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The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has released the maiden census reports in braille, audio and large prints to make it easy for people who have difficulty seeing to have access to the 2021 Population and Housing Census report. The first census publication in braille was published in partnership with the Ghana Blind Union (GBU) as part of the commitment of ...

One of Ghana’s most respected private legal practitioners, Akoto Ampaw has died. The human rights activist and anti-corruption campaigner is said to have passed on at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) today, October 20, 2023. Details on the cause of his passing are currently scanty, but social media is awash with tributes from some Ghanaians including legal practitioners ...

The Volta River Authority (VRA) has warned that nothing will be saved if the Akosombo Dam overtops its operational level. It said it was for that reason it may have to continue spilling more water from the dam if its current level rises to avert any unforeseen catastrophe. Edward Obeng Kenzo, Deputy Chief Executive of the VRA, explained that the ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has dismissed reports that some Ghanaians were caught up in the crossfire between Israel and Hamas. The Ministry stated categorically that the Ghanaian community in Israel “is currently safe”. This follows a viral video that supposedly captured some Ghanaians stranded near a bombed city. “The Ministry wishes to state categorically that the ...

Some 29 Civil Society Organisations are demanding the immediate removal of GNPC’s Chief Executive Officer, Opoku Ahweneeh Danquah, and Board Chairman, Freddie Blay. The CSOs made up of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC), Imani Centre for Policy and Education and 25 others accuse the two men ...

A Ghanaian peacekeeper, Captain Cecilia Erzuah, will receive the 2022 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award. Captain Erzuah, who has been serving the United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA) since March 2022, will receive the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres award. It will be at a ceremony to mark International Day of UN Peacekeepers on Thursday, ...

An alarming 5.4 million people out of the 12.3 million Ghanaian workforces are tagged as multidimensionally poor. This is according to the Ghana Statistical Service’s 2022 Labour Statistics report. Multidimensional poverty encompasses the various deprivations experienced by poor people in their daily lives – such as poor health, lack of education, inadequate living standards, disempowerment, poor quality of work, the ...

The Chairman of the Kumasi Presbytery of the Global Evangelical Church has asked the government to admit its failure in the fight against illegal mining. Rev. Dr. Smith Francis Korbla Tettey says evidence available to Ghanaians in the form of destruction of the environment, including water bodies does not support the claim that the Nana Addo-led government is on course ...

The Ghana Education Service(GES) has interdicted Mr. Kenneth Agbomodze, Headmaster of Fijai Senior High School with immediate effect over alleged illegal fees collection in the school. This was contained in a statement issued by the GES on Tuesday, April 18. He has been asked to hand over the administration of the school to the Western Regional Director of Education. The ...

The Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations (GFD) has intensified its calls for the government to consider making sign language an official language in the country. This proposal, the organization argues, could be achievable if sign language is incorporated into the country’s core educational curriculum from basic up to the tertiary levels. “We believe that sign language could be made an ...