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World Press Freedom Day Event Theme: “30 Years after the Windhoek Declaration: Information as Public Good” As Delivered Remarks by U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Stephanie S. Sullivan Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 10:00am – 12noon Honorable Minister for Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah Our double Chairman, National Media Commission Chairman Mr. Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh Ghana Journalist Association Vice President Linda Asante Adjei UN Resident Coordinator Charles Abani UNESCO Country Director Diallo Abdourahamane Fellow Members of the Diplomatic Corps Representatives of the Media Associations Esteemed Membe...

+ President of the Ghana Independence Broadcasters Association (GIBA) has opined that enacting a broadcasting law is essential for the growth of the media fraternity. According to Andrews Danso-Ahenkorah, these regulations will go a long way to help develop the nation. “We need regulations if we are going to talk about development, we need regulations when we are going to talk about growth, and we need regulations to be able to convince ourselves that this is how we started from and this how far we have come and through this we are here,” he told JoyNews‘ Evans Mensah. His comments fol...

  The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr Godfred Yeboah Dame, says the efforts to regulate the media is cast in law and falls within international best practices, saying" regulating the media is not unconstitutional". He said the 1992 Constitution architecture anticipated the need to regulate the media landscape, to protect the reputation and rights of the citizens, as well as uphold public morality and order. He noted that after the Constitution granted freedom of expression and information to the media in Articles 162 and 163, it also imposed reasonable limitations on the media...

  The government has abandoned the current system of collecting TV licence Information Minister-designate Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said. Instead, the proposed Digital Access Fund would be used to replace TV license fee.  Mr Nkrumah said this when he took his turn to respond to questions from members of the vetting committee of parliament on Thursday, 18 February 2021. The TV License Fees which was established by the Television Licensing Act – 1966 (NLCD 89) was re-introduced in 2015 to ensure TV owners pay fees. The Akufo-Addo led government in 2018 made the payment mandatory and insisted ...

The government has abandoned the current system of collecting TV licence Information Minister-designate Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said.