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The security agencies will today meet the leadership of the Christian community to discuss how to enhance security at the various churches in the wake of the terrorism threat alert on the country. Ahead of the meeting, some churches have begun the process to improve security on their church premises, as well as arm their members with personal security tips. ...

The Bishop of the Diocese of Damongo and Chairman of the Ghana Prisons Council, Most Rev. Peter Paul Angkyier has called for a close stakeholder collaboration to develop the infant Savannah region. As a new region, he said there was the need to learn from the older regions in mobilising our potentials for development. In addressing the regional minister who ...

Safety commonly referred to as Occupational safety and health (OSH), Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), Occupational Health, or Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) is an area that concerns itself with the safety, health and welfare of people in the workplace. The main goal of workplace health and safety or OHS is to adopt safe and healthy working methods at the ...

The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has opened an international conference on HIV in Accra, with a call on international and local authorities to accelerate response to the disease if it is to be eliminated by 2030. “The good news is that there are tried and tested interventions that have demonstrated favourable outcomes. We do not have to do anything ...

Sometimes I sit in endless traffic and mesmerize, helplessly watching the chaos commercial motorcycles, popularly known as Okada, are creating on our roads and conclude that posterity would lambast our generation for allowing such retrogression in a 21-century country. Many may disagree on the reasons why commercial motorcycles should or should not be banned irrespective of the lives being lost ...

The Foundation of Generational Thinkers (FOGET), a non-governmental organisation, has reminded the government of the need to put adequate mechanisms in place to ensure that the ongoing registration exercise for the GhanaCard is not infiltrated and hijacked by criminal elements. That, the group said, was to ensure that the cards did not fall in the hands of undesirable elements who ...

The Government has reiterated its commitment to transform Nima, considered as a slum, into world-class communities with executive amenities. According to the Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Samuel Atta-Akyea the redevelopment project which will be expanded to cover Maamobi, will provide the areas with modern housing facilities far better than the apartment complex, Villagio in Accra. President in ...

A retired judge of the Appeals Court, Mr Justice Isaac Duose, has called on the government to deal with issues of poverty and illiteracy to end political violence in the country. According to him, political violence, which remains a dominant feature in Ghana’s politics, needs to be tackled holistically by focusing on these two major factors for which people particularly ...

The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has called for the immediate review of all petroleum agreements and the subsequent abrogation of non-performing contracts in the interest of the country. According to the energy think tank, its petroleum monitor report on the performance of active petroleum contracts for this year had revealed that 12 out of the 15 entities that ...

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia has said the Zongo Development Fund will be used to support Persons Living with Disability (PWDs) and the vulnerable in society. The Vice President said this during a nationwide tour of selected Zongo communities in the country to encourage them in the Holy Month of Ramadan. Speaking at the Nkawkaw Central Mosque in the ...