Emmanuel Hanson Oklu, 54, has been adjudged the Greater Accra Regional Best Farmer at the 2022 Regional Farmers’ Day celebration at Dodowa in the Shai Osudoku District. Mr Oklu was presented with a Motor King tricycle, a mist blower, a 2,500-litre poly tank, three wheelbarrows, a boom sprayer, four machetes and five knapsack sprayers among […]
The department carried out a sensitization and education programme on 11th October, 2022 to mark the International Day of the Girl Child. This day has been earmarked to be celebrated to echo the importance of the girl child, their rights and the need to priotize them. This year’s celebration was on the theme “Our time […]
Six gates of the Weija Dam was on Tuesday 4th October opened to connect water into the sea which has caused serious flood in some parts of Accra. According to Alhaji Hassan Gamandzi, Regional Hydro Director of NADMO, this became necessary due to the high increasing rainfall from the Eastern Region moving the water level […]
The Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council led by its Minister, Hon. Henry Quartey has led a team of “Operation Clean Your Frontage” task force and some workers from Zoomlion Ghana Limited to decongest parts of Accra, specifically within the Central Business District. As part of the exercise, abandoned trucks and cars occupying parts of […]
The Regional Environmental Health and Sanitation Department conducted monitoring of food, water and drugs manufactured for public consumption within the various these areas on Friday 28th October, 2022. This was to ensure that food, water and drugs manufactured were done in a safe environment and are in perfect hygienic condition from the raw state, […]
The Department collaborated with Rotary Club in the planting of a hundred (100) trees on 21st September, 2022 on the road median from Captain Mahama roundabout to the Tse Addo roundabout in the Greater Accra Region as part of the Green Ghana Agenda. The collaboration was as part of the conviction of the Rotary […]
The Greater Accra Regional Director of the Department of Agriculture has opened what they call a “Friday Market” to promote urban fish farming for sustainable economic growth and development in the Adentan municipality. The initiative he indicated was to bolster the interests of farmers who intend to go into fish farming. He said the initiative […]
The Greater Regional Health Directorate has encourage mothers to continuously breastfeed their Children. According to a survey by the Directorate, breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure child health and survival because it provides essential, irreplaceable nutrition for a child’s growth and development. It also serves as a child’s first immunization – […]
On Monday, 18th July 2022, on behalf of the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the Member of Parliament for Ayawaso Central, Hon. Henry Quartey presented 294 learning items to the education directorate of Ayawaso Central Municipal. The items include; 180 Dual Desks, 78 Chairs, 13 Tables, 9 Book Shelves, 1 File drawer, 2 Notice Board,10 […]
On Thursday, 7th July 2022, the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Hon. Henry Quartey led the Regional Security Council (REGSEC), to ascertain the level of destruction caused to Ghana’s Ramsar sited at Tema in the Greater Accra region. The Ramsar site is internationally recognized and is supposed to hold water from different parts of the country […]