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The Third world  Network –Africa(TWN)  has acknowledged  the  significant  contribution of  the  Artisanal Small scale Mining(ASM) sub sector to Ghana’s economy and  wants government to give  the sector  the needed  attention. The Organization argues  that the  bulk of  the earnings of  the artisanal small scale  mining stays  in the country, yet government policies appear to be favourable towards foreign  investors  ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ghana’s  President, Nana  Addo Dankwa-Akufo Addo   has  touted  the significance  of  the private  sector, insisting  that  the  country’s solution to the  current  unemployment crisis lies with small and medium size enterprises that employ three, seven, fifteen and fifty people, and with large-scale industrial enterprises that employ people in their hundreds and thousands. According to the President, the government is “creating ...

Farmers and civil society organizations have been advised not to confuse the Plant Breeder’s Bill with the new Science known as Biotechnology as these two are not entirely related. According to Dr Richard Ampadu –Ameyaw of the Science and Technology Research Institute at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, time is now for Ghanaians particularly those who are confusing ...

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 ...

Even though the 1992 Constitution explicitly protects the state-owned media to be independent, free and critical in order to demand accountability from government, they are timid, the Board Chairman of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), Professor Kwame Karikari, has observed. “The state-owned media are behaving like chickens that have been kept under a coop for a long time, and ...