General News

The youth are important asset of every nation. They form the core of the labour force and largely represent the future if properly resourced and nurtured. It is therefore not out of place to invest in this significant segment of the population as a country determined to make socioeconomic progress. Ghana is one of the most stable countries in Sub-Saharan ...

Deputy Education Minister Dr Yaw Adutwum has challenged Ghanaians to be globally competitive rather than seek to be champions of mediocrity. Instead of touting our educational system and products as being better than Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Dr Adutwum said Ghana should “break from the African mediocrity trap” and start competing with the likes of Singapore, Finland and the USA. ...

Eight hundred and thirty inmates have been discharged through the Justice for all Programme (JFAP) from the country’s prisons since its inception in 2007 and the close of last year, 2019. Out of a total of 4,435 cases that were adjudicated during the period, 1,571 inmates who have been on remand in the prisons for three years or more were ...

The National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values has passed a resolution impressing upon government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, not to issue visas to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) who are set to host a conference in Ghana. The coalition is also urging the government to declare a permanent comprehensive policy ...

The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has indicated that national development does not rest on government alone, but as a collective effort. She said companies should therefore care about the well-being of the communities within which they operate. The first lady made the observation when she commissioned the Abosso community library and Huni-Valley health centre in the Prestea Hun-Valley constituency ...

Pupils on island communities in the Ada East District of the Greater Accra Region risk drowning as they sometimes swim across streamlets of the Volta Lake before arriving at school, as a result of broken footbridges. The development has become a major concern to parents as several calls for authorities to fix the problem have yielded no positive results. The ...

The Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas (CSPOG) has called on lawmakers to consider amending the weaknesses in the country’s anti-corruption legal framework which thwarts government’s efforts to effectively prevent or prosecute corruption in the extractive sector. The group averred that while corruption has assumed greater sophistication in nature and from Ghana’s legislative framework has not fully criminalized the ...

The Forum for Action on Inclusion, Transparency and Harmony (FAITH) has called for the integration of the activities of the integrity clubs in the basic school curriculum to groom a new generation of people who would eschew corruption. To eliminate the fundamental causes of corruption in Ghana, the Forum stressed the need to invest in structures and systems that put ...

Given the huge cost that the free Senior High School(SHS) programme has on Ghana’s budget, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is asking government to split the cost with parents. Addressing participants at a press conference on the President Akufo Addo’s fourth State of the Nation Address, Research Director of the Institute, Dr. John Kwakye said Free SHS has been ...

There is an imminent bloody clash between farmers and Fulani herders in Afram Plains South District of the Eastern Region. Currently, there is escalating tension in some communities following the destruction of large hectares of farms and crops by cattle jolting in search for food as grasses wither to unappealing brown as a result of intensifying harmattan. The aggrieved farmers ...