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Chairman of the Finance Committee, Dr. Mark Assibey Yeboah has asked the government to pay attention to the road and health sector in the 2020 budget. The Finance Minister is expected to present the 2020 budget and financial policy of the government to Parliament next week. It will be the fourth budget of the Akufo-Addo administration, in accordance with Article ...

We are living in an Era and despensation when most prophesies have turned out to be death, coffin, buried, accident, blood etc targeted at Celebrities, politicians, Religious leaders and ordinary people. The Presiding Bishop of Victory Bible Church International, Bishop N A Tarkie-Yarboi has caution the end time doom prophets to see beyond death. “Death is supposed to be a ...

The Ghana ‘beyond aid’ policy by President Akufo-Addo has gained global attraction as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has adopted it for its policy direction for the entire African continent. The adoption was manifested in the UNDP High-Level Dialogue with African influencers held at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel, today Thursday, the 7th of November, 2019 which was themed, ...

The Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has encouraged children and the youth to be bold in reporting persons who subject them to sexual exploitation and expose them to pornographic materials and other dangers online so that the perpetrators are arrested and duly punished. She urged them to take advantage of the various Incident Reporting Points of Contact (PoC) that ...

The foundation of every democratic society is the people having the right to know, otherwise, they will not be able to hold their elected representatives accountable, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Information Minister has said. He said Article 21(1)F of the 1992 Constitution gives Ghanaians the right to information; adding that, the Right To Information (RTI) Act was a procedural Act, ...

A staunch critic of homosexuality, Professor Mike Oquaye, has hit hard at persons engaged in the abhorrent practice, describing them as deviants in society who should not be accorded any rights as homosexuals. The legal luminary, who is also Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament, argued that apart from the fact that persons engaged in homosexuality are humans, they “cannot have a ...

The Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has announced that Ghana would soon criminalise the sharing of inappropriate social media content. Addressing stakeholders on the second day of the National week celebration of the Cyber Security Awareness Month 2019, being held at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Accra, Mrs Owusu-Ekuful cited sexual images as an example ...

The World Bank has revealed that 87% of children in Sub-Saharan Africa cannot read and understand a simple story at the age of 10. World Bank Acting Country Manager, Dr Beatrix Allah-Mensah revealed this at the International Day for Education of Poverty-End (EPD) Poverty Day event held at the World Bank office in Accra on Saturday. “Failing to address the situation would ...

Manager of the Baptist Vocational Training Centre, Reverend Grace Akunor, has revealed that some people are still practising Trokosi, although it was outlawed many years ago. While blaming the existence of the practice on ineffective enforcement of the law, and failure of communities to accept the empowered women and ladies back, she also attributed it partly on the adamant attitude of the ...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says Ghana is committed to reducing her carbon footprints and will contribute significantly towards helping to win the fight against Climate Change. Describing Climate Change as “the biggest threat to the realisation of the SDGs”, President Akufo-Addo explained that the issue has become an issue of grave concern to most leaders ...