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Sexual abuse and rape seems to be a daunting issue not only for 3rd world countries but all around the world. Twitter in the last few weeks has been filled with several rape allegations towards men including some prominent celebrities in Ghana and abroad. Nana Adwoa Sarkodie on her weekly Instagram Live sessions hosted Juanita Headley, a US Attorney, Author ...

The Nigerian government has announced that President Akufo-Addo has apologised to President Muhammadu Buhari over the demolition of a building at the Nigerian High Commission in Ghana. “President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana Tuesday spoke with President Muhammadu Buhari, expressing his sincere apology for demolition of a building on the premises of Nigerian High Commission in Accra, Ghana. “In a telephone ...

Professor Ansu D. Sonii Sr., the Education Minister of Liberia who has tested positive for COVID-19, has been flown into Accra for treatment. The 70-year-old minister was flown in over the weekend after his condition deteriorated. In a Joy News report, the minister was said to be in a stable condition and responding to treatment at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. ...

The Electoral Commission has been hit with a third suit as it prepares to embark on a mass voter’s registration exercise for the December polls. The suit, filed by the NDC MP for Ashaiman, Ernest Norgbey, was filed at the High Court Tuesday. The opposition lawmaker is asking the court to rule that the election management body does not have ...

An amount of GHC1.5 billion petroleum revenue cannot be accounted for in the 2019 fiscal year, the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has disclosed. According to the committee, out of the 2.7 billion cedis accrued into the annual budget funding amount, the state only used 1.2 billion cedis with the remaining 1.5 billion not utilized and not accounted for. ...

The Executive Director of policy think tank, Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability(ASEPA), Mensah Thompson has described as cruel, reasons adduced for the collapse of several institutions by the Central Bank under the guise of financial sector clean-up. Presenting what he describes as fresh evidence after careful scrutiny of reasons adduced, Mr Thomson said the decisions by the government ...

The Kwahu West Municipal Health Directorate has confirmed that three babies who tested positive for coronavirus have recovered. The babies aged six-months, one year and two years – tested positive but their mothers were negative. The Kwahu West Municipal Health Director Celestine Asante said “the six-month-old baby was among those that we used to do the two test before discharged ...

The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku Amankwa has appealed to parents to assist their children to comply with the necessary protocols outlined by government as they return to school to ensure their safety is not compromised. According to him even though government had instituted a lot of measures to ensure the safety of all students, ...

Social Policy Analyst, Mr Kojo Addo says parliamentary work will be affected by the loss of experienced parliamentarians in the just ended New Patriotic Party parliamentary primary. At the end of the Parliamentary primaries counting, forty NPP sitting MPs lost and will not be returning to Parliament after 2020. The Analyst, Mr. Kojo Addo stated that If everyone leaves parliament ...

The Supreme Court presided over by Chief Justice Kwesi Anin Yeboah has dismissed the case in which the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) sued the National Communications Authority (NCA) and Attorney General (AG) over the decision by NCA to introduce conditional access for free-to-air (FTA) Television. The unanimous decision of the apex court read by Justice Sule Gbadegbe and affirmed ...