For about nine in 10 people in Ghana, sanitation systems are either non-existent or ineffective, Mr. Issahaku Chinnia Amidu, Deputy Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, has observed. He said access to sanitation systems in Ghana was seriously inadequate. The Deputy Minister advised that, “as people, our lives revolve around …

The Member of Parliament for Klottey Korle Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Dr. Zanetor Agyeman Rawlings, has chastised the need for Ghana to be self-judgmental in the post-independence of country. According to the daughter of late president Jerry John Rawlings, the country must consider rethinking new ideas of the …

Fitch Solutions has projected that Ghana’s cedi will continue to depreciate until the first quarter of 2023. According to the international research firm, inferring from previous studies of the Ghana cedi, it is likely that the cedi will continue depreciating till an IMF programme is secured. In its latest article …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) began conducting a mass deworming exercise across 15 regions from yesterday, November 21 to December 9, 2022. The exercise is targeted at 1.94 million schoolchildren aged between five and 14. It is being undertaken in 11,322 public and private schools in 89 districts spread across …

The Reverend Fr Dr. James Ackah, a lecturer at the Catholic University of Ghana (CUG) has appealed to Christians and Muslems to reduce ‘noise’ making at their worship centres. “The effect of excessive noise can cause mental health disorders”, Rev Fr. Dr. Ackah stated this when he delivered a lecture …

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor will take his turn today, in the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) stakeholder engagements, looking at areas for constitutional review in the country. A powerful team of consultants and journalists from leading media houses would be in attendance to listen to the presentation of former …

With the withdrawal of some 300 British peacekeepers from Mali in the wake of frosty relations with Bamako over the involvement of Russian mercenaries in the fight against terrorist groups in the Sahel, some special forces are expected to arrive in Ghana. In a report by UK-based ‘The Telegraph’ and …

The lives of millions will be under threat in Ukraine this winter, the World Health Organization has said. Half of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure is either damaged or destroyed, and 10 million are currently without power, said Dr Hans Henri P Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe. Temperatures are predicted to …

Police in Yobe state, north-east Nigeria, say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman who was allegedly detained by her husband and kept without food for a long time. The victim died at the weekend in a hospital in Kano, after being rescued from the husband’s …

Eighty-eight percent of business leaders surveyed by accounting and auditing firm, KPMG, have revealed that the government takes too many taxes and yet there is little to show for these taxes. Again, 51.4% of the respondents want that the Electronic Transaction Levy (e-levy) reviewed. Furthermore, petroleum and import duties/levies were …