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Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, Minister for Inner- City and Zongo Development has stressed the need for the expansion of legal education to bridge the lawyer-citizen ratio in the country. This will ensure the availability, efficiency and accessibility of legal services to all regardless of one’s social, political or economic circumstances. Ghana has an estimated population of over 30 million with Lawyer ...

The Registrar-General Jemima Oware has stated that she cannot stop middlemen popularly referred to as ‘Goro boys’ from operating at the Registrar Generals Department. Although these activities are largely illegal, the Registrar-General said these middlemen are also human beings who are working to make ends meet. ‘Goro boys’ are middlemen who extort money from clients to offer them supposed speedy ...

The Ghana Chapter of the Seed Transformation Network has stated its readiness to encourage national dialogue among stakeholders within the Ghanaian economy to maximise the economic gains of the country. The President of the Network, Madam Constance Swaniker, stated this at a media launch in Accra on March 27, 2019. She said in a release issued in Accra that “the ...

The Governing Council of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) has reinstated three lecturers who were dismissed from the institution. The school is also set to reopen on April 8, 2019, after it was shut down following student protests against the school’s Vice Chancellor over the dismissal of some of the lecturers. According to a statement from the Governing Council ...

The World Bank has lamented over the high cost of internet in low-to-middle income countries, including Ghana. The Bank’s Vice President for Africa, Hafez Ghanem, who made this observation when he paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, urged her to adopt measures to bring the cost down. A research findings released in October 2018 by ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has reiterated its caution to teachers against corporal punishment. Mr Gideon Tsawodzi, the Volta Regional Guidance and Counselling Coordinator, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) said, the Service had banned caning in private and public primary and secondary schools and would not defend any teacher reported for assaulting pupils and students. He ...

The government plans to introduce buses powered by compressed natural gas and electric buses as part of efforts to reduce air pollution on the roads in the country. The environmentally-friendly buses are expected to phase-out the operations of urban buses – popularly called ‘trotro’ – that use dirty fossil fuels such as diesel and petrol. The Deputy Minister of Transport, Daniel ...

Rural areas continue to be in a state of crisis in many parts of the world, threatening to slow the progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals, global climate targets, and improved food and nutrition security. This is contained in the 2019 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) released today by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Rural areas remain underserved compared to urban areas ...

Sunyani, the administrative capital of the newly created Bono Region will host this year’s grand durbar of stakeholders to climax the International Day of Forests in June. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Forestry Commission, Mr Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie made this known in Accra recently during the media launch of the International Day of Forests. Mr Owusu Afriyie stated, ...

The World Bank Vice-President for Africa, Dr Hafiz Ghanem, has advised Ghana to work towards achieving a 100 per cent Internet access. He said that was a necessary vision and dream for the country because the digitisation of the Ghanaian economy was extremely important, noting that across Africa, access to the Internet was only 21 per cent. Dr Ghanem, who ...