The Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) will make its tractor services available directly to beneficiaries from the next farming season, instead of the present system under which there are tractor service providers between SADA and the farmers.
Newborn deaths account for nearly 40 per cent of under-five mortality in Ghana. Addressing newborn deaths is, therefore, key to Ghana’s efforts at achieving Millennium Development Goals Four and Five that respectively relate to reducing child mortality and improving maternal health.
The discussion on the Right to Information (RTI) Bill is a very sensitive one. My perspective on the RTI bill has many parts that we may have overlooked. It also goes beyond seeking information just for the purposes of defamation, persecution of an individual or an organisation. My interest here is on the right to information of patients (both inpatients and outpatients).
John F. Kennedy, a former American President, is noted to have said that, “if a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are richâ€. Conversely, if the state cannot protect and safeguard the fundamental rights of the rich and privileged, then it becomes more vulnerable in protecting the poor who are many.
Forty one people died after a bus rolled at Ntulele a few kilometres from Narok Town west of Nairobi, Kenya,Thursday.
After eight months of sitting, the Supreme Court of Ghana will today, rule on the landmark case challenging the legitimacy of President John Dramani Mahama as winner of the 2012 Presidential Elections.
Gospel musician Florence Obinim says women eye her husband too much even when they know that he is a married man of nine years.
“I want to first get a house for me and my siblingsâ€, Dillish Matthews, the winner of last Sunday’s Big Brother Africa reality show has told Myjoyonline. She said that her first priority is to buy a house. The Namibian beauty beat four other finalists – Elikem, Cleo, Melvin and Beverly – to win the US$300,000 prize package in this year’s 91-day reality show. Dillish said it had been her dream to get a house for her siblings and herself so they could live together and winning the money will make that a reality. “I made it very clear in the beginning that I just want to get a house for me and my siblings to be together. It might sound something simple, something stupid but I never had that family thing so now I can go and do it for my siblings I…,†the pretty Namibian said. “I told them before they turned 18, we will all be in a house together and look at what happened,†she added. The Big Brother Africa reality show has over the years seen several relationships crushing as several housemates have found it very difficult holding on to their partners while in the house. A clear example is Pokello who dumped her long-time boyfriend, Zimbabwean rapper Desmond “Stunner†Chideme just after her eviction from the show because of Ghana’s Elikem. Dillish, who was arguably the hottest housemate in the Big Brother (The Chase) competition, managed to fight several temptations just to be loyal to her boyfriend, Stephen Gaeseb in Namibia. Asked how she managed to stay away from temptations and be faithful to her boyfriend, Dillish explained that she made it clear to her housemates that she was an honest person and she wanted to stay true to her man. “I made it very clear to my housemates that I’m an honest person and I won’t lie, I won’t come to the house and see a bunch of handsome men with six packs and when I’m showering they come in and take off their shirts and be like I don’t see anything,†she said. “I didn’t make moves because you know, when you just believe that you are in a relationship and you are going to mess up, let it not be me, let the conscience be on him and I can go back saying it wasn’t my fault…what I had in mind is to stay true to myself and if the relationship breaks up, it is on him,†Dillish added. The winner of the Big Brother Africa Chase reality show, however, noted that, if she was single before going into the reality show, she would have tried her love luck on Sierra Leonean, Bolt or Nigerian, Melvin. According to her, she “had said that Bolt is very handsome … but the stuffs that come out of his mouth is such a turn off [but] if [it’s] not Bolt, … Maria and Melvin had a little thing going on but he is really handsome, he has a six pack, so if it was not Stephen, it would probably be Bolt or Melvin.†Ghana’s Elikem may have lost out on the big prize but he was announced the winner of the “Most Romantic Gesture†– for making breakfast in bed for Pokello. He won a holiday package: a 5-night all-expenses-paid trip for two, to the Sarova White Sands Hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, two return tickets from RwandAir and some spending money – all valued at USD10 000. Elikem made no bones about the fact that he would be taking Pokello along as his “plus oneâ€.
The government’s decision to scrap allowances for trainees in the colleges of education is to ensure equity and fairness in the educational system, the Minister of Education, Professor Jane Naana Agyeman, has explained.
There are striking similarities and differences between the two personalities at the centre of the “pink sheet warâ€.
The government has successfully listed the US$1 billion Eurobond issued earlier this month on the Ghana Stock Exchange.
A 33-year-old female administrator of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Ama Gyamfia, committed suicide on Tuesday evening, less than 24 hours after her husband had informed her of his final decision to end their two-year-old marriage. Apparently hurt by the husband’s decision, Gyamfia entered her room, on the pretext of going to pray to God. But 30 minutes later, she was found hanging on a rope tied to the roof of the room in the family house near the Siloam Junction at Kwadaso in Kumasi. Neighbours expressed shock at the death of the young woman, said to be a graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The Sofoline police confirmed the incident and said the remains of Gyamfia had been deposited at the morgue at KATH for autopsy. The acting District Police Commander, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Mr Edward Jones Afutu, told the Daily Graphic in Kumasi yesterday that the police were investigating the case to determine the next line of action. He would not give further details but said the police were looking for Gyamfia’s husband, whose name was not given, to assist in investigations. Neighbours, however, told the Daily Graphic that Gyamfia, who was nursing a 10-month-old baby from her marriage, had not been her normal self since her husband started threatening divorce some few weeks ago. Last Tuesday, the husband, who had travelled outside Kumasi, called her on phone to inform her that she should get herself ready for divorce immediately he returned to Kumasi. According to the residents, the woman became perplexed and started moving from one house to another in the evening. All attempts by relatives to convince her to take it cool proved futile. On the fateful day, Gyamfia, who was then cuddling her baby, handed it over to her mother and entered her room, with the excuse that she was going to pray. She locked herself up in the room and, after about 30 minutes when she had not come out, an attempt was made by relatives to go inside to find out what was happening. On realising that the door had been locked from inside, they forced it open, only to see the woman hanging dead on a rope.
The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) says the country is losing huge revenue because of its failure to place the offshore oil-exporting terminal, Floating Production and Storage (FPSO Kwame Nkrumah), under the operations of the authority.
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has said the nation needs honest politicians with a vision for rapid development.
The bodies of five persons who got missing after a boat disaster on the Oti River last Sunday, have been recovered at Dambai in the Krachi East District. Three bodies were initially retrieved after the accident.
A pastor and a traditional priest who fought in public over juju money at Adansi Anwiaso in the Adansi North District in the Ashanti Region have been fined GH¢50 each by the traditional authorities.
Let us pray for God’s wisdom for the nine-member panel of the Supreme Court in the 2012 election petition to give a verdict based on justice , the Head Pastor of the International Christian Faith Ministries, Rev . Dr Patrick Quainoo, has advocated.
The Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) has granted a GH¢3 million loan to victims of the Makola Number Two fire in Accra.
The Sole Commissioner of the Judgement Debt Commission, Mr Justice Yaw Apau, has questioned the basis for which the Attorney General’s Department had to hire the services of two local law firms to advise it in a settlement case between the then Ministry of Roads and Transportation and Sarroch Grandulati/GELFI Joint Ventures.
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