President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked the Ghanaian electorate to turn out in their numbers on December 17 to vote ‘Yes’ in the Referendum to repeal Article 55(3) of the 1992 Constitution and obtain the power to elect directly their own Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs). Speaking at the 30th anniversary celebration of the Akatsi District Assembly, ...
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Volta, the votes, the roads and the empty promises
Often when I am walking through the Ho township, many friends will say, Benjamin, “what are you guys doing about the roads in the region?”, Why are you people not asking the ministers and the president to come and fix the roads for us? I will often respond with a grin and say we are trying our best. But let ...
Read More »Government Defence Integrity Index launched
Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) and Transparency International have launched the 2020 Government Defence Integrity Index (GDI) in Accra. Speaking at the launch, Transparency International Project Manager, Camilla Zuliani said, the Ghanaian defence sector is underpinned by robust legislation, providing strong legal provisions against corruption on issues such as procurement, asset disposal and anti-bribery. Despite these conditions, the Ghanaian defence sector ...
Read More »Be bold to report online sexual predators – Youth advised
The Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has encouraged children and the youth to be bold in reporting persons who subject them to sexual exploitation and expose them to pornographic materials and other dangers online so that the perpetrators are arrested and duly punished. She urged them to take advantage of the various Incident Reporting Points of Contact (PoC) that ...
Read More »Akufo-Addo calls for end to stigmatisation of infertility
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called for the elimination of stigma associated with infertility in Africa. He said from being abandoned, depressed, humiliated, insulted and maltreated, women suffered the most when it came to issues of infertility. Quoting a World Health Organisation (WHO) source, the President added that “even though infertility in men is the cause of 50 per ...
Read More »Scores of inmates escape Nigeria prison after heavy rains
Ninety-seven escapees at large after rainfall in Kogi state prison allows over 120 to escape, prison authority says. Nearly 100 inmates remain at large after torrential rains in central Nigeria allowed scores of protesters to escape, according to authorities. The “perimeter fence” of the facility in Kogi state was destroyed by rains and cells flooded, forcing inmates “to break out of custody ...
Read More »Attacking Physical ISIS, Killing the Leader, Missing the Ideology
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi’s death is a big blow to ISIS and marks the end of a terrifying era that witnessed the massacre of thousands of innocent people, most of them Muslims, according to a 2017 Global Terrorism Database by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. ISIS posed a potent, existential security nightmare to many ...
Read More »Rice imports stifling Ghana’s economy – Osafo-Maafo laments
The Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, has disclosed that Ghana spent $1.35 billion of its revenue to import rice in 2017. Delivering a speech at the consultation forum on the ‘Ghana Beyond Aid for Northern Ghana in Tamale’ on Wednesday, the Minister stated that proceeds made from exports are used to import rice although the country was capable of cultivating and producing the crop. “We have natural ...
Read More »People’s right to know is foundation of democracy – Information Minister
The foundation of every democratic society is the people having the right to know, otherwise, they will not be able to hold their elected representatives accountable, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Information Minister has said. He said Article 21(1)F of the 1992 Constitution gives Ghanaians the right to information; adding that, the Right To Information (RTI) Act was a procedural Act, ...
Read More »Ghana to mark National Youth Day on November 1
Ghana will mark the National Youth Day on Friday, November 1. The day is set aside by the Africa Union Commission to promote an increased awareness and recognition of young Africans as critical agents of positive change. Here in Ghana, the National Youth Authority(NYA), the government agency mandated to regulate and coordinate Youth Development activities, is marking the celebration with ...
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