Two journalists have been jailed for 12 months in Burkina Faso, a press release from the Media Foundation for West (MFWA) has said. The journalists, Roland Ouédraogo and Issa Lohé Konaté, both editors of privately-owned L’Ouragan newspaper were sentenced October …

Prof. Ernest Aryeetey – University of Ghana Vice Chancellor Professor Ernest Aryeetey, Vice Chancellor, University of Ghana, Legon has noted that the plight of Africa would have been worse if there was no democracy. According to him things had gone …

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says a man-made organic chemicals known as chlorinated hydrocarbons used in industrial and commercial applications have a range of toxicity that could cause cancer. A research carried out by EPA and United Nations Institute for …

Government business has virtually come to a standstill in Ho two days into a sit-down strike declared by the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOSAG). All offices on the Volta Regional Coordinating Council (VRCC) were closed on …

The Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service (GES) have noted with concern the compliant by some teachers that there is a sudden decrease in their October salaries. A statement issued in Accra on Thursday by Mr Paul Krampa, …

Dr. Sam Jonah Dr Sam Jonah, a Member of the Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership Initiative (OPGI) under the Public Sector Reform Secretariat, has said the weakness in some state institutions is often due to how they had …

A group of boarding students of the Dwamena Akenten Senior High School (SHS) in the Offinso Municipality have found themselves in trouble for persistently breaking school rules and regulations. They would always sneak out of the school deep in the …

The General Manager of the Credit Union Association (CUA), Mr Emmanuel Oduro Darko, has appealed to the Government to pass a Legislative Instrument (LI) to govern the Association to gain more public recognition and assist the development process. He said …

A new College of Education is to be built at Kuntanase, the capital of the Bosomtwe District, Dr Joseph Oteng-Agyei, the Energy Minister, has announced. The project, which is scheduled to begin next year, is meant to train more teachers …

A three-day Capacity Building Workshop for parliamentary candidates from 30 selected constituencies has ended in Koforidua. The workshop, which sought to prepare the candidates for their work as potential Members of Parliament (MPs), was organized by the Ghana Center for …