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The Social Enterprise Development Foundation of West Africa (SEND West Africa) will rolled out a week-long programme beginning on the 30th August, 2018, to celebrate 20 years of exceptional contributions to poverty reduction and the promotion of good governance practices in Ghana and other African countries. The multinational organization was founded in Ghana in 1998, and country programmess in Liberia ...

A Corruption Watch investigation has uncovered how unidentified persons have been staging frequent break-ins at the offices of the Ministry of Justice and Attorney-General in Accra. The incidents have resulted in concerns about tampering with the integrity of the prosecutorial processes as well as the security and safety of the officers of the A-G’s department. According to Corruption Watch sources, ...

The exponential growth rate of plastics use and its alarming mismanagement, include wide spread littering and its associated environmental and health risk in Ghana has prompted the Ministry of Environment, science and technology and Innovation (MESTI) to find a sustainable way to curb this menace and turn plastics into a resource for creating employment and improving the living standards of ...

The Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) has given government a deadline of next month October 31 to ensure that the salary arrears owed over 42,000 teachers across the country are cleared or face industrial action. “This we will do even if only one affected person is not paid before the deadline of October 31.2018,” warned the Concerned Teachers in a ...

The World Export Development Forum 2018, will take place in Lusaka, Zambia, on 11-12 September under the theme ‘Scaling Up through Trade’. The Forum will bring business leaders, policymakers and youth from around the world to explore a range of traderelated issues, including agribusiness, investment and the African Continental Free Trade Area. This year’s annual flagship event of the International ...

Her Excellency Tove Degnbol, Denmark Ambassador to Ghana has indicated that religion, culture and tradition should not be barriers to preventing the implementation of internationally accepted human rights standards especially those to which the  country has accepted. She therefore appealed to Government to be resolute in its implementation of the various recommendations keeping in mind the Vienna Declaration which reaffirms ...

The Omanhene of Kwahu Traditional Area, Daasebre Akuamoah Agyepong II, has donated Five Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢5,000) to the winners of this year’s Maths and Science Quiz, Saint Peter’s Senior High School at Nkwatia Kwahu in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region.   The donation was made at the Esuno Gyimah Mampong Agyei palace, Kwahu Abene the traditional ...

A research done by the Ghana REDD+ secretariat has identified that agriculture contributes up to 50 per cent to the causes of deforestation in Ghana, This is so because the laws of the country do not favour farmers who nurture trees on their lands as a result of that, they resort to destroying them at a younger stage. “Farmers and ...

Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has long being devising ways to maximize revenue collection, whilst ensuring the general public efficiently use electric power generated wisely. In their quest to meet this set objective, the Company introduced prepared meters in certain parts of the country in the year 2003. Information gathered at the end of 2004 indicated that ECG was able ...

Ghana’s health sector is estimated to lose about $500 million every year due to large amounts of waste, fraud, corruption, diversion of resources and accounting irregularities. The Founder and President of mPedigree, Mr Bright Simons, who disclosed this in Accra yesterday, said although Ghana spent more of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the health sector than most countries in ...