April 2021

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called for broad-based national consensus that would promote a responsible, viable, and environmentally sustainable small-scale mining industry. He said there was need to address and stamp out…

Millions of women worldwide are being denied the freedom to make decisions about their own bodies, according to a UN report released Wednesday. Information from 57 countries, most of which are in sub-Saharan Africa, revealed that only…

Incumbent President Patrice Talon has won re-election in the West African nation of Benin with 86.4 per cent of the votes, according to provisional results announced Tuesday evening by the electoral commission. He was followed…

Africa’s annual infrastructure financing gap is estimated at $64 billion to $108 billion, a research conducted by the African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET) and Omdena, a data collection platform, has revealed. Mr Rob Floyd,…

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has vaccinated about 800,000 Ghanaians against COVID-19 since the roll out of the mass vaccination exercise across the country on March 2, 2021. Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye, Director General of the Service, who…

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has advised women and vulnerable persons to eschew fear and report cases of domestic violence and other forms of rights abuse against them for assistance. According to the…

Mr Samuel Abu Jinapor, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has expressed optimism that the proposals, ideas and suggestions from the National Consultative Dialogue on Small-Scale Mining will form a workable blueprint to tackle…

A Cape Coast Circuit Court has granted a GH¢5,000 bail with one surety each to three persons over an alleged fraudulent land transaction. The accused persons, Supi Kojo Arthur, 30-year-old unemployed, Jackson Annan 37, and Samuel Abeka…

An Accra Circuit Court has ordered Rosemond Alade Brown, aka Akuapem Poloo, an actress, who allegedly displayed her naked photo with her son on social media, to go for a pregnancy test. It said in law, before handing down sentence on…

Good journalism does not simply inform, it provides information that has meaning for people’s lives and holds the powerful to account. At a time when trust in the media is declining around the world, it has become even more important to…