The deaths recorded from the Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria has reached 118, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed. From January 1 to February 23, 2633 suspected cases, with 689 confirmed cases and 118 deaths have been recorded in the country. The number of cases has significantly increased compared to what was reported for the same period ...

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection Cynthia Maamle Morrison has issued a stern warning to traditional rulers to stop shielding sex offenders.According to the Minister, rape and defilement are criminal offences which require prosecution by law enforcement officialsThe minister who is also the Member of Parliament for Agona West expressed these sentiments at a community dialogue programme organized ...

The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has indicated that national development does not rest on government alone, but as a collective effort. She said companies should therefore care about the well-being of the communities within which they operate. The first lady made the observation when she commissioned the Abosso community library and Huni-Valley health centre in the Prestea Hun-Valley constituency ...

A call to Government to act on the intended Pan Africa International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex (Pan Africa ILGA) Conference scheduled to take place in Accra from 27th to 31st July 2020. It has come to our notice that the Pan African wing of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) is scheduled to hold ...

Pupils on island communities in the Ada East District of the Greater Accra Region risk drowning as they sometimes swim across streamlets of the Volta Lake before arriving at school, as a result of broken footbridges. The development has become a major concern to parents as several calls for authorities to fix the problem have yielded no positive results. The ...

The Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas (CSPOG) has called on lawmakers to consider amending the weaknesses in the country’s anti-corruption legal framework which thwarts government’s efforts to effectively prevent or prosecute corruption in the extractive sector. The group averred that while corruption has assumed greater sophistication in nature and from Ghana’s legislative framework has not fully criminalized the ...

Managing News editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., has blamed the economic woes of Ghana on the Economic Recovery Programme embarked on by the PNDC administration under former President Flt.-Lt.(Rtd) Jerry John Rawlings in 1983. According to him, the programme “laid the foundation for the total destruction of our country”. He revealed that several state-owned enterprises were privatized under ...

The Forum for Action on Inclusion, Transparency and Harmony (FAITH) has called for the integration of the activities of the integrity clubs in the basic school curriculum to groom a new generation of people who would eschew corruption. To eliminate the fundamental causes of corruption in Ghana, the Forum stressed the need to invest in structures and systems that put ...

As the threat of coronavirus disease looms over the continent, the World Health Organization (WHO) has promised to support African Union Member States on a common preparedness and response strategy. WHO joined Health Ministers in an Emergency Meeting on the Coronavirus Disease Outbreak, which was convened on 22 February by the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Dr Matshidiso ...

Resource-backed loans have contributed to crippling debt levels in Africa and are shrouded in secrecy, according to a new report. These loans to governments, collateralized with oil or minerals, have been hidden from scrutiny for far too long and that must change, say the report’s authors. A resource-backed loan is a borrowing mechanism by which a country accesses finance in exchange ...