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Police and Presidency perceived as Ghana’s most corrupt institutions – Afrobarometer

Police and Presidency perceived as Ghana’s most corrupt institutions – Afrobarometer

Africa News, Ghana News
The Ghana Police Service and the Office of the President are perceived as the country’s most corrupt institutions. This is the outcome of an Afrobarometer study undertaken by the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana). The research found that the Police’s score of 65% placed it at the top of the chain while the Presidency followed in second position with 55%. The report also placed members of Parliament as the third group of people in the pack with a score of 54%. Per the assessment, positive ratings of the President’s performance declined by 31 percentage points between 2019 and 2022, from 61% to 30%. Judges and magistrates, tax officials and the Electoral Commission followed suit in that order. This was made known at an event in Accra organised by ...
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Armed Forces, religious leaders most trusted institutions – Afrobarometer

Armed Forces, religious leaders most trusted institutions – Afrobarometer

Africa News, Ghana News
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) and religious leaders have been ranked as the most trusted institutions in the country in the year 2022. This ranking was contained in the latest Afrobarometer study conducted by the Centre for Democratic Development Ghana (CDD-Ghana) which bordered on democratic governance, trust in institutions and corruption. The CDD-Ghana survey revealed that the Ghana Armed Forces topped the chart with a total score of 67 percent. Followed by religious leaders with 49 percent. According to the report, traditional leaders are the third most trusted public institution with a percentage of 27. The rest of the public institutions are ranked as follows; Courts -36%, Electoral Commission – 33%, President -32%, Opposition political parties -29%, Police – 28%, ...
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Policy to create child-friendly internet in the offing

Policy to create child-friendly internet in the offing

Ghana News, Science & Technology
More than a third of Ghanaian young people between 12-17 years have access to the internet, mostly using mobile phones. However, the greater use of the internet increasingly exposes children and young people to the dangers of all forms of abuse. A recent UNICEF Ghana report showed that many children had indicated that they have been treated in a hurtful way by someone else when using the internet.Boys, older children and those living in urban areas report upsetting incidents more often. Sexual content, hurtful comments, fraud or violence are among the things that children find upsetting. In many of these cases, parents are not even aware of the incidents. National Child Online Protection To overcome the bottlenecks and provide child-friendly internet, the government is desig...
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Ghana wins 45 medals at African Armwrestling Championships

Ghana wins 45 medals at African Armwrestling Championships

Africa News, Ghana News, Sports
The national armwrestling team, the Golden Arms have returned to the country after winning a total of 45 medals to finish third at the 11th Africa Armwrestling Championships which ended last Friday (July 22, 2022) in Lagos. The Ghanaian team comprised 21 pullers (as armwrestling athletes are known) claimed 18 gold medals, 22 silver and five bronze medals to finish behind hosts Nigeria (27 gold medals) and Egypt (24 gold medals).Each of the pullers - 10 males and 11 females - won at least two medals each during the Championship. Twelve countries participated in the competition which started on July 19, 22. Addressing a press briefing yesterday (July 25, 2022) in Accra, the President of the Ghana Armwrestling Federation (GAF), Charles Osei Asibey said the exploits of the pullers...
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With discipline, we’ll overcome economic challenges – Ofori-Atta

With discipline, we’ll overcome economic challenges – Ofori-Atta

Ghana News
The Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, has assured that the government remained focused on driving the economy out of the current economic challenges. He said the government has a track record of navigating its way around the challenges and thus called on the citizens to have faith for a quicker return to stability. The minister said the government was prioritising fiscal discipline, which involved sticking to agreed targets, cutting expenditures when revenues are underperforming and ensuring prudent spending to get value for money. Presenting his sixth in the row mid year budget review to Parliament Monday (July 15, 2022), Mr Ofori-Atta sought to rally the nation behind the government in a march against the grueling high cost of living that is manifesting in soaring price ju...
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Road users on Accra-Tema motorway to pay tolls after expansion works

Road users on Accra-Tema motorway to pay tolls after expansion works

Ghana News
Commuters on the Accra-Tema motorway will start paying tolls again after the completion of expansion works on the road. Similarly, users of other newly constructed roads would also have to pay road tolls to use those roads. The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta said this when he presented the Mid-year budget review statement in Parliament on Monday (July 25, 2022). He said the completed road will be tolled to help recover the whole cost. The toll will also be to “pay lenders and provide a return for equity investors, the minister said. The collection of road tolls nationwide was stopped in November 2021. Under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) programme for road infrastructure, the Accra-Tema Motorway and Extension PPP Project to 10 lanes is currently at its procurem...
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Remembering late President Atta-Mills 10 years after

Remembering late President Atta-Mills 10 years after

Ghana News
On Sunday morning (July 24, 2022), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo commissioned the rehabilitated Asomdwee Park, the final resting place of the 3rd President of the 4th Republic, the late Prof. John Evans Fiifi Atta-Mills. Sometime after becoming President, I became aware of the sad state of Asomdwee Park, and, in 2020, I received a request from the late President’s energetic Communications Director, Koku Anyidoho, who runs the Institute named after the President, for the assistance of Government to rehabilitate the facility, the President said.I’m happy Asomdwoe Park has been elevated to status befitting Atta-Mills – Akufo-Addo"I agreed, and, subsequently, I instructed the Coastal Development Authority to undertake a thorough rehabilitation of the Park, with the close co-operatio...
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Ghana: Greater Accra has more than 50% of monkeypox cases

Ghana: Greater Accra has more than 50% of monkeypox cases

Ghana News, International
The total confirmed cases of the monkeypox outbreak in Ghana is now 34 with the cases recorded in six regions. More than 50 percent of cases are in the Greater Accra Region. The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said Greater Accra, Ashanti, Bono, Bono East, Eastern and Upper West are the regions where the cases have been identified. The monkeypox outbreak was Saturday (July 23, 2022) declared a global Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization (WHO). The classification is the highest alert that the WHO can issue and follows a worldwide upsurge in cases. It came at the end of the second meeting of the WHO's emergency committee on the virus. Ghana cases The last confirmed...
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