One of the forward-looking news items during the past week that should gladden the hearts of child rights activists was headlined, “Kampala bans donations to street children.” According to a BBC story published by the Daily Graphic on May 24th, city Councillors in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, have made it criminal offence to give money or food to street children beggars. Violators ...

We have been brought up to believe that being Ghanaian is the best thing that could happen to anybody. We take pride in our country as a beacon of hope for Africa. The country that produced the likes of Yaa Asantewa, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah and Kofi Annan. Everything Ghana was supposed to be the best. Our fufu, akple and ...

“Government tackles flood with GH¢197 million”, “Government donates relief items to flood victims”, “NADMO records 53,000 rendered homeless due to floods”. These and other headlines flood our media space every year during rains, yet no radical measures to solve our flooding menace exist! Citizens and successive governments have destroyed the lives of many Ghanaians. Yes! Governments’ thirst to score political ...

The lead speaker at the third June 4 revolutionary lecture, Professor John Bright Kobla Aheto, says for Ghana to achieve good public governance, it needs a dynamic and broad-minded leader who is an upright steward and possesses a flawless vision to pioneer the country’s transformation. He described the current political dispensation as a big joke and said the New Patriotic ...

A workshop on the roadmap for the execution of the Right to Information (RTI) act by the implementing agency, Information Ministry has opened in Accra Thursday. Attendees have been drawn from civil society groups as well as state agencies including UNESCO, RTI Coalition, Media Coalition on RTI.  Also participating are members from the constitutional, legal and parliamentary affairs committee of parliament. ...

In recent times, it is quite difficult to find people who dedicate their ideas, time and scarce financial resources for the sake of community development. The notion has always been that government agencies have the solitary prerogative to ensure that development is brought to the people. But, a selfless, dedicated, result and development-oriented man, Mr Bagnaba Van-Gogh decided to parry ...

The pomp and ceremony of Muhammadu Buhari’s inauguration will not mask the huge challenges the 76-year-old Nigerian president faces during his second term in office – in particular, the booming business of kidnapping for ransom. Even one of the president’s relations – a traditional ruler in Daura in northern Nigeria – is currently being held after he was seized from ...

I stopped by a friend’s house the other weekend as I was in her area. As acceptable practice in our tradition, I did not give prior notice and assumed that she would be in and would not mind my stopping by. She was not in the house when I got there. Her houseboy attended to me. He did not remember me when I asked him even though ...

The Acting National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), has disclosed that from early part of June 2019, caterers and cooks would undergo intensive training and capacity building, to sharpen their cooking skills. The training Dr Gertrude Quashigah indicated, would enable the caterers to improve on the nutritional, hygiene and quality standards in the preparation of meals for ...

President Akufo-Addo says his government has taken the policy decision to integrate climate action into Ghana’s national development agenda, i.e. the Co-ordinated Programme of Economic and Social Development Policies (2017- 2022). He said the Paris Agreement and SDG Goal No. 13, which demand urgent action to combat climate change and its impact, is providing the framework for Ghana to forge ahead in this ...