World marks breast cancer awareness month
October is celebrated as Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the pink ribbon is used as a symbol of solidarity in all countries. Throughout the month, countries across the world organise…
Ghana must enact specific law against homosexuality-Yaw Oppong
A private legal practitioner, Yaw Oppong, is calling for a specific law in the country to make homosexuality a criminal offence. He said although there are some provisions in the…
Who taught you about sex? …the CSE question
Who taught you about sex? How did that teaching shape your attitudes to your body, to others bodies, to sex itself? Did that learning happen in one session, was it…
Multi-stakeholder strategy to achieve HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control launched
The U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Stephanie S. Sullivan, Government of Ghana representatives and the UNAIDS Country Director for Ghana Angela Trenton-Mbonde have jointly launched a multi-stakeholder strategy to achieve HIV/AIDS…
Ghana bemoans slow pace of SDGs implementation
Ghana has expressed worry about the world falling short of its targets in the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 due to what it described as the…
Arrest money doublers on TV
The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has called on the Bank of Ghana to take swift action on persons who are advertising on some television stations that they have…
Ghana’s constitution flawed in many ways – Short
Former Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Justice, Justice Emile Short, has called on government to revive the constitutional amendment process describing the 1992 constitution as flawed. According to him,…
SDGs: Children with Disabilities in Ghana left behind
Akos (not the real name) sells sachet water on the streets of Madina, a suburb of Accra, and her routine has been to wake up early in the morning to…
Sexual education will not promote foreign culture – Deputy Education Minister
The Deputy Minister of Education and MP for Abuakwa North Constituency in the Eastern Region, Hon. Gifty Twum Ampofo, has quashed reports in the media that the newly introduced Comprehensive…
When property rate knocks at your gate – should you return to sender?
I can say that I am a law-abiding citizen on the score that I am energised to check-in where statutory rules and regulations apply. However, I sulk; I curse and…
