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Use social media to promote products…women in business advised
In order to reach a wider market and enhance income generation, women in business have been encouraged to explore the positive aspect of social media to market their products and services.
Although the social media had been exploited by some women to market negativity and defame the female gender through the promotion of nudes and promiscuity, Nana AdwoaKwegyirAggrey, Event Director at the Women’s Expo Ghana believe, businesses could harness the same medium to sell their businesses to the outside world.
The Director made this known at the first regional road show of the Women’s Expo at Wa in the Upper West Region where female business owners were given the opportunity to parade their products and services at a venue for marketing to residents.
Women’s Expo Ghana is the go-to consumer engagement and sales platform for women entrepreneurs and businesses that market product and services targeted at women and provides a cost-effective platform for both emerging and established women entrepreneurs to promote their businesses and create visibility for themselves.
Since its inception in October 2015, the Women’s Expo Ghana has hosted over 500 exhibitors and over 10,000 visitors and with the quest to expand its frontiers, was embarking on regional road shows across the country with the first in the Upper West Region.
Speaking on the theme “DgitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality,” MsKwegyir-Aggrey said technology was a driving force in today’s business world and it was used innovatively to expand businesses hence the need for women to embrace the platform to enhance their businesses.
“Everything we do now involves a bit of technology and as women entrepreneurs or businesswomen, it is important we are conversant with the basics of technology to conduct our day to day activities such as bank and payment transactions, researching and learning to improve upon our businesses”, she said.
She encouraged women entrepreneurs in the region to weather the storm and grow their businesses in order to engage many more younger women for enhanced livelihoods.
Adding his voice, the Chief Director at the Regional Coordinating Council, Mr Peter Maala said bringing women and other marginalised groups into technology would help creative solutions that metthe needs of women.
The four-day programme was used to interact with stakeholders in digital marketing for more awareness creation as well as health screening and education on reproductive health and responsible sexual behaviours.
From Lydia Darlington Fordjour, Wa
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
