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GTP debuts ready-to-wear collection
GIPC boss, Yoofi Grant poses with Head of Retail, Jessica Okwabi at GTP,
and Marketing Director, Mary Ann Boaten
Ghana’s pioneering indigenous textile brand, GTP, has unveiled a stylish corporate ready-to-wear clothing collection at its inaugural retail store in Osu last Friday.
This strategic move is a direct response to months of invaluable customer feedback signalling GTP’s dedication to meeting the evolving needs of its discerning clientele.
This significant milestone solidifies GTP’s position as a premium, innovative, and fashion-forward brand, while enhancing convenience, style, and personalised service for its cherished customers.
The Marketing Director of Ghana Textiles Printing Company (GTP), Madam Mary Ann Boaten expressed her enthusiasm about the achievement, saying “we’ve worked diligently to craft a collection that radiates style and elegance, with the purpose of meeting the ever-evolving demands of our customers and adding value to the fabrics.”
GTP’s retail store and versatile ready-to-wear collection is the result of collaboration between GTP’s internal teams and esteemed partners like Tekura, who supplied the store’s furnishings and some of the woodwork.
As a leading textile brand in Ghana, GTP has been crafting high-quality fabrics for over five decades, with an unwavering commitment to celebrating Ghanaian culture and heritage through its products and services.
Patrons are promised a unique first-hand experience of the brand’s extensive range of quality and authentic African textiles, and alluring Ready-to-Wear collection made from exclusive GTP designed fabrics.
The brand is confident that its customers will embrace the new collection and cherish the unique shopping experience the retail store has to offer.
The double-debut event was graced by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Yoofi Grant, Business Executives Marina Lamptey and Lucy Quist, Broadcaster Israel Laryea, Fashion Designer Elikem Kumordzie and Actress Sika Osei as well as other esteemed fashion enthusiasts.
GTP is the first indigenous Ghanaian textile brand launched onto the Ghanaian market in January 1966 by the late Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
By Edem Mensah Tsotorme
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
