Tag Archives: GHANA

The Electoral Commission (EC) has declared a “No Ghana Card, No Vote” policy. That was communicated by The Deputy Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC) in charge of Corporate Services, Dr Bossman Asare. According to him, without the Ghana Card, an individual will not be allowed to register to vote in …

Corruption Watch Ghana conducted a series of investigations into corruption allegations during West African Examinations Council (WAEC) examinations in various senior and junior high schools in Ghana. This investigation exposed the scheming ways of headteachers, teachers and invigilators during West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) as well as Basic …

Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, has for some time now been monitoring Ghana’s economic growth and putting a spotlight on it. In his latest #EconWatch diaries on his verified Twitter timeline, the academic stated that, since 2021, Ghana has lost …

The Ghana Police Service have arrested a Japanese national, Morikawa Hikawu, over an INTERPOL Tokyo alert. The police in a statement under the hand of Director of Public Affairs, Grace Ansah-Akrofi, explained that the arrest was carried out following the revocation of the suspect’s passport by Japan. Morikawa Hikawu has therefore been …

Social media went haywire on July 29, 2022, after it was reported that a young lady had stabbed her Canadian boyfriend to death. Fast forward to August 1, 2022, a relative of the young man killed in cold blood has given certain vital information on the late Prince Osei Kofi. …

A handshake, a hug or even a bow could mean more to people deserving of honour or respect, especially in the Ghanaian society. In fact, in some parts of the country, greeting a chief or a king would mean that you shake their hand with both of yours, also as …

Ghana may still be finding its teeth in technological innovations, but in its recent digitalization drive, Ghana has proved to be ahead of many developed countries in a number of digital innovations. One of them is Motor Insurance Database, where Ghana has proved to be a step ahead of Britain, …

Ghana in 2001 under the presidency of John Agyekum Kufuor, was declared a Heavily Indebted Poor Country, HIPC, by the World Bank. According to the President, creditors were not looking at Ghana because of the debt his predecessor had left behind so, there was no benefit and the macro-economy was in …

Twenty-five thousand eight hundred (25,800) stillbirth and neonatal deaths have been recorded in Ghana in the last three years. Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Health, the University of Ghana, Dr. Alexander Manu revealed this during a presentation on “Assessment of Newborn Care in Ghana”, at the 10th Annual …

The Supreme Court has indicated that the section of the Narcotic Control Commission Act, 2020 (Act 1019) which allows a licence to be granted to an entity to cultivate a small quantity of cannabis, popularly referred to as “wee” in Ghana for industrial and medicinal purposes is unconstitutional. According to …