Epilepsy cases in Upper West Region have more than doubled in the last two years and the prevailing trend indicates that the figure is likely to further rise in 2018. Reports of recorded cases of epilepsy in the Wa Municipality were 27 in 2016 but jumped to 60 in 2017, a situation the Municipal Health Directorate says could grow higher ...

Are we stupid? Hell no! That’s too harsh! Then, who are we? I had insomnia last night after I came across one of the famous quotes of the renowned scientist — Albert Einstein. It says, ‘‘stupidity is doing same thing and expecting different results.’’ I cherish fame, and I adore Ghana — a country which does same thing over and ...

The Western Regional Manager of the National Population Council (NPC) Frank Ofosu-Asante has expressed concern about the increasing rate of child marriage in the region.  Statistics indicate that 37 per cent of girls in the Western Region would be married before they turn 18. He bemoaned the fact that most teenage girls, particularly those in the remote areas in the ...

The Government of Ghana through the Ministry of Education has signed an MOU with Real Studios Limited, an Information Technology company, to implement the Digital Education System (DES). The initiative combines hardware, software and digital media to transform the educational sector from analogue to a digital one which is more accessible, using electronic reading devices backed by internet systems to ...

The Director of Human Rights at the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Dr Isaac Annan, has urged Ghanaians to charge institutions to work. Speaking at a two-day workshop for journalists on Ghana’s Obligations under International Human Rights Law, he stressed that institutions in Ghana are left unaccountable. He indicated that Ghanaians don’t compel CHRAJ on issues involving ...

The Coalition on the Right to Information has expressed disappointment at the slow pace at which Parliament has handled the consideration stage of the Bill so far, fearing that,  “history is not repeating itself.” The Coalition’s disappointment followed a pronouncement   by the Majority Leader of Parliament, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu on Wednesday July 25, 2018 at a press briefing in ...

A proposal has been made to the government of Ghana to consider the establishment of Disability Desks in all the country’s heath facilities to ensure easy accessibility by Persons with Disability (PWDs). Such initiative, according to stakeholders, would embolden Persons with Disability to access the health facilities without fear of discrimination, stigmatization and the use of denigrating languages against them ...

An abandoned dam project in the Ohawu community in the North Ketu District of the Volta Region is posing danger to the lives of residents, including farmers in the area. The construction in the irrigation dam was being funded with oil revenue to boost farming activities in the Ohawu community. This was contained in a research finding by a policy ...

The Western Regional Directorate of the National Population Council says the alarming rate of children and youth under 24 in the western Region called for the cutting down of figures for development and growth purposes. Such a bracket of almost 60 percent of the Western Regions population being under 24 according to Francis Asante, the Regional Head has rippling effects ...

The Minister of Energy has commenced an arrangement to make the Electricity Company of Ghana{ECG} the custodian of all Power Purchase Agreements{PPA} in the country. In this regard, the current PPAs held by the Volta River Authority (VRA) would be transferred to the ECG to allow the VRA concentrate on generations from hydro. The new arrangement forms part of the ...