The Speaker of Parliament, Prof Mike Oquaye has tasked the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Environment, Science and Technology and Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs to develop tools to fight environmental degradation. According to him, the joint Committee should recommend punitive measures for people involved in environmental degradation. He stated that the Joint Committee must undertake a thorough review of the ...
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Rail rebuilding begins; Accra-Nsawam stretch to bounce back soon
The Ghana Railway Company Limited (GRCL) has begun rehabilitation works on the Accra/Nsawam railway stretch to improve safety on the rail lines. The rehabilitation project is estimated to cost GH¢15 million and is to improve the transportation situation in the city. In an interview on Tuesday, the acting Managing Director of the GRCL, Mr John Essel, explained that the rehabilitation ...
Read More »RTI law will consolidate Ghana’s democracy
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. ...
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 »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 »Mallam Junction section of Accra-Kasoa road reopens Saturday
The Mallam Junction section of the Accra-Kasoa road that was closed to vehicular traffic, to make way for work on the Mallam Junction drainage project, will be opened to traffic by Saturday, June 2. This will bring great relief to motorists who ply the road who have been under intense stress since their routes were diverted for the GAMA Sanitation ...
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