A former United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Dr Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella, has challenged the youth of Ghana to seize the abundant opportunities Africa provides in order to be agents of transformational change on the continent. He said there was too much negative information on Africa in the international news media, which generalised and exaggerated incidents happening in a country as though they were happening in the whole continent.
The Accra Circuit has acquitted and discharged the woman who was standing trial for allegedly inserting dildo into the vagina of another woman. The accused person, Queenie Akuffo, was acquitted and discharged after the court, presided over by Mrs Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku, ruled that the alleged victim consented to the act.
Two directors of Accra Great Olympics, Talal Fattal and Fadi Fattal of the Global Village Group, have expressed their disappointment about the lack of positive response from other shareholders of the club of a proposal they sponsored to help arrest the dwindling fortunes of the club in the Premier League.
Ghana Premier League defending champions, Wa All?Stars, have been presented with another chance to make themselves proud on the international scene by being invited to the West African Football Union (WAFU) Zone B four-nation competition in Senegal. Wa All Stars made a horrible CAF Champions League debut as they lost to their Libyan Al Ahli Tripoli counterparts in their preliminary round, ending their lofty dream of ‘taking Africa by storm.’
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the government is committed to raising the country's cocoa production to one million tonnes and also ensuring that 50 per cent of the beans is processed locally.
Parliament yesterday passed the Earmarked Funds Capping and Realignment Bill, 2017 into an Act, to free up public funds in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) for other uses. The Act provides that the earmarked funds for each financial year should be equivalent to 25 per cent of revenue.
An Ivory Coast jury on Tuesday acquitted former first lady Simone Gbagbo of crimes against humanity during the 2010-11 post-election crisis in a stunning verdict after the prosecution had sought to jail her for life.
A missing Indonesian man was found dead inside the body of a python, according to local police.
A Kenyan lawyer has filed a petition with the International Court of Justice in The Hague, suggesting that the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ was unlawful, and the State of Israel among others should be held responsible, Kenyan news outlet the Nairobian reported some time ago. Dola Indidis, a lawyer and former spokesman of the Kenyan Judiciary is reportedly attempting to sue Tiberius (emperor of Rome, 42 BCE-37 CE), Pontius Pilate, a selection of Jewish elders, King Herod,
More than 3,000 women on social protection intervention programmes are receiving skills training as part of efforts to wean them off the programmes. Rolled out in January 2015 and expected to end in May 2018, the project, known as the Ghana Support for Rural Income Generation to Targeted Poor Persons Pilot, is benefiting 4,194 vulnerable persons of which 83 per cent are women.
The Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) and other media partners have agreed to launch a campaign against galamsey activities to save the country’s water bodies and vegetation. The Media Coalition Against Galamsey will be launched on Tuesday, April 4, 2016 at the Alisa Hotel in Accra.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Builsa South, Dr Clement Apaak, has expressed alarm at the increased rate of illegal felling of rosewood, an endangered tropical hardwood specie, in the Builsa South District and surrounding areas. He told the Daily Graphic last Thursday that in spite of the ban on the cutting of rosewood by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, the illegal felling, harvesting and export of rosewood had gone up significantly.
The Ghana Chamber of Mines has called on the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation (MESTI) to liaise with the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources (MLNR) to expedite action to resolve the long standing conflicting roles between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Inspectorate Division of the Minerals Commission (IDMC), the two main regulatory
The Vice-President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has announced that the government will soon introduce the necessary legislation to provide permanent funding for the Zongo Development Fund to ensure its sustainability. The reason, he said, was to ensure that no government used the excuse of no funding to scrap it.
“The axe will fall where it should fall,” a source close to the committee that investigated the allegation that the Minister of Energy, Mr Boakye Agyarko, had bribed Minority members on the Appointments Committee of Parliament (ACP) through its Chairman to approve his nomination has hinted as the committee is expected to submit its report today. The source told the Daily Graphic that findings would represent the truth about the alleged bribery
A former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Mr Tony Blair, has offered to make his experience and insight available to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the President seeks to return the economy to the path of growth, progress and prosperity. Mr Blair is in the country at the invitation of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) to deliver a lecture on democracy.
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr John Peter Amewu, has given a three-week ultimatum to all illegal miners to stop their activities or be prepared to face the full rigours of the law. The government, he said, was also coming up with a well-rehearsed strategy to implement drastic punitive measures to ensure that all people who connived to fund the activities of the illegal miners were dealt with.
Germany is to support Ghana with €25 million euros to tackle its growing electronic waste menace. The fund is to support the establishment of structures for the effective collection and recycling of e-waste, which had become an environment and health threat in the country over the last decade. The Ambassador of Germany to Ghana, Mr Christoph Retzlaff, announced this during a meeting with the Minister of Environment, Science,
One of the 205 workers of the National Service Scheme (NSS) whose appointments were revoked by the scheme has filed a suit at the Labour Division of the Accra High Court challenging his sacking. The plaintiff, Mr Edwin Afetsi Kwashie, as part of his suit, has also filed an application for interlocutory injunction seeking the court to prevent the NSS from appointing someone to fill the position of district director of the scheme in the New Juabeng
Parliament has approved GH¢ 506,611,253 as the budget estimate for the Local Government Service (LGS) to implement its programmes and activities for the 2017 financial year. Out of the GH¢ 506,611,253, an amount of GH¢487,387,895 would come from the government while GH¢19,223,358 could come from development partners.
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