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The Inspector General of Police, James Oppong-Boanuh has issued new directives to guide police traffic duties, highway patrols, barrier duties among others. A statement from the police said the new directives were in response to numerous complaints from the public about unprofessional conduct of some officers. The statement, signed by the Director of Public Affairs Department, ACP David Eklu said, ...

Amnesty International Ghana has renewed calls for abolishing of the death penalty in Ghana, as recommended by the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC). According to the agency, the sentence has lost its usefulness and has had adverse effects on relatives and children of incarcerated parents who are on the death row. In a Citi News interview, Board Chair of Amnesty International ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given an assurance that so long as he remains President, there is no way Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) will be introduced into the school curricula. Allaying the fears of Ghanaians about the possible introduction of the CSE, he said the rumour was false and urged parents to disregard it. Speaking at a service to ...

Who taught you about sex? How did that teaching shape your attitudes to your body, to others bodies, to sex itself? Did that learning happen in one session, was it in stages? Was it your parents, friends or was it at school? Was sex about pleasure and power or was it about marriage and babies? Was there sexual abuse or ...

Ghana has expressed worry about the world falling short of its targets in the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 due to what it described as the current slow pace of implementation. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, raised the concern in a speech read on her behalf by the Vice Chairman of ...

Akos (not the real name) sells sachet water on the streets of Madina, a suburb of Accra, and her routine has been to wake up early in the morning to go earn a living for herself and her three children, one of whom has cerebral palsy She lives in a rented single room at Ashaley-Botwe, another suburb of the capital ...

What do we make of our existing political party system? How can we ensure that it guarantees democracy? How can it prevent civil strife and justice? Can we justify the existing political systems with its squabbles, lamentations and beastility? From pre-colonial to our present post-independence era, people organised on identified interests. In our communal villages during the pre-colonial period, communities ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said African leaders and governments must work to make the continent attractive for the youth. That, he said, would create more opportunities for people to live, work and create wealth and prosperity in Africa. Speaking at a lecture at the Princeton University in the United States last Friday, the President said Africa was endowed ...

Incidents of modern-day slavery are “only likely to increase” as a result of some of biggest challenges facing the world today, a UN expert outlined in a report for the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday. The Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Urmila Bhoola, explained that over 40 million people are enslaved around the world, a quarter of them ...

Despite progress in national prevention strategies, one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General lamented on Monday, highlighting key findings of the agency’s latest report on global suicide estimates. Speaking in Geneva ahead of World Suicide Prevention day, recognized on 10 September, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “every death is a tragedy for family friends and colleagues,” yet ...