Dr. Shijuan Chen is recruiting a PhD student to join her lab at the School for the Environment at UMass Boston, 🇺🇸 , starting in Fall 2026. The PhD student will receive a tuition waiver and a stipend through a teaching and/or research assistantship. Dr. Chen leads the Geospatial and Earth Observation Science for Innovation…
In order to provide fair healthcare for all, the government has made a commitment to eliminate the financial hurdles that are keeping Ghanaians from receiving life-saving blood transfusions. This is a significant policy effort. Dr. Grace Ayensu-Danquah, the Deputy Minister of Health, made the announcement during the 25th National Blood Donor Day celebration and the…
John Jinapor, the Minister of Energy and Green Transition, has called on the Board of the Petroleum Hub Development Corporation (PHDC), which was inaugurated just recently, to take immediate action in order to attract significant investments across the energy value chain of Ghana. He spoke at the inauguration and emphasized that the Petroleum Hub is…
The dualization of the Tema Community 25–Dawhenya road should be finished in the next two years, according to Kwame Governs Agbodza, Minister of Roads and Highways The Hon. In an interview, he said that the first part of the project was held up because Ghana’s process for reorganizing its debt affected the business loan that…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) is working more closely with the media to keep up its national tax education program. This is meant to get people to willingly pay their taxes and make reports. During a press conference in Accra, Commissioner-General Anthony Kwasi Sarpong talked about reforms that are being planned. These include making the…
The European Union and France’s development partners want Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire to speed up changes in the cocoa sector so that they can stay competitive under new global green standards. Researchers at the Cocoa4Future meeting in Accra discussed problems such as the common Cocoa Swollen Shoot Disease (CSSVD), the desire for low- to no-shade…
Karpowership Ghana has given 55 engineering students at Takoradi Technical University full tuition grants for the 2025–2026 school year. They are the program’s biggest and most diverse group of students since it began in 2022. Fourteen female students from the mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering schools are among the recipients. This shows that the company…
Kwame Governs Agbodza, the Minister of Roads and Highways, has stated that the seaside highway stretch from Kasoa to Winemba should be finished by June 2026. Agbodza said on Channel One TV on November 24 that builders have promised that the project will be finished by the middle of 2026. The two-year Winneba–Mankessim part should…
In a disclosure made in Parliament, Eric Opoku, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, said that Ghana has received a total of $81.92 million from the World Bank under the Food System Resilience Programme in order to provide assistance to agricultural inputs and to bolster food security. According to his explanation, the financing will be…
According to confidential documents that were obtained by JOYNEWS, the board and key management of the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) spent more than GH¢11 million on travel to foreign countries in the year 2024. This expenditure was carried out without the approval of the government, which is in violation of a directive issued by…
