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  Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has waded in the ongoing LGBT rights conversation in the country saying people must be human to understand them. “You don’t have to be pro-gay to appreciate their situation. You only have to be human. Let us be careful and not generate an intense hate campaign against homosexuals. You can speak for the law and ‘culture’ minus hate,” he wrote on Facebook. Meanwhile, Bawku Central lawmaker Mahama Ayariga says homosexuals must recognize they have no rights in Ghana. According to him, people who own up to being homosexuals in the country must be identified...

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 strategy to tar roads in the communities they have built. The only difference is that they (estate develo...

  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 Otoo, who sought to handle the issue with tact and diplomacy. When he appeared before the Appointment...

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 on Thursday. The Graphic reports that the Ghana has donated 100,000 units of election thumbprint pads...

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 sustainability of the pension scheme, when you have a short working period, it doesn’t augur well,...