A teacher and native of Battor, Miriam Xorlasi Tordzeagbo wins Miss Ghana 2022 Contest. She was announced the winner of this year’s Miss Ghana Contest which featured a total of sixteen (16) young ladies across the 16 regions of Ghana. The 22 years old Miriam Xorlasi Tordzeagbo was crowned Miss Ghana 2022 winner at the...
The Mepe Traditional Area has designated parcels of land in Dadome, along the Volta River’s north bank, for the establishment of a TVET Institute. This was announced by the Manklalo of the Mepe Traditional Area, Torgbe Korsi Nego VI at the grand durbar of the 66th Afenorto Festival held on 6th August 2022. Togbe Kosi...
Ho Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Divine Bosson, has declared Ho and its surrounding districts a budding yam cultivation enclave. He said the Kokombas, a tribe known for extensive yam cultivation, had found the Ho vicinity strategic for the commercial cultivation of the root tuber, and had fast transformed areas including Adaklu, Abutia, Matse, and Hodzo...
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...