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An Energy and Extractive Governance Expert Mr. Gideon Ofosu-Peasah is calling on miners especially those in the Artisanal and Small-Scale sector to consider the use of the hyper accumulative technology in their operations since it preserves the environment and sustains it for future use.The hyperaccumulators are used as an alternative low-cost means of extracting heavy metals from the metal contaminated ...

Pressure is mounting on the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, the Forestry Commission and the Parliament of Ghana to expedite action towards conversion of extant leases in order to make Ghana the first African Country to trade in FLEGT licensed Timber. Civil Society has noticed a dip in the pace of implementation of certain critical final steps that will ...

The Civil Society Platform on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has rolled out the second phase of its COVID- 19 response by supplying 5000 face masked and 9000 Information Education and Communication sticker materials to a section of vulnerable Ghanaians. The items according to the Platform are to be shared to Persons with Disability (PWDs), Street Children, the Aged and the ...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has pledged to do whatever is necessary to strengthen the already-strong relations between Ghana and the Federal Republic of Nigeria. According to President Akufo-Addo, it is important for the progress of West Africa and, indeed, Africa, that Ghana and Nigeria are seen to be working together, and has assured that the two ...

Samuel Aye Paye, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayensuano has called on Ghanaians to bury their political differences and build a prosperous nation for the future generations together. He said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has laid a solid foundation for the growth of the country and needed another term to complete his laudable development agenda. Aye Paye made the call ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s COVID-19 “free water for all intervention” faces a serious threat as some service providers in rural areas begin to sell water to sustain their economic activities. According to the Association of Small Towns Water Supply Systems-Ghana (ASTOWAS), many service providers in the rural communities could not continue to provide water relief because they were financially bankrupt. Addressing a ...

NPP National Youth Organizer, Henry Nana Boakye has called on government to assist private schools and their teaching staff as the closure of some Senior and Junior High, primary and basic schools extends to next year. President Nana Akufo-Addo, in his 16th nation address on COVID-19 on Sunday, August 30, 2020 annonced that the schools will reopen in January, 2021. “The Ghana ...

The Executive Director of the Center for Social Impact Studies (CESiS), Mr. Richard Kojo Ellimah has called on operators in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining sector to consider using modern technology to find gold deposits instead of the current try and error method which comes with several environmental challenges contributing to climate change.  To him, the use of technology such ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says Form 2 Senior High School (SHS) and Junior High School (JHS) students are to return to school from October 5 to December 14, 2020, to complete their academic year. The President made this known on Sunday, August 30, 2020, during his 16th televised address to the nation on measures taken by his government to combat the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced the reopening of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) from Tuesday, September 1, 2020. This is after a thorough work by the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), Ghana Health Service and the Ministry of Health. Akufo-Addo made this known during his 16th televised address to the nation on the measure ...