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Revenue Mobilization Africa, a not-for-profit organization has cautioned government, particularly the Ministry of Energy not to approve the Anadarko–Total SA deal until all taxes owed the state are duly paid. The organization in a statement issued in Accra by its Executive Director Geoffrey Kabutey Ocansey expressed concern about the many speculative news stories regarding the sale of Anadarko operations in ...

Twenty-five years after the historic Beijing women’s conference in China – a milestone in advancing equal rights – violence against women and girls is not only common, but widely accepted, a new UN report revealed on Wednesday. While there have been remarkable gains for girls in education, little headway has been made to help shape a more equal, less violent ...

Mr Kwame Agyeman-Budu, Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has warned the general public to desist from illegal power connections to their homes and places of work. He said such practices go against the laws of the land, hence culprits will be made to face the full riguor of the law if they are caught. Mr Agyeman-Budu ...

On the occasion of Ghana @63, I remember the brave, honest and selfless: John Mensah Sarbah, Paa Grant, Ephraim Amu, Esther Ocloo, Leticia Obeng and a few others. For them, it was not “me, my tribe and my party”. They placed nation and personal honour above wealth. With thoughtless policies by succeeding governments that have left millions on the breadline, ...

Government has been urged to support entrepreneurs and start-ups involved in developing profitable locally appropriate solutions to climate change. Ruka Sanusi, the Executive Director of the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC), said this will accelerate the country’s development. She made the call at the annual thought leadership, Incubating and Innovation programme under the theme: ‘Innovation for our future”. Madam Sanusi noted ...

The Savannah Integrated Biodiversity Conservation Initiative (SIBC) project has been launched in the Savannah Regional capital of Damongo. The project was initiated by the Ghana Wildlife Society in collaboration with partners to support the implementation of sustainable management of the Mole National Park and peripheral areas, implemented under the European Union PAPBio program aimed at sound management of large landscape ...

Mr Benito Owusu-Bio, the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, has called for concerted efforts to protect the ecology of the country’s landscapes and restore lost biodiversity. He said the country’s wildlife resources were no longer able to provide those essential services and called for conscious efforts to reverse the current trend in order not to deprive future generations ...

The youth are important asset of every nation. They form the core of the labour force and largely represent the future if properly resourced and nurtured. It is therefore not out of place to invest in this significant segment of the population as a country determined to make socioeconomic progress. Ghana is one of the most stable countries in Sub-Saharan ...

Deputy Education Minister Dr Yaw Adutwum has challenged Ghanaians to be globally competitive rather than seek to be champions of mediocrity. Instead of touting our educational system and products as being better than Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Dr Adutwum said Ghana should “break from the African mediocrity trap” and start competing with the likes of Singapore, Finland and the USA. ...

Eight hundred and thirty inmates have been discharged through the Justice for all Programme (JFAP) from the country’s prisons since its inception in 2007 and the close of last year, 2019. Out of a total of 4,435 cases that were adjudicated during the period, 1,571 inmates who have been on remand in the prisons for three years or more were ...