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November 16, 2023
‘Employed by My Body’: Inside Accra’s growing hook-up business
It is 2200 hours on Friday. About 100 girls actively pitch for clients on a Telegram platform with the hope of catching the eye of men who would pay for their body and have them for the night.
This is an emerging form of prostitution popularly known…
U.S. breaks ground for new maternal and childcare centre in Kumasi
Madam Virginia Palmer, U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, has cut the sod for a new state-of-the-art maternal and child centre at the HopeXchange Medical Center in Kumasi.
The new maternal and child centre will include a labour and delivery suite, neonatal a…
Empowering South Africa with Clean Energy
Within just two years, the largest clean energy power plant of South Africa has emerged out of nothing on the vast wilderness in Northern Cape. It is the 100MW Redstone concentrated solar thermal power plant constructed by POWERCHINA in South Africa,…
Germans turn to the condom over the Pill on health concerns
Germans are turning increasingly to condoms and away from the contraceptive Pill as their preferred way to avoid pregnancy, according to a new study by a state-funded health agency.
The study by the Cologne-based Federal Centre for Health Education …
2024 budget fails to address the economic bankruptcy – Sammy Gyamfi
Mr Sammy Gyamfi, the National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has reiterated that the 2024 budget failed to address the economic bankruptcy and excruciating hardships Ghanaians are reeling under.
This, he…
Second Lady to be special guest of honour at Sustainability and Social Investment Awards 2023
The Second Lady, Mrs Samira Bawumia, will be the Special Guest at the 7th Edition of the Sustainability and Social Investment (SSI) Awards 2023 to be held in Accra on Friday, November 17, 2023.
The Awards on the theme: ‘Sustainability and the Econom…
Inadequate funds, cause of poor maintenance of school toilets
The heads of basic and senior high schools who benefitted from the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Sanitation and Water Project (GAMA-SWP) have raised concern about inadequate Assembly funds to support the management of the facilities.
They indicate…
Sales executive held over more than GHC3.7 million pharmaceutical drugs theft
A sales executive accused of stealing pharmaceutical drugs worth GHC3,760,162 has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court.
Edward Danso Wiafe, a former Sales Executive of East Cantonment Pharmacy, has been charged with eight counts of stealing and mo…
Incumbent Assemblymen in Jasikan Municipality trumpets achievements as election approaches
Some Assemblymen in the Jasikan Municipal Assembly in the Oti Region are touting their achievements as the basis for seeking re-election in the up-coming December 19 District Level Elections.
One of them, M. Mathias Komla Basayi, the Assemblyman for…
Let’s celebrate the legacy of the late Nana Rex Owusu-Ansah – Speaker
The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Bagbin, has called for the celebration of the legacy of the late Nana Rex Owusu-Ansah, a former Head of the Parliamentary Service and Clerk of Parliament.
He said, ‘Nana has left a positive legacy, and so you the …