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...
Author: Baina Media (Baina Media)
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Gunmen kill one, injure another at peace mediation meeting
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,...
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My life brutally ‘ended’; 80-year-old murdered MP’s mother cries out
“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...
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Government supports Walewale Vocational and Technical Institute with 140 industrial machines
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....
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Plan Ghana launches campaign to protect girls from online abuse
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...
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Parliament shocked by murder of Mfantseman MP
“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...
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US election 2020: The other 1,214 candidates running for president
The US has had presidents for more than 230 years, but only the first – George Washington – has ever been elected as an independent candidate. The twin peaks of US politics, the Republican and Democratic parties, dominate media coverage and campaign donations so completely that the chances of an outsider winning are virtually nil....
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Can a vaccine from 1921 save lives from COVID-19?
Scientists in the UK have begun testing the BCG vaccine, developed in 1921, to see if it can save lives from Covid. The vaccine was designed to stop tuberculosis, but there is some evidence it can protect against other infections as well. Around 1,000 people will take part in the trial at the University of...
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Nigerian serial killer sentenced to die in Port Harcourt
A man who killed nine women in a case that caused outrage in Nigeria has been sentenced to death in the southern city of Port Harcourt. Prosecutors say 40-year-old Gracious David-West strangled his victims in hotel rooms across Nigeria between July and September 2019. Justice Adolphus Enebeli said he is to die by hanging. The...
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US election 2020: Trump ready to return to public events, says doctor
US President Donald Trump has completed his course of treatment for Covid-19 and can return to public engagements this weekend, his physician has said. Dr Sean Conley said the president had responded “extremely well” to medication and had “remained stable”. Mr Trump later said he would probably take another Covid test on Friday and hoped...