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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has underscored the need for Heads of state of ECOWAS to assent to the implementation of the new roadmap for the ECOWAS single currency. Speaking at the 5th meeting of the Presidential Taskforce on the single currency in Accra Wednesday, President Akufo-Addo noted assenting to the roadmap for implementation of the currency to be known as the Eco, is key to facilitating inter regional trade. “I entreat all members of the presidential taskforce and the ECOWAS Authority and heads of states to give presidential assent to the new roadmap that will be adopted at our…

Vilified even in death, Professor Mills stands taller than the vilifier! Lied about even in death, Professor Mills stands higher than the liar!! Indeed, he who God has blessed, no man can curse!!! In Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’, Casca said in Act 1 Scene III ‘And yesterday the bird of the night did sit Even at noonday upon the marketplace Hooting and shrieking’. On the evening of February 13, 2018, the day of Martin Amidu’s Parliamentary vetting, I lay down to sleep. I tossed and turned! Then I prayed: “God, the Bible says you are no respecter of persons. I know…

US evangelist Billy Graham – one of the most influential preachers of the 20th Century – has died aged 99. Graham became one of the best-known promoters of Christianity, preaching to audiences worldwide in large arenas, beginning in London in 1954. Over 60 years, he is estimated to have personally preached to 210 million people. At first skeptical of the civil rights movement in the US, he went on to become a supporter in the 1950s. He became a committed Christian at the age of 16 after hearing a travelling evangelist and was ordained a minister in 1939. Source: BBC

The National Democratic Congress is giving sympathizers and party supporters up to Wednesday, February 28 to register to become members of the party. In a statement signed by General Secretary of the party, Johnson Asiedu Nketia,  various branches have been mapped up across the country to accommodate all who desire to register to become members of the NDC. “The party encourages all members and sympathizers to endeavour to go to their designated branches where the exercise is being conducted.” According to the statement, the opening of registration for prospective members has been well embraced with a lot of enthusiasm so…

I almost died after giving birth to my daughter, Olympia. Yet I consider myself fortunate. While I had a pretty easy pregnancy, my daughter was born by emergency C-section after her heart rate dropped dramatically during contractions. The surgery went smoothly. Before I knew it, Olympia was in my arms. It was the most amazing feeling I’ve ever experienced in my life. But what followed just 24 hours after giving birth were six days of uncertainty. It began with a pulmonary embolism, which is a condition in which one or more arteries in the lungs becomes blocked by a blood…

Government has started the process to secure financial clearance to engage publicly trained nurses who ended their training in 2016, a deputy minister has disclosed. “The Ministry has taken their list to the Finance Ministry so that they will be cleared; we have a plan for them to be employed,” a Deputy Health Minister, Tina Mensah said. Deputy Health Minister Tina Mensah explained that government cannot engage both private and public nurses at the same time due to inadequate funds. Some of the 9,905 government-trained nurses across the country stormed the Ministry of Health on Monday seeking evidence of having…

Member of Parliament for Banda, Ibrahim Ahmed, has stated Ghana cannot make progress in its fight against corruption if the Right to Information (RTI) bill that has dragged on for over 15 years is not passed by parliament. Right to information is a fundamental human right guaranteed by the country’s 1992 Constitution and recognized as a right under International Conventions on Human rights. The passage of the RTI will grant guarantee Ghanaians access to official information in the custody of public and private bodies performing functions that are funded by the taxpayer. Drafted in 1999, the bill was presented to…

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Inspire to Rise in partnership with Kings Foundation Ghana has organised a menstrual hygiene management talk for upper primary pupils of Holy Rosary R/C Basic School. Held on Friday, the talk had Media General’s Wendy Laryea, who is the Founder of Inspire to Rise, as the main speaker. The girls shared their experiences especially the cramps they suffer. But they were admonished on some personal hygiene practices like bathing twice daily and washing hands well before and after change of sanitary pads. Meanwhile, boys at the Ofankor Basic 3 School were included in talks on menstrual hygiene. They were made…

The Special Mothers Project, an advocacy and awareness creation programme on cerebral palsy issues have supported five institutions and some individuals with mobility equipment The beneficiary institutions are: Impact Care and Rehabilitation Foundation (ICRF), Sharecare Ghana, With God Cerebral Palsy Ghana, Epi Centre and Multikids Academy Mrs Hannah Awadzi, Executive Director of the Special Mothers Project said the equipment mainly standing frames, were given to the institutions to encourage them to continue accepting children with cerebral palsy in their facility The equipment were donated with the support of Farm4life and PhysioNet, all UK based Charities She said the Special Mothers…