An Independent Police Complaint Commission (IPCC) is to be established to address indiscipline and accountability challenges in the Ghana Police Service. The commission is expected to be a civilian oversight body within the Ministry of the Interior. Already, the Police Administration has set up a unit known as the National Inspection Team to weed out miscreants from the service. The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan, made this known at the launch of the Public Confidence

Five companies have so far expressed interest to finance the reconstruction of the 19-kilometre Accra-Tema Motorway on a public-private partnership basis. The companies have presented sets of designs and proposals to the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA). The GHA, according to the Minister of Roads and Highways, Alhaji Amin Amidu Sulemani, was, however, awaiting the outcome of a World Bank-funded transaction advisory works expected to be completed in September this year for one of the companies to

A special church service and love feast climaxed the activities marking the fourth “St John of God Day” celebrated by the Catholic Church at Duayaw Nkwanta, the capital of the Tano-North District in the Brong Ahafo Region. According to the Parish Priest, Rev. Fr. Augustine Owusu, one Opanin Kwaku Duah and seven others, having learnt  about the  exploits of St. John in the 16th Century, were motivated to establish the Catholic Church at Duayaw Nkwanta in 1929. They, therefore, named the church

An initiative by Christian churches and other faiths to eradicate modern slavery and human trafficking by 2020 has been announced. In a joint statement issued at the Vatican yesterday, the churches underscored the intense effect of modern slavery and human trafficking and called for urgent action by Christians to address the issue.  Modern slavery and human trafficking  According to the statement, “The physical, economic and sexual exploitation of men, women and children condemns 30 million