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Ghana must enact specific law against homosexuality-Yaw Oppong

A private legal practitioner, Yaw Oppong, is calling for a specific law in the country to make homosexuality a criminal offence. He said although there are some provisions in the Criminal Code under which a homosexual can be prosecuted especially for having intercourse with a partner, a specific law must be enacted to declare homosexual relationship an illegality. Commenting on ...

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Who taught you about sex? …the CSE question

Who taught you about sex? How did that teaching shape your attitudes to your body, to others bodies, to sex itself? Did that learning happen in one session, was it in stages? Was it your parents, friends or was it at school? Was sex about pleasure and power or was it about marriage and babies? Was there sexual abuse or ...

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Multi-stakeholder strategy to achieve HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control launched

The U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Stephanie S. Sullivan, Government of Ghana representatives and the UNAIDS Country Director for Ghana Angela Trenton-Mbonde have jointly launched a multi-stakeholder strategy to achieve HIV/AIDS epidemic control in the Western Region.  The partners have set an ambitious target to reach epidemic control, fewer number of new HIV infections than HIV-related deaths, in the Western Region ...

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Ghana bemoans slow pace of SDGs implementation

Ghana has expressed worry about the world falling short of its targets in the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 due to what it described as the current slow pace of implementation. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, raised the concern in a speech read on her behalf by the Vice Chairman of ...

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Arrest money doublers on TV

The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has called on the Bank of Ghana to take swift action on persons who are advertising on some television stations that they have the ability to double money for their clients. He has suggested to the central bank to state its position on the issue before matters come to a heat. The minister ...

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Ghana’s constitution flawed in many ways – Short

Former Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Justice, Justice Emile Short, has called on government to revive the constitutional amendment process describing the 1992 constitution as flawed. According to him, government needs to address certain provisions including the provision that majority of ministers must be appointed from parliament, and the excessive powers wielded by the President. Justice Short was speaking ...

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SDGs: Children with Disabilities in Ghana left behind

Akos (not the real name) sells sachet water on the streets of Madina, a suburb of Accra, and her routine has been to wake up early in the morning to go earn a living for herself and her three children, one of whom has cerebral palsy She lives in a rented single room at Ashaley-Botwe, another suburb of the capital ...

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Sexual education will not promote foreign culture – Deputy Education Minister

The Deputy Minister of Education and MP for Abuakwa North Constituency in the Eastern Region, Hon. Gifty Twum Ampofo, has quashed reports in the media that the newly introduced Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) into the Ghanaian curriculum will promote foreign culture. The Ghana Education Service (GES) is set to introduce a new curriculum that will educate students on their sexuality ...

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When property rate knocks at your gate – should you return to sender?

I can say that I am a law-abiding citizen on the score that I am energised to check-in where statutory rules and regulations apply. However, I sulk; I curse and almost swear when my annual property rate notice is delivered at my gate every year. Why do we continue to pay property rate to the local Assemblies with no corresponding services ...

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Many unaware of Communication Service Tax

The Communication Service Tax (CST) has taken effect but many in the public remain unaware of its implementation. The CST was hiked from six per cent to nine per cent in the mid-year review and supplementary budget presented to Parliament by Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance. This, would affect the cost of telecommunication services rendered to customers by ...

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