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Founding member of Citizen Ghana Movement, Mr Nana Akwasi Awuah, has called on the NPP government to pass the Right to Information bill (RTI) to empower Ghanaians to demand accountability and transparency. He made this plea at a public forum organized by the coalition on the Right To Information Ghana  to mark the International Day for Universal Access to Information ...

The 8th Pan African Congress Legacy Project donated a set of books to the Kwame Nkrumah Institute for African Studies in Legon. The first set of books authored by Kwame Nkrumah were donated to the Kwame Nkrumah Chair at the Institute, Professor Horace Campbell and the second to the Director of the Institute, Professor Dzodzi Tsikata. Receiving the books, Professor ...

Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, the Senior Minister, says it is high time the nation departs from the export of raw materials and adds value to her agricultural produce in order to maximise profit for infrastructural development. He said Ghana, and for that matter, Africa, should move away from the paradigm of relying heavily on the export of raw commodities to generate ...

Ghana’s quest to develop at a faster rate can be given a boost if issues of national development are approached collectively and in a non- partisan manner, the Chief Executive Officer of the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), Mr Charles Akalyira Abugre has noted. Mr Abugre said it is important for Ghanaians and politicians in particular to maintain consensus across ...

A development consultant, Mr Baba Tuahiru has called for a stronger collaboration between state actors and private entities to ensure sustainable climate change funding. He made this remarks at a workshop organised by ABANTU for Development on the theme: ‘Influencing Public and Private Sources of Financing for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation in the country.’ Finance has been and remains the ...

The Netherlands Embassy under the GIZ Good Financial Governance Programme has handed over two customs laboratory vans to the Ghana Revenue Authority to enable the institution to undertake quick on-the-spot testing of goods at the checkpoint and warehouses. The Good Financial Governance (GFG) programme has since 2003 been supporting public financial management reforms in Ghana including revenue management, budget management ...

Residents of Denase in the Afigya Kwabre North District are up in arms against their Assemblyman whom they have dubbed ‘dormant Honourable’.  Public Agenda has learned that unless the unexpected happens, there is a high probability that the Assemblyman for Denase Electoral Area in the Afigya Kwabre North District of Ashanti Region, Hon Anthony Oteng will be shown the red ...

Ghana’s capital city, Accra is inundated with rubbish and uncollected garbage which has earned it the 4th dirtiest city in West Africa. Meeting the press, the Minister for Sanitation and Water Resource Mr Joseph Kofi Adda, said what has stood in the way of the timely and efficient provision of waste management services or the collection of refuse or garbage, ...

  Hon Otiko Afisa Djaba, the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection has said government will prosecute corrupt officials who try to put government’s work in disrepute by stealing from the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) beneficiaries.   She said there are a number of allegations that have been made against social welfare staff in charge of the distribution ...

In tendering their petition against the wholesome implementation of the free Senior High School program scheduled to take off this month (September 2017) the crusader/convener of a Kumasi-based non-governmental organization, dubbed Youth Empowerment Summit, Mr. Clement Adjei Sarfo has stressed the need for government to avoid the politicization of issues related to education and training of manpower in the country. ...