The Chairman of the Right to Information Coalition, Mr Seth Abloso has called on Ghanaians to rally around the campaign to get the Right to Information Bill passed in order to consolidate Ghana’s democracy. Mr Abloso argued that it is impossible to run a democracy without access to information because the citizenry and government itself need information to inform decisions. ...
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Ghana Lost GH¢1.8 Billion In Petroleum Sector Last Year
Ghana lost GH¢1.8 billion through illicit trade activities in the petroleum sector last year, a 2017 industry report on the petroleum sector has revealed. About GH¢1.4 billion of that amount was lost through smuggling and export dumping, while about GH¢339.2 million and GH¢148.9 million were lost to unreported Energy Sector Levy Act (ESLA) receipts and transfer pricing, respectively. Event The ...
Read More »Group launches 3-day fasting & prayers against gays
Members of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values, lead by law lecturer Moses Foh-Amoaning, have reiterated that Africa is strongly against the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transexual Queer (LGBTQ) agenda and, so, have launched a three-day fasting and prayer session against homosexuality… Members of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values, lead ...
Read More »Cashew Processing in Africa will Reduce Poverty – Experts
Experts in the cashew industry in Africa have revealed that the processing of cashew in Africa will help reduce the alarming rate of unemployment on the continent. Africa which is now the largest producer of cashew nuts, accounting for more than half of the world’s production has a significant challenge regarding processing the nuts. Currently, processing of cashew nuts remains ...
Read More »Pokuase Police arrest 30 in three swoops
Three separate swoops by the Pokuase District Police have resulted in the arrest of 30 suspected robbers, made up of five women and 25 Nigerians. Those arrested were between the ages of 18 and 34, and the police found suspected narcotics, a suspected stolen car, as well as items believed to be used for their robbery operations. During the intelligence-led ...
Read More »Why Ghanaians Are So Slow To Bury Their Dead – BBC
In our series of letters from African journalists, writer Elizabeth Ohene considers why bodies are not buried for months, sometimes years, in Ghana. This past week there was another one of those typically Ghanaian funeral stories in the news. The body of a chief who had died six years ago was still in the morgue as the family bickered over ...
Read More »Youth Icons Ghana Officially Launches Tree Project; Urges Youth To Fight Deforestation
A passionate appeal has been made to the youth of Ghana to take keen interest in the planting of and caring of trees to help avert the effects of deforestation and global warming in Ghana. This appeal was made at the launch of the Green Republic Project, a youth-led tree planting project that seeks to plant about 20 million trees ...
Read More »Robbery cases hit 968 in first quarter in Ghana – Report
About 968 robbery cases were recorded in the first quarter of 2018 across the country, that’s according to the Director General at the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ghana Police Service, ACP Joseph Oklu Gyamera. Out of the number, robbery took 484 cases, street robbery recorded 172, residential robbery 124 cases, workplace robbery recorded 95, while highway robbery recorded 49 cases. ...
Read More »June 3 victims to gather at disaster site, demand compensation
Victims of the 2015 June 3 flood and fire disaster will today gather at the site of the incident, near the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, where over 150 people died. They are massing up to demand compensation they feel they have been denied. Some of the victims have complained of economic hardships and have accused the government of neglecting them. One ...
Read More »GOIL going upstream; a venture or an adventure?
News about the leading and indigenous oil marketing company, GOIL venturing into the upstream sector of the industry, could be a feather in the cap of local content participation as well as inclusive growth. Because it will lead to a significant increase in Ghana’s participation in this God-given resource. Although the upstream is considered one of the very profitable areas, ...
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