As remedies for the perennial flooding in the country are discussed, ace Master of Ceremonies, Kwasi Kyei Darkwah has asserted that he no longer blames citizens for the canker but leadership for refusing and failing to do the needful. The showbiz personality who was once a broadcaster is of the …

Mr Joshua Ansah, the Deputy Secretary-General of Trades Union Congress (TUC-Ghana) has indicated that the TUC will not accept any pay increment less than the prevailing inflation figure. He said when they took office, they chose the course of negotiating and diplomacy, but later realized they had chosen the wrong …

It has emerged that some members of the governing New Patriotic Party, NPP, have already acquired some portions of the Achimota forest lands even before the government returns the peripherals of the forest to its custodial owners, identified as the Owoo family. Page 5 of the Last Will and testament …

Government has extended the temporary ban on the exportation of maize, rice, soybeans and other grains to September 20, 2022. This announcement was contained in a press release sighted by GhanaWeb on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. “The Ministry of Trade and Industry in its letter ref. no. DB6/118/03B dated 13th April 2022, …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has under Executive Instrument (E.I) 144, declared that five parcels of lands of the Achimota Forest should no longer serve as ecological forest. The parcels of land, totaling 361.50 acres, which lie at Achimota-Accra in the Greater Accra region, ceased to be a forest reserve …

Former President John Dramani Mahama has poked the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government accusing it of running the country into a crisis. He added in an interview with Ugandan channel, NBS TV, that Ghana was running into debt and government had nothing to show for its wanton borrowing. “It’s been around six years so …

Deputy Finance Minister, Abena Osei-Asare, has stated that the government is working to implement the agreements in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG). The Minister stated that the controversial “neutrality allowance” being demanded has been dropped. Speaking in a JoyNews interview …