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Professor Dzodzi Tsikata, the Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, has called for a change in the country’s economic and social protection policies, which relied on the export of primary agricultural commodities. She, therefore, advocated for a radical rethinking that would add value to the agricultural commodities and natural resources locally to create sufficient jobs for ...

I making these emphatic statements not based on any personal hatred against the NPP and the NDC as political parties but I do so on the basis of what history has proven on the issue of the Ghanaian economy and by extension the African economy. These two parties deviate from the valid principles that can salvage us. It must be ...

The Ministry of Communications, in collaboration with StarTimes, will on September 26 launch the nationwide ‘300 Village Satellite TV’ project. The ceremony to officially announce the start of the project will be held at Akweibu Basic School in Dansoman, the first beneficiary village in the Greater Accra Region. In line with the Government of Ghana’s commitment to bridging the digital ...

The Kingdom of Spain has pledged to train 2,000 young Ghanaian entrepreneurs to achieve the ‘Ghana Beyond Aid’ vision. On Tuesday, Ministry of Business Development signed an agreement worth GH¢30 million with the Chamber Institute for Business Creation and Development of Enterprise (INCYDE) of Spain, in Accra to develop a training programme to support and promote entrepreneurship in Ghana. From ...

Director of the National Cardiothoracic Centre (NCTC), Dr. Lawrence Agyeman Sereboe, has advised the public, especially the youth, to desist from smoking shisha, as the behaviour has a high risk of resulting in heart diseases. He said although smokers find the smoking of shisha fashionable, it is very dangerous to their health, indicating that smoking shisha for one hour is ...

At least three children were defiled daily in Ghana in the years 2015, 2016 and 2017. That is over 1,000 children each year. The figures were contained in the 2017 Criminal Investigations Department Annual Crime Statistics report. Gender Minister-designate, Cynthia Morrison is attributing the menace to fear, poverty and lack of education. She says her outfit is working to make ...

“Parents, know your children. Talk to your children. Be bold and feel free to talk about sex,” says an expert. Following the three-year imprisonment sentence of a teacher who was charged with sexually abusing a nine-year-old, legal expert Dennis Adjei Dwomoh is advocating for massive reforms of Ghana’s laws on sexual offences. “There is a problem with the law and ...

The Dean of Studies and Research at the Institute of Local Government Studies (ILGS), Dr Eric Oduro- Osae, has said Ghana’s democracy is failing deliver on its true tenet. “Democracy on its own is good but the checks and balances in Ghana’s system are not working unlike our traditional system where a chief would be removed by the council of ...

The extravagant expenditure on high government appointees has come under criticism with a call by a former Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa, Prof. Kwame Karikari, on the government to cut down on some of these expenses. According to him, looking at the economic situation in the country, Ghanaians could no longer stand the expensive lifestyle of these ...

According to the 6th edition of the Tobacco Atlas report, an estimated one-fifth of males and one-third of females globally were exposed to second-hand smoke in 2016 alone. It caused an estimated 884,000 deaths in the world in the same year. The report also revealed that years of life lost due to ill-health, disability, or early death because of second-hand ...