Women leaders called for swift, concerted action to advance gender rights at the first International Conference on Women’s Transformational Leadership, in Juba, South Sudan on Tuesday. Almost 400 women leaders from 15 African countries joined the UN-backed three-day conference, which opened on Monday, including former and current presidents. The goal is to advance progress, tackle pressing concerns and find sustainable solutions to issues affecting ...

Deputy Ranking Member of Parliament’s Finance Committee, Isaac Adongo has blamed the country’s economic woes on the reckless spending of the government during the COVID-19 outbreak. The Bolgatanga Central legislator accused the government of loosely throwing money the way of its appointees in the name of cushioning Ghanaians during the pandemic. Speaking on Face to Face on Citi TV, Mr. Adongo said the ...

The Police arrested 18 people for their involvement in a scuffle on the campus of the University of Ghana on Tuesday. The Police in a statement noted that the “18 suspects were together with about 200 others believed to be former members of the Commonwealth Hall of the University.” The Police stated that the 18 suspects are in custody and ...

The Deputy Minister in charge of General Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, has advised parents not to deny their children access to education no matter the circumstances they may find themselves in. He explained that irrespective of the kind of work they did and the kind of conditions they might find themselves in there was no way they should use ...

Introduction On May 25, 2021, the website of Ghana’s Parliament published the following: “The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon Alban S. K. Bagbin has today opened the Second Meeting of the First Session of the Eighth Parliament with a firm commitment to see to the passage of the Affirmative Action Bill into law.” Fast-forward to 2023, the first item under ...

The government is said to have achieved more than the 80% target needed for the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP). The programme is part of the requirements before Ghana can secure an economic bailout of about $3 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Some persons close to the team who worked on the programme told Joy Business the target ...

The death toll from earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria this week neared 16,000 on Thursday as hopes faded of many people being found alive 72 hours since the disaster and frustration simmered over the slow delivery of aid. A Turkish official said the disaster posed “very serious difficulties” for the holding of an election scheduled for May 14 in which President ...

Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry and Aisling Bea are among celebrities calling on the five of the UK’s biggest High Street banks to stop financing new oil, gas and coal projects. It follows criticism that HSBC, Barclays, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds are funding “fossil fuel expansion” despite making green pledges. Businesses and charities like Greenpeace also back the campaign. HSBC and ...

Nigeria’s Supreme Court has temporarily suspended Friday’s deadline to stop using old banknotes, which had caused a cash crisis in the country. Banks have not been releasing enough of the new naira notes, leading to desperate and chaotic scenes as people tried to get their hands on them. There were fights at ATMs, protests and mob attacks on commercial banks. ...

Although fictional, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story The Visit provides a glimpse into a world where gender roles are reversed; men stay home and care for the children and home while women go to work and provide financially for the family. This role reversal throws a spotlight on some of the inequalities women face by placing men in their position. ...