Ban Dirty Fuels
The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC-GH) is demanding a total ban on all substandard fuels with a high concentration of sulphur. “Our interest as a people is for the very best of...
Tag: World Health Organization
Who Killed NANCY?
David Easton once opined that politics generally, is the authoritative allocation of resources and values. To wits, the exertion of acceptable values and norms (that may be rooted in culture,...
Radio Presenter To Sue FDA Over Ban On Celebrities Advertising Alcohol
Kasapa Fm’s Journalist, Akwasi Nsiah has bemoaned the ban on Ghanaian celebrities from advertising alcoholic beverages by Food and Drugs Authority, claiming it was unwarranted. Speaking to Kojo...
ECOWAS Sets Up Rapid Response Team To Help Contain Disease Outbreaks
A four-day ECOWAS health resilience training programme to equip selected individuals from the fifteen West African states has ended in Accra. The initiative is to create a Regional Rapid Response...
The Need For Comprehensive Sexuality Education In Schools With Emphasis On Ghana
It’s 7am in the morning, rush hour time. I sat behind two young beautiful ladies in a trotro. As I look through the windows, admiring the beauty of life that exist in my country. These two ladies...
Tear Down The Gandhi Statue 2
“As Hitler did to bring Germany together, we should also do it here. Hitler was a smart guy, but he went a bit too far for wanting to conquer the world” (Yoweri Museveni, Uganda’s President)....
Ghana Makes Gains Since 2000 But Still Lags In Progress Toward The Sustainable Development Goals
- Rates of HIV, malaria, and TB diseases have decreased since 2000; suicide and binge drinking have become greater threats to health - International collaborative Global Burden of Disease enterprise...
Ill Treasure Lordina Till Death- President Mahama
I read President Mahama’s concupiscent pledge to his wife Lordina during the NDC’s manifesto launch in Sunyani with mixed emotions. First of all, the amorous pledge has brought a glint of smiles...
Making A Case For An Incoming Government To Create A New Ministry Of Traditional, Complementary & Alternative Medicine (Part 1)
Background: Currently, Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines are regulated in Ghana under the auspices of the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Practice Council of the Ministry of...
Making A Case For An Incoming Government To Create A New Ministry Of Traditional, Complementary & Alternative Medicine (Part 3)
This is the concluding part of the article. So now why do the authorities forbid alternative medicine? A very important question but Dr George answered and said because they are serving the industry...
We’ll End Open Defecation By 2021 – Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has said that the next NDC administration under his watch will work towards ending the age-old menace of open defecation by 2021. The President said this at the Banquet...
Suicide Rates Continue To Rise In Britain’s England, Wales
The number of people in Britain's England and Wales killing themselves continues to rise each year, but is almost 30 percent lower than a peak in 1981, Britain's Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
A Look At Details of US-Russia Deal On Syria
A look at some of the key points in an "arrangement" announced by U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, aimed at halting fighting in Syria...
The Nexus Between Eye Health Care And National Development
The primacy of the eye as an indispensable organ in the body cannot be over-emphasized. If you are in doubt, close your eyes for ten seconds and in that brief period, try to walk around or carry out...
Climate Crisis In Ghana
The climate of the earth has always been changing and no area on the planet has remained unaffected by climate change. Climate change has affected all the economic sectors of Ghana and has hiked...
US City Records 500 Homicides In Nine Months
Chicago's 500th homicide of the year happened over Labor Day weekend, according to the Chicago Tribune. That number carries a lot of weight for the city -- not just in quantity, but in meaning: 2016...
Sign Petition For Abraham Attah Like You Did For Montie 3
Since rising to prominence with his movie Beast of No Nation, there have been several calls for government assistance for Hollywood actor Abraham Attah, as he is has become a national treasure of...
Who Has Stolen Whose Ideas?
By Lawyer Edudzi Tamakloe The flagbearer of the NPP for elections 2016, Nana Akufo-Addo, is reported to have said on his campaign tour of the Northern region that "the NDC will steal my ideas." It is...
My Heart Bleeds For Mahama
This article is a retrospective analysis of the umpteen exclusive feedbacks I received from the tattletales on my publication captioned: ‘President Mahama is not a womanizer (ghanaweb.com;...
Scrap Taxes On Medicines
The Chamber of Pharmacy Ghana, has called for the removal of the current taxes on medicines, which are contributing to the current increases in prices of the commodity and threatens quality health...