The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection is currently undertaking a restructuring exercise to create a Department for Social Development with a division for social protection. Meanwhile, the ministry has rationalised social protection interventions; reducing the number from 44 to 11, to make spending on social protection more effective, efficient, and sustainable at system and individual programme levels. The interventions, include two new ones, which are Maternal Cash Benefits and

The 21-year-old student who posted nude pictures of his former fiancée on facebook, in retaliation for being dumped by her, was Tuesday jailed six months. Henry Alibah, who posted the nude pictures on November 25, 2013, after a 10-minute ultimatum to the complainant had elapsed, looked shaken and bewildered after he was sentenced by the Accra Circuit Court. Covering himself with a piece of cloth to conceal his face from cameras, the convict attempted to hit at photographers but the photographers

The Institute of Chartered Accountants –  (ICAG)  last Monday donated office furniture valued at  GH¢7,3500 and gave cheque for GH¢2,650 to the Demonstration School for the Deaf at Mampong Akuapem. The Chief Executive Officer  of ICAG, Mr Fred N.K. Moore, said the ICAG had selected the Kumasi Children’s Home, Tamale Children’s Home and the School for the Deaf to benefit from their donation. He also advised the school authorities to maintain the furniture periodically. Mr Moore encouraged

A charitable non-governmental organisation based in Accra has organised a leadership training programme for schoolchildren in James Town as part of activities to mark its third anniversary. No Limit Charity Organisation (NLCO)  support the education of the vulnerable in society, especially children in James Town, to become university heroes. The programme, which was sponsored by Good Schools for Africa Foundation, saw experts in leadership training from Korea, who educated the children on how to

The peace process initiated by the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, to amicably resolve the protracted dispute between him and the Omanhene of the Techiman Traditional Area was Tuesday given a big boost. Oseadeeyo Akumfi Ameyaw, as part of the efforts to promote peace, sent a three-member delegation to welcome the Asantehene home after his visit to South Africa. The delegation donated assorted drinks and 100 tubers of yam to the Asantehene. They also wished him well, particularly in the face of

A high number of women and girls in the country are continuously subjected to alarming forms of violence, mostly perpetrated by intimate relations and this worrisome situation is tacitly condoned by society. The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, in a statement delivered on her behalf at the relaunch of the Centre for Protection of Human Rights and Human Development in Accra, admitted that men and boys also faced some human rights abuses. Nana Oye Lithur said the relaunch of the

Forty per cent, and growing, is the percentage of workers in the informal sector globally, but in Africa, the rate is between 50 and 90 per cent. Ghana has about 85 per cent of its workers in the informal sector. This figure is the cause of a global slump in national economies and a constraint to the rights and well-being of workers. Workers hardest hit Workers are also bearing the brunt of failing economies globally, as they are the first to face retrenchment, salary cuts and the clawing back of

The Area Head of the Teshie-Nungua Church of Pentecost, Prophet James Osei  Amaniampong, has called on church leaders to consciously mentor the youth for the sustenance of the church in the next generation. He said it was the vision of the church leadership to equip the next generation with the requisite leadership skills for their generation by igniting the Pentecostal fire.  Prophet Amaniampong said this when he addressed an  “All Officers Retreat” of the Teshie-Nungua Church of Pentecost

The President of the Central University College, Prof. Kwesi Yankah, has condemned the demolition Tuesday morning of a University of Ghana toll booth at Okponglo by operatives of the National Security Council. Commenting on his Facebook wall, Prof Yankah questioned whether Ghana was back to the days of instant justice.  Read his comment below (unedited): Welcoming back the military I just returned from the Legon campus, and saw to my horror, a heap of concrete rubble, piled up at the Okponglo entrance

Opinions are divided among Ghanaian Facebookers as to whether the demolition of the University of Ghana's toll booth at Okponglo by operatives of the National Security Council on Tuesday is rational and justifiable. While some observers have condemned the demolition and described National Security Council's modus operandi as arbitrary and crude, others have described the demolition as necessary, and commended the agency. "I think it one one the most sensible, proactive apt activity taken by the

The University of Ghana has condemned the demolition of its toll booth around Okponglo by the National Security Tuesday. The Director of Public Affairs at the university, Mrs Stella Amoah,described the action as "unilateral", saying "management is disappointed by the lack of courtesy". According to her, the university did not see the demolition coming because its management was not notified by the National Security outfit. Mrs Amoah told Accra-based Joy FM  that the university's governing council

The Accra Circuit Court presided over by Ms Ellen Vivian Amoah has sentenced Henry Alibah, a student to six months imprisonment for posting nude photographs of his ex-girlfriend on Facebook. The 21-year-old faced charges of causing emotional, verbal or psychological abuse, contrary to Sections 1 (b) (iv) and Section 3 (2) of the Domestic Violence Act 737/07 after he posted the images and added inscriptions portraying the former lover as a prostitute.A two-year love affair between the two came to

Tullow Oil, one of the major Jubilee partners operating in the Ghana offshore oil fields, has stated that the Ghana National Gas Company’s onshore gas processing plant will be ready to receive Jubilee gas in the second half of this year. According to the company, “The completion of a third gas injection well in the fourth quarter of 2013 brought only limited relief, and further gas disposal options are being discussed with the authorities in Ghana.” A statement on the website of the company

The government has presented medical equipment to the Effia Nkwanta Hospital in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis, to improve healthcare. The items include digital mammogram machines, hospital beds and lockers, X-ray machines, theatre tables and accessories, phototherapy machines, computerised tomographic scanner (CT scanner) and anaesthetic machine, C-arm. The provision of the package, according to the hospital, was part of the government’s efforts to replace obsolete equipment at some major health

Traders at Adehyeman Gardens in Kumasi whose wares and stalls were destroyed by a private developer at dawn on Sunday have returned to the place to restart business. During a visit to the place yesterday, the traders were seen clearing the debris that had piled up from the demolition exercise. They had employed the services of artisans, mostly masons and carpenters, to put the place back in shape for them to do business. The traders were said to have been asked by the Metropolitan Chief Executive

Doctors and nurses at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have resolved to continue with their strike until their security concerns have been addressed by the management of the hospital and the security agencies. The health workers took the decision after their meeting with the police and the management ended inconclusively. The workers laid down their tools last Friday, following an attack on some of their colleagues at the Maternity (Ward A 1) of the hospital by some irate youth on Thursday.

Personnel of the National Security Tuesday demolished the toll booth around the Okponglo entrance of the University of Ghana, Legon. The demolition exercise is said to have been carried out in the early hours of Tuesday. The National Security Coordinator, Lt. Col. Larry Gbevlo Lartey, confirmed the demolition to Accra-based Joy FM, saying the toll booths were makeshifts structures which had caused traffic jams and created "disaffection to the public". Mr Lartey said National Security was forced

There was heavy vehicular traffic along a section of  the Achimota-Ofankor road when a DAF articulated truck fell from the Accra-Kumasi highway onto a section of the road at Taifa Junction in Accra. The accident was said to have occurred at about 2 p.m yesterday when the truck, conveying a heavy 40-footer container, burst one of its front tyres. The driver, Baba Yaya, 46, reportedly lost control over the truck, which dragged off the road before it grazed the rails separating the main Accra-Kumasi

The government has procured 10 motorbikes for firefighting in markets and other congested areas. The motorbikes, fitted with water tanks and hoses, will make it easier for personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service  (GNFS) to access markets during fire outbreaks and also avoid the vehicular traffic that usually impedes the movement of fire tenders and prevents  personnel from responding on time. At a demonstration in Accra on Friday on the effectiveness of the motorbikes in firefighting, the

The Gbese Mantse and the Adonten of the Ga State, Nii Ayi Bontey II, has debunked media reports that he had been destooled by a court ruling. He said the information lacked substance and should not be welcomed by anybody. He has, therefore, challenged the media to always contact the right sources and do the necessary checks in order not to misinform the public. The Principal Kingmaker of the Gbese Stool, Nii Okai Kasablofo IV, who spoke on behalf of the Gbese Mantse during a press conference at