Adopt comprehensive behavioral change strategy to clean Accra Expert urges
By Lilian Owusu-Mensah Eric Oduro-Osae, Governance Expert has said that there is the need for an adoption of a comprehensive behavioral change strategy when it comes to matters of environmental cleanliness. This is in response to the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council’s (GARCC) call on national service personnel in the Greater Accra Region to initiate […]
GFA should be allowed to decide the next Black Stars coach – Fatawu Dauda
Story by Alexis Laura Daniels Former goalkeeper of the senior national team, the Black Stars, Fatawu Dauda has urged all stakeholders to allow the Ghana Football Association to choose the next Black Stars coach. Ghana has been without a coach following the sacking of Milovan Rajevac in the wake of disastrous 2021 AFCON campaign in […]
Ex Black Stars goalie Fatawu Dauda concurs that football has gone soft
Story by Alexis Laura Daniels Former Black Stars goalkeeper Fatawu Dauda has jumped in discussion concerning the volume of red cards at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. The tournament has seen referees sending players off with little challenge which has forced pundits to criticize their actions. Tagged as “Tournament of Red Cards” […]
Operation Clean your Frontage: Hawkers Cleared
By Benjamin Salifu A programme dubbed “Operation Clean Your Frontage” has taken off in Accra. It is mainly to create awareness on the need for Ghanaians to keep their environment clean. The exercise is also to rid the city of filth and keep a clean environment at all times. As part of the campaign, people […]
Overlord of Dagbon supports Aboabo Fire Victims
By Joyce Kantam Kolamon The Overlord of Dagbon, Ya Naa Abukari Mahama, has sent a delegation to commiserate with victims whose shops were burnt at Aboabo market in Tamale on January 28, 2022. The delegation comprised Chiefs from the Dagbon Traditional Area. They visited the scene to have firsthand information on the extent of damage […]
Re-entry Policy: GES-ActionAid support 50 teenage mothers return to school after childbirth
By Joyce Kantam Kolamong 50 teenage mothers at Bimbilla in the Nanumba North District of the Northern region were supported to return to school after dropping out to have children. The Ghana Education Service – ActionAid Ghana collaboration also supported the girls with basic school needs and psycho-social counseling to whip up their interest to […]
CHRAJ raises concern over increasing cases of banishment of people by traditional authorities in the Central Region
The Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has expressed worry about the increase in expulsion cases being orchestrated by some traditional authorities across the Central Region. The Commission said the practice had resurfaced in many remote parts of the region. The Regional Director of CHRAJ, Daniel Amosah said Chiefs or traditional authorities tend […]
Attacks on Female Students at Agogo Presby College of Education, following massive encroachment by private developers
By Razak Baba Management and Staff of Agogo Presbyterian Women’s College of Education in the Asante Akyem North Municipality of Ashanti have served notice to illegal and potential encroachers to back off. Management says they will use all legitimate means to resist invasion on its land by developers. A visit by our Ashanti Regional Correspondent […]
Infertility: New Technology at KATH to assist couples without Children
By Thomas Nsowah Adjei The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital at Kumasi in the Ashanti Region is establishing an Artificial Reproductive Technology Department to assist couples with fertility challenges to have children. The facility which is the first of its kind in a public health institution in Ghana is being funded from the hospital’s internally generated […]
Attorney General, Godfred Dame admits shortfall in Ghana’s Legal Aid Commission’s work
By Augustus Acquaye The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, says the government is committed to resolving the myriad of challenges facing the Legal Aid Commission, (LAC), to enable the Commission to effectively assist the vulnerable with legal services. He said the government would, from next week, present the LAC with 14 vehicles […]
Ghanaians must benefit from the inflows of the Minerals Development Fund
The Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, George Mireku Duker, has charged the Staff and Management of the Minerals Development Fund (MDF) to make their impact felt in Ghana, especially in the various mining communities across the country. He said it is important Ghanaians benefit from the inflows of revenue from the Minerals Development […]
Crack the whip on peddlers of fake meds. – Health Minister tells Pharmacy Council
By Yvonne Atilego Minister of Health Kwaku Agyemang Manu has expressed worry about pharmacies that are dispensing medications without prescription. According to him, medicines which are categorized under ‘prescription only’ should be adhered to strictly in order not to endanger the lives of patients. The Minister expressed the worry when he inaugurated a nine-member Governing […]
Speaker Alban Bagin due for medical review in Dubai as disagreements deepen between Minority and Majority on passage of E-Levy Bill
By Bubu Klinogo It was all uncertainty and the numbers game as Parliamentarians met to discuss the E-Levy Bill in the House on January 28, 2022. Further disagreements characterized the session between the Majority and the Minority on the passage of the E-Levy with each side maintaining entrenched positions. The debate on the controversial Electronic […]
Five Tamale car jackers jailed 75 years
By Joyce Katam Kolamon A Tamale Circuit Court has sentenced five accused persons to 15 years in prison each for snatching a saloon car at ‘Banvum’, a suburb of Tamale in the Northern region. The Court presided over by Alexandra Oworae, sentenced the five to 15 years to run concurrently. This was after the accused […]
