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Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management at the University of Ghana, Dr. Gordon Abekah-Nkrumah, has urged the government to abandon its ambitious agenda to construct 111 hospitals across the country. He believes the initiative, dubbed Agenda 111 although well intended, will not be feasible considering constraints on fiscal expenditure. Dr. Abekah-Nkrumah wants the government ...

The Executive Director of the Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, says the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), needs a regulator. He said the regulator would help to standardise the Council’s operations and ensure that it delivered as expected to produce “true and learned students.” Mr Asare said that had become necessary because WAEC set its questions, marked by itself, and ...

The Association of Small Scale Miners is urging the government to force persons found to be mining illegally in forest reserves to reclaim the lands and plant new trees before exiting the site. The group believes that it will be wrong for the government to bear the cost of reclaiming destroyed lands in forest reserves as a result of actions ...

World leaders must act now and put the planet on a green path because “we are at the verge of the abyss”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday in his address to the virtual climate summit convened by United States President Joseph Biden. “Mother Nature is not waiting”, the UN chief warned, as the past decade was the hottest ...

The lack of resources and homes for the upkeep of homeless and vulnerable children who have been picked from the streets is a major hurdle undermining the capacity of the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Accra to rid the capital of child beggars. Currently, the various offices of the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) at the assemblies ...

The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), has urged the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to retrieve some $2.1 million owed the state by international oil producing firms operating in the country. PIAC in its annual report noted oil majors operating Ghana’s 3 oil fields – Sakofa Gye Nyame, TEN and Jubilee – owed the state to the tune of $2.1 ...

India recorded the world’s highest daily tally of 314,835 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday as a second wave of the pandemic raised new fears about the ability of crumbling health services to cope. Health officials across northern and western India including the capital, New Delhi, said they were in crisis, with most hospitals full and running out of oxygen. Some doctors were ...

The Deputy Accra Regional Manager of the Forestry Commission, George Agbenowoshi has disclosed that his outfit is set to ‘green’ the region. The operation Green Ghana campaign initiated by the Commission under the leadership of the sector minister will see the planting of some 300,000 trees in the Greater Accra Region as part of the 5 million trees nationwide campaign. ...

President Akufo-Addo has finally released his list of deputy ministers, subject to approval by Parliament. According to a statement from the presidency, the list was submitted to the Speaker of Parliament today. In all, there are 39 deputy ministers appointed under 24 portfolios. The ministries of Trade, Local Government and Energy have three deputy minister-nominees. The list had been highly ...

Mrs. Selina Twum-Ampofo, Headmistress of the Madina Demonstration Basic and Special School says Inclusive Education must be shared responsibility and all stakeholders must be on board. She thus called on the La-Nkwantanang Municipal Assembly to pay their part and ensure the smooth implementation of the Inclusive Education policy within the school. “As a school, we lack some basic things like ...