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Mr. Emmanuel Nkrumah, a World Bank Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist has identified political interference in Ghana’s Water and Sanitation sector as a major drawback to the country’s goal at enhancing water accessibility, sanitation and hygiene. He made the observation at the opening session of a four-day conference of the Ghana Coalition of NGOs in WASH (CONIWAS) at Sogakope, in ...

The Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC), one of the leading Policy Think Tanks in the country has bemoaned the continuous decline and inconsistency in budgetary allocations to the essential services sector of the economy, demanding an immediate reverse to the trend. ISODEC is of the view that the annual budget is too earmarked, thus, making it virtually impossible to allocate ...

The Adansi North District has launched a programme aimed at eliminating child labour in the district. The programme, dubbed “Child Labour Free Zone”, is aimed at protecting children from all forms of exploitation and promote their welfare and development. The Assembly has drafted by-laws and also constituted a committee to provide protection and supervise the movement of children less than 18 years of ...

The number of young people infected with HIV in Ghana has increased from 1.1 percent in 2016 to 1.5 percent in 2017, the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) has announced. The Commission further revealed that the reported number of HIV infections has also risen from 16,000 to 19,101 within the same period. This was disclosed at the launch of the World ...

About 56 per cent of Ghana’s human capital will go waste in the next 18 years because of the poor quality of the country’s education system, the latest Human Capital Index (HCI) report by the World Bank has revealed. The report made a stunning revelation that only 44 per cent of children born in the country today will become productive ...

Dr Lawrence Tetteh, the Chaplain of the Ghana Christian Council of United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland, Monday appealed to the Prince of Wales and Head of the Commonwealth, to use his high office to push for the regularisation of the stay of the law-abiding Ghanaians in the UK. This, the President of the Worldwide Miracle Outreach said, would enable them ...

The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles on Monday urged Ghana to leverage its active role in the Commonwealth and its influence in Africa to lead the fight to mitigate the effect of the climate change phenomenon. Noting the frightening statistics on the climate change occurrence, he said if viable actions were not taken to address the issue, which had impacted ...

Mr Andy Appiah-Kubi, Deputy Minister for Railways Development, has stressed the need for the nation to place greater emphasis on the teaching and training of science and technology for the youth to make them fit appropriately into the global superhighway. He said science and technology were critical to sustainable national development and there was the need for the youth to ...

The Ghana AIDS Commission says the prevalence of HIV/AIDS amongst the country’s youth in 2017, particularly those below the age of 24, rose to about 45% nationwide. The Commission attributed the upsurge to unprotected sex as well as low knowledge of the youth about the infection. Speaking at the launch of the 2018 World AIDS Day, the acting Director of ...

The Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mrs Barbara Oteng-Gyasi, has called on mining companies to empower and help develop women to take up higher positions in the sector in order to attain better gender equality in that area. Mrs Oteng-Gyasi, who was speaking at a workshop on the country’s mining regulatory landscape in Accra, noted that: “The challenges ...