Environmentalists have cautioned that Ghana stands a great risk of losing its water bodies to water weeds, especially, the lower Volta in 10 years time, if nothing is done about the “invasive water weeds” on the surface of the country’s river bodies. According to the environmentalists, the country is gradually losing its rivers to the water weeds. It was in this wise that they called for an urgent... 

Mr Alhaji Amin Abu, a staunch youth activist of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and aspiring Organizer for Madina-Abokobi Constituency, has minced no words in calling on Ghanaians to reject the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) come 2012 when Ghanaians go to the polls. According to him, President Mills and the NDC have totally failed Ghanaians since they had refused to honour... 

IT is all too easy to take water for granted. FOR most with regular access to clean water, it is probably impossible to imagine life without it for cooking, cleaning, and, most importantly, drinking. And yet, only 57% of rural areas in Ghana have potable water supply. TODAY would like to applaud the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) for financing the Northern Region Small Towns Water... 

Officials at the main License Office located at 37, a suburb of Accra, have been extorting money from unqualified personnel in exchange for driver’s licenses without the required tests TODAY can authoritatively report. The paper gathered that there are some rogues who hang around the gallery of the license office, asking drivers who come to the license office to either renew their old license or... 

TODAY can report on authority that the recent cyanide spillage from Newmont’s Ahafo Mines in the Brong Ahafo region did, in fact, affect several hamlets around the mine area. The hamlets, which were deprived access to potable water as a result of the incident included, Kyeikrom, Kwamebourkrom, Afua Serwahkrom, Norbertkrom and Kantinka. However, Mr Emmanuel Ato Aubynn, Community Relations Manager... 

SCHOOLS are meant to be a place of learning, not fear. With incidents of child abuse in schools coming to light, it is becoming clear that this flagrant exploitation of power must be addressed and eliminated. RECENTLY, a teacher in the Madina-Abokobi Constituency in the Greater Accra region allegedly locked pupils in a room for over three hours for disturbing the class. The students are said to have... 

The presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, congratulated His Eminence Cardinal Peter Appiah-Turkson for his appointment as the Head of the Vatican’s Justice and Peace Council by Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Appiah Turkson In a statement signed by the CPP presidential candidate, Dr Nduom expressed: “It is with great pride and joy that I send you this... 

Some communities in the Dangme West district of the Greater Accra Region have launched a vigorous sanitation campaign as a result of the lack of sanitation facilities in the district. The campaign follows the introduction of the Community led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach in the communities by Water Aid Ghana, a Non Governmental Organization in water and sanitation sector as part of its aims to... 

Hon. Clement Kofi Humado, Member of Parliament for Anlo constituency and Chairman of the Parliamentary select committee on poverty reduction, has observed that reducing poverty formed a crucial role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). “The campaign to make poverty become history is a central moral challenge of our age that cannot remain a task for a few but instead should become... 

Discreet findings by TODAY reveal that Newmont Ghana Gold Company Limited was behind a recent press conference organized by the Birim North Umbrella Youth Association (BNUYA) in the Birim North District in the Eastern Region. The said press conference that came off on October 27, 2009, was held at Adausena, a community in North Birim. TODAY learnt that the press conference was supported by Newmont...