Author: Baina Media (Baina Media)

The University of Professional Studies Accra (UPSA) has organised a free eye-screening exercise for members of the university community, including some residents around the campus as part of activities to commemorate this year’s World Sight Day. About 120 people, many of them students, teaching and non-teaching staff, were screened by specialists from Permeff Eye Care,...

The Upper East Regional Population Officer, Mr Alosibah Akare Azam has appealed to the Regional Minister, Ms Tangoba Abayage to facilitate the inclusion of the National Population Council (NPC) on the Regional Planning Coordinating Unit’s (RPCU)Monitoring of District Development Plans. Mr Azam explained that one of NPC’s focus was to ensure the integration of population...

A 32-year-old woman is facing the law for allegedly dipping the hands of her husband’s 10-year-old niece in hot water, severely injuring her in the process. Vera Koranteng pleaded not guilty to causing harm when she appeared before the Odumase-Krobo Circuit Court in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region. She was remanded...

The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has given an assurance that this year’s polio vaccination will be intensified in urban-poor communities to ensure that no child was left out in the exercise. He indicated that according to data collected by the service, the number of children who got access to...

The Northern Regional Police Command is on the heels of gunmen who stormed a peace and mediation committee (PMC) meeting at Sanguli-Labaldo in the Saboba District in the Northern Region last Thursday, killing one person and injuring another. The suspected gunmen who were also armed with bows and arrows have been identified as Dana Nyogma,...

“I feel like my life has been snuffed out,” these were the lamentations of the 80-year-old mother of the murdered Member of Parliament (MP) for the Mfantseman Constituency in the Central Region, Mr Ekow Quansah Hayford. The mother, Mena Aba Attah, said as an old woman who depended on her only son for everything, she...

The government has donated 140 industrial machines to the Walewale Vocational Technical Institute, in the West Maprusi District of the North East Region. The donation, made through the Council for Technical and Vocational Training, is aimed at equipping the institute to be more efficient in delivering technical and vocational training to pupils in the area....

The Plan International Ghana has launched a campaign to protect girls and young women in Ghana from online abuse and harassment. Dubbed: “FreeToBeOnline”, which was launched on Thursday, October 8, 2020, the campaign, which was launched alongside “The State of the World’s Girls Report” to mark this year’s International Day of the Girl, seeks to...

“Parliament is shocked and extremely saddened by the gruesome murder of the Member of Parliament for Mfantseman, Hon. Ekow Quansah Hayford. The first time Member of Parliament served on the Judiciary Committee and the Defence and Interior Committee. “The Speaker and Members, while mourning the loss of their colleague, have expressed the hope for expedited...