In the first half of 2022, the Hohoe Municipality of the Volta Region, recorded zero maternal mortality cases. The Municipality recorded only a case each in the entire 2020 and 2021 and it is the hope of health workers that year 2022 would record a zero case as it had been within the last six...
Member of Parliament for the Agotime Ziope Constituency in the Volta Region, Charles Agbeve believes “proper education is needed to ensure lots of people accept the Covid-19 vaccinations rather crating laws to ensure people get vaccinated”. According to the legislator, government has spent millions on acquiring the vaccines, but it is rather unfortunate that lots...
Leaders of Cocoa Cooperatives in Kpando and Vakpo Operational Areas in the Hohoe District of the Volta Region on 20th July 2022 received training on Cooperative Business School (CBS) and Child Labour at Kpando. The training, which was organised by Extension Officers in the Area, includes Mrs. Lucy Dagba Extension Officer, Kpando Operational Area Mr....
In reaction to comments made by the British High Commissioner to Ghana in tweet on May 17, 2022 about the arrest and prosecution of Oliver Barker-Vormawor (the convener of “Fix the Country Movement”) over road traffic offences, a four-page letter addressed to the High Commissioner signed by the Inspector General of Police ((IGP), Dr. George...
The Volta Region is expected to plant an estimated 600,000 trees as the nation marks the second edition of the Government’s Green Ghana initiative. Launched last year to help replenish the nation’s vegetation cover, this targets the planting of 20 million trees this year, an estimated 500,000 of which would be in the Volta Region.The...
ActionAid, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO). through its Young Urban Women Movement initiative has trained 26 young women in Ho on entrepreneurial empowerment and skills, in partnership with the National Board for Small-Scale Industries (NBSSI), which currently directs and implements the bulk of government’s skills empowerment, and micro industrial development initiatives. Beneficiaries received training in batik...
A new Magistrate Court building has been commissioned at Akatsi in the Akatsi South Municipality of the Volta Region to help bring justice to the doorstep of the people and for matters in controversy to be fully determined by the court. The new court building, which was commissioned in compliance with an approval from the...
Chief Director of the Volta Regional Coordinating Council (VRCC), Mr Prosper Afenyo, has urged the media to remain as good partners in the country’s pursuit of child protection, stating that the role of the media in unearthing emerging child protection issues and abuses against children in society could not be underestimated, and that it was...
A donation of Ghc2,000 has been made to the Cardiothoracic Center at the Ho Teaching Hospital by the Ho Central market members. The Ho Central Market Queen, Madam Rejoice Novixoxo said they have identified the importance of the cardiovascular centre. “We the market women are prone to heart disease because we mostly sit at one...