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Bangladeshi twins nearly three years old, Trishna and Krishna, last Tuesday passed a 25-hour operation to be separated, foreign media reports. Conjoined twins joined at the top of the head traveled to Australia and passed a successful operation.
A collaborative effort to launch a project to revitalize the family planning and reproductive health global agenda was announced on Wednesday in Kampala by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The government has been given thumbs up for its plan to formulate a framework that will guide the oil industry in accordance with the demands of Extractive Industry Transparency Initiatives (EITI) principles.
Compared to non smokers impotence is approximately 85% higher in male smokers and it is a key to erectile dysfunction (ED).
The Danish Ambassador to Ghana, Mr. Stig Barlyng has advised various stakeholders in the health sector not to burden the system through unnecessary administrative and reporting parallel systems so as to ensure the best possible care for patients.
African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call "Marie Nerica" who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government. Her success sprang from the government's renewed commitment to agriculture, sealed when it recently signed a compact known as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development ...
A study recently conducted in 24 African countries shows that the poor state of infrastructure in Sub Saharan Africa - its electricity, water, roads, and information and communications technology (ICT) - cuts national economic growth by 2 percentage points every year and reduces business productivity by as much as 40 percent.
The President of Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr Emmanuel Adom Winful, has observed that the challenges of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) have the potential to cripple health care delivery in the country.
The 2009 MAMA African best performer, Samini, has rocked Kumasi on the first destination of his four nationwide tour dubbed Samini Experience Ghana 2009. He performed at Heroes Park, fore court of the Baba Yara Sports Stadium.
Gonje was formed five years ago by Prof. Karikari. The group has lived up to its full billing of how well traditional music is anchored and the accompanying excitement levels it generates.
"Growth and Stability" The 2010 Budget
Ghana after missing out of a seeding slot will discover Friday who they face at the 2010 African Nations Cup in Angola from Pot 2.
Choosing a brand name for a product is important from a promotional perspective because brand names communicate product concepts and help position the product in the mind of customers. Names like Key (soap) Blue band (margarine), Omo (washing powder) Ideal (milk) ,Arid (antiperspirant deodorant) and spic and span (floor cleaner) all clearly communicate the benefits of using these products.
At the United Nations General Assembly in September 2000 in New York, 189 world leaders gathered to adopt what has now become the millennium declaration. The declaration which was among other things to spare no effort to free fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty, to which more than a billion of them are currently subjected to. They also ...
The Million Balls Africa Project for children and young people has hit the Volta Region with the presentation of 31 soccer balls and other equipment to three schools in the South Tongu District as a booster to institutions ahead of some upcoming events.
After going past Royal Ambassadors with an emphatic 3-0 victory over Royal Ambassadors in their opening Chairman Hockey challenge last Saturday, Exchequers cross swords with Kumasi Seniors tomorrow at the national Hockey Stadium. Push off time is 5.30pm
Executives of the Tema Chapter of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) have registered their outmost displeasure over the content of a letter making rounds on a local online network, ghanaweb.
The Presiding Bishop of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Most Rev. Yaw Frimpong Manso, last Wednesday paid a courtesy call on the Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Kempes Ofosuware, at his office.
Residents of the Redco flats at Madina, a suburb of Accra, are complaining bitterly about the deplorable state of the flats, and the health hazards it poses.
THE Deputy National Youth Organiser of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Kofi Adams, who is also spokesperson for ex-President Rawlings, has stressed the need for President Mills' administration to critically review the oil agreement made by the previous government, to ensure that Ghana becomes the ultimate beneficiary of the resource, and not otherwise.
THE OLD Tafo branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has elected eight out of nine executives unopposed, at a constituency congress last Monday at Tafo.
A study conducted by the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC), between February and September 2009, among seven private-owned newspapers in Ghana, has ranked The Chronicle as the top private media organisation in corruption reporting, with 100 stories.
Nature Aid Ghana, a non- governmental organisation (NGO) poised to promote environmental protection, has called on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to urgently come out with the necessary sanctions against Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL), for the recent cyanide spillage.
THE PRESIDING Member (PM) of the Effutu Municipal Assembly in the Central Region, Mr. Alex Afenyo-Markin, has urged all the political parties, especially the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the main opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), to do everything within their domain to protect the nation's infant democracy.
Life in Sunyani, one of the cleanest, most safe and peaceful regional capitals in the country, is gradually being overwhelmed by lunatics.
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