The General Secretary of Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC), Rev. Emmanuel Teimah Barrigah has urged Christian leaders to conduct background checks on church members who pay huge tithes and offerings as a way to fight corruption in the country. According to him, Christians make up 70 per cent of the country’s population so if there is an epidemic of ...

A resource centre has been opened at the Agbogbloshie Market in Accra to provide victims of sexual and gender-based violence in the area with the needed support. Victims of gender-based violence and other social vices can walk to the centre, named Rapid Response Centre, to get help for access to justice, health care and other forms of social support. Funded ...

A special climate summit organised by UN Secretary General António Guterres is set to open in New York, but some key world leaders, including Donald Trump, will not take part. Mr Guterres expects leaders to come with new and ambitious plans to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Youth activists, including Greta Thunberg, will address delegates. Ahead of the one-day summit, scientists ...

Top climate scientists issued a report on Sunday showing that over the last several years, sea-level rise, planetary warming, shrinking ice sheets and carbon pollution have accelerated; a sobering call to action for political leaders headed to New York for summit-level climate change talks tomorrow at the United Nations. The landmark new report, which will be presented to the UN Climate Action ...

The Rotary Club of Accra-Cantonment is to rehabilitate children wards of the three psychiatric hospitals in the country. The hospitals are Accra, Pantang, and Ankaful Psychiatric hospitals. The initiative forms part of the club’s flagship project for the 2019-2020 Rotary Year.  A statement issued by the Club said the goal of the project was to improve the standard of healthcare services ...

A private legal practitioner, Mr John Ndebugri is calling for the immediate disbandment of the National Security Secretariat and Ministries since the setting up of such organisations was in direct contravention of provisions in the 1992 Constitution of the country. According to him, “there is nothing like National Security” in the 1992 Constitution, and therefore the decision of the President ...

What do we make of our existing political party system? How can we ensure that it guarantees democracy? How can it prevent civil strife and justice? Can we justify the existing political systems with its squabbles, lamentations and beastility? From pre-colonial to our present post-independence era, people organised on identified interests. In our communal villages during the pre-colonial period, communities ...

Developing countries need to dramatically increase agricultural innovation and the use of technology by farmers, to eliminate poverty, meet the rising demand for food, and cope with the adverse effects of climate change, says a new World Bank report released on Monday. The relative stagnation in agricultural productivity in recent decades, particularly in South Asia and Africa where the vast ...

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has received 40 Ghanaian deportees from the United States of America for offences ranging from the trafficking of banned substances, assault, vehicle theft, burglary, fraud, domestic violence and immigration-related issues. A statement issued by the Assistant Superintendent Barbara Sam, in charge of Public Relations at the Kotoka International Airport said the deportees comprise 38 males ...

Deborah Mangortey, mother of a child with Down syndrome, has called on the government to establish a free health care policy for children with complex health needs for the first five years of their lives. She said a free health care policy will ensure that such children get all the necessary assessments and therapy recommendations and help the children get ...