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The Electoral Commission (EC) is optimistic of capturing between 50,000 to 70,000 new voters onto the electoral roll in its upcoming mop-up voter registration exercise scheduled to take place from Thursday, August 1 to Saturday, August 2024. The three-day exercise is meant to give opportunity to persons who turned 18 years after the recent limited voter registration and those who ...

The UN health agency said on Friday that it is sending more than a million polio vaccines to Gaza after the discovery of the highly infectious disease in sewage samples. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that the vaccines will be administered to children in the coming weeks. He noted that no cases of polio have been recorded yet but without immediate action, it was “just a matter of time before it reaches the ...

Some Members of Parliament in the Minority Caucus have rejected a report by the joint committee on Mines and Energy and Lands and Forestry, which investigated a clash between small-scale salt miners and officials of Electrochem Ghana Limited at the Songor Lagoon enclave. The report recommends no review of the three mining leases ratified by Parliament for Electrochem Ghana. During ...

Professor of Finance at the University of Ghana, Godfred Bokpin, says the government has not demonstrated effective management of the funds it has borrowed in the name of the crises that have hit the country over the past eight years. According to him, even though the public debt stock has ballooned over the period, there is not much to show ...

Ghana is set to introduce paternity leave as part of a series of labour reforms planned for the year 2024.  The announcement was made by Finance Minister, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam during his mid-year budget review presentation to Parliament on Tuesday, July 23. Dr. Adam stated that the government, in collaboration with its social partners, has developed a draft Labour ...

Disability rights advocacy groups have decried the lack of priority given to social welfare in the allocation of petroleum revenue. The groups, under the auspices of the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations (GFD), made their views known yesterday at a forum organised by the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC). According to the groups, the absence of social welfare from ...

The world’s forests are becoming increasingly susceptible to wildfires and pests due to climate change, according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), released Monday.  “Forests and trees are essential components of agrifood systems. The removal of forest cover, especially in the tropics, increases local temperatures and disrupts rainfall patterns in ways that compound the ...

The World Bank in its eighth Ghana Economic Update, says the country has seen ‘steady progress’ in the past year towards economic stabilisation though challenges remain. The report attributed what it described as a “modest recovery” in the Ghanaian economy to a firm monetary policy stance, comprehensive debt restructuring, and a series of structural reforms to support long-term growth. It, ...

To hear the government tell it, its “flagship” Free Senior High School (FSHS) programme has been so successful that it must be protected through legislation before the December 2024 elections to prevent “evil” John Mahama from messing it up if he should return to power in 2025.  At least one government official believes this hype so much that he once ...

Five senior UN officials have welcomed the decision by The Gambia to uphold its ban on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), calling it a critical win for women’s and girls’ rights.  Parliamentarians in the West African country voted last Monday to reject a bill that sought to overturn a 2015 law against the harmful practice, which involves cutting or removing some ...