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IMANI Centre for Policy and Education has launched a report meant   to assess   the performance of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP)  in its first year in office based on their 2016 election manifesto promises. The assessment, according to the think tank was purely qualitative unlike previous years and had highlights and comments on what had been achieved so far ...

Environmentalists and critics of Ghana’s coal power project have cautioned government to discontinue its ambitious plan to construct a Supercritical Coal-fired Power Plant in Ghana, arguing that, such a move amounts to violation of International environmental protocols and conventions of which Ghana has signed onto. They believe that government is being adamant in its expedition to construct the coal power ...

Former Supreme Court Judge, Justice V.C.R.A.C. Crabbe has advised the general public to adopt as the local language for both official and non-official purposes instead of English which happens to be the colonial language. Justice Crabbe speaking on TV3 recently explained that “Ghanaians should not be proud because they can speak English, but rather be proud of being able to ...

The Ghana National Association of Cattle Farmers has called on the government to create grazing reserves and fodder banks across the country to be able to accommodate their cattle to prevent the conflict between the cattle herdsmen and farmers. Speaking at the press conference, Imam Hanafi Sonde, Chairman of the Ghana National Association of Cattle Farmers (GNACAF) said, the creation ...

It has emerged that drug magnates around the world including Ghana have shifted their attention to the business of human trafficking after security on illegal drug trade is tightened across various transit points. The shift has come as a result of the low capital investment and less security stress of the human trafficking business compared to drug trade which involves ...

They are everywhere: in Trotro, in Taxis, on the streets, in supermarkets, at home. On our mobile phones they always accompany us, no matter where we go. Everybody knows them, everybody uses them: the social media. Facebook for example is a very famous platform with more than 2 billion users worldwide. The platform makes it possible, that all these people ...

Civil Society organisations working in the Natural Resources and Environment Sector of Ghana are calling for the establishment of a national Sanitation Authority to implement the policies and programmes of the Ministry of Sanitation. In a communiqué issued at the end of  its  8th civil society Annual Review of Ghana’s natural resources and environmental governance performance over the past year; ...

On several occasions the Ghana Police Service has been adjudged the most corrupt institution in Ghana by some self glorified, dignified and personified anti-corruption institutions or think-tanks for reasons known to only them. Is it really true that Ghana Police Service is the most corrupt institution in Ghana? You may agree based on perception generalisation of their observations but I ...

Leaders, figures and militants of political parties and social and popular organizations met in the last days of March (25 to 27) in Zambia, in a meeting of great importance due to the quality of the participants and the content of the debates. The attendees came from 21 different countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, India and the ...

Tactical advocacy and empowerment of people in communities were identified as vital to stop the creeping incidence of land grabbing in the country and secure community lands for domestic agriculture. To this end, a number of Faith Based Groups in the country led by the Catholic Church, in collaboration with some communities affected by land grabbing, Traditional Leaders, Civil Society ...