Child marriage violates fundamental rights of girls – Gender Ministry By thefourlens.com Sunyani, April 01, 2023 The Gender Department under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has cautioned that child marriage violates the fundamental rights of girls and exposed them to high death risks. When a girl is marriedContinue Reading

Former High Commissioner to Nigeria prioritises Skills training & TVET for economic transformation By thefourlens.com Sunyani, March 30, 2023 A former Ambassador to Libya in the John Agyekum Kufuor’s Administration, H.E George Kumi is advocating for national priority for handicraft skills training as well as Technical and Vocational Education and TrainingContinue Reading

No Teacher Syndrome Hits Daadom Basic School, Pupils and Students Stranded By thefourlens.com Sunyani, March 29, 2023 Pupils of Daadom Basic School are stranded and in a state of shock and no hope to decide their fate in school, as there is no teacher to take them through academic works. TheContinue Reading

AFRICA STREET MBA training workshop for young entrepreneurs in Sunyani By thefourlens.com Sunyani, March 20,2023 – An entrepreneural skills development Services organization, AFRICA STREET MBA over the weekend held a capacity building workshop for young people with entrepreneural interest in Sunyani. The training program seeks to impact the youthful group,Continue Reading

TVET is a significant driver in achieving SDGs By thefourlens.com Sunyani, March 21, GNA – Ing. Dr. Kwame Agyeman Boakye, the  Chairman of the Governing Council, Sunyani Technical University (STU) said Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is a vital part of human resource development and a critical tool for socio-economic development. AccordingContinue Reading

250 children trained on adolescent healthBy thefourlens.com Sunyani, March 20, 2023 A non governmental organization (NGO), Apex Community Aid (ACAiD) together with Compassion International has trained more than 250 children below the ages of 15 on adolescent health. The NGOs are into building the capacity of communities to promote their totalContinue Reading

Take key decision-making positions. By thefourlens.com March 15, 2023 Women and girls have been encouraged to always endeavor to take key decision-making positions in society to help promote equal representation of women and men in decision-making. Mrs Safura Mohammed Suraj, a Chartered Professional Administrator and Management Consultant gave the encouragementContinue Reading

Strong Institutional Collaboration Needed To Achieve SDG 11. By thefourlens.com Odumase, February 25, 2023 There is a critical need for a strong collaboration between Physical Planners and Surveyors to facilitate achievement of goal 11 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Ms Gifty Nyarko, the Director in charge of PhysicalContinue Reading

SYDA Preparing Second Batch Trainees For NVTI Examination.  By thefourlens.com  Sunyani, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 The Sunyani Youth Development Association (SYDA) is preparing its second batch trainees for the National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) grade (1) examination in March this year.   They are seven (7) candidates, a male from theContinue Reading

117 Eye Problems To Undergo Surgeries By thefourlens.com Kwatire, Odumase (Bono region), February 18, 2023. One Hundred and Seventeen (117) people with eye conditions have been booked for surgeries to get their eye-sights restored. They were booked out of 630 persons screened in the 2023 Suncity Medical Outreach Exercise at theContinue Reading

City Planning – shared responsibility proof – GIP  By thefourlens.com Sunyani, February 08, 2023 The Sunyani Zone of the Ghana Institute of Planners (GIP) has called for collective actions and activities to protect wetlands and the entire environment.  “City planning is a shared responsibility, let all get involve in activities toContinue Reading

Sunyani MCE, Swiss Embassy, Alternative Livelihoods Improvement Project By thefourlens.com Atronie (Bono region), February 04, 2023 The Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr. John Ansu Kumi has commended the Embassy of Switzerland in Ghana for its socioeconomically empowerment support for women farmers in smaller communities in Sunyani. Mr. Kumi, on Thursday, onContinue Reading

By thefourlens.com Wednesday, February 01, 2023 The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) announced on Monday, January 16, 2023 to increase utility tariffs. The increment take effect today, Wednesday, February 01, 2023  despite admitting the present economic challenges. While electricity has been increased by 29.96 percent, water has also seen an upward adjustmentContinue Reading

Suncity Group of Companies = Free Eye Screening/ Surgeries = Kwatire PolyClinic By thefourlens.com Friday, January 28, 2023 The Suncity Group of Companies together with its partners, Friends Eye Centre in Kumasi and United For Sight in the United States of America (USA) have set to  organize free Eye screening andContinue Reading

Assist The Widow, Widowhood is not a Curse – G2 Foundation Admonishes Families Of Deceased By thefourlens.com Aburaso (Ashanti Region), January 18, 2023. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of G2 Foundation, Ms Gifty Nyarko has expressed the need for families of deceased to assist the windows, their children as wellContinue Reading

Women Farmers Gets Alternative Livelihoods Improvement Support By thefourlens.com  Daadom, Thursday, January 12, 2023 Forty-Five (45) women at Daadom, a farming community in the Sunyani Municipality are undergoing Eight-days capacity building and skills training for their livelihoods improvement. The Switzerland Embassy in Ghana is supporting the women farmers in smallerContinue Reading

NDC Women Organizers Determined For Power 2024 By thefourlens.com Sunyani, Tuesday, January 10, 2023 Madam Fati Line Lam, the Sunyani East Constituency Women Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Sunday held an entrepreneurship skills workshop for the branch Women Organizers. She told thefourlens.com in an interview that the training was toContinue Reading

Loyalty, a pivotal factor to see God’s glory. By thefourlens.com December 26, 2022 To see the glory of God and experience his mercies, one must live by loyal principles, Pastor Charles Sarkodie, a Pastor of Faith Foundation Ministries International in Europe has said. He stated being loyalty to one another isContinue Reading

Goaso SDA Basic school lack computers By thefourlens.com Goaso, December 23, 2022 The Seventh Day Adventist basic school in Goaso, the Ahafo regional capital needs computers for the academic progress of the school. From a monitoring visit by thefourlens.com, the school with more than 1500 population can not boast of even oneContinue Reading

HIV Cases In Bono Region CHAPTER 4 Gays have 18% HIV Prevalence –  Ghana AIDS Commission By thefourlens.com December 21, 2022  HIV prevalence among gays’ thus men who have sex with men (MSM) is 18 per cent, the Ghana AIDS Commission has revealed. Mr. Ahmed Ibrahim Bambilla, the Bono, Bono EastContinue Reading

Informal sector activities are not urban nuisance: Integrate them into mainstream of land use planning. By thefourlens.com Odumase, December 16, 2022 Ms Gifty Nyarko, the Sunyani West Municipal Physical Planning Director has reiterated that integrating the informal sector activities into the mainstream of land use planning is vital in achieving the GoalContinue Reading

Water Bodies Losing Wholesomeness, putting SDGs in Critical Condition.  (Tirade Two) By thefourlens.com Sunyani, December 11, 2022 Ghana is sitting on a time bomb and likely to resort to potable water importation for citizens, a situation that would favor “only the financially fits” in society and kill the ordinary innocent Ghanaians. WaterContinue Reading

InspiNest Sensitized SYDA trainees to change mindset for livelihoods improvement. By thefourlens.com Sunyani, December 11, 2022 InspiNest, a Non-governmental Organizations (NGO) has sensitized and trained trainees of the Sunyani Youth Development Association (SYDA) to change mindset for innovations to become entrepreneurs. InspiNest is an NGO into empowering young people, particularlyContinue Reading

Traders unhappy with hazardous roads in Yilo-Krobo enclave  By thefourlens.com Nkurakan (Eastern Region), Friday, December 09, 2022 Traders and residents of the Yilo-Krobo Municipality of the Eastern region are not happy with the abandoned road construction works in area. They bemoaned the hazardous state of their roads in recent years is negatively affecting theContinue Reading

Night Fufu Pounding On Street pavement. By thefourlens.com Monday, December 05, 2022  Some night food vendors in Sunyani have taken over the recently constructed pedestrian walkway and pounding fufu on it in the night.   The pavement was part of the more than Ghc8 million secondary cities project including modern streetlights SunyaniContinue Reading

Over 22,000 people are living with HIV in Bono Region – Ghana AIDS CommissionBy thefourlens.com Friday, December 02, 2022 The Bono region is leading in the country with over 22,000 people living with HIV in the region, the Ghana AIDS Commission has revealed. The Commission worried the figure represents 2.61 perContinue Reading

Sunyani Has No Boundary With Fiapre, Keep Off Our Lands – STC To Fiapre Chief By thefourlens.com  Sunyani, December 02, 2022 The Sunyani Traditional Council (STC) has ask Obrempong Professor Kyem-Amponsah II, the Vice-Chancellor of the Ghana Communication Technology University who is Chief of Fiapre to keep off Sunyani lands, saying,Continue Reading

Needs of PWDs to be assessed by Social Welfare  By thefourlens.com Goaso, December 01,2022 Officials of the Social Welfare have been tasked to undertake thorough assessment of needs and profile of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs). The move, according to the new guidelines documents for the management and disbursements of District Assemblies CommonContinue Reading

Integrate informal sector activities into mainstream land use planning processes. By thefourlens.com  Odumase, November 29, 2022 The Physical Development Planning Director at the Sunyani West Municipal Assembly, Ms Gifty Nyarko has called for integration of the informal sector activities into the mainstream land use planning processes to facilitate the achievement of theContinue Reading