Globally, millions of children are at risk of failing to reach an appropriate level of educational attainment as a result of learning difficulties. According to All Children Reading, of the more than 150 million children with disabilities under age 18 around the globe, 80% of them live in developing countries and less than 10% of … Read more
What makes for a great development project? Which qualities imbue an initiative with longevity and sustainability, enabling it to meet a whole range of interconnected material and emotional needs? Is there a single concept applicable to a specific geographical location that – exceptionally – embodies those qualities? Yes! Allow me to introduce what I term … Read more
The Ashanti Regional Police command should, as a matter of urgency, arrest Mr Andy Osei Okrah, the deputy Ashanti Regional minister over bombs and other explosives discovered around his residence in Kumasi by personnel of the anti-terrorism unit of the Ashanti regional police command, pressure group, Ghana Must Know Forum has said. The explosives were … Read more
In September, 2016, Civil Society and Media practitioners in Nigeria gathered in Enugu to review the country’s anti-corruption war. The meeting, supported by the Justice for All of the British Council was attended by about fifty Civil Society and Media practitioners interested in the anti-corruption war. Top on the agenda were the several cases involving … Read more
There’s an African proverb which goes: “If the owner of the land leads you, you cannot get lost.” Between November 7 and 18, over 195 countries and parties of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will convene at Marrakech, Morocco, in West Africa for a two week conference following the ratification of Paris’ … Read more
What would you give up to help people in distress – time, money, your marriage? For the volunteers who have worked tirelessly in the Jungle camp in Calais, that question is not an intangible abstract but a real issue. Helen, who asked that her surname not be included, is 28. She works in a residential … Read more
Voters in Ivory Coast cast their ballots on Sunday in a referendum to decide whether to approve a new constitution that President Alassane Ouattara argues will guarantee peace in the wake of years of political turmoil. Under Ouattara, Ivory Coast has made an impressive recovery since a 2011 civil war capped a decade-long crisis. The … Read more
The Director of Integrated Development Programme of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), Dr Emmanuel Abeere-inga, has said the authority would raise $5 billion to transform the savannah ecological zone as part of its master development plan. He explained that $2 billion of the amount would be raised from the public sector while $3 billion … Read more
The Convention People’s Party presidential candidate has restated the party’s disdain for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), with a stern indication it would never taste the soils of Ghana under a CPP-led government. At the launch of the party’s manifesto ahead of the 2016 general elections on Saturday, Ivor Greenstreet could not come to terms with … Read more
The Convention People’s Party presidential candidate has restated the party’s disdain for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), with a stern indication it would never taste the soils of Ghana under a CPP-led government. At the launch of the party’s manifesto ahead of the 2016 general elections on Saturday, Ivor Greenstreet could not come to terms with … Read more
The Police have forwarded the docket on the Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Daniel Bugri Naabu, to the Attorney-General’s office for advice over an alleged inflammatory statement he made on a campaign platform. Mr Naabu, who reported himself to the Police in the Northern Region last Saturday morning after an … Read more
Dr. Emmanuel Abeere-inga, Director for Integrated Development Programme of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), has said the authority would raise $5 billion to transform the Savannah ecological zone as part of its master development plan. He explained that $2billion of the amount would be raised from the public sector while $3 billion would be … Read more
An average one out of four girls will be married off before their 18th birthday in Ghana. These child brides are often unable to effectively negotiate safe sex, leaving them vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancies. “Child marriage affects the girl socially, economically, health-wise and psychologically,” said Mrs. Aba Oppong, Chairperson … Read more
An average one out of four girls will be married off before their 18th birthday in Ghana. These child brides are often unable to effectively negotiate safe sex, leaving them vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancies. “Child marriage affects the girl socially, economically, health wise and psychologically,” said Mrs. Aba Oppong, … Read more
Dr. Emmanuel Abeere-inga, Director for Integrated Development Programme of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), has said the authority would raise $5 billion to transform the Savannah ecological zone as part of its master development plan. He explained that $2billion of the amount would be raised from the public sector while $3 billion would be … Read more
As part of the stakeholders of the country’s democracy, we now know the benefactors of the motivation for the Montie 3 pipers’ descent into the gutters. Before Salifu Mase aka Mugabe’s lamentation a couple of days ago, speculations were rife about the sponsors of the scathing occupation. All of the conjectures were directed at the … Read more
With just 40 days to the presidential and parliamentary elections, the controversy over the cost of the rebranding exercise by the Electoral Commission has been revived. When the Electoral Commission chair was appointed by President John Dramani Mahama in June, 2015, one of her priorities was to rebrand the Electoral body. Among them was the introduction … Read more
A Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Victor Jones Dotse, has condemned erroneous and intimidating attacks meted out to judges and their families over the years after adjudicating cases. According to him the attacks which sometimes border on criminality has come from both the opposition and sitting government agents under both civilian and military regimes. … Read more
Ghana has told the United Nations that the proliferation and abuse of conventional weapons, particularly Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) and their ammunition continue to undermine world peace and security as well as sustainable development. It argued that the supplies of SALW to non-state actors in a volatile world which is experiencing significant fragility, … Read more
An Accra Human Rights Court will on October 31 deliver its judgement in the case brought against the Electoral Commission (EC) by Jacob Osei Yeboah aka JOY – an independent presidential candidate for the December 7 elections – over the credibility of the register of voters. The court could earlier not deliver the judgement because … Read more