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88 Ellembelle women graduate from Adamus Resources skills training
Ms List(right) with CEO of African Investment Consortium, Kwasi Agbley (left) and Chairman, Kofi Graham, inspecting the products displayed at the exhibition.
Eighty-eight women received certificates in skilled development under the Adamus Resources Limited (ARL) Women Empowerment Project (WEP) at a graduation ceremony held at Ampain in the Ellembelle district of the Western Region.
They also received start-up kits.
The graduands, as part of the event, showcased their talents in soap, bleach, pomade-making, hair styling among others.
The ARL-College of Beauty Arts and Entrepreneurship (CBAE), took the students through make-up artistry, hair technology, products formation, millinery and accessories for three months.
Speaking at the event on Saturday, the General Manager of ARL, Mr Alex Mensah Hagan, expressed the company’s desire to ensure the development of host communities.
One of such approaches, he mentioned, was the WEP, which he added, would transform the economy of women in Elllembelle.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ARL, Ms Angela List, was optimistic that the achievement of WEP, so far, demonstrated the capacity of the women to aspire higher, stating that “the display of the products at the exhibition is an inspiration to us.”
The Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, who chaired the event, said WEP was an opportunity to enhance the economic status of women in Ellembelle.
He said, if women in Ghana were endowed with employable skills, communities in the region would take charge of production and national development.
“Entrepreneurship is the only way. If the people of the Western Region have the skills and own the productive assets, they can be rich. If you want to be rich, own the productive assets and be competitive in both Ghana and the world. With these skills, you will never go hungry,” he stressed.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellembelle, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, said WEP was important “because mining will one day be over and what is key is what we do with the communities.”
He said “I am excited that despite the challenges, the 88 women successfully graduated in just three months of intensive skills training programme. Employment is a national security issue and so provision of skills is key.”
Mr Armah announced that he would liaise with Adamus Resources to ensure another batch of 2,000 people are enrolled under the programme to also train the youth in skills development.
Other speakers at the graduation were the CEO of CBAE, Rebecca Donkor, CEO of the African Investment Consortium, Kwasi Agbley and the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Ellembelle, Kwasi Bonzo.
From Clement Adzei Boye, Ampain
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) will undertake a nationwide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination exercise in schools from October to December 2026 to protect eligible girls against cervical cancer and other HPV related diseases.
The exercise, organised in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES) and its partners through the School Health Education Programme (SHEP), will be conducted in two rounds.
The first round is scheduled for October 19 to 23, 2026, while the second will take place from November 30 to December 4, 2026.
In a press release dated October 19, the GHS explained that health workers would visit schools across the country to vaccinate eligible girls aged 9 to 14 who have not yet received the HPV vaccine.
The exercise forms part of efforts to raise awareness about the routine HPV vaccine, increase vaccination uptake and strengthen the country’s routine immunisation programme.
The GHS has called on school authorities, parents, guardians, teachers and community leaders to cooperate with health teams to ensure the successful implementation of the exercise.
The Service reaffirmed its commitment to protecting the health and well-being of Ghanaians, particularly children, through vaccination and other public health interventions.
By: Jacob Aggrey
Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has held high-level discussions with organisers of the 2026 Global South Academic Forum in Shanghai, seeking to draw lessons from China’s acclaimed rural revitalisation and poverty reduction drive.
The meeting, led by the Forum Chair, Professor Lu Xinyu, explored practical areas of cooperation and knowledge exchange between Ghana and China, with focus on community-driven development, fisheries and aquaculture, local governance, sports initiatives, and infrastructure development.
According to officials, the engagement is part of a broader effort by the Ghanaian government to study tested development models that can be adapted to the local context to promote inclusive growth, empower local communities, and improve livelihoods across the country.
China’s success in lifting over 800 million people out of poverty through targeted rural policies, investment in agriculture and local infrastructure has become a global reference point for developing nations.
The Vice President’s team says insights from the Forum will help inform policy direction, particularly in strengthening decentralised governance, boosting the fisheries and aquaculture sector, and investing in community-level infrastructure and youth sports development.
Professor Opoku-Agyemang is expected to continue engagements with academic and development institutions while in China.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
