Mr Victor Attah Ntumi, Chairman of the Civil Society Forum, a group of organisations that are active players in HIV and AIDS education, has expressed commitment to the fight against HIV stigmatisation in the country. He said stigmatisation and discrimination, which remained major challenges in the prevention of HIV, had affected efforts to prevent the … Read more
Civil Society Organisation, Save Ghana Foundation is calling on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante Appiatu, to arrest the former Ashanti Regional Police Commander, Nathan Kofi Boakye and the former Ashanti Regional Minister, Alexander Ackon. The organisation alleges, the two have over the years rendered unflinching support to Chinese ‘galamsey queen’, Asia Huang. … Read more
Think tank Odekro has criticised President Akufo-Addo over the mammoth size of his government. President Akufo-Addo has appointed 50 ministers and 60 deputies, totalling 110. This number represents the biggest in the fourth republic, but Mr Akufo-Addo has justified the move indicating that he needs all the appointees to succeed. Commenting on the issue Nehemiah … Read more
An association calling itself the Public Interest Advocacy Group has called for more education on the activities of telecommunication companies operating in Ghana. The group holds as a concern that “almost all the Telecos in Ghana are deficient or ineffective in supplying sufficient and adequate information about their services and charges especially to their clients … Read more
A Tamale-based Civil Society Organisation calling itself the Public Interest Advocacy Group has petitioned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over reported plans by government to use the heritage fund in financing the free Senior High School (SHS) education which begins in September this year. In their petition, the group said the decision if it turns … Read more
President of the Ghana HIV and AIDS Network (GHANET), Mr Victor Attah Ntumi, has called on government to implement the Ghana AIDS Commission Act, to protect the privileges of persons living with HIV and AIDS. He said the Act also establishes the National HIV and AIDS Fund which would provide the Management body the required … Read more
The Anti-human trafficking Civil Society Organisation (CSO), Challenging Heights, has rescued some eighteen trafficked children from the Lake Volta. The children, aged between 5 and 17, before their rescue, served as child-slaves to fishermen on the lake. Child trafficking in the fishing industry has been a problem for the Ghanaian government for several decades. It … Read more
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has expressed disappointment in the attempt by the Minister of Agriculture and some Vetting Committee members to misinform Ghanaians about the implication of the Plant Breeders Bill. The Association said what even saddened it was that the Minister-designate managed to convince the Committee that Food Sovereignty Ghana, a … Read more
Following the Electoral Commission’s declaration of the New Patriotic Party’s 2016 Presidential candidate; Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo as the President – Elect of the Republic of Ghana, the euphoria that greeted the announcement gave an idea of the joy, relief and confidence that majority of Ghanaians seem to take this result. From taxi and From … Read more
The second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Johnson Asiamah, has called on the government to scrap stability agreements with mining companies to shore up the country’s earnings from the sector. “Despite our aversion to the existing stability agreements, the mining sector continues to repatriate significant amounts of export earnings,” he said to … Read more
A Non-governmental Organisation, Media Initiative against Injustice, Violence and Corruption- MIIVOC has called on Rivers State Governor, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike to step in and resolve the difference between the Egi Community in Ogba Egbema Ndoni Local Government Area of the State and Total Oil Company in the area before it degenerates. Executive Director of MIIVOC, … Read more
The Youth Bridge Foundation, a Civil Society Organisation has slammed President John Dramani Mahama and his administration describing the highlight of the party’s manifesto as belated. President Mahama’s presentation comes ahead of this weekend’s launch of NDC’s manifesto in Sunyani, Brong Ahafo regional capital. The NDC, NPP and the major opposition parties have been heavily … Read more