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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 ...

The Savanna Regional Minister, Mr Salifu Adam Braimah, has ordered the immediate closure of Brivywells Company, a Chinese timber firm at Yipala, a farming community near Damongo. The company was engaged in the logging and processing of rosewood for export to China for about three years. Mr Braimah ordered the closure during a tour of some logging-prone areas in the ...

The President of the 73rd Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, Ms Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces, has spoken highly of the Ghana government’s commitment and leadership in the global action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in particular, for his great leadership role on the international front as co-Chair of ...

The Forestry Commission of Ghana has parried aside a publication by the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) website that suggests the world has lost a large quantity of its primary rainforest last year. The Commission insists  the publication on the WRI website contains a lot of misrepresentations and exaggerations and does not represent the actual situation on the ground. It maintains ...

A section of Journalists in the county have joined Civil Society Organizations to work towards    decriminalizing petty offences, a move that could potentially reduce the numbers in the Ghana’s prisons, while preserving the human right of petty offenders. The advocacy, led by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) Africa Office is in line with the provisions of  the Ouagadougou Declaration ...

Discussants at a roadshow in Accra have called for a harmonised and stronger competition law regime in Africa. The panelists, who have wide expertise in law, economics, trade and politics, said the lack of such a system in place had given room to multi-nationals and developed countries to take advantage of African nations. Speaking at the International Commercial and Trade ...

The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) is partnering the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to consider the inclusion of poor households living with persons infected and affected by HIV, in the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP ) programme. The move is to ensure that such households, whose members earn an average monthly income of GH¢300 and were finding it ...

“The commitment I want to make, and for all of us to make, is that by the end of my term in office, Accra will be the cleanest city on the entire African continent. That is the commitment I am making to you.” These were the words of President Akufo-Addo when the President of the Ngleshie Alata Traditional Council, Oblempong ...