Tag Archives: GENDER

Renowned life coach Solomon Buchi has urged Africans to drop rigid gender roles in relationships. According to him, the traditional gender role allocations are no more useful and need to be abolished. “I can’t cook for my wife…it’s a woman’s job,” Buchi wrote, mimicking a common perspective. “I can’t pay …

A pan by South Africa’s department of basic education to introduce unisex or gender-neutral toilets in schools has been opposed. A group of concerned citizens launched an online petition against the plan some citing its needlessness whiles others insist that doing so will bring about social ills. The petition, as …

Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya Constituency, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has responded to the letter from the Presidency communicating her dismissal as Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection. The Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin in a statement on July 8, 2022, announced a decision by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed a new Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection. Lariba Zuweira Abudu, who was the Deputy Minister for Gender, and the Member of Parliament for Walewale, has been elevated to the substantive ministerial role. This comes on the back of the delayed decision by the …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has sacked Sarah Adwoa Safo as the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection with immediate effect. According to a statement signed by Eugene Arhin, Director of Communications, Office of the President, the President’s decision was according to Article 81(a) of the 1992 Constitution. The statement added that Cecilia Abena …

The Deputy Minister for Gender, Women and Social Protection, Lariba Zuweira Abudu, has cautioned the public against alms giving to child beggars. According to her, the Ministry has information that a number of child beggars loitering the street are part of a trafficking syndicate. The children are reported to have …

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection says the Efua Sutherland Children’s Park is not up for grabs. In a statement dated February 28 and sighted on the Ministry’s Twitter page, it said its outfit had received a plethora of proposals from individuals interested in acquiring the park. The …

  The Gender Ministry has hinted on plans to close down some children’s homes in the country. According to the National Director at the Department of Social Welfare, Dr. Comfort Asare, this is to sanitize the system because of the numerous children’s homes established in the country. Though the purpose …

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has expressed its readiness to absorb two teenagers accused of murdering a 10-year-old boy at Kasoa into its Juvenile Correctional Centres. The two teenagers namely; Felix Nyarko, 15, and Nicholas Kini, 17, are alleged to have killed Ishmael Mensah, 10, for money …

Staff at the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection as well as agencies under the ministry are wearing sad mood as they go about their duties with anxiety over rumours that Hon. Cynthia Mamle Morrison might not return to the ministry as the sector minister. Sources at the ministry indicate that …