No Night Duties For Pregnant Women
Mrs. Mercy Larbi, Ashanti Regional Director of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has entreated pregnant women not to go on night duties because it is against their...
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Three Back On Presidential Track
‘Deeply troubling’, was how the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) described Electoral Commission’s action concerning errors the EC claimed it’d further discovered on nomination...
5 Surprising Lessons From Trump’s Astonishing Win
Donald Trump's election victory proved -- once and for all -- that 2016 was the year that everything the political class thought it knew was wrong. Trump's defeat of Hillary Clinton turned on its...
Political Parties Urged To Prioritize Affirmative Action
Participants at a gender capacity building workshop for political parties have stressed the need for the various political parties to make affirmative action a provision in their respective...
Gov’t Urged To Enforce ECOWAS Directive On Mining
The Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining (WACAM),a human rights and environmental mining advocacy Non- Governmental Organisation (NGO) has urged government to internalise the...
London Based Organization Donates To Veterans Assoc. Of Ghana
Presentation of hearse to the Veterans Association of Ghana The Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League in London donates a new hearse to the Veterans Association of Ghana On Tuesday November 1 2016,...
First Female Gambian Presidential Candidate Withdraws
In a statement sent to AFP, Isatou Touray said she was dropping out of the contest "so as to offer my unflinching support and cooperation to the coalition" of opposition parties which last month...
The Many Troubles That Awaits Next US President
POTUS 45 won't have much time to celebrate. After a bruising brawl of a campaign, the next US commander in chief will inherit a world with the toughest array of foreign policy challenges in decades....
Ghana’s Electoral System Becoming Turbulent
The executive director of the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), Dr Emmanuel Akwetey, has said that Ghana’s electoral system is increasingly becoming turbulent because many invisible hands...
Vote Out Heartless Politicians
National Youth for Peace (NYFP) has called on the Ghanaian electorate to vote against politicians who will go to a polling station to cast their votes without their families. “NYFP is reliably...
How Republicans Lobbied To Limit Voting Hours In North Carolina
When Bill McAnulty, an elections board chairman in a mostly white North Carolina county, agreed in July to open a Sunday voting site where black church members could cast ballots after services, the...
New Oil Refinery Promises Are Ambitious – ACEP To Political Parties
The African Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), wants political parties seeking to establish new oil refineries to be cautious, describing the decision as defeating economic principles with the current...
Energy Sector Outlook For 2017 Uncertain
The African Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) says that the energy sector outlook for 2017 presents significant levels of uncertainty, urging political parties to clearly demonstrate how they intend to...
NDC Boycotts IEA Presidential Debate
The General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has stated categorically that President John Mahama will not participate in any 2016 debate organised by...
Gov’t Coaxes Electorate; Promises Not To Increase Taxes
The current Mahama administration has begun using sugarcoated words to convince Ghanaians to retain it in office in the December polls. In 2008 and 2012, the NDC administration announced that it...
We Won’t Build ‘hubby and Wife’ IEA
It is prudent to build the capacity of state institutions like the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCC) to be organising presidential and parliamentary debates in major elections than build...
Expedite Action On RTI Bill
The Attorney General’s Department has asked Parliament to expeditiously work on the Right to Information Bill currently before the house. According to the Deputy Attorney General, Dr. Dominic...
NDC Will Go For GBC Debate, Not IEA’s
The General Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has maintained that the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), can count President John Mahama out of its...
Hibernating High Profile Corruption Cases
In September, 2016, Civil Society and Media practitioners in Nigeria gathered in Enugu to review the country’s anti-corruption war. The meeting, supported by the Justice for All of the British...
Mahama and Akufo-Addo Debate November 8
Barring any last minute changes, the Flagbearers of the country’s two largest political parties, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will hold the maiden public...