Foreign Affairs Minister-nominee, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has said if she’s approved by Parliament, her administration will speed up work on migrating from Ghana’s biometric passports system to...
Foreign Affairs Minister-nominee, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has said if she’s approved by Parliament, her administration will speed up work on migrating from Ghana’s biometric passports system...
Foreign Affairs Minister-nominee, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has said if she’s approved by Parliament, her administration will speed up work on migrating from biometric passports to chip embedded...
The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating a previously disclosed data breach at Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O), the company said in a filing. Yahoo said in a November 2016 quarterly filing...
It is important to stress here that the term ‘nyebroism’ was chosen for its popularity and relevance but has no tribal meaning or inferences. Nyebroism simply means the act of identifying with...
On Monday, December 19, 2016, I received my Ghanaian passport at the Ghana Embassy in Washington, D. C. Having been disappointed by the mission’s services and having taken to the media to express...
Ghanaians will no longer have to wake up at dawn to queue for passports but may soon be able to apply and secure a passport by applying online. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional...
The construction of the US$30 million Agbogbloshie Electronic Waste project in the Greater Accra Region is expected to create over 400,000 direct and indirect jobs in the country. The project comes...
The Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency, is set to commence the construction of a state-of-the-art e-waste recycling...
The Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency are set to commission the construction of a recycling facility at Agbogbloshie...
Officials of institutions responsible for processing personal information (data controllers) of the public have been given up to December 1, to register with the Data Protection Commission (DPC) or...
In the heart of Accra lies Agbobloshie, a sprawling scrapyard once tagged as one of most toxic places on earth. A former wetland, Agbobloshie has become a dumpsite for electronic waste products from...
The Cyber Crime Unit of the Ghana Police Service has set the end of October to political parties and organisations involved in the collection of personal data to register under the Data Protection...
Three traders at Agbogbloshie have confirmed that, President John Mahama gave them GHC50 each during his campaign tour in the area last Thursday. The president has come under fire after a video of...
Germany has earmarked €20 million to support Ghana to set up an electronic waste recycling facility which is one of the interventions to control hazardous and electronic waste in the country. The...
While old electronics pile up and turn Accra’s neighborhood Agbogbloshie into the most polluted place on earth, international agreements trying to stop the transportation of electronic waste...
The government of Ghana has received funding from the Swiss government and the European Union (EU) to manage electronic waste in Ghana.
These funds are to help the development and implementation of a...
Attempts to recycle E-waste and donations of old electronic devices are harming poor people's health and devastating the environment, writes Nele Goutier. Agbogbloshie, once an idyllic landscape of...
