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Empowering community volunteers for urban resilience Format Considering the effectiveness of community engagement in the successful implementation of sustainable resilience initiatives, UNDP’s National Resilience Programme is mobilising urban community volunteers from local educational institutions under selected city corporations and municipal areas. Presently, 240 volunteers are engaged with Rangamati Pourashava where they organise, mobilise and receive trainings on urban resilience issues ...

Impeachment notice: Ogun Assembly constitutes committee to investigate deputy speaker Impeachment notice: Ogun Assembly constitutes committee to investigate deputy speaker Share The Ogun State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, constituted an ad-hoc committee to investigate allegations against the Deputy Speaker, Hon Dare Kadiri, on alleged gross misconduct levelled against him. The Speaker of the Assembly, Hon Olakunle Oluomo, announced the members of the committee at the plenary session held at ...

Parliament will be effective under my watch – Bagbin LISTEN Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has promised to help actualize the vision of creating a just and free society in the country. According to him, this aspiration as captured in Article 34 (1) of the 1992 Constitution will continue to be a mirage unless Parliament takes its rightful place as the bulwark of democratic governance. Speaking at a two-day orientation and induction semin...

Blood sport Some would call it blood-sport, or a search for limits, or an attempt to permanently undermine the newcomer’s confidence and authority. When it is also male on female the label might go further. Its something unlikely to fall within the higher ideals of the Francis Report.  In case you wonder why the metaphor is of a boys’ school when very nearly half of MPs are women - it’s because poor behaviour in the chamber is overwhelmingly the province of men.  This Parliamentary �...

  Trade and Industry Minister-designate, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, on Friday, announced, that the Free Zones Enclave in Kumasi would be turned into Ghana’s second industrial city, after Tema. Mr Kyerematen said a public-private partnership was advancing towards developing the land acquired by the Government at Ejisu for activities in the industrial city because of the strategic location of the Ashanti Region. He described the Region “as being linked to several other geographical regions of G...

  Minister-Designate for Trade and Industry Alan Kyerematen on Friday described the One District, One Factory (1D1F) flagship programme of the Akufo-Addo Government as “a revolutionary invention, to have been introduced in the country since independence.” He said 139, 331 jobs were created, with a total of 232 1D1F projects at various stages under the programme. One hundred and sixty eight (168) of the 232 were new factories added to already existing ones. “So, if you look at the statist...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Director, Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, gave the warning in a statement on Friday. The spokesman said the Armed Forces would not condone any act disrupting legitimate economic and commercial activities. The Defence Headquarters advised members of the public to report anyone found engaging in such activities to security operatives. The statement said following the tension generated by the latest incident, personnel from the military and other secu...

  Madam Freda Prempeh, the Minister-of-State-designate for Works and Housing has advocated a budget for housing in the national efforts to roll out adequate and affordable housing. She said such a budget was necessary to fund housing projects, which required intensive capital. Madam Prempeh, who is also Member of Parliament (MP) for Tano North, gave the suggestion during her vetting by the Appointments Committee of Parliament, at the Parliament House, in Osu-Accra, on Thursday. The Committee, ...

THE STANDARD South B ward representative Waithera Chege during a meeting to educate residents on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report, yesterday. [Samson Wire, Standard] Regional supremacy and 2022 political ambitions could turn the exercise of picking a 10-member team to spearhead referendum campaigns into a nightmare for President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga. The perception that individuals who have been entrusted with the mandate could use it as a launch pad for the ne...

+ The Lands Minister-Designate, Samuel Abdulai Jinapor, says regulating every aspect of small scale mining operations is the only way that sector can be sanitised. “Mr Chairman, I respectfully hold the considered view that the only route to sanitizing the small scale mining sector is to regulate every aspect of their operations. “Community Mining as a mining scheme can help us attain the goal of viable, sustainable and regulated small scale mining industry in Ghana,” he told the Parliame...