The Daily IIJ

Secretary-General of the Commonwealth will visit Sierra Leone from 7 to 9 February this year to hold talks with President Ernest Bai Koroma and other senior state officials on issues of development.

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The Embattled outgoing presidential spokesperson, Mahama Ayariga, may have his hopes of becoming a minister dashed, as the Appointments Committee of Parliament has suspended his approval, pending investigations over his conduct in acquiring five John Deere tractors, under the Agricultural Mechanization Centre Scheme (AMSEC), run by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA).

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The Northern Regional Minister designate, Mr. Moses Mabengba yesterday told the Appointments Committee of Parliament, presided over by Mr. Edward Doe Adjaho that the conflict situation that has bedeviled the northern region was hampering development in the area, highlighting on land and chieftaincy issues as the bane of the conflicts in the region.

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The Local branch of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Tuesday presented 600 copies of two publications on ‘Financing Local Economic Development in Ghana’ to Parliament.

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Poor people in Bangladesh are more likely to own mobile phones and televisions than the same group in India, but the availability of computers in poor Bangladeshi households is almost zero, according to a recent study.

The survey by LIRNEasia – a Sri Lanka-based information and communication technology (ICT) policy and regulation think tank dealing with the Asia-Pacific – also revealed a comparative reluctance among poor Bangladeshis to buy radios.

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Parliament on Friday unanimously approved a credit facility agreement between the Government of Ghana and Kreditanstalt Fur Wiederaufbau (KfW) of Germany for an amount of thirteen million Euros (€13,000,000.00) in support of the District Development Facility (DDF).

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Ghana has begun initiating moves to tighten her regulations to prevent unorthodox fishing methods in its territorial waters. Led by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, the body mandated to spearhead the activities of agriculture and its related problems in the country, is preparing to re-lay the Fisheries Act 625 before Parliament for amendment.

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     The disabled community in Liberia through its commission, the National Commission on Disability (NCD), has complained that it has been marginalized in the Liberian society and is calling for an intimate inclusion in national policies.

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The Mayor of Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mr. Alfred O. Vanderpuije on Thursday indicated that his outfit and the Government of Ghana will offer no compensation to slum dwellers, since their presence in the communities they are occupying is illegal.

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Populations of Togo will remain poor at the 2015 deadline of Millennium Development Goals achievement, reveals a report published on september 03.

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