Women constitute more than half of ghana’s population; that is, 51.2 per cent. Without their participation in the public discourse or the decision_making process, it will be difficult for Ghana to achieve sustainable development.
The Gender Department in the Central Region has established three additional Men and Boys Advocacy Clubs (MBACs) to increase the involvement of men in gender-based issues. Six dormant MBACs were also reactivated, bringing the total to 10 clubs in the region.
Teenage pregnancy continues to take its toll on the development of third world countries. For many teenagers, pregnancy and childbirth are not planned, hence they become unwanted.
The process to accelerated continental integration with the view to enabling Africa to play its rightful role in the competitive global economy has been chequered and slow.
Land acquisition in the country is beset with a lot of constraints. These include insecurity of tenure, inadequate land policy and indiscipline in the land market, leading to fraud, conflicts, frustration and anxiety. Till now, acquiring land in the country has not been smooth and easy.
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), led by the Chief Census Officer, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, has begun a series of engagements with key stakeholders in the country as part of a major public education and advocacy programme to get the buy-in of all and sundry to ensure the success of the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC).
human resource development has been with man since the very beginning of his earthly journey, with training in its most simple form being found among our most primitive ancestors.
Article 256 of the Constitution tasks regional ministers, as representatives of the President in the regions, to be responsible for the coordination and direction of government machinery in the regions.
Over the last three decades, Ghana’s urban population has more than tripled, rising from about four million to close to 14 million people, an indication that the growth in urban population is outpacing that of rural areas.
The Monday, March 25, 2021, issue of the Daily Graphic provided details on a STAR Ghana Foundation dialogue on the government’s re-entry policy for schoolgirls who become pregnant. The dialogue was held in Tamale in the Northern Region.
Since President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo indicated in his first term that he was determined to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa and by extension ensure a clean country, so much reference has been made to that declaration, especially when sanitation challenges come up for discussion.
As the number of COVID-19 infections surge and the cases recorded in schools reach alarming rates, parents, school leaders and teachers are thrown into a state of concern.
For the people of Apam in the Gomoa West District in the Central Region and, indeed, Ghana, Sunday, March 7, 2021 will always evoke sad memories because it was the day over a dozen youth aged between 14 and 17 years got drowned when they went to the beach to swim.
Last Friday, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, through the caretaker Finance Minister and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, laid before Parliament comprehensive estimates of the income and expenditure of the government for this year.
Three months after Election 2020, Ghanaians could still have been removing dead bodies from the streets, the air filled with the stench of putrefaction as flies and vultures hover over dead bodies. Those bodies could have been yours, mine or your children’s.
