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Nima redevelopment project: Residents to get free ‘glamorous apartments’ – Atta Akyea

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 ...

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Deal with poverty, illiteracy to end violence — Justice Duose

Mr Justice Isaac Duose

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 ...

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Review all petroleum agreements — ACEP

Mr Benjamin Boakye, Executive Director of ACEP

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 ...

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We’ll support PWDs, and vulnerable groups with Zongo Dev’t Fund – Bawumia

Dr Mahamudu Bawumia

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 ...

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Savanna Regional Minister orders closure of Chinese timber firm

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 ...

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Ghana’s commitment to achieve SDGs commendable — UN General Assembly President

Ms Maria Fernanda Garces speaking at the meeting

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 ...

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Forestry Commission sets record straight on WRI erroneous publication

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 ...

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Journalists rally support for decriminalisation of petty offences in Ghana

Journalists join campaign to decriminalise petty offences

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 ...

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Discussants call for stronger competition law regime in Africa

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 ...

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‘PLHIVs in poor households suffer food insecurity’

Mr Steve Kyeremeh Afuahene

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 ...

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