June 11, 2026 – Eastern FM 105.1

Ghana Women and Youth Employment and Social Cohesion Programme aimed at creating over 30,000 jobs launched

June 11, 2026June 12, 2026 admin

A Ghana Women and Youth Employment and Social Cohesion (GWYESCO) Programme, aimed at creating over 30,000 jobs has been launched.

The initiative is expected to create more than 30,000 jobs and economic opportunities for women and young people across Ghana.

The programme is funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB), with the Ministry of Finance serving as the executing agency and the Social Investment Fund (SIF) acting as the implementing agency.

The launch on Wednesday (June 10, 2026) brought together key stakeholders, including Deputy Minister for Finance Thomas Nyarko Ampem, AfDB Country Director Halimah Hashi, and Chief Executive Officer of the Social Investment Fund, Abass Nurudeen.

The initiative is aimed at addressing youth unemployment, promoting women’s economic empowerment and strengthening social cohesion through sustainable livelihood opportunities, particularly in vulnerable and underserved communities.

CSIR lists ‘afaseƐ, mankani, cowpea’ and other indigenous food crops disappearing from Ghanaian farms but attracting high demand on foreign markets

June 11, 2026June 11, 2026 admin

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) says several indigenous Ghanaian crop varieties that were gradually disappearing from Ghanaian farms and dining tables, were rather attracting premium prices on the international market.

The CSIR’s Director in charge of Plant Genetic Resources Research Institute at Bunso in the Eastern Region, Dr Daniel Ashie Kotey, in a radio interview with Accra-based Joy FM monitored by Graphic Online on Tuesday [June 11, 2026] said, “the West is looking for these, our indigenous stuff, which are way healthier, and they are pricing them higher,” he said.

He said many traditional crop varieties that were once common in Ghanaian households were becoming scarce, while others have virtually disappeared from cultivation and consumption.

South Africa considering compensation for Ghanaians affected by xenophobic attacks – Minister

June 11, 2026June 11, 2026 admin

South Africa is considering compensation for Ghanaians who lost businesses and property during the recent anti-migrant violence, the country’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, has said.

According to him, discussions on the matter were ongoing, although no formal decision has been taken yet by the South African government.

Speaking in a radio interview with Accra-based Joy FM monitored by Graphic Online on Wednesday [June 10, 2026], Mr Lamola said each case would be assessed before any official policy announcement could be made.

Mob destroys Forestry Commission timber checkpoint accommodation at Babatokuma in Kintampo area

June 11, 2026June 11, 2026 admin

The Forestry Commission has condemned the vandalisation of its newly constructed accommodation for timber checkpoint personnel at Babatokuma in the Kintampo Forest District in the Bono Region.

A statement dated June 10, 2026, issued by the Corporate Affairs directorate of the Commission explained that an irate mob attacked and vandalised the facility last Tuesday (June 9).

The Commission explained that its field personnel had been stationed at the facility to strengthen the monitoring of the overland movement of timber products, a measure meant to curb the illegal transportation of timber and timber products into neighbouring
countries.

MobileMoney Fintech LTD Releases White Paper on Collaboration Against Digital Fraud

June 11, 2026June 11, 2026 admin

MobileMoney Fintech LTD (MMFL) has released a strategic white paper titled Uniting Against Digital Fraud: Strengthening Ecosystem Collaboration in Ghana’s Digital Financial Services Sector, reinforcing the urgent need for coordinated, cross-sector action to address the growing threat of digital fraud within Ghana’s financial ecosystem.

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The white paper captures strategic insights from the MobileMoney Fintech Partner Exchange, a high-level stakeholder forum convened by MMFL in April 2026.

Selling Land Twice Can Cost Fifteen Years in Prison

June 11, 2026June 11, 2026 admin

Ghanaians who sell land they do not own, or sell one plot to several buyers, risk fifteen years in prison and fines reaching GH¢180,000 under laws few people know exist.

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That ignorance has a price. Double sales remain a fixture of the property market in Accra, Kasoa, Kumasi, Dodowa, Tema and other fast growing areas, and victims typically respond the only way they know: a civil suit that can drag on for a decade or more while the structure they built faces demolition. What rarely follows is a criminal docket, even though Parliament wrote one of the toughest anti fraud regimes in the statute books precisely for this conduct.

The central provision sits in section 277 of the Land Act, 2020 (Act 1036). It criminalises purporting to grant land you have no title to, granting land without authority, and making conflicting grants of the same parcel to more than one person. In plain terms, selling land that is not yours, selling without the owner’s mandate, or selling one plot twice. Conviction carries a fine of between 7,500 and 15,000 penalty units, which at the current value of GH¢12 per unit translates to GH¢90,000 to GH¢180,000, or imprisonment of seven to fifteen years, or both.