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The Chinese government, through its China-Aid programme, has provieded 1,029 boreholes in some remote communities in all the 10 regions of Ghana. The boreholes were provided under an economic and technical cooperation agreement signed between Ghana and China on December 15, 2015. A regional breakdown of the boreholes is: Upper East 182, Upper West eight, Northern 155, Brong Ahafo 146, ...

The Reverend Father Peter Kabutey, the Assistant Parish Priest of the Saint Charles Lwanga Catholic Church, Abeka, has urged the citizenry to condemn the wrongs in society without fear of threats or reactions from influential people. He said people were afraid to speak the truth and condemn the ills in society, especially when it concerned influential people, as they thought ...

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has issued a warning to all its students, stating it will no longer tolerate crude and sexually offensive conducts, particularly from male students. Chancellor of the university, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II indicated lewd behaviours done in the name of traditions and culture is unjustifiable, hence such acts will not be entertained ...

Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, has called on Ghanaians to contribute towards sustaining water services to communities. “Whilst government is committed to living up to its social responsibilities of investing in the water sector, the citizenry are expected to contribute their quota to ensuring the protection and sustainability of the water system,” she said. ...

The Coalition on the Right to Information (RTI) Ghana, the Media Coalition on RTI, and OccupyGhana (altogether the “Coalition”) have taken note of Parliament’s consideration of all 92 clauses in the Right to Information Bill 2018. A statement issued by the Coalition and copied to the Ghana News Agency said after years of disappointment, this was certainly a very good ...

There are five trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans. A plastic bag was found 36,000 feet below the surface, at the ocean’s deepest point, the Mariana Trench. Most of the plastic found at the bottom of the sea by divers (89%) has one thing in common, the Deep Sea Debris Database reported: it’s waste such as plastic bottles and ...

Alliance for Reproduction Health Rights (ARHR) has appealed to the Ministry of Health (MOH) to equip all healthcare facilities with essential items to enhance primary care in all districts across the country. ARHR, a non-governmental organization noted that it was crucial for district health facilities to have emergency vehicles for the accident units, drugs for mental illness, motorbikes for courier ...

Child Online Africa, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) yesterday launched this years’s Safer Internet Day( SID) with a call on Ghanaians to work together to protect children within the digital space. The Executive Director of the NGO, Mrs Awo Aidam Amenyah, who made the call, noted that the protection of children was a shared responsibility, thus the need for all to ...

Ghana has been hit with visa sanctions by the United States of America for its purported lack of cooperation in accepting Ghanaians deported from the US. The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, has ordered embassy officers in Ghana to implement the visa restrictions on certain categories of visa applicants, according to a US Department of Homeland Security statement. The ...

Project Evolve, a Non – Governmental Organization, kick -started the year 2019 with a donation of assorted food items worth hundreds of Ghana Cedis to the Sekondi Female Prisons.   The items including, Bags of Rice, Cooking Oil, bottled and sachet water, soft drinks among others were received by DSP Daffour, Commander of the Sekondi Female Prison and other prison ...