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President John Dramani Mahama has thanked labour unions for accepting the 10 per cent pay rise. Delivering his maiden State of the Nation Address in Parliament on Thursday, February 27, he noted that this year is a year of sacrifice. “I am confident that the sacrifice we have all made this year will benefit our county going into the future,” ...

Sweet and beguiling poisons Barely a week ago, the BBC aired a documentary with a harrowing message: deadly opioids made in India have flooded Ghana’s market, creating throngs of enslaved addicts. Chilling footage showed the Chief Executive (CEO) of a Mumbai-based pharma company, Aveo Pharmaceuticals, a man called Vinod Sharma, brazenly confessing to undercover journalists how poisonous a certain concoction ...

In a significant move towards fostering inclusion and peaceful coexistence, STAR- Ghana Foundation with funding support from the Foreign Common Wealth and Development Office of the UK, have launched a Fulbe Integration Manual intended to integrate Fulbe (Fulani) communities into the broader social fabric. The Manual is described by stakeholders as a crucial resource that seeks to provide actionable strategies ...

Following the U.S. government’s issuance of a stop-work order on USAID funding, civil society organizations (CSOs) in the northern region have come together to assess its impact on communities, share their experiences, and explore alternative funding opportunities. This gathering serves as a platform to highlight their resilience and innovative responses to the challenges posed by the funding halt, with a ...

Renowned media personality, Mr. Bernard Avle has emphasized the critical importance of applying knowledge in ways that directly benefit local communities. “If you can’t use that knowledge to liberate your people, you don’t really know it because the only purpose of knowledge is usability,” Mr Avle said. “Go back to your hometown and say, okay, how can I use this ...

The NPP Director of Communications has revealed that ex-President Nana Akufo-Addo has directed his former appointees to remain available for any accountability processes following the conclusion of his administration. Richard Ahiagbah speaking on Joy News’ PM Express on Wednesday, February 18, stressed the NPP’s commitment to transparency and accountability. “We [the NPP] have no record of running away; we’ll be ...

Never again should Ghanaians accommodate an insensitive, unconcerned, and intolerable system. The days where falsehood, media hijack, abuse of incumbency, populism, and alleged suppression of the judiciary are over, thank God. Eight years of economic mismanagement, systemic and organised plunder of state resources, state capture, waste, nepotism, unfair preferential treatment, cronyism, abuse of office, impunity, and human rights violations reversed ...

Ahead of the upcoming National Education Forum, STAR-Ghana Foundation has  organised a convening in an  effort to ensure that Civil Society organizations (CSOs) present a unified voice on key education issues at the National event. The convening, which was held in Accra on Friday, February 14, 2025 brought together key stakeholders in the education sector to discuss strategies for monitoring government commitments ...

Programmes to tackle HIV, polio, mpox and bird flu have been affected by the freeze on tens of billions of dollars of overseas aid from the US, says the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO). US President Donald Trump has taken steps to close the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), arguing that its spending is “totally unexplainable”. ...

World Bank Country Director for Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, Robert Taliercio, has warned Ghana against rushing back to international capital markets, describing such a move as premature and potentially risky. According to him, an early return could send the wrong signal to investors and lead to a reversal of gains made under Ghana’s debt restructuring efforts, exposing the country ...