Polytanks Ghana, one of the leading producers of plastic storage tanks in Ghana, has presented an undisclosed amount to Safe Water Network, a non-governmental organisation, towards the organisation of the 2018 Beyond the Pipe Forum. This is the second time Polytank Ghana, a subsidiary of the Mohinani Group, is collaborating with the NGO to organize … Read more
Ghana is participating in the Ninth Session of the United Nations (UN) Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF9) scheduled from February 7 to 13 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The country’s Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLG&RD) and its agencies is set to seek answers to some of her pressing urban management challenges at the … Read more
The achievement of the 17 United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is critical to Africa’s future development, which will be a major turning point for the Continent, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said. He said achieving the SDG’s would be an investment in the future of the youth and children of Africa and serve … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has described the realisation of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as an investment in the future of the youth and children of the African continent. According to President Akufo-Addo, the 17 UN SDGs “present our generation with the great opportunity to fight inequality on all fronts, wipe out … Read more
The achievement of the 17 United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is critical to Africa’s future development, which will be a major turning point for the Continent, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said. He said achieving the SDG’s would be an investment in the future of the youth and children of Africa and serve … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has urged decision-makers in all sectors of country to support policies that empower women and girls. At the launch of the HeForShe platform, at the Independence Square, in Accra Tuesday, the President urged men and boys in the country to be agents of change and join the platform; a campaign … Read more
Government will partner the private sector to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and make the life of the ordinary Ghanaian better, Vice President Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has stated. According to Dr Bawumia, achieving the SDGs would benefit both the private sector, who would have a healthy, skilled work force, and Government which … Read more
LIXIL Group Corporation, a global leader in the housing and building industry, has endorsed a joint declaration with the World Toilet Organization, Saraya Co., Ltd., and the ANA BLUE WING Program on sanitation and hygiene. The declaration outlines their joint commitment to support the realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6): … Read more
The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC Accra) has praised 17-year-old Ghanaian, Matthew Paa Kwesi Williams, for emerging winner of the just ended SDGs Student Photo Contest held in Japan, Tokyo. The 17-year-old, Matthew Paa Kwesi, an International Baccalaureate Diploma student of Morgan International Community School at Gomoa Manso in the Central Region, was adjudged one … Read more
The new government has come with numerous ‘news’, and latest on the list is plans to lift the mobile phone ban in schools and provide every senior high school student with a mobile device. This intention was revealed by the Minister of Communication, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful at a press conference after a national dialogue on mobile-enabled digital … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday inaugurated a 15-member Inter-Ministerial Committee for the implementation of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the ceremony, which was also held to commemorate the President’s appointment as co-Chair of the Advocacy Group of Eminent Persons by UN Secretary General, António Guterres, President Akufo-Addo charged the Committee … Read more
Monitoring and Evaluation Minister, Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei has disclosed that his outfit will by October this year give an account of the performances of the various ministries towards achieving set targets. According to him, the ministries have already submitted reports detailing their key priority areas to be assessed on. Ghana’s Ministry of Monitoring and … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that if African leaders are to succeed in improving the living standards of their peoples, a critical piece of the puzzle has to be the availability and use of information and data. According to President Akufo-Addo, the rapid evolution of the advanced and emerging market economies have been … Read more
The Ghana National Association of Teachers is pushing for female teachers in the country to be given six months maternity leave, arguing that would give them enough time to wean their babies. GNAT says it would also give nursing mothers the opportunity to feed their babies with breast milk exclusively for six in line with … Read more
The 4th Annual National Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Sustainability Conference has ended in Accra with a call on local firms to learn from the experience of multinational companies operating in the country. The one-day conference was organised by the Centre for CSR, West Africa, in partnership with the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), Japan International … Read more
Ms Heather Troutman, a research fellow, Urban Planning, UN Development and Programme, says Ghana produces 1.7 million tonnes of plastic waste annually, which could be recycled to produce affordable and sustainable building materials. She said Accra, the capital city also produced 300 tonnes of plastic waste in a day. Ms Troutman said it was estimated … Read more
The government is gradually losing momentum in the fight against illegal mining popularly known as galamsey. This is according to a former Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Kwabena Mintah Akandor, who has stated that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is not using the right approach to fighting the illegality. He said the … Read more
A fifteen-member Girl-Child Education task-force has been inaugurated in Cape Coast with the responsibility to champion girl-child education in the region. The team would among others provide education and training to young girls to increase enrollment, retention, performance and transition into higher levels of education. It has also been tasked with the responsibility of providing … Read more
Deputy Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Gifty Twum-Ampofo, has urged various stakeholders to mobilize all available resources to partner government in accomplishing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Speaking at a symposium on ‘The Day of the African Child’, she said government alone cannot accomplish the SDGs, hence the need for the stakeholders to support … Read more
A new UNESCO policy paper shows that the global poverty rate could be more than halved if all adults completed secondary school. Yet, new data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) show persistently high out-of-school rates in many countries, making it likely that completion levels in education will remain well below that target for … Read more