Ghana’s Primary education system is currently being stifled of financial resources following a shift in political attention and public resources from kindergarten and primary structures to the secondary level, according to a report published by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in collaboration with the University of Ghana Business School. Titled, ‘Leaving no One Behind in the Health and Education sectors,’ ...

Some of the reasons why the boarding component in our state-assisted senior high schools must be removed. And Now can we begin to have a calm national conversation? Ghana has never been able to afford boarding as a major component of its state-owned education system, we cannot afford it, and not wanting to admit this puts us in some danger. Since ...

OccupyGhana has noted with concern the huge swathes of plastic and other solid and human waste engulfing our country, especially our capital. It is rapidly reaching an alarming state and photographs taken after the recent downpour in parts of Accra in the morning of Wednesday 14th February 2018 have thrown this looming and potentially disastrous health and security problem into ...

The Ministry of Health has urged the public to be calm following the death of a 26-year-old man from Lassa fever last week. The deceased was on admission at the Tema General Hospital with general body weakness, severe headaches and profuse vomiting of blood clots. Prior to his admission, he was said to have traveled through the Eastern, Volta and ...

Cocoa farmers and some community activists are calling for the reclamation of their farmlands which have been destroyed by ‘galamsey’ activities. According to them, until the full implementation of the Medium-Term Multilateral Mining Development Plan, their farm lands needed to be reclaimed for the economic health of the country and the security of their cocoa farms. They expressed the views ...

The Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG) is rallying public support to fight the widening inequality gap in the country as it calls for robust local government reforms. According to the Institute, for Ghana to be able to reduce inequality to its barest minimum, “more resources must go to the rural communities; but that cannot be done without reforms and the ...

Mr Franklin Asare, a Fellow at   Imani- Ghana   has called for the implementation of digitization in the tertiary education curriculum to broaden the technological mindset of students to help them to create jobs for themselves before they hit the job market. Mr Asare said, the advent of the internet has led to the digitization of how businesses deliver their services ...

Former editor of  Public Agenda Newspaper, Dr Steve Manteaw has been elected as the new  chairman  of  the  Public  Interest  and  Accountability  Committee(PIAC). He will be ably assisted by Dr Thomas Kojo Stephens, a representative of the Ghana Bar Association on the Committee. The election of the duo is a requirement under the Petroleum Revenue Management Act,  (Act 815) which ...

The Communications Officer for Terre des Hommes Foundation, Madam Emilie A. Tchotchovi Samboe has called on the government of Ghana and other stakeholders to collaborate and enforce the Child Protection Act to protect and  end child migration along the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor.  The Child Protection Act, 1998 (ACT 560), according to Madam Samboe has not been enforced to its fullest, thus, ...

Apart from not playing in the World Cup finals, the dream of every football player, George Manneh Oppong Weah, has won virtually all there is to win in world football. In a career that spanned almost two decades, across six countries on three continents (Africa, Europe and the Middle-East), Weah demonstrated that personal focus and determination can break barriers of ...