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Upper West Regional Director of the National Commission for Civil Education (NCCE), Madam Patience Sally Kumah, has bemoaned the high level of indiscipline among the youth in relation to the wrong usage of drugs such as tramadol and codeine. She said the usage of these drugs could be detrimental to the health of users when they are taken on self-medication. ...

Monday, January 7, 2019, has been declared by the government as Constitution Day and will be observed as a public holiday nationwide. The announcement was made in a statement dated December 27 and signed by the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery. Earlier this month, legislation was laid in parliament on government’s proposal of new holidays to be observed in the country. ...

Speaker of Parliament Rev Prof Aaron Mike  Oquaye is rallying support for the construction of the national cathedral for Ghana, explaining that the building would be a focal point for national cohesion. “It will help recognize the role of God in the affairs of the country,” he said. The Speaker maintained that despite the divergent views expressed on the proposed ...

The media coalition on the Right to Information bill is unmoved by comments from the Speaker of Parliament, asking Civil Society Organisations to cease mounting pressure on the House concerning the two-decade-old bill. The Speaker, Prof. Mike Oquaye in his closing remarks as the House was going on Christmas break said, the impression being created that the MPs are not ...

The Upper West Regional Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Mrs Zenabu Wasai-King, says bushfires have reduced soil fertility, destroyed farm produce and lowered general agricultural output thereby exposing the Region to hunger. She said bushfires, over the years, had been identified as one of the major challenges to the socio-economic progress of the savanna ecology in which vegetation ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Aaron Oquaye says parliament should be a place of refuge for persons with disabilities and the less privileged. This position comes barely a month when a physically-challenged man was denied entry into the chamber of Parliament by security who then said he cannot stand to acknowledge the Speaker of the House. Alex Tetteh the ...

The Founder and Leader of the Springhouse Chapel International, Reverend Ohenese Gyan-Agyei, has called on the Gender, Children and Social Protection Ministry, allied agencies and departments to consider adopting some of the private orphanages and child support organisations, as a majority of them are “seriously struggling.” He said a number of the private orphanages were faced with financial and infrastructural ...

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) in accordance with the Public Health Act to ensure public safety has destroyed some expired products in the Upper West Region. The products, valued at GH¢41,027 were seized from traders. The perished products deemed hazardous to public health included non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages, toffees, canned tomatoes, canned or tin fish, milk, herbal medicines and ...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is urging businesses in the Private Sector to use the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework for impact investment in Ghana. The call was made by the acting Resident Representative of UNDP Ghana, Ms. Gita Welch in a keynote address at the 2018 Ghana Impact Dialogue held in Accra by the Global Steering ...

The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII)is demanding of government, particularly agencies of state responsible for investigations and prosecution of graft related issues to provide Ghanaians with updates on the outcomes of alleged corruption cases which rocked the country this year. The request comes following a long silence from these agencies after government had initiated steps to deal with these alleged corruption ...