Education is a human right. Schools are the platforms for which this right is enhanced. A school is capable of facilitating this right when adequate infrastructure are available – libraries, classrooms, dining halls, laboratories and workshops, furniture and other teaching and learning materials. On the contrary, across the length and breadth of this country schools ...

A Ghanaian lawyer based in the United States, Professor Stephen Kweku Asare, has questioned the legal basis for the Major Mahama Trust Fund Bill which was been passed by parliament. on Thursday November 9, 2017. He has thus cautioned Nana Addo not to set a bad precedent and undermine the  tenets of the rule of law ...

A civil society group committed to the tenets of the United Nation, Ghana United Nations Association (GUNA), is proposing the scrapping of the National Science and Maths quiz. According to GUNA, the quiz could be replaced with what they refer to as “Innovative Science”, to encourage students to develop solutions to teething national problems. “GUNA ...

The Zongo Development Fund Bill and the Northern Development Authority (NDA) Bill, were read for the third time and passed in Parliament on Friday. The Zongo Development Fund bill seeks to establish the legal framework for the implementation of the Zongo Development Fund. Muslim students are expected to benefit from scholarship packages under the Zongo Development Fund. ...

Over 100 senior executives, entrepreneurs and thought-leaders from media, tech, business and civil society will gather in Accra from Sunday 12 to Tuesday 14 November, for the annual Africa Business Media Innovators summit (ABMI), to discuss the changing face of media and new hybrid models. Convened by Bloomberg Philanthropies in partnership with the Ford Foundation, ...

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has expressed worry about the manner in which herbal medicine practitioners advertise cure for all kinds of incurable diseases in the media. Upper East Regional Director of the FDA, Mr. Zakaria Braimah, disclosed this in an interview with Citi News in Bolgatanga. “We are worried about the manner that ...

Lupita Nyong’o has accused Grazia magazine of removing part of her hair for the front cover of its November edition. She said she was “disappointed” it changed her hairstyle to “fit their notion of what beautiful hair looks like”. The actress posted the original image on Instagram alongside the published version – which appears to ...

In a bid to find a lasting solution to the perennial deadly clashes between nomadic herdsmen and farmers in Kwahu in the Eastern region, the Kwahu Cattle Ranching Control Programme has started registering cattle in the Kwahu Affram Plains area. A committee set up by the Kwahu Traditional Council has so far registered more than ...