President Nana Addo has reiterated that he will gladly give his assent to the Right to the Information (RTI) Bill soon as Parliament passes it into law. The RTI Bill has been in Parliament for close to two decades but is yet to be passed despite calls from the media and civil society groups. The passage of the Bill has delayed ...

President Akufo-Addo says his government is working to complete abandoned infrastructure in the health sector. He said although there are difficulties in working on abandoned infrastructure as new ones are being put up, the government remains committed to completing them to improve the quality of health service delivery in the country. Addressing parliament during his third state of the nation ...

A final year student of the Assin Manso Senior High School (AMASS) met his untimely death when he went to swim in the Okyi River at Assin Manso in the Central Region of Ghana, on Friday, February 8,2019.   According to Sargeant  Mark Owusu of the Ghana Police Service, Assin Manso, on that fateful day, the victim took advantage of ...

The 12th Annual International Conference on Shea to bring together all business associates and shea interest’ groups around the world to share latest information is to be held in Accra from March 11 to March 13. This year’s event, which will be on the theme: “Unveiling the Value of Shea”, will offer opportunities for showcasing recent products and technologies in ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday received a strategic document and Charter that outlines the roadmap for Ghana’s attainment of her goal of self-reliance and the vision of a country beyond aid. The document, which was put together by a 13-member Ghana Beyond Aid Charter Committee, constituted by the President last June, is envisaged to become the mobilizing instrument ...

The government says it is reviewing road traffic regulations to incorporate innovations in the management of road transport services. The reviews being done on Road Traffic Regulation, 2012, L.I.2180 through the Transport Ministry, according to Government and also seeks to address some implementation challenges faced by the regulation. Minister of Transport, Kwaku Ofori-Asiamah who made this known to journalists on ...

A 29-year-old Nigerian hairdresser who allegedly trafficked a girl from Nigeria to Ghana to engage in prostitution has been remanded into police custody by an Accra Circuit Court. Omotola Daramola has been charged with human trafficking but pleaded not guilty before the court presided over by Mrs Rita Abrokwah Doko. Omotola is expected to reappear on March 5. State prosecutor, ...

A total of 326 rape cases were recorded at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) out of which Sixty-Seven (67) male students are reported to have raped female students of the institutions according to the Students Representative Council (SRC) Safety and security coordinator, Faith Adubofour. He revealed on KNUST Campus radio, Focus FM monitored by MyNewsGh.com that ...

The Public Interest and Accountability Committee, (PIAC) is raising a red flag on a decision by the government to use $3.8 million of funds from the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, GNPC for the cost of the litigation on Ghana’s maritime boundary dispute with Cote D’Ivoire. According to the PIAC, the cost of the entire dispute must be funded by the ...

Mr Shadrach Majisi, an officer of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has called on women to report all forms of violence perpetrated by their partners for the appropriate action. He said quite often many women have kept quiet over abuses and violence perpetrated against them by their partners and refuse to report with the excuse that, ...