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SEND-Ghana make inroads after 20 years of advocacy

Mr Siapha Kamara, CEO, SEND-ghana

The Social Enterprise Development Foundation of West Africa (SEND West Africa) will rolled out a week-long programme beginning on the 30th August, 2018, to celebrate 20 years of exceptional contributions to poverty reduction and the promotion of good governance practices in Ghana and other African countries. The multinational organization was founded in Ghana in 1998, and country programmess in Liberia ...

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Burglars break into A-G’s office …Take away computers containing files

Ms Gloria Akuffo, Attorney General

A Corruption Watch investigation has uncovered how unidentified persons have been staging frequent break-ins at the offices of the Ministry of Justice and Attorney-General in Accra. The incidents have resulted in concerns about tampering with the integrity of the prosecutorial processes as well as the security and safety of the officers of the A-G’s department. According to Corruption Watch sources, ...

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MESTI moves to address plastic management in Ghana

The exponential growth rate of plastics use and its alarming mismanagement, include wide spread littering and its associated environmental and health risk in Ghana has prompted the Ministry of Environment, science and technology and Innovation (MESTI) to find a sustainable way to curb this menace and turn plastics into a resource for creating employment and improving the living standards of ...

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Let’s embrace a world free of nuclear weapons

Today, Wednesday, August 29 is observed as the International Day Against Nuclear Tests. Since nuclear weapons testing began on 16 July 1945, nearly 2,000 have taken place. In the early days of nuclear testing little consideration was given to its devastating effects on human life, let alone the dangers of nuclear fallout from atmospheric tests. Hindsight and history have shown ...

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Why couldn’t they celebrate August 4 as “FOUNDERS’ DAY”?

Folks, I watched all that happened in Kyebi last Thursday when the Asantehene attended the durbar held by the Akim Abuakwahene (Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin) to honour Nana Sir Ofori-Atta I (Member of the British Empire), 75 years after his death. Those of us who studied the history of the Ghana Empire and the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial eras aren’t ...

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Teachers threaten to embark on strike

Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Minister for Education

The Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) has given government a deadline of next month October 31 to ensure that the salary arrears owed over 42,000 teachers across the country are cleared or face industrial action. “This we will do even if only one affected person is not paid before the deadline of October 31.2018,” warned the Concerned Teachers in a ...

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Scaling up through trade: World Export Development Forum in Zambia

The World Export Development Forum 2018, will take place in Lusaka, Zambia, on 11-12 September under the theme ‘Scaling Up through Trade’. The Forum will bring business leaders, policymakers and youth from around the world to explore a range of traderelated issues, including agribusiness, investment and the African Continental Free Trade Area. This year’s annual flagship event of the International ...

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Gov’t urged to be resolute in implementation of international protocols

Her Excellency Tove Degnbol, Denmark Ambassador to Ghana has indicated that religion, culture and tradition should not be barriers to preventing the implementation of internationally accepted human rights standards especially those to which the  country has accepted. She therefore appealed to Government to be resolute in its implementation of the various recommendations keeping in mind the Vienna Declaration which reaffirms ...

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Kwahuhene donates to Persco

The Omanhene of Kwahu Traditional Area, Daasebre Akuamoah Agyepong II, has donated Five Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢5,000) to the winners of this year’s Maths and Science Quiz, Saint Peter’s Senior High School at Nkwatia Kwahu in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region.   The donation was made at the Esuno Gyimah Mampong Agyei palace, Kwahu Abene the traditional ...

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Campaigners demand equitable distribution of timber proceeds

A research done by the Ghana REDD+ secretariat has identified that agriculture contributes up to 50 per cent to the causes of deforestation in Ghana, This is so because the laws of the country do not favour farmers who nurture trees on their lands as a result of that, they resort to destroying them at a younger stage. “Farmers and ...

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