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MP appeals for completion of Adeiso township roads

Hon. Derek O.Bekoe, MP for Upper West Akim

The Member of Parliament for Upper West Akim Constituency in the Eastern Region, Hon. Derek O. Bekoe is making a passionate appeal to the government to clear the way for the completion of the stalled Adeiso township roads as the residents are suffering from dust. Hon, Bekoe stressed the need for government to consider the health implication of the stalled ...

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US intervention in African elections

In recent times, a lot has been said bout Russian intervention in the US elections that brought president Donald Trump to power as the US President. It is quite ironic that it is American officialdom complaining about Russian intervention in the elections, yet, it is the US that not only meddles in their nations’ election process, but has been rampaging ...

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Ghana’s primary education system suffer …As gov’t shifts funding to secondary level

Dr Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai, Senior Lecture, UGBS

Ghana’s Primary education system is currently being stifled of financial resources following a shift in political attention and public resources from kindergarten and primary structures to the secondary level, according to a report published by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in collaboration with the University of Ghana Business School. Titled, ‘Leaving no One Behind in the Health and Education sectors,’ ...

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Ghana’s Second Cycle Education crisis

Ama Ata Aidoo

Some of the reasons why the boarding component in our state-assisted senior high schools must be removed. And Now can we begin to have a calm national conversation? Ghana has never been able to afford boarding as a major component of its state-owned education system, we cannot afford it, and not wanting to admit this puts us in some danger. Since ...

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OccupyGhana Calls On Gov’t To Immediately Address The Filth Engulfing The Country

OccupyGhana has noted with concern the huge swathes of plastic and other solid and human waste engulfing our country, especially our capital. It is rapidly reaching an alarming state and photographs taken after the recent downpour in parts of Accra in the morning of Wednesday 14th February 2018 have thrown this looming and potentially disastrous health and security problem into ...

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MoH urges Ghanaians to keep calm over Lassa Fever

Kwaku Agyemang Manu, Minister of Health

The Ministry of Health has urged the public to be calm following the death of a 26-year-old man from Lassa fever last week. The deceased was on admission at the Tema General Hospital with general body weakness, severe headaches and profuse vomiting of blood clots. Prior to his admission, he was said to have traveled through the Eastern, Volta and ...

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Cocoa farmers demand reclamation of lands destroyed by galamsey

A group picture of participants

Cocoa farmers and some community activists are calling for the reclamation of their farmlands which have been destroyed by ‘galamsey’ activities. According to them, until the full implementation of the Medium-Term Multilateral Mining Development Plan, their farm lands needed to be reclaimed for the economic health of the country and the security of their cocoa farms. They expressed the views ...

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Local gov’t reforms needed to fight inequality

Dr Emmanuel Akwetey, Executive Director, IDEG

The Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG) is rallying public support to fight the widening inequality gap in the country as it calls for robust local government reforms. According to the Institute, for Ghana to be able to reduce inequality to its barest minimum, “more resources must go to the rural communities; but that cannot be done without reforms and the ...

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Implement digitization in tertiary education curriculum- IMANI

Mr Franklin Asare, a Fellow at   Imani- Ghana   has called for the implementation of digitization in the tertiary education curriculum to broaden the technological mindset of students to help them to create jobs for themselves before they hit the job market. Mr Asare said, the advent of the internet has led to the digitization of how businesses deliver their services ...

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Former Public Agenda editor Chairs PIAC

Dr Steve Manteaw, PIAC Chairman

Former editor of  Public Agenda Newspaper, Dr Steve Manteaw has been elected as the new  chairman  of  the  Public  Interest  and  Accountability  Committee(PIAC). He will be ably assisted by Dr Thomas Kojo Stephens, a representative of the Ghana Bar Association on the Committee. The election of the duo is a requirement under the Petroleum Revenue Management Act,  (Act 815) which ...

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