President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is expected to deliver the State of the Nation Address in Parliament today, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. This is in accordance with Article 67 of the 1992 Constitution, which states that the President shall deliver a message on the State of the Nation to Parliament at the start of each session and before the dissolution ...

Closing the major gender gap in innovation and technology is the focus of the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which opened at UN Headquarters in New York on Monday.  Over the next two weeks, participants from across the world – including representatives from governments, the UN, civil society and youth groups, as well as ...

The Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Northern Development Authority (NDA), Sumaila Abdul-Rahman has resigned from his position. The Special Prosecutor dragged Sumaila Abdul–Rahman, and his two deputies –Mr. Stephen Yir-eru Engmen and Mr. Patrick Seidu– to court over alleged procurement breaches. The outgoing NDA CEO explained that his resignation would allow the ongoing judicial process to take place ...

The global pace of reforms toward equal treatment of women under the law has slumped to a 20-year low, constituting a potential impediment to economic growth at a critical time for the global economy, a new World Bank report shows. In 2022, the global average score on the World Bank’s Women, Business, and the Law index rose just half a point to ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has admitted a motion to probe the National Cathedral Project. This followed a Private Members’ Motion sponsored by Minority Leader, Cassiel Ato Forson, and Deputy Minority Leader Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah among others. The motion will see a committee constituted “to conduct an inquiry into the National Cathedral of Ghana project and all related matters.” ...

Women’s rights advocacy organization, ABANTU for Development has called on the Parliament of Ghana to as a matter of urgency pass the Affirmative Action Bill into law before the upcoming 2023 District Assembly elections. The call was made at a press conference in Accra organized by ABANTU for Development with support from African Women Development Fund (AWDF). Held on the  ...

Provisional results from Nigeria’s disputed presidential election showed Bola Tinubu from the ruling party closing in on victory, a Reuters tally of votes in 33 of the country’s 36 states and the federal capital Abuja showed on Tuesday. Tinubu’s potential victory extends the All Progressives Congress party’s (APC) grip on power in Africa’s top oil producer and most populous nation, though he ...

MindFreedom Ghana, one of Ghana’s foremost Mental Health Organizations has disbursed a total of GHC 19,000 ( US$ 1,583) to support six Community Support Networks (CSN) established under the project titled, ‘Provision of Covid-19 information and services for persons with mental health conditions and their caregivers’. The project, which spans April 2022 to March 2023, is being implemented by MindFreedom ...

Results from Nigeria’s tightly contested presidential election in Nigeria shows that Bola Tinubu has taken an early lead despite Lagos loss. With official results declared in 10 out of 36 states, the ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu has 47% of the vote so far. The main opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar has 27%. Labour’s Peter Obi has 22%. Mr Obi caused ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has issued a warning to heads of Senior High Schools who charge first-year students unapproved fees. It said such heads will be sanctioned because the acts are illegal and will not be tolerated. Parents have complained about unapproved fees levied by school administrators and items not approved in the prospectus for new students. Cassandra Twum ...