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The breast is an essential part of a woman’s body. Its use and importance is not limited to only the bearer, the woman, but also to the society at large. A publication by National Centre for Biotechnological Information (NCBI) describes the breast as, “the most important external identification of femininity…” You could thus imagine the importance women attach to a part of their body that is of such great importance to them. Apart from the breast’s physical function to humanity, it also symbolises completeness and patience. Its completeness is seen in the nutritious food it provides its young ones. No…

The breast is an essential part of a woman’s body. Its use and importance is not limited to only the bearer, the woman, but also to the society at large. A publication by National Centre for Biotechnological Information (NCBI) describes the breast as, “the most important external identification of femininity…” You could thus imagine the importance women attach to a part of their body that is of such great importance to them. Apart from the breast’s physical function to humanity, it also symbolises completeness and patience. Its completeness is seen in the nutritious food it provides its young ones. No…

India’s Supreme Court has struck down a legal clause that permits men to have sex with their underage wives. The clause, which was part of India’s law on rape, said intercourse between a man and his wife was permissible as long as she was over 15 years of age. The age of consent in India is 18, but marital rape is not considered an offence. The verdict has been hailed by women’s rights activists. However correspondents say that the order will be difficult to enforce. The judgement said that girls under 18 would be able to charge their husbands with…

The Majority in Parliament has strongly rejected the Minority’s approach to claims that some Ghanaians have been working with ISIS as alleged by the Libyan government. According to the Majority, the claims by the Libyan authorities that Ghana is the second largest contributor of foreign fighters to the Islamic State popularly known as ISIS has not been authenticated and cannot be proven. Mr. Annor Dompreh, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, who spoke on behalf of the Majority on Tuesday told the media that government is aware of such report from the Attorney General of Libya. He said government…

Lecturers at the Accra Technical University have withdrawn their services Tuesday morning as a result of poor conditions of service in the school.  The situation, they noted, is dire to the extent that some students are compelled by circumstance to sit on tables during lecture hours. Numbering about 50, the lecturers suspended all forms of teaching activities to force management of the school to address what they describe as nuisance. The lecturers who constitute the local chapter of Technical University Teachers’ Association of Ghana said the students’ population far outnumbers chairs in the lecture halls, reason why students are forced…

Tensions are high in Kenya over the withdrawal of the Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga in the October election re-run, according to the Editor of the Coast Newspaper in Kenya. Charles Ogalo, who is based in Mombasa, the second largest city in Kenya, told Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene on Tuesday that “there are a lot of tension in Kenya but not that people are fighting but they are tensed”. Mr. Odinga announced his withdrawal on Tuesday, saying it would give the Electoral Commission enough time to introduce reforms that will help deliver a more credible election. The Supreme Court annulled…

An inquiry by Libyan officials has revealed that Ghana is the second largest contributor of foreign fighters to the Islamic State popularly known as ISIS. That’s according to the Minority in Parliament. According to the NDC MPs, a  report of a special inquiry commissioned by the Attorney General of Libya cites Ghanaian migrants as key members of the dreaded group. Ghana together with Somalia and Mali were ranked in the same category of having between fifty to hundred members of ISIS. Highlighting the report in a press conference on Tuesday, Ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto…

The Abeadze State College at Abeadze Dominase in the Central Region has been closed down due to low enrolment. The school, which has facilities to accommodate more than 800 students, was established in 2004 by the chiefs and people of Abeadze Dominase in the Mfantseman municipality but has been left at the mercy of weeds and reptiles. The facilities rotting on the weedy campus include a 400-capacity boys’ dormitory, a girls’ dormitory of the same capacity and a 12-unit classroom block. The predicament The school is not government assisted and has been recording low intake for some time now, but it…

Kenyan’s opposition leader Raila Odinda has been berated by international relations analyst, Dr. Vladimir Antwi for withdrawing from the country’s upcoming presidential election re-run. He felt Mr. Odinga was recoiling after he was unable to bulldoze his way into power through incessant demand for immediate electoral reforms. The opposition leader wanted Kenyan’s electoral commission, that declared incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta winner of the 8 August poll that was annulled by the Supreme Court, reconstituted The court annulled the result after finding irregularities and declaring it “neither transparent or verifiable. Meanwhile, Mr Odinga said his withdrawal would give the electoral commission enough…

Thousands of primary schoolteachers in Nigeria’s Kaduna State have failed the very exams they prepare pupils for. Authorities in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna State say more than 20,000 primary school teachers will be dismissed as they failed to pass examination tests meant for their pupils. This is coming amid apprehension that most primary and secondary schools in Nigeria are churning out half-baked students. State governor Nasir El-Rufai said that 21,780 teachers, or two-thirds of them, failed to score 75% or higher on assessments usually given to six-year-olds. Mr El-Rufai said all 33,000 primary schoolteachers in Kaduna State took the test. He…