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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged Africans to refrain from activities that lead to civil strife. He said for the continent to take its rightful place in global affairs, it had to shed its image of instability and wars and rather prioritise the establishment of a peaceful environment. President Akufo-Addo made the call when he addressed the Gender and ...

Affirmative Action describes policies that support members of a disadvantaged group through education, employment or housing who have suffered past discrimination. Historically and internationally, support for Affirmative Action has sought to achieve goals such as bridging inequalities in employment and salary, increasing access to education, promoting diversity and redressing apparent past wrongs, harms or hindrances. The nature of Affirmative Action ...

A symposium aimed at fostering unity among Muslims and adherents of other religious faiths was held in Accra yesterday. Held on the theme: “Religious minorities – Rights and obligations”, it was organised by the Muslim World League, in collaboration with the Islamic Centre for Education and Development. The symposium attracted religious leaders from the Muslim and Christian communities, including the ...

The Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Professor Stephen Adei, has said the opportunity to be corrupt is so high as a result of the lack of proper mechanisms to check the colluded activities of some individuals in the country. He has, therefore, called for the empowerment of State authorities to question individuals about the sources of their ...

The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr Natalia Kanem has inaugurated a youth innovative hub located on the premises of the UNFPA, Ghana office. Named, the ‘Orange Loft’, the hub is designed to serve as an incubator to hone the skills of the beneficiaries of UNFPA Ghana’s Youth Leaders (YoLe) Fellowship Programme, as well as inspire ...

The impunity with which criminals operate in Ghana suggests a lack of the right leadership for the country, Brigadier Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, a former Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces, has said. By leadership, he clarified that he was not only talking about those in political positions but leaders outside politics, too. These leaders, he said, have failed ...

The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference, the Christian Council of Ghana, the Office of the National Chief Imam, and the various political parties in Ghana have shown support to the impending referendum to pave way for the election of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the country. This was at a multi-stakeholder Conference organised by the Directorate of ...

Government  has announced that Ghana’s draft Diaspora Engagement Policy is now available for input by stakeholders ahead of the 2019 homecoming summit, and would release for stakeholders’ input at the July Homecoming Summit. The policy document is aimed at targeting and encouraging more Ghanaians in the Diaspora to bring their technical skills, money and investment opportunities back home to complement ...

The Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), a policy research and advocacy organisation, is advocating a strict legal regime to regulate civil society organisations (CSOs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the wake of the use of some of the organisations to promote money laundering and terrorists agenda. According to the IDEG, some people were using and exploiting CSOs as points of ...

The latest World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI) report has ranked Ghana as the last but one country on harmonised test scores of children from basic to secondary school education in the world. The report stressed that although Ghana had done well in terms of enrolment for basic and second cycle education, there was no corresponding improvement in the quality ...