Former spokesperson for the Greater Accra regional branch of the opposition New Patriotic Party Michael Ampong has chastised the President of the Catholic Bishops Conference over his remarks on the raging former Guantanamo bay inmates in Ghana. According to him, Bishop Joseph Osei Bonsu’s response to President John Mahama’s reasons for accepting the former terror […]
The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur has announced that cabinet has approved the justice for children policy, under which all children would be given equal justice through formal and informal structures. That, she said, would ensure that children who came in conflict with the law received justice, saying ” a
Three students who were suspended indefinitely for allegedly engaging in homosexuality at the Opoku Ware Senior High School in the Ashanti Region have confessed to have been in the act since their basic school level according head master of the school Dr Alexis Frimpong Nimoh The students revealed this, when they were summoned by the
Arab nations are looking to Chinese visitors to revive their tourism sectors, battered by security fears, and also need to develop homegrown tourism as a lifeline, ministers from the region say. Bookings to nations in North Africa and the Middle East, which had been recovering after the Arab spring unrest, fell last year following deadly
The Ghana Gas Company says it has resumed operations following the completion of its mandatory maintenance of the Atuabo Gas processing plant ahead of the two-week schedule plan. The plant was shutdown on January 15 by the operators to allow for maintenance work to commence having been in operation for more than 8,000 hours since
Every year, the world loses nearly 1/3 of all food produced on the farm and served on the dining table. This translates into $940 billion per year, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Also, food waste accounts for about 8 per cent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, the WFO
The Andani Royal Family in Dabgon has declared it is ready to engage the Abudu Family in yet another war over the latter’s notice to forcibly enter the Gbewaa Palace to perform the funeral rites of their late Regent, Naa Abdulai Mahamadu IV. The Abudu Family in a mammoth press conference on 11 January, 2016
Charity Owusu Baluo in 2002 was told she was HIV positive when a test conducted on her revealed she had the HIV virus in her blood. “It was after the death of my late husband that I found out my status,” she said. Charity, after days of doubt, finally started treating her HIV condition with
A TARKWA-Prestea based galamsey operator has dragged Golden Star Wassa Limited (GSWL), a mining conglomerate to court, for allegedly refusing to pay an amount of US$1.6 million, being the cost of gold tailings supplied to it (GSWL). Paul Willisey Company Limited, is praying the Court to recover the US$1.6 million and interest on the money
The West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) has expressed great concern over the rate at which drug trafficking is soaring in countries in Sub-Sahara Africa in recent times. WACSI has, therefore, called on the West Africa people to fight against the menace, as trans-shipment of narcotics from Latin America through the region to Europe and
