Since its imperceptible evolution from oral, written, printed, electronic, and now in its digital age, media have played consequential role and continue to play and transform the way in which people everywhere in the world relate socio-culturally, economically, and politically.  Media’s influences on cultures are so pivotal and all-embracing that it is not surprising some leaders or governments with dictatorial ...

Nurses and midwives in the country need higher education in order to enhance healthcare delivery at various health facilities. This is according to the Principal for the Peri-Operative and Critical Nursing School, Dr. Kwaku Asante-Krobea, will ultimately promote the dignity of the healthcare profession as patients will be in safer hands. “I will never drop my conviction that patients are ...

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is set to continue processes to demand Living Wage for workers. The National Living Wage will ensure that the daily wage of an average worker in Ghana caters for at least four people in a family instead of the current minimum wage which caters for only one person. Ghana’s Minimum wage is one of the ...

The constitution of Ghana and other key legislations mandate government to give Ghanaians the opportunity to participate in governance at the national, regional and district levels. The 1992 constitution stipulates how the state should engage citizens and how citizens should be involved in the decision-making process. That is why section 40 of Act 936, for example, states that: “A district ...

Dialysis Service Foundation (DSF) has appealed to corporate organisations and persons with resources to help support needy kidney patients. According to the foundation, an average of 12,000 kidney failure cases are detected among Ghanaian patients every year. Speaking at the launch of DSF fundraising, a board member of the foundation, Dela Herman Agbo indicated that DSF would provide subsidised or ...

Three million and over people died as a result of harmful use of alcohol in 2016, according to a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. This represents one in 20 deaths and more than three-quarters of these deaths were among men. The harmful use of alcohol, overall, causes more than five per cent of the global ...

The devastation and emotional drain of road accidents can be encapsulated in a famous quote attributed to Nikki Rowe. “There’s something about trauma to the mind, body, and soul.  One day your normal and the next you’re different; you don’t know what changed but you know nothing’s the same and all of a sudden, you are learning to adapt yourself to the ...

Mr Richard Quayson, Deputy Commissioner, Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has expressed concern about how corrupt practices are sinking the fortunes of the nation. He said Ghana loses about three billion dollars annually to corruption and this represents about 300 per cent of all aid inflows to the nation. Mr Quayson, who was speaking at a National ...

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has outlined preparations by the government to pass Social Protection law by 2019 to facilitate inclusive development and reduce poverty. It said it was working hard to develop and fine-tune the Social Protection Bill for submission to Cabinet. Dr. Afisah Zakariah, the Chief Director said “we are working assiduously to ensure the ...

A research finding has revealed that the lack of bridges in some communities in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region has had adverse effects on agriculture production in the area. The situation has made it very difficult for famers to transport their farm produce to marketing centres to sell, the findings stated. Among the challenges being experienced is ...