Staff Writer
For most people living with unusual white patches on their skin, a medical condition known as Vitiligo, lack of confidence and low self-esteem are prominent characteristics. Though the condition is not contagious the stigma from society has created the false impression that it is deadly and endemic.
Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party(NPP), Freddie Blay, has denied claims by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) that he has not been cooperative in an ongoing investigation into the procurement of some 275 buses for the NPP. The commission had claimed it has
A 62-year-old landlady, Hawa Mohammed, has been sentenced by the Madina District Magistrate Court to a 12-month jail term with hard labour or pay a fine of GHȻ2,400, which is equivalent to 200 penalty units, for causing her tenants to dispose waste indiscriminately. Madam Mohammed owns a house from
The Special Prosecutor, Mr Martin A.B.K. Amidu, has taken full responsibility for the defects in the drafting of the charge sheet in the case against the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, Mr Mahama Ayariga, and another. “All we have to do is to make sure that our particulars meet the stan
An Accra High Court has ruled that the National Communications Authority (NCA) acted justly and within its mandate when it reclassified the maximum radius within which Commercial FM stations in Ghana should operate from. The NCA reclassified the maximum radius from 100km to 45km. Multimedia Group Li
In Ghana, when a female politician says anything unpalatable, you can almost predict the backlash… ‘’Go home and cook for your husband!’’ ‘’That's why your husband divorced you!’’ ‘’You can't even save your marriage and you want to save Ghana’’ ‘’Show us your husband!’’ It’s the second quarter
TV3’s prime time news anchor and head of Media General business desk, Alfred Akrofi Ocansey, has been named as one of the finalists for the 2019 Mandela Washington Fellowship. The multiple award-winning journalist is expected to spend six weeks in the United States participating in professional deve
The Government of Ghana has expressed gratitude its security agencies, specifically the Ghana Police Service and National Security for leading an operation for the successful rescue of the two Canadian ladies who were kidnapped in Kumasi. Addressing a press briefing in Accra, Wednesday June 12, Info
Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, last week organised their annual series of prayer breakfast meetings in a bid to mobilise the international community of churches and government leaders “to align themselves in prayer with God’s purpose for Israel and Jerusalem”. Ghana’s minister for finance, Ken Of
The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has disclosed it took the Ghana National Security agencies only 25 minutes to complete the rescue operation of the two Canadian girls who were kidnapped in Kumasi. They were rescued in the early hours of Wednesday, June 12 at Suwaba, a suburb of Kum
Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, says government concedes there are some challenges with its one-village, one-dam programme, but committed to rectifying them. Media reports surfaced recently suggesting work on some of the dams being constructed in parts of northern Ghana was
Amazon’s warehouses will always need human staff, the firm’s chief robotics technologist has told the BBC. The company said it had deployed more than 200,000 warehouse robots working in around 50 of its locations. But despite Amazon investing heavily in advanced robotics, Tye Brady said the firm’s c
The Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has dismissed claims by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that its flagship 'One-Village, One-Dam' (1V1D) programme is deceptive. In a statement last Sunday, the NDC described as substandard some dams being constructed in some s
Former Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, has said there is the need to make stiffer laws on the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) which appears to be prevalent in some towns in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Broadcast Journalist with the Media General G
In the spate of just two hours, seven child labourers were rescued from their fishing masters on the Krachi West district stretch of the Volta lake in the Oti region. This was in an operation championed by the Centre for Human Rights, Conflict, and Peace Studies, an advocacy group at the University
