Pregnant women who seek antenatal care at Bonkro CHPS compound in Afram Plains South District of the Eastern Region are examined on benches due to lack of medical examination tables. The situation, coupled with poor condition of the facility, inadequate logistics, compromised privacy of patients and absence of a midwife, are discouraging pregnant women from patronizing services of the facility, ...
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As if we weren’t human: Tracking unsolved police, military brutalities
“Is there any justice in this country? A policeman shot my husband and we have been appealing to the Ghana Police Service to investigate and all we get is silence,” a distressed Deborah Adjeley cries out. As tears run down her cheeks, her husband Elias Ojoojo Adjetey Anum, who is now paralysed as a result of the shooting, also bursts ...
Read More »GES shuts down Buipe SHS after fire razed school
Nearly 300 students of Buipe Senior High School have been asked to go home after they lost all their personal belongings in a fire that burnt down their dormitory, Monday, February 3, 2020. Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the Northern Region, Kanzoni Donald, in a release said the decision has become necessary because both students and the ...
Read More »In Africa, ideas aren’t enough
For two decades, we have been running with the narrative of ‘a Ghana rising.’ Today, it is no longer a narrative but a reality, although in fading shadows. Ghana is now a land of economic freedom where investors from all over the world troop into to start businesses and/or takeover struggling ones that they nurture and build into multimillion-dollar companies ...
Read More »Ghana’s biggest issue is jobs for young people – Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo says the biggest issue for Ghana and the African continent is finding work for young people. In an interview with CGTN on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Akufo-Addo said Africa is the youngest continent in the world in terms of its population and as a result, public sector jobs cannot employ all ...
Read More »69% of roads bad; massive rehabilitation underway – Roads Minister
The government has commenced massive road expansion and rehabilitation works to bring relief to road users, the Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr Kwasi Amoako-Atta, has said. He said 69 per cent of all roads in the country were in “terrible conditions”, a situation which was a disincentive to national development. “It is our hope that Ghanaians will be a ...
Read More »Gov’t must prioritise fight against inequality—SDGs Platform
Ghana’s quest to achieve equitable and sustainable development can cannot be realised if concrete measures are not put in place to address all forms of inequality, theCivil Society Platform on SDGs has cautioned. According to the Platform, “Inequality has become a defining global problem of the present time that must be addressed if we want to achieve the Sustainable Development ...
Read More »28 percent of households in the Upper East Region are extremely poor – GNHR Data
Data from the Ghana National Household Registry (GNHR) has revealed that whilst 28 percent of households in the Upper East Region are extremely poor, 37 percent were poor with 35 percent being non-poor households. The GNHR undertook the Household Registration exercise in the Upper West and Upper East Region in 2017 and 2018 respectively. Garu-Temapane District tops which had now ...
Read More »Media must help keep political parties in check – Zayaa Yeebo
Mr Zayaa Yeebo, Editor in Chief of the Public Agenda Newspaper has called on the media to help deepen democratic development by sanitising the political space. He observed that political entities were threatening violence ahead of the 2020 general elections, and that it was the responsibility of the media to help keep them in check. This the media can do ...
Read More »‘Ghana is moving beyond aid’ – Akufo-Addo
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the programmes and policies being implemented by his government are putting the country onto the path of progress and prosperity, and, will gradually take Ghana to a stage beyond aid. Speaking at the 71st New Year School on Tuesday under the theme “Attaining Ghana Beyond Aid: Challenges and Prospects”, President Akufo-Addo stated that ...
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