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Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, Minister for Inner- City and Zongo Development has stressed the need for the expansion of legal education to bridge the lawyer-citizen ratio in the country. This will ensure the availability, efficiency and accessibility of legal services to all regardless of one’s social, political or economic circumstances. Ghana has an estimated population of over 30 million with Lawyer ...

Madam Cynthia Morrison, Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) has urged the social protection agencies and departments to step up their roles to reduce cases of violence and abuse against women and children. She said people having confidence in the various departments and agencies were critical to the cause of social justice and mentioned the Domestic Violence and ...

Members of the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations have said issues concerning the group are considered an afterthought and not prioritised.The federation said the needs of persons with disability in the country are not considered at the planning and decision-making stages until “somebody comes to remind us that there are other groups called persons with disabilities.”According to the Director of ...

The Registrar-General Jemima Oware has stated that she cannot stop middlemen popularly referred to as ‘Goro boys’ from operating at the Registrar Generals Department. Although these activities are largely illegal, the Registrar-General said these middlemen are also human beings who are working to make ends meet. ‘Goro boys’ are middlemen who extort money from clients to offer them supposed speedy ...

Dr Abu Sakara Forster, a former presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), has called on the youth to stay united in spite of our religious and sectorial differences. He said Ghana was fortunate to be enjoying peace and stability today and we could not afford to destroy it. Dr Abu Sakara said we needed to be conscious of ...

The Ghana Chapter of the Seed Transformation Network has stated its readiness to encourage national dialogue among stakeholders within the Ghanaian economy to maximise the economic gains of the country. The President of the Network, Madam Constance Swaniker, stated this at a media launch in Accra on March 27, 2019. She said in a release issued in Accra that “the ...

Graduate unemployment has been a major issue for socioeconomic development in Africa, according to data from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in sub-Saharan Africa, the youth unemployment rate hovers around 12 percent. Africa has the largest “youth bulge” in the world, and the number of youth is expected to grow by 42.5 million by 2020. Almost half of the 10 ...

The Governing Council of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) has reinstated three lecturers who were dismissed from the institution. The school is also set to reopen on April 8, 2019, after it was shut down following student protests against the school’s Vice Chancellor over the dismissal of some of the lecturers. According to a statement from the Governing Council ...

The World Bank has lamented over the high cost of internet in low-to-middle income countries, including Ghana. The Bank’s Vice President for Africa, Hafez Ghanem, who made this observation when he paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, urged her to adopt measures to bring the cost down. A research findings released in October 2018 by ...

The government has announced a reduction in the benchmark valuation of imports effective Thurday, April 4. The benchmark valuation for general goods has been slashed by 50 per cent whilst that of vehicles has also seen a 30 per cent reduction. This was announced by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Wednesday at the maiden Town Hall Meeting on the economy organised by ...