Since the ‘Operation Clean Your Frontage’ initiative was launched by the President in October last year, there have been series of sensitisation programmes in the various municipalities and districts in Accra.
Ghana’s history is replete with people who, in diverse ways, have played various roles in advancing the cause of the nation, with some appropriately honoured, while others are yet to be recognised.
This year’s Policy and Governance Forum has been organised in Accra on the theme: "Improving the performance of Specified Entities; Leadership and Technology".
In 2021 when the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, who was also acting as the caretaker Minister of Finance, presented the budget in Parliament, he said the Akufo-Addo-led government was determined to end the practice of one government abandoning projects started by predecessors because the practice was not only wrong, but also a major worry to all citizens.
For over two weeks now, members of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) have deserted the lecture theatres to back their demand for better conditions of service.
Road crashes continue to be a major problem in the country. This month alone, although it has not come to an end, about 30 lives have been lost in road crashes throughout the country, with the latest being the accident which claimed about 10 lives at Savelugu in the Northern Region on January 23.
Last month, the General Report on the 2021 Population and Housing Census of the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) indicated that the number of people who are available for work but are unable to find work had more than doubled in the country.
At long last, the 2022 academic calendar for pre-tertiary schools has been released and all public basic schools reopened last Tuesday for the commencement of academic work.
Takuka, a small community in the West Mamprusi municipality in the North East Region, is in the limelight because it has been able to put structures in place to ensure environmental cleanliness.
The nation’s heart was temporarily broken when the dream of the national team, the Black Stars, of going past the Gabonese team did not materialise last week.
Reports that the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) is losing, on the average, 40 per cent of its water production capacity is not only worrisome but also scary.
In recent times, betting ‘spots’ have become common in our towns and cities. Many of these betting or gaming enterprises spring up in uncompleted buildings.
At an extraordinary summit in Accra last Sunday, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) imposed additional sanctions on Mali as part of measures to ensure that the military junta fast-tracks steps to return the country to constitutional rule to ensure peace and stability.
Since Ghana gained independence in 1957 and took over the rail transport system bequeathed to the country by the colonial government, it has struggled to maintain that transport system.
African football takes centre stage for the next four weeks as the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament kicks off in Cameroun tomorrow when the host take on Burkina Faso at the 60,000-capacity Stade d'Olembé in Yaoundé.
