Government sets Nov 1 as National Sanitation Day

By Edmund Smith-Asante & Adwoa Amofa Osei

Nii Lantey Vanderpuye addressing the durbar

The government has set the first day in November this year as a National Sanitation Day. This would be the start of a national clean-up exercise to be observed every first week of the month across the country.

The formal launching of the day, which is intended to bring back communal work days to improve on environmental sanitation, would be held on Friday in Accra.

Ghana needs socio-cultural transformation

By Edmund Smith-Asante

The President of the Full Gospel Church International (FGCI), the Rt Rev. Samuel N. Mensah, has urged pastors to educate their congregations on the need to observe good sanitary practices.

He called for a socio-cultural transformation of the country led by the government, in partnership with religious, traditional and opinion leaders.

Govt declares war on cholera as 128 die

By Edmund Smith-Asante

The government has declared war on cholera to stop its rapid spread across the country. 

The war entails using a “Sword and Shield” strategy, with the sword representing the targets or communities affected and the shield showing the responses to fight the outbreak.

Pay for sanitation services promptly -MMDAs told

By Edmund Smith-Asante

Mr Benjamin Arthur, Executive Secretary, CONIWAS

 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies have been urged to promptly pay for services they receive in connection with sanitation and for which they are obliged by law to do.

World leaders, business executives to meet on climate change

By Edmund Smith-Asante

More than 120 world leaders, business owners, city mayors and civil service organisations (CSOs) are expected to converge in New York, USA, on September 23, for the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Summit on the theme, “Catalysing Action”.

Ghana needs a mining policy

By Edmund Smith-Asante

Which way are we going as a country, Mrs Hannah Owusu-Koranteng seems to be asking at the workshop

Although Ghana is the ninth largest exporter of gold in the world and the second largest in Africa, the country is not earning what is due it because it has no mining policy, the Associate Executive Director of Wacam, a civil society organisation (CSO), Mrs Hannah Owusu-Koranteng, has said.

Sack Oko Vanderpuije for incompetence – Leadership expert

By Edmund Smith-Asante

A Leadership Consultant, Rt Rev. Samuel N. Mensah, has called for the dismissal of the Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mr Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, from office for incompetence.