FIAG calls for urgent government intervention
Forest industry players have called for the Government’s intervention in their activities to enable them to operate optimally. They say international conventions and local bureaucracies are militating against their operations. The players stated that in spite of the challenges, their sector generates €200 million annually and employs 400,000 people. Addressing Journalists in Accra, Chief Executive […]
Moves by ECOWAS to facilitate Covid-19 vaccine production
COMMENTARY ON MOVES BY ECOWAS TO FACILITATE COVID-19 VACCINE PRODUCTION. Though Covid-19 has brought in its wake so much anguish, devastation, real havoc including deaths and heavy economic downturn, the disease has however compelled the world to engage in serious thinking outside the box. There is now an innovation galore. Though many businesses have collapsed, […]
Gabon becomes first country to get paid for protecting rain forest
Gabon has become the first African country to receive payments for reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation. The country will receive its first sum from the Central African Forest Initiative, which has promised about $150 million over 10 years. Gabon has one of the largest forests in the world and recent studies show that it […]
Ablekuma North Municipal Assembly blamed for vehicular traffic on Mallam-Gbawe Highway
The Mallam Market Queen, Maa Fio, says heavy vehicular traffic on that stretch of the Mallam-Gbawe Highway should be blamed on the Ablekuma North Municipal Assembly. Traders have moved from the main market and are using the pavements and shoulders of the road as their trading grounds. On a visit to the Mallam Market, Maa […]
Court orders Jomoro MP to produce documents renouncing Ivorian citizenship within 10 days
The MP for Jomoro, Dorcas Affo-Toffey, has been ordered by a Sekondi High Court in the Western Region to produce a document or documents to prove that she indeed renounced her Ivorian citizenship before filing to contest the 2020 Parliamentary Election. The court asked the NDC MP to comply with the order within 10 days […]
Mine workers urge Government to pay attention to poor road networks
The Ghana Mineworkers’ Union is calling on Government to pay attention to the poor state of roads in mining communities. It said these communities ought to benefit fully from the Minerals Development Fund which was instituted to help address the infrastructural deficit within mining communities. Addressing journalists in Tarkwa, during the celebration of the Annual […]
WAEC threatens legal action against Education Think Tank over alleged misleading report
The West African Examination Council (WAEC), has hinted of possible legal action against Education Think Tank, Africa Education Watch. The Think Tank on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, released a report on its assessment of the 2020 West African Secondary Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The report alleged a number of irregularities witnessed during the period of […]
Ghana, Ivory Coast to name and shame chocolate brands for poor pay
Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world’s top two cocoa producers, have threatened to name and shame chocolate brands they say are undermining a scheme to pay cocoa farmers a decent income. They introduced a premium scheme last year to help lift cocoa farmers out of poverty. But a drop in demand for chocolate because of […]
“You’ve done projects previous gov’ts could not do for us” – Nayiri to Akufo-Addo
The Overlord of Mamprugu, the Nayiri, Naa Bohogu Mahami Abdulai Sheriga, has applauded the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for seeing to the construction and completion of several projects which had been on the wish list of the chiefs and people of Mamprugu for many years. According to the Nayiri, the impact of the work […]
CCF-OSIWA sensitise groups on AMA bye-laws in Accra
As part of its prime focus of helping to decongest the country’s prisons through Decriminalising of Vagrancy Laws and Advocacy Project, the Crime Check Foundation (CCF), an NGO in collaboration with the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), has begun sensitising assembly members, petty traders, hawkers, truck pushers, transport operators and people with disability […]
