Residents of Garu and Tempane Districts in the Upper East Region are calling on government as a matter of urgency to commence construction of the abandoned Garu District hospital. The project, which stalled in 2016 is affecting residents as they struggle to access healthcare services in the area.The construction of the Garu District Hospital started in …
A self-acclaimed football coach has been remanded into police custody for allegedly sodomizing a ten-year-old boy at Madina. Abdul Rahman, 34, is said have given the victim GHC 5 cedis after engaging in the act. Charged with defilement, Rahman has pleaded not guilty. The court presided over by Mrs. Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku declined bail after considering arguments of…
The lives of teachers and pupils of the Morkordze D /A Primary School are in danger as an uncompleted three-unit classroom block on the campus is on the verge of collapse. “Considering the fact that the country is in the rainy season, a heavy rain accompanied by a storm could bring the building down. If pupils,…
Conflict in Ethiopia’s vast Oromia region has disrupted formal education for tens of thousands of youngsters, authorities there say. Violent attacks on mostly ethnic Oromo communities have forced 159 schools in five regions to close at least temporarily in the past two years, said the Oromia Educational Bureau’s head, Tola Bariso. He said about 65,000 students —…
Access to healthcare at the Mankessim Jubilee Hospital in the Central Region has come to a standstill as the entrance to the facility has been cut by flood. Nurses and patients are stranded at both sides of the stretch, as no one is able to either access the facility or visit the community from the hospital.A…
In their quest to outwit the anti-galamsey task force (Operation Vanguard) in their operations, illegal miners also called galamsey operators have adopted a dangerous method of acquiring gold illegally. It has emerged that the Chinese galamseyers and their Ghanaian counterparts now bring the black soil (the gold bearing ore) from the galamsey sites into the communities…
The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) is a network of 85 Universities in 35 African countries is pleased to announce the 2018 RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs Competition (RUYAEC). The 2018 RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs Competition (RUYAEC) whose overall purpose is to catalyse entrepreneurship through promotion of business innovation and provision of…
Nearly every time that a comparison is drawn with the Jamaican economy, Singapore becomes the benchmark. It has morphed into a kind of yardstick for our development, despite the fact that we are not like Singapore, whether in name nor in nature. Jamaica is what it is, a struggling democracy framed from a colonial past which…
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Tuesday that nearly 6 million people are struggling to get food in West Africa’s Sahel region and severe malnutrition is threatening the lives of 1.6 million children. Mark Lowcock said in a statement that these levels haven’t been seen since a crisis in 2012 “and the most critical…