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A New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Youth Organizer hopeful, Bright Essilfie-Kumi, has proposed the establishment of ‘NPP Communication Institute’ to train its communicators across the country. Mr. Essilfie-Kumi said in every region and constituencies, the communicators appear on television and radio stations to defend and explain the policies of the government, so if they are not properly trained, defending the government will be difficult. The NPP National Youth Organizer hopeful made the proposal in relation to Information Minister, Mr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid’s comments that government would expand its communication frontiers. The Information Minister in a media encounter in Accra said the…

The Ghana Trades Union Congress has warned the current system of financing the National Health Insurance Scheme could lead to its collapse. Deputy General-Secretary of the TUC, Joshua Ansah, says the NHIS can only be sustained and improved if government adequately resources the Authority. He was addressing the 2nd quadrennial delegates conference of National Health Insurance Workers’ Union of UNICOF of TUC in Kumasi. Mr. Ansah noted the current source of funding for the scheme is insufficient to sustain it. “The current financing module of the NHIS can never sustain the scheme if it continues the same way. The time…

Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Authority, Hassan Tampuli, has reiterated the Authority’s commitment to ensure LPG refill stations which fail to adhere to safety standards at their operation sites are shutdown, as it intensifies its monitoring and inspection exercise. The Authority has in the past been accused by the public of doing little to ensure safety at the various stations, a situation suspected to be responsible for gas explosions in the past. In October last year for example, five bystanders lost their lives after a tanker discharging gas exploded in what has become known as the Atomic Gas explosion…

The National Chairman of the Conventions Peoples Party (CPP), Professor Edmund Delle, says Ghanaians, especially the leaders, should be ashamed of themselves for the lack of development in the country. Professor Delle said Ghana although commemorated the 25th anniversary of the country’s return to democratic governance, it has nothing to show because the leaders have been selfish over the years. The CPP Chairman was commenting on the National Thanksgiving Church Service held at the Independence Square in Accra on Sunday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Fourth Republic. “We haven’t done well as a nation. The forests in Ghana…

The president and other state institutions are being pressured by international NGO, Human Rights Watch, to take “necessary steps” to amend Ghana’s constitution and legalise homosexuality. The group specifically wants Section 104 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960, which criminalises unnatural carnal knowledge, to be amended. This would “ensure that sexual relations between consenting adults of the same sex are not considered a misdemeanor and not punishable by law,” Human Rights Watch said in a report to be released in Accra on Monday. The report is titled “‘No Choice but to Deny Who I Am’  Violence and Discrimination against LGBT…

Being a mother means experiencing more love and more frustration than you’ve ever felt before – sometimes at the exact same time. It means forging ahead even when you’re not entirely sure you’re doing the right thing, but moving forward anyway because you keep learning as you go. It means worrying constantly about things you can’t control but wish you could, like the state of the nation and what kind of world your children are growing up in, and yet having faith that everything will turn out all right in the end. Mothers of toddlers have special challenges as they…

Being a mother means experiencing more love and more frustration than you’ve ever felt before – sometimes at the exact same time. It means forging ahead even when you’re not entirely sure you’re doing the right thing, but moving forward anyway because you keep learning as you go. It means worrying constantly about things you can’t control but wish you could, like the state of the nation and what kind of world your children are growing up in, and yet having faith that everything will turn out all right in the end. Mothers of toddlers have special challenges as they…

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says it will consider placing a ban on songs that urges people to patronize alcoholic beverages in the country. Meanwhile, the FDA has reminded the media, advertisers, manufacturers and importers of alcoholic beverages that advertisements of alcoholic products are supposed to be aired only from 8pm to 6am. “Additionally, kindly be informed that all advertisements of FDA regulated products that would be approved by the FDA from January 1, 2018, are supposed to include the phrase, ‘this advert has been vetted and approved by the FDA’,” the FDA had said in statement on Friday.…

Child rights activists in Tanzania have criticised the arrest of five pregnant schoolgirls and their parents over the weekend. The teenagers were arrested in Tandahimba, northern Tanzania, on the orders of a local district commissioner and later released on bail. Gender and child rights campaigners are quoted by The Citizen news site as saying the authorities would have arrested the men who caused the pregnancy rather than the victims. Local authorities are looking for the men who impregnated the girls, according to Mohamed Azizi, a district official quoted by the news site. Mr Azizi is also reported as saying that the arrest…

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is confident that with a spirit of reconciliation, fairness, integrity and hard work, the best days of Mother Ghana is just ahead. According to President Akufo-Addo, “our goal has to be constant – to fulfil the hopes and aspirations of Ghanaians, who yearn for improvements in their living standards, in conditions of peace, security and solidarity, and to put Ghana onto the path to sustained progress and prosperity.” “We can hope for a brighter future, because we are blessed with enormous wealth and human potential.” President Akufo-Addo made this known on Sunday, 7th January,…