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Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck Germany, in partnership with Ghana’s First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has launched a campaign to overcome the stigma associated with infertility among women. The “Merck More Than a Mother” campaign would leverage on the power of the mass media to educate and help everybody to have better understanding of fertility issues. It would ...

The Goaso District office of the Forestry Services Division( FSD) of the Forestry Commission has impounded about 3,000 chainsaw machines used by illegal operators to fell trees within forest reserves in the area over the past one year. Also impounded are 18 motorbikes, while 23 persons, who were arrested by a special task force, have either been jailed or fined ...

The Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mr Joseph A. Whittal, contends that the country will lose the fight against corruption if its leaders fail to take steps to strengthen statutory anti-corruption institutions. He also said it was needless to set up more bodies to fight corruption, adding that the legal framework establishing statutory anti-corruption ...

A US-based non-profit organisation headquartered in Ghana, the Amazing Grace Children’s Foundation (AGCF), has organised a medical outreach with the aim of promoting maternal and infant health. The medical screening took place at Jamestown and Odorkor-Otaten in the Ablekuma South and the Ablekuma North municipalities, respectively, in Accra from January 7-9, this year. The AGCF undertook the exercise in collaboration ...

The Ministry of Education is planning to introduce a placement system for the admission of students to tertiary institutions. The new system will replace the current stressful and expensive system where applicants purchase separate application forms for each university. The proposal for the adoption of the centralised system was submitted by a nine-member committee the ministry set up to holistically ...

The Municipal Chief Executive for Sagnarigu and President of REFELA Ghana Chapter, Hon Iddrisu Mariam has reiterated the committed of government in addressing issues that affects women development and empowerment. According to her, the intentions of government is to bring women vulnerability to a halt through deliberate initiatives and programmes to protect women rights and empower them, adding that, Ghana ...

Madam Cynthia Mamle Morrison, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), has expressed concern over the increasing rate of teenage pregnancy in the Central Tongu District of the Volta Region and called for stiffer punishment for perpetrators. Reports from the Ghana Health Service for 2016 and 2017 indicated that teenage pregnancy in the District increased from 490 to 522 ...

Police in the Volta Region have confirmed to Joy News the death of two residents of Alavanyo Dzogbedze who were caught up in a crossfire between the military and some unknown assailants. Narrating the incident to the AM Show on MultiTV, Volta regional police commander, DCOP Francis Doku said the police got wind that some persons were hoarding ammunition in ...

The Right Reverend Christopher Nyarko Andam, Methodist Bishop of Kumasi, has said it was imperative that the nation increases budgetary allocation for the agricultural sector. This, he said, was required for more research work, infusion of science and technology, as well as extension services to augment best practices and expansion of the sector to bring significant improvement in the economy. ...

A former Director of Finance at the Ministry of Finance, Dr George Sipa Adja Yankey, has underscored the need for a major national conversation to achieve consensus on national development issues for the rapid and sustainable growth of the Ghanaian economy. It looked as if national policies and conversation were being designed by a few people without involving the larger ...