Government snubs Right to Information Bill campaigners
One disappointing thing about the President’s State of the Nation Address was the absence of a clear unambivalent statement on the status of the Right to information Bill. Since 2003…
GHAMEC wants mental health board inaugurated
The Ghana Mental Health Coalition (GHAMEC) is demanding of government to as a matter of importance induct a Mental Health Board to ensure proper and effective performance of the Mental…
Ghana deepens transparency in the oil and gas sector …..as it lifts veil on Petroleum contracts
In a bid to promote transparency and keep Ghanaians updated on the happenings in the upstream petroleum sector, the Ministry of Energy in collaboration with the Petroleum Commission launched Ghana’s…
Africa march towards democracy
While pontificating at length about democracy, participation and the rights of people to choose their own destinies, the West has shown once again that its own interest overrides those legitimate…
Women urged to use internet to promote their issues
Ms. Jemila Abdulai, a founding Director of Circumspect.com have encouraged women to start using demographic means through the internet to promote issues that are related to girls and women to…
Government gears for ‘one district, one factory’
One District One Factory project which has been one of the strongest policy in the manifesto of the ruling party NPP, is to take full effect in 2018, according to…
Nana aba – paradise regained or paradise lost?
A year has just passed since the nation voted the New Patriotic Party (NPP) into political office, with Nana Akufo Addo as President. On reaching Kumasi on my way to…
Winning the anti- galamsey fight requires community based approaches
Traditional mining has been the backbone of many local Ghanaian communities for centuries. Traditional mining was under the firm and strict control of local kings and chiefs who were the…
Child marriage in Bugubelle and girls’ role in the act
Marriage has become a fashionable act among school girls in basic school in Bugubelle, a community in the Sissala East District to the extent that they are complicit in the…
Progress in eradication of Guinea Worm
In December 2017 the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Kenya, one of the last remaining countries, as free of the Guinea worm disease after three years without recording new cases.…
