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The Minister for the Interior, Mr. Ambrose Dery, has called for the strengthening of collaboration amongst ECOWAS Member States to address issues of cross-border criminality. The Minister made the call on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at the opening ceremony of the 4-day Joint Introductory Judicial Training of Trainers Course on Cyber-crime and Electronic Evidence. According to him, Joint capacity building programmes, intelligence sharing among investigative agencies and judicial cooperation are areas that required commitment among ECOWAS nations to address regional cyber-crime challenges. He further advocated for the enforcement of the provisions of the ECOWAS Directive on cyber-crimes (Directive C/DIR/1/08/11...

In consonance with President Akufo-Addo’s governance style of touching base with the citizenry, the Minister for the Interior, Mr. Ambrose Dery, together with the Deputy Interior Minister and some officials from the Ministry of the Interior have undertaken familiarization tours to the Western and Central Regions to see at first hand challenges facing Agencies under the Ministry in those regions. The tour was also to commend them for their professionalism and dedication to hard work despite the challenges confronting them. The two Regional tours were undertaken between October 9 to 11, 2017 and October 31st to 1st November, 2017...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says his government intends, in the next few months, to establish a National Cyber Security Centre, as has been done in some other countries, to liaise with relevant state agencies and the private sector to oversee cyber security operations at the national level.According to President Akufo-Addo, the national identification system, the digital addressing system, e-payments, digital financial services and the various e-government initiatives in which Ghana is now taking so much pride, can be brought to a halt or undermined by cybercrime.Cyber-security issues, the President added, are now firmly national...