Founder and president of Clothe the Naked Outreach (CTN), Mr Stephen Paa Kwesi Quainoo has called for support from donors and individuals to help provide better education and cloths for the poor and needy. A major challenge facing orphans and abandoned children in orphanages and children in the villages of Ghana, is the lack of money to finance their formal ...

Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested two persons for allegedly beheading a five-year-old boy. The two; Vikuriba Joe Zoot, 21, and Kozel Borama, 25, were arrested on March 7, 2018 with the human head in their possession at Ampabame near Sokoban in Kumasi. The deceased, identified as Silas Kunsana, a twin, was picked up by the suspects at Suame, ...

A 42-year-old man and two women have been arrested for allegedly practising as a doctor, a nurse and a laboratory technician at a clinic at Akwamu, near Nsawam, without qualification and licences. They were arrested while they were busily administering health care to the unsuspecting public on March 7, 2018 at a clinic known as the Selomassa Health Centre. Personnel ...

The UN Women has called on the global community to deliberately create stronger support for women’s political activism and a broader space for women’s civil society voices. In a statement, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Women, for International Women’s Day, said that was necessary to combine “our efforts to target those who truly need change most.” “The ...

Despite constitutional and legislative guarantees for the rights of persons with disabilities (PWD), it is clear that Ghana’s disability laws are failing its people and that discrimination of the disabled continues to undermine the progress of democratic participation of all Ghanaian people. Ghana’s Disability Law, 2006 (Act 715)  which was passed in 2006, aimed at ending the discrimination that faces ...

The primary lesson for us is that apartheid may have ended in its overt political forms, but in its economic form, that is the brutal exploitation of millions of people in South Africa and southern Africa, apartheid has not ended. The principle lesson is that the ANC became a partner of the economic forms of exploitation, and in the process, ...

A group of people calling themselves the Coalition of Volta Youths yesterday staged a protest through the principal streets of Ho against the intended creation of a new region out of the Volta Region. Carrying placards with inscriptions such as: “Divide and rule tactics”, “We can build Volta Region together”, “Volta is not for sale”, “Give back our lands and ...

Ghanaians, particularly those living in communities close to water bodies have been advised to consider revisiting or maintaining the customary practices that prevented people from polluting the country’s water bodies. The customary laws mandate users to keep lakes and rivers pure because they are regarded as the dwelling place of the gods. In recent times, the disregard for these beliefs ...

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, will undertake a human rights fact-finding visit to Ghana from 9 – 18 April 2018 to assess government efforts to eradicate poverty through the lens of international human rights law. During his 10-day visit, the Special Rapporteur will travel to Accra for meetings with government officials ...

The Marketing Director of Tex Styles Ghana Limited, Reverend Stephen Badu has revealed that pirates are collapsing the Ghanaian textile companies due to their production of counterfeit. He stated, “The biggest challenge is the counterfeit and smuggling of fabrics.” As a result of counterfeiting, work force in the industry has reduced of about 80 percent. The problems in the industry ...