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This week, we heard two worrying news items on potential waste of financial resources involving two government agencies whose creation my colleagues at IMANI questioned. These are the Senior Minister’s and the Ministry of Special Development and Initiatives. Unsurprisingly both agencies are sitting within the Office of Government Machinery. Thankfully, Parliament refused to approve the GhȻ6m allocation to the Senior ...

When I thought about this article, I had wanted the title to read; “December 31, 1981- A revolution betrayed” but that would have attracted the usual pundits of ‘revolutionary’ theory who continue to question what was ‘betrayed’. For the sake of argument, let us take the case of Cuba. If Fidel Castro had on the eve of the Cuban revolution ...

It has been home to every event imaginable in Ghana since its establishment in 1992 and the management of the National Theatre hopes to serve the public better as it marks its Silver Jubilee next year. Speaking at the official launch of the 25th anniversary on Tuesday, the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Madam Catherine Afeku lauded the efforts ...

  The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has intercepted fake US dollar notes amounting to $358,000 at Sogakope in the Volta Region. The fake notes, in $100 denominations, were concealed in a Nigeria-registered commercial Nissan Pathfinder vehicle, with registration number AKD 710 EP. According to the Assistant Commissioner in charge of the Aflao Border,  Mr Frank Cudjoe Ashongthe, ...

The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has called on the general public to be aware of the the influx of Genetically Modified Organisms(GMO) products into the Ghanaian market irrespective of the negative implications to health and the environment. GMOs are dangerous to health, and are the lead cause of carcinogenic diseases, threat to the environmental  sustainability and threat to ...

Popular spiritualist, Nana Kwaku Bonsam born Stephen Osei Mensah has asked authorities to check and reprimand the activities of a popular Man of God which he felt were against the rights of children. Speaking in an interview with Champion TV, the well-known fetish priest indicated that, the man of God in question was fond of parading young children in his ...

Politics and the mass media are as interlinked as, to borrow a local expression, the teeth and the tongue. Neither can do without the other. Since the newspaper, the first medium of mass communication, was first developed, it has always served as an instrument for the pursuit of every significant social cause or movement everywhere in the world. So has ...

Resistance is the only road to liberation for people exploited and suppressed by those who have state power and control over wealth and resources. However, resistance does not mean disregard for the law. Nor does it mean resorting to violence. The means must be just and peaceful. The desired end might take a long time – a long, long time ...

A  memorandum  of  understanding has been signed  among five  organizations with  the aim to undertake a landscape  restoration  in the Tain II Forest  reserve  and its fringe areas in the  Brong Ahafo  Region . Similar gesture is expected to be extended to other forest reserves in the country. The agreement, which was signed among  the Forestry Commission, Form  Ghana Limited,  ...

The deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Benito Owusu Bio has acknowledged the contributions of the Natural Resources and Environment Governance Program (NREG)   to the country’s natural resources sectors. Delivering a key note address at the 8TH Civil Society Annual Review of the Natural Resources and Environment Sector, Mr Bio said the NREG programs has contributed to great ...