Dutch doctors have come out against a controversial proposed law that would allow assisted suicide for those who feel their lives are complete, and not just for people in unbearable suffering. "Such...
First year university lady from KNUST; Final year university student from UG; 16 years old girlfrom New Tafo in the Eastern region; An unidentified man suspected to be in his 30s at Achimota; A lady...
Members of Modern Women of Wisdom Organisation (MWWO), an all-female humanitarian non-governmental organisation (NGO), are gladdened at the pledge by the Upper East Regional Minister, Mr. Rockson...
A clinical psychologist Dr. Samuel Atindanbila has called for the country’s law on suicide to be reviewed to help reduce the menace of the sordid act. According to him persons attempted taking...
An official statement says police officers must be held to high standards Ugandan police have launched a manhunt for four Flying Squad officers accused of shooting dead a three-year-old girl. They...
The deceased was found on his farm on Tuesday dawn in a pool of blood Nwelgnel Yegbaja, 18, resident of Sangnayili, a farming community in the Nanumba North District of the Northern Region, has...
About seven suicide cases have been reported in the print and electronic media over the past few weeks. Though the term SUICIDE ( the Latin word suī of oneself + -cīdium ,from caedere to kill )...
When Curtis Reeves shot to death a fellow movie spectator who threw popcorn at him, the police veteran reignited a heated debate in the United States over when self-protection is a legitimate...
A middle-aged man, has allegedly committed suicide at Saka, a suburb of Zebilla in the Upper East region. The deceased, Ayaba Daduda who is a businessman was found hanging from a tree in the early...
A Fifty-Four (54) year old man has reportedly hanged himself to death on a tree behind his house at Saka, a suburb of Zebilla in the Upper East Region. The deceased, Ayaaba Daduda, was a...
By: Eugenia Ntekor The past few weeks have seen a lot of media reportage of suicides in Ghana. It started off with a suicide of a KNUST student, University of Ghana student, a 16 year old, a driver,...
There is no doubt that the rate at which Ghanaians are committing suicide has really skyrocketed over the past few months. About two weeks ago, myjoyonline reported a suicide case involving the...
Suicide amongst young women is on the rise. When it comes to mental health, is gender the elephant in the room? In early 2016, five teenagers from Woodstock, Ontario killed themselves in just as many...
There is no doubt that the rate at which Ghanaians are committing suicide has really skyrocketed over the past few months. About two weeks ago, myjoyonline reported a suicide case involving the...
The Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority (MHA), Dr Akwasi Osei, has admonished government to scrap attempted suicide from the list of criminal offences on the country’s books....
The Mental Health Authority (MHA) is calling on Parliament to decriminalize attempted suicide “if the fight against suicide is to be won”. In a statement on the recent spate of suicide among...
The Mental Health Authority (MHA) is calling on Parliament to decriminalize attempted suicide “if the fight against suicide is to be won”. In a statement on the recent spate of suicide among...
With the recent cases of suicide in Ghana, there arises a dire need to treat the matter which has hitherto been of a relegated concern with utmost seriousness… The recent cases of suicide in some...
A suicidologist at the University of Ghana is calling for a national policy for suicide prevention in the country. Dr Joseph Osafo is worried at the spate of suicide deaths which have robbed the...
Jordan hanged 15 death row prisoners at dawn on Saturday, its information minister said, in a further break with the moratorium on executions it had observed between 2006 and 2014. Ten of those put...
