The government is reviewing the law banning the commercial operation of motorbikes, otherwise known as ‘Okada’, to determine whether to amend the law to regularise its operations or maintain its current form and punish offenders. The Minister of Transport, Mr Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, said the government was reviewing the Road Traffic Regulation, 2012 because its non-enforcement had increased Okada operations ...

Reverend Professor Emmanuel Adow Obeng, the President of the Presbyterian University College, Ghana (PUCG), has indicated that irrespective of the educational policy reforms that have taken place over the years, Ghana has not benefited much from such policies. “Despite all the educational policy reforms that have taken place in Ghana, the relevant type of education that is required to contribute ...

Professor Eric Yirenkyi Danquah, the Founding Director of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana, has urged African governments to stop paying lip service to the development of agriculture. “We have paid lip services to the development of agriculture, our engine for growth and we are expecting different results doing the same thing over and over,” ...

The Chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) says the recent actions of the country’s biggest political parties’ smack of political hypocrisy. Josephine Nkrumah told Evans Mensah on Joy FM’s Ghana Connect programme that the actions of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP) make people doubt politicians when they speak. “I would like to see the politicians ...

 Some gender activists in the country yesterday used the celebration of the International Women’s Day (IWD) to rally stakeholders to demand for the passage of the Affirmative Action Bill into law, as  a matter of urgency. At a national dialogue held in Accra to mark the day, the activists stressed that the passage of the bill would be the best ...

The eve of March 8th has me reflecting on the reason for the United Nation’s establishment of an official International Women’s Day, back in 1975. Prior to this, several countries had in some shape or form commemorated a Women’s day, with March 8th, 1975 being the first International Women’s Day as formally established by the UN. The intention was to ...

SEND-Ghana, a policy think tank has made a proposal to government to consider setting up an Agricultural Investment Fund to ensure the sustainability of the sector and to enhance Ghana’s quest to maximize its agricultural production. The Organization indicated that “to ensure sustainability of the sectors growth, the investment or development expenditure allocation of the sector should be increased to ...

Dr. Elsie Effah Kaufmann has argued that an ideal society may delay if society keeps doing the same things which have resulted in the present undesirable outcomes. “So many things are accepted as normal.  If you have done things in a certain way for a long time, it takes effort to change. That is Newton’s first law,” the host of the ...

The Developing Women for Mobilisation (DWM) has urged the government to find innovative ways that can remove barriers and accelerate progress for gender equality. Formerly, the 31st December Women’s Movement, the organisation now re-christened DWM is of the view that the current trajectories showed that existing interventions would be impossible to achieve the sustainable developmental goals by 2030. It argued ...

A top Ghanaian official has promised action following a CNN report into child slavery on Lake Volta. Around 20,000 children work on the lake, enslaved by fishermen they call “master.” Most of them come to the lake from hundreds of miles away. They are sold by their desperately poor parents to human traffickers, sometimes for as little as $250. “It’s ...