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The Ghana Meteorological Agency has ruled out climate change as the reason why Ghana is experiencing rains in October. Public Relations Officer of the Agency, Papa Nii Clegg in an interview with Joy News said the change is not new and forecast more rains in the coming weeks. “The rains we are experiencing in October is not unusual. It could ...

Fifty-seven out of the 144 Frequency Modulation (FM) stations that were cited for various infractions in an audit exercise by the National Communications Authority (NCA) have been shut down, the Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu Ekuful, has said. “In accordance with the decisions of the Electronic Communication Tribunal (ECT), 30 out of the 57 stations have submitted fresh applications ...

The Founder of Fountain Gate Ministry, Rev. Eastwood Anaba, says the increasing rate of criminal activities is not a failure of the church and its pastors. He acknowledges that one of the traditional functions of religion and Christianity for that matter, is to keep people from wrongdoing, however, those responsible for preventing the occurrence of crime in the country must ...

President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called for an end of what he calls over-politicisation of every policy in Ghana. Commissioning the second medical drone distribution centre in Mpanya, in Asante Mampong, in the Ashanti Region, the President said the incessant politicisation of all issues does no credit to Ghana’s politics. “When Zipline is called to supply blood products during emergency ...

The Executive Secretary of the Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC), Mrs Mami Dufie Ofori, has cautioned that very soon Ghana may have to import water to supply its people if the rate at which people are encroaching and destroying the nation’s water bodies is not checked. Mrs Ofori, who was astonished at the level of encroachment on the catchment ...

Ghana has set in motion an ambitious target to cut down carbon emission by 10 million tonnes in the next six years. The initiative, dubbed the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme (GCFRP) aims to significantly reduce carbon emissions resulting from cocoa expansion into forests through the promotion of appropriate climate-smart cocoa production approaches, including intensification and yield enhancement. It also ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given an assurance that so long as he remains President, there is no way Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) will be introduced into the school curricula. Allaying the fears of Ghanaians about the possible introduction of the CSE, he said the rumour was false and urged parents to disregard it. Speaking at a service to ...

The head of the Anti-sexual Harassment Committee of the University Of Ghana says it will not shield any lecturer found culpable of sexually abusing any student. Dr Margaret Ivy Amoakohene said the country’s premier university can only investigate when there is proof to go on and not work with rumours.  “What we intend to do is investigate the matter, follow our ...

A private legal practitioner, Yaw Oppong, is calling for a specific law in the country to make homosexuality a criminal offence. He said although there are some provisions in the Criminal Code under which a homosexual can be prosecuted especially for having intercourse with a partner, a specific law must be enacted to declare homosexual relationship an illegality. Commenting on ...

The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has called on the Bank of Ghana to take swift action on persons who are advertising on some television stations that they have the ability to double money for their clients. He has suggested to the central bank to state its position on the issue before matters come to a heat. The minister ...