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The Executive Secretary of the Lands Commission, Alhaji Sulemana Mahama, has asked workers of the Commission to help instill discipline in the land market by doing away with all forms of land racketeering. “As the government agency mandated to deliver land titles, register deeds and other services, we need to instil discipline in the land market by curbing the incidence ...

U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Stephanie S. Sullivan, today March 14, 2019, led a ribbon cutting and inaugurated a shea butter processing facility meant to support increased economic opportunities for 600 Ghanaian women who collect and process shea nuts. The United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), supported the construction of the processing facility and warehouse located ...

Participants in a stakeholder’s consultative forum on the implementation of the Representation of the People Amendment Act (ROPAA) 2006, (Act 699), which gives Ghanaians in the diaspora the right to vote have called on the Electoral Commission (EC) to consider using electronic means to register prospective voters. According to the participants in the forum held in Sunyani, the online or ...

The 70th Commonwealth Day anniversary has been observed in Ghana with a call on Commonwealth countries to adopt a more sustainable way of managing plastics in member countries including a possible ban. In a model Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), to mark the Commonwealth Day, students from the British International School and Hydeson International minced no words in challenging ...

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has demanded the resignation of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education-Winneba, Rev Prof Afful-Broni for victimising his lecturers.The V-C recently dismissed three senior lecturers including the UEW UTAG chapter president Dr Frimpong Kaakyire Duku, Professor Ephraim Avea Nsoh and Prof Sarpong.Students of the school went on a spontaneous demonstration on Tuesday after ...

A sizeable chunk of the hordes of child-patients who troop to the 200-bed capacity Wa Regional Hospital in the Upper West Region for medical attention end up being treated on the bare floor due to lack of adequate beds, Wa-based Home Radio 99.7FM has reported. According to Mr Umar Kunateh, General Manager of Home Radio, who first broke the story, ...

Friends of the Earth-Ghana and the Green livelihood Alliance have reiterated calls on the government to reconsider its plans to mine bauxite in the Atewa forest in the Eastern Region of Ghana, insisting that the plan poses a threat to the integrity of the Atewa Forest and therefore is not in the national interest. The two organisations told the media ...

Ghana’s quest to recapture its previous position as the leading producer of cocoa in the world can be enhanced if stakeholders refocus their attention in dealing with the impact of Climate Change across the cocoa growing areas, an official of the Forestry Commission has observed. Mr Mr Emmanuel Antwi, Assistant District Manager, Begoro Forest District believes that the   cocoa sector ...

The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has called on Ghanaian youth, especially those in Zongo communities, to resist any attempt to get them drafted into anti-social activities, especially political vigilantism. He asked them to rather concentrate on tackling the major concerns of the Zongo communities, including jobs, education, and business development, thereby forming ‘Job-lantes, Edu-lantes and Busi-lantes’ to promote their welfare ...

The government is reviewing the law banning the commercial operation of motorbikes, otherwise known as ‘Okada’, to determine whether to amend the law to regularise its operations or maintain its current form and punish offenders. The Minister of Transport, Mr Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, said the government was reviewing the Road Traffic Regulation, 2012 because its non-enforcement had increased Okada operations ...