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Transparency International since 1995 annually releases its Corruption Perception Index, a ranking of countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys. Just last week the group released the 2019 edition of the rankings which has seen Ghana fall two places further from its 78th position in 2018 to 80th, out of ...

The Spokesperson for the National Chief Imam and Co-Chairperson of the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), Sheikh Aremeyawo Shaibu, has described arguments against the compilation of a New Biometric Voters Register as unconvincing. Some Ghanaians including some civil society groups and the Interparty Resistance Against New Voters Register have kicked against the EC’s decision to compile a new voter’s ...

Nog vijf dagen, dan is het eindelijk zover: brexit. Een historische gebeurtenis die miljoenen levens ontregelt, aan beide kanten van de Noordzee. Hoe? Een aantal gewone mensen legt het uit. ,,Nooit gedacht dat ik mijn paspoort zou kwijtraken. Je zou kunnen denken dat de brexit, die op 1 februari een feit is, een administratieve formaliteit is geworden. Er ligt toch ...

It is on record that King John Aggrey Essien of Oguaa (Cape Coast) was the first king in the 19th century to really have challenged the legitimacy of British authority. Organizing systematic protests against the British earned him the accolade as one of the African political martyrs of British imperialism, but not the first king of Cape Coast. King John ...

The commissioning and distribution of 307 Ambulances to all the 275 constituencies nationwide as part of efforts to improve emergency healthcare delivery in Ghana would take place on Tuesday, January 28. Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Information Minister, who announced this at a news conference in Accra on Sunday, said the digitised ICT system, tracking devices and labelling had been ...

Traditional leaders of Tano-Offin have accused the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) of opaqueness in its operations and plans as far as the mining of bauxite in the Nyinahin forest reserve in the Ashanti Region is concerned. In a statement of protest jointly signed by Nana Tabbri Gyansa III, Mpasaso Omanhene (No1); Nana Kusi Amankwaa Marfo II, Nkawie Paninhene; ...

Palmolie heeft een slechte reputatie als het gaat om duurzaamheid en mensenrechten. Moet je daarom als consument producten met palmolie mijden? En is dat überhaupt mogelijk? De schappen in de supermarkt zouden grotendeels leeg zijn als die alle producten met palmolie zou verwijderen. Weg zijn de koekjes, chips, chocoladepasta, shampoo, margarine, kant-en-klaarmaaltijden en ga zo maar door. Volgens Solidaridad, een ...

Wetenschappers van het UMCG in Groningen waarschuwen voor de gezondheidsrisico’s van te veel vitamine B12. Volgens de onderzoekers hebben mensen met een hogere waarde van deze vitamine in het bloed een grotere kans om te sterven. De vitamine zit alleen in dierlijke producten zoals vlees en melk. Tot nu waren er geen nadelige effecten bekend van een te hoge dosis B12. Wel ...

After three years of intense war against illegal mining popularly known as ‘Galamsey’, it appears the efforts are not paying off as illegal miners continue to pillage Forest Reserves and pollute water bodies for gold. In the Oda River Forest Reserve in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti region, seven hectors of the 16,000 hectors of Forest Reserve have been wiped ...

Many are shy about telling their partners what they they really want from sex. It’s time to change that. There are times when sex becomes too boring and too predictable. Sustaining intimacy in every relationship requires deliberate effort and you have to be bold and specific about what you need, want and enjoy. Assumptions aren’t a good choice in this ...