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COVID-19 vaccines safe, efficacious; disregard misconceptions - Dr Nsiah-Asare LISTEN FEB 25, 2021 Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, the Presidential Advisor on Health, has advised the public to disregard misconceptions about the Covid-19 vaccination. He said the misconceptions, negative messages and videos in circulation were the creation of anti-vaccine campaigners, seeking to confuse the public for “their own selfish interests.” “It is never true that the COVID-19 vaccines have tracking devi...

Onu, a former senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress for Ebonyi South in the 2019 general election, in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja, cautioned Southeast politicians to apply wisdom in their agitations and work on building affinity with other geo-political zones. The statement partly read, “National Council for Democratic Development (NCDD), a socio-political advocacy group, having watched keenly, recent political developments, has cautioned politicians of ...

May 19, 2016: Celebrating the Day of Europe in the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region. Children are holding the flag of the European Union. While Ukraine’s easternmost region, comprised of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts (currently war-torn in the aftermath of Russian hybrid aggression), has earned a reputation as one of the country’s most Eurosceptic areas, its anti-EU outlook should not be taken for granted. Data collected by the Center for Sustainable Peace and Democratic Develo...

How Middle-Power Democracies Can Help Renovate Global Democracy Support Source: Getty Summary:  Middle-power democracies should not tread water while waiting for the United States to address its own democratic crisis. They must help revamp global democracy support using their comparative strengths. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Summary Democracy is on the defensive globally. Elected governments are struggling to stand up to emboldened autho...

  Mr Richard A. Quayson, Deputy Commissioner Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), on Monday called for the private sector and Civil Societies participation in the implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP). “The control of corruption in Ghana should be the responsibility of each citizen. Through NACAP citizens are allowed to join hands and tackle corruption in the country to secure and sustain the nation’s development,” Mr Quayson told th...

What might he say? At about 4:00 p.m. today, while standing, President George M. Weah will deliver his 4th annual address (also known as the State of the Nation Address) in front of the two Houses — the 1st Joint Session of the 4th Session of the 54th Legislature — giving his view on the state of the nation and his legislative goals for the year. Chapter VI Section 58 of the Liberian Constitution states that the President “shall on the fourth working Monday in January of each year, presen...

Two major things, in my considered opinion, have been proven to be the major setbacks of development in Ghana and Africa at large: corruption and leadership nemesis.

First Deputy Speaker and Member of Parliament for Bekwai, Joseph Osei-Owusu The Bono East Regional Youth Wing of the opposition National Democratic Congress has petitioned the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, to expel the First Deputy Speaker and Member of Parliament for Bekwai, Joseph Osei-Owusu, from the lawmaking house. The call by the opposition party membership comes at the back of a recent statement made by the MP. “During the last State of the Nation’s Address of...

Expelling Pastoralists From Forests That Kill, By Jibrin Ibrahim What is clear is that we need to develop a comprehensive policy response to the non-governance of our forests and the idea of registering its users cannot be dismissed. Such a measure should however be well planned, with realistic timelines developed; and it can only work as a national, rather than State, plan. My column of September 12, 2016 was entitled “Forests that Kill and Destroy: Rural Banditry in Northern Nigeria.” The...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Youth Wing in the Bono East Region has petitioned the Speaker of Parliament Hon.