Come November 20, 2017, the National Identification Authority (NIA) will start issuing instant smart National ID cards under a very strict multi-level verification process. The ID card, dubbed Ghana Card, is meant to be the primary ID card that citizens will use to access all services in the country, including even traveling within the West African sub-region. It will be […]

A new World Bank report on education says in Ghana a considerable number of children of primary age (age six to eleven) are out of school. The World Bank Group Education report 2018 dubbed “Facing forward: Schooling with Learning in Africa” said 16 per cent of kids from the poorest quintile were out of school and that there was gender […]

National Youth Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammy Awuku has taken a swipe at the security agencies in the country, particularly, the police for failing to deal with pro-NPP vigilante groups. According to the outspoken youth leader, the inaction on the part of the security forces to deal with political vigilantism was causing overwhelming distress to President […]

More than 800 women in Cape Coast and its environs have benefited from a week-long breast screening exercise. It was organised by Breast Screening Services, an organisation comprising lecturers of the School of Medical Sciences of the University of Cape Coast (SMS-UCC). Additionally, beneficiaries and residents were educated on the need to go for regular screening due to the effect […]

Over 100 people have been displaced in some parts of the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region following separate reprisal attacks between Fulani Herdsmen and some community members at Dwibease and Wheewhee communities, both in the Kwahu East district of the Eastern Region. So far, eight persons have been reported dead, according to police. Among the dead are five Fulanis and three […]

The Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo, has told Parliament that the proposed Office of the Special Prosecutor will vigorously pursue the recovery of state funds in a bid to make corruption unattractive. Gloria Akufo added that, in order for this to be realized, the Office needed to be made independent of all interference from political actors and the Attorney General’s department. […]

Some 185 business proposals have so far been cleared as ‘viable and bankable’, and are lined up for rolled out in 99 districts across the country under the ‘One District, One Factory’ programme. According to Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Robert Ahomka-Lindsey, more than 40 percent of the companies are into manufacturing and another 40 percent are into agro-processing. […]

Some Ghanaians acquired visas for most Chinese nationals to come into the country and engage in illegal mining activities in the country, a Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs has revealed. Charles Owiredu disclosed that a report from the Ghana Immigration Service shows that, majority of Chinese nationals who are seen in the country was as a results of some local […]