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Country Director of the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), Philip Smith, has said the poverty gap between northern and southern Ghana is widening despite the country seeing “record” economic growth and development in the last 12 years. Mr Smith made the observation when he addressed participants at a ceremony to launch the Poverty Profile of Ghana from (2005 ...

The police in Ho, the Volta Regional Capital, have apprehended some suspects believed to be behind the incessant robbery and attacks on students and residents, particularly those living in and around the tertiary institutions and estate communities. The suspects who are 10 in number were arrested on the dawn of last Thursday, August 30, during a dawn operation. The swoop ...

The Tamale Central Prison (TCP) has forcibly accommodated more inmates causing overcrowding. The facility is overstretched as it accommodates over 300 inmates, with a cell housing 30 inmates which is against the international standard of a cell housing at most four inmates. The prison was built to accommodate some 80 inmates. According to David Afatsawu, the PRO of TCP, due ...

Christians in Ghana have veered off their core mandate and are now majoring on prosperity messages instead. According to the immediate past Chairman of the Church of Pentecost Apostle Professor Opoku Onyinah, most Christian teachings now dwell more on prosperity gospel than any other thing. “The focus of many Christians has changed. That focus has actually changed. Quite recently many ...

Mr. Evans Opoku-Bobie, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister designate on Tuesday expressed disgust over the influx of foreign drama contents that have infiltrated and dominated television networks in the country. The Regional Minister, who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Asunafo North Constituency said something must be done to bring the situation under control, before the local drama industry collapsed. ...

HEAD PHARMACIST at the Kwesimitsim Hospital in Takoradi, Kwadwo Okyere-Apenteng, has bemoaned the lack of prioritisation of mental health on the part of stakeholders in the health sector. He mentioned that persons with mental disorder can hardly do anything about their condition and, therefore, must be taken care of by the society. “Mental illness is just like any other illness ...

Dr Kofi Abotsi, Dean, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Law School, has called on stakeholders to engage the youth while making decisions in the education sector. Dr Abosti stressed the involvement of the youth was necessary because the transformative part of education, and the failures of education impact directly on the youth. A statement issued by Mrs ...

The former Upper East Regional Minister, Mr Rockson Bukari, has called on media practitioners to help project the potential of the region through their reportage in order to woo investors to the area. Refering to the media as “makers of modern minds,” the former minister noted that it was important for the media to set an agenda to educate the ...

Minister for Inner-Cities and Zongo Development, Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid says his focus while at the ministry will be to tackle education and human resource development among zongo communities. These are the biggest challenges of dwellers of these sprawling settlements where social amenities are lacking and standard of living low, according to the immediate past Minister for Information whose recent reshuffle ...

A humanitarian crisis is looming in a number of communities in northern Ghana, particularly areas along the White Volta and the Black Volta, following the spilling of excess water from the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso. “Swathes of farmlands have been consumed by flood waters and lives are under threat. The situation is very bad,” the Director-General of the National ...