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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 ...

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 ...

As the world marks International Day of Peace on Friday, September, 21, Ghana has moved up six points to rank 41st on this year’s Global Peace Index (GPI), while it occupies the fifth position in Sub-Saharan Africa. Mauritius, Botswana, Sierra Leone and Madagascar are the front runners of Ghana on the 2018 GPI, released annually by the Institute for Economics ...

Professor Dzodzi Tsikata, the Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, has called for a change in the country’s economic and social protection policies, which relied on the export of primary agricultural commodities. She, therefore, advocated for a radical rethinking that would add value to the agricultural commodities and natural resources locally to create sufficient jobs for ...

The extravagant expenditure on high government appointees has come under criticism with a call by a former Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa, Prof. Kwame Karikari, on the government to cut down on some of these expenses. According to him, looking at the economic situation in the country, Ghanaians could no longer stand the expensive lifestyle of these ...

Mr. Desmond Appiah, the Chief Sustainability and C40 City Advisor to the Mayor of Accra have disclosed that the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (A.M.A) is developing greening initiatives that could improve on the environment. Speaking at the Global Climate Action Summit held in Accra during the weekend which was organized by 350 G-ROC, he said A.M.A is planning on organizing workshops ...

Fuel Consumers must get ready to purchase Petrol and Diesel at GHC 5 per litre at the pumps in the coming days. The prices of  the two products across most major Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) within the country have recently seen increases of about 2% from previous market averages of 4.850/litre for both petrol and diesel to now 4.900/ litre ...