Jirapa, (U/W), July 18, GNA - Even though domestic violence is a crime under the Domestic Violence Act, 2007 (Act 732), the bigger challenge, however, is that many people especially rural folks, are still oblivious of the law. As a result, they do not report cases to the police and other appropriate agencies when they occur for investigation and possible punishment of perpetrators.

Accra, July 18, GNA – 41-year-old Felix Kamassah, an Economist, is Ghana's largest producer and exporter of vegetables. The Chief Executive Officer of Maphlix Trust Farm, left the banking sector in 2010 for vegetable farming in the Ketu North District of the Volta Region and has since turned some teachers in the locality into farmers. His farm sprawls on 1,900 acres of...

Accra, July 15, GNA - When thinking about the concept of a band, there is usually one school of thought, a simple wearable that tracks all kinds of fitness indicators and relays the data to an app or service on a connected smartphone. Manufacturers never thought of adding larger and functional displays or more integrated health features, which would be more commonly found in full-fledged...

Accra, July 11, GNA - At age 25, Adelaide Naa Okpoti, a Master’s Degree holder from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is already "deep" into farming and bent on making it big through horticulture farming. The dexterous, daring and charming Adelaide, who has just completed a training in Horticulture and entrepreneurship at the Kwadaso Agriculture College,...

Cape Coast, July 11, GNA - Mr. Kofi Yeboah and Ms Afua Yeboah are 38-year-old twins engaged in commercial production of oyster mushrooms and snails at Fosu in the Assin Central Municipality of the Central Region. Mr. Yeboah is a graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) while Madam Yeboah is a graduate of the University of Cape Coast (UCC). Having...

Accra, July 11, GNA- As families lose their sources of income due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the global economy plunges into a recession, more households are bound for monetary poverty, with dire consequences for the poorest without access to social protection. A UNICEF data on March 2020 shows that although children and adolescents are not the faces of this pandemic, they are at risk...