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Bawku Central lawmaker Mahama Ayariga says homosexuals must recognise they have no rights in Ghana.

Armed Forces Strike Partnerships To Tackle Housing Issues

  Thankfully, messages such as “girls must not drop out of school" or "Girls should not be forced into marriage because of pregnancy, or be abused,” are gradually catching up with communities in the Upper East Region (UER). These life-saving achievements are being recorded in various communities across the UER region, thanks to keen interventions from Men and Boys Clubs, and Parent Advocacy Movements (PAM) which have become torch bearers within their communities on issues regarding Sexual ...

James Oppong-Boanuh, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) has urged personnel of the Ghana Police Service in the Bawku enclave in the Upper East Region to ensure discipline and professionalism to maintain the prevailing peace in the area.

Yesterday, we used this column to support the idea espoused by the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mr Mahama Ayariga, that the Ministry of Roads and Highways should liaise with the various metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies with the view to increasing property rates to finance construction of roads in local communities. We supported the idea one hundred per cent, because as noted by Mr Mahama Ayariga, some of the estate developers in the country are already using this strat...

Proposal by the National Democratic Congress rsquo; Member of Parliament for Bawku-Central, in the Upper-East Region, to have the compulsory retirement age raised from 60 to 65 years old is clearly a vacuous propaganda ploy by the Parliamentary Minority Caucus that is purely aimed at scoring cheap political points, as it were (See ldquo;Mahama Ayariga wants Compulsory Retirement Age Extended from 60 to 65 rdquo; Modernghana.

  Four labour experts have waded into the debate on the extension of the retirement age with divergent positions. The experts are the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Employers Association, Mr Alex Frimpong, who welcomed the suggestion for the extension;  labour consultants Mr Austin Gamey and Mr  Senyo Adjabeng, who maintained that any such decision would be counterproductive, and the Director of the Labour Research Institute of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Dr Kwabena Nyarko O...

Press focuses on Ghana’s donation of electoral materials to Niger, others Ghana-Press-Review February 18, 2021 to 10:49 310 APA – Accra (Ghana) The donation of 100,000 units of election thumbprint pads to the Niger Independent National Electoral Commission towards the conduct of the second round of presidential election dominates the headlines of the Ghanaian press o...

Graphic Online BY: Nana Konadu Agyeman & Emmanuel Bruce Category: General News 30.5k Shares 705 The Minister designate for Employment and Labour Relations, Mr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, has said the current short working period does not augur well for the national pension scheme and has, consequently, argued for the extension of the compulsory retirement age of public workers to ensure the sustainability of the scheme. “I have raised this issue on several platforms, and even if you look at the ...

The Bawku Central MP, Mahama Ayariga, has defended the Appointments Committee rsquo;s soft vetting of Sarah Adwoa Safo, the Gender, Children and Social Protection minister-nominee.