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The Chief Executive Officer of the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD), Mr Senyo Hosi, has encouraged Africans to focus on demanding for accountability and true service from political leaders. He noted that the biggest hindrance of Africa was its weak policies and institutions superintended by poor leadership. Speaking at the 2018 African Development and Investment Convention (ADIC) on the topic “Africa ...

The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), has out doored a Research Report, detailing the need for Ghana to consider establishing an Independent Police Complaints Commission. The Report which was launched in Accra on Wednesday  gives an overview  of  the  legislative framework and accountability mechanisms of the police service  in Ghana, provides models of  Independent Police Commission(IPCC) from around  the world  ...

First Ladies in Africa have pledged their collective resolve to partner “Merck More Than A Woman” initiative to create greater awareness on infertility and cancers, which are perceived mostly to afflict women. The First Ladies of Ghana, Senegal, Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Niger, Sierra Leone and Zambia made the pledged at the opening ceremony of the fifth edition ...

Selected farmers in the Northern and Upper East regions are to benefit from a US$56.52 million African Development Bank loan facility to fund an initiative dubbed ‘Savannah Agricultural Productivity Improvement Project {SAPIP}’. The five-year project, which is targeted at 50,000 farmers, will be implemented in Savelugu, Nanton, Tolon, Kumbungu, West Gonja and West Mamprusi districts in the Northern Region, while ...

The United Nations Development Programme {UNDP} has called for concerted efforts to consider the special needs, concerns, knowledge and experiences of both male and female in climate change adaptation and mitigation planning and implementation. According to the UNDP, it is important not to neglect women’s voices in decisions and policy-making on climate change as well as on sustainable development goals. ...

Countries around the globe have signed a declaration vowing to strengthen their primary health care systems as an essential step towards achieving universal health coverage {UHC}. The “Declaration of Astana”, endorsed by 130 heads of states and ministers attending the Global Primary Health Care Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, makes pledges in four key areas. Pledges The countries committed to make ...

Energy consumers will by 2023 choose their own power suppliers as part of reforms to make the power supply subsector more competitive. Per the new arrangement, smaller private entities will be given the license to distribute power regardless of the meter they use. The current system limits consumers to purchase power from only one source including the Electricity Company of ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, has assured stakeholders in mental health care that the House will work towards the passage of the Legislative Instrument{LI} on Ghana’s Mental Health Act. Prof. Oquaye made the statement at a stakeholders’ meeting in Accra yesterday, at which a number of speakers expressed worry over the delay in the passage of the ...

Dr Kamal-Deen Ali, the Executive Director of Centre for Maritime, Law and Security (CEMLAWS) has said maritime is critical to national development and should be considered whenever boundaries were being drawn to measure the landmarks within the country. “We have not paid enough attention to maritime and some of the few we have paid attention to, are having declining implications ...

President Akufo-Addo wants African leaders to address the growing youth unemployment situation in Africa as it threatens the stability of the continent. According to him, urgent attention is required to tackle the situation which has become a security threat on the continent. Speaking at the opening of the 9th AU High-Level Retreat on the promotion of Peace, Security and Stability ...