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The IGP/Mr. James Oppong-Boanuh’s observation in a speech read on his behalf during a function that police/public relations is not the best is an apt one. We would proceed to say rather brazenly that the relationship between the two is very bad and, therefore, needs to be reversed. There is no gainsaying that most Ghanaians do not trust law enforcers, ...

A fatal accident on the Kintampo-Tamale highway in the Bono East Region has left at least 30 people burnt to death, Monday morning. Adom News’ correspondent Wiafe Akenteng who is at the scene says those involved, include women and children. According to him, a Yutong bus reportedly collided with a mini Sprinter bus with registration number AS 1801-18 causing both ...

Sheikh Aremeyaw Shuaib, Spokesperson for the National Chief Imam, has called on faith based organisation to intensify efforts to fight against the dangerous phenomenon of vigilantism in Ghana. He expressed worry about the growing trend of the incident and challenged well-meaning Ghanaians to join the fight and nib the phenomenon in the bud in order to safeguard the security and ...

Along Ghana’s 330 mile coastline, the ocean provides food and income for millions of people. In the last half-century, industrial vessels have flocked to these waters, trawling the sea for fish to export overseas. Now an illegal practice, known locally as saiko, is pushing Ghana’s fisheries to the brink. Saiko is the local name for a particularly destructive form of ...

Government has been urged to support entrepreneurs and start-ups involved in developing profitable locally appropriate solutions to climate change. Ruka Sanusi, the Executive Director of the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC), said this will accelerate the country’s development. She made the call at the annual thought leadership, Incubating and Innovation programme under the theme: ‘Innovation for our future”. Madam Sanusi noted ...

The Savannah Integrated Biodiversity Conservation Initiative (SIBC) project has been launched in the Savannah Regional capital of Damongo. The project was initiated by the Ghana Wildlife Society in collaboration with partners to support the implementation of sustainable management of the Mole National Park and peripheral areas, implemented under the European Union PAPBio program aimed at sound management of large landscape ...

Mr Benito Owusu-Bio, the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, has called for concerted efforts to protect the ecology of the country’s landscapes and restore lost biodiversity. He said the country’s wildlife resources were no longer able to provide those essential services and called for conscious efforts to reverse the current trend in order not to deprive future generations ...

The youth are important asset of every nation. They form the core of the labour force and largely represent the future if properly resourced and nurtured. It is therefore not out of place to invest in this significant segment of the population as a country determined to make socioeconomic progress. Ghana is one of the most stable countries in Sub-Saharan ...

Deputy Education Minister Dr Yaw Adutwum has challenged Ghanaians to be globally competitive rather than seek to be champions of mediocrity. Instead of touting our educational system and products as being better than Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Dr Adutwum said Ghana should “break from the African mediocrity trap” and start competing with the likes of Singapore, Finland and the USA. ...

Eight hundred and thirty inmates have been discharged through the Justice for all Programme (JFAP) from the country’s prisons since its inception in 2007 and the close of last year, 2019. Out of a total of 4,435 cases that were adjudicated during the period, 1,571 inmates who have been on remand in the prisons for three years or more were ...