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, an eye clinic at Madina for eye-related impairments such as cataract, glaucoma, corneal opacity and trachoma. World Sight Day is observed every second Thursday in October to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. This year’s celebration was on the theme: “Hope in sight.”...

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 factors into development planning at all levels hence its inclusion in the RPCU would ultimately help speed up resolution of population issues in the development agenda of the Region. The Population Officer stated this at the first Meeting of the Reactivated Regional Population Advisory Committee...

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 by the court, presided over by Mr Francis Gbedzro, to reappear on October 15, this year. It is the case of the prosecution that Vera warned the girl not to tell her uncle that the injury was as a result of the hot water, rather...

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 polio vaccination in slum communities in the urban areas of the country, particularly, in Accra was quite low. As a result, he said such places had become fertile grounds for the disease, and that affected many children. Dr Kuma-Aboagye made this known to the media...

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, Nakoja Naja, Kpawul Simon, James Kojo Bafi, Nteche John Nampari Nakoja, Kanambi Npuan and Kanambi Njobi and Unadine Ntedo. Francis N-Yaful, who was shot during the attack, died on admission at the Assemblies of God Hospital at Saboba, while Bisan N-yabicha, who sustained gunshot wounds,...

“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 did not know how she was going to survive both physically and emotionally. She said she was not only confused about his death, but the manner her 49-year-old son was killed. “I have been maimed, I have been killed earlier than my time even though...

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. Items donated included: 20 Industrial sewing machines, 20 industrial knitting machines, 20 Industrial, embroidery machine, 20 overlock machine, 20 Industrial Iron, 20 cutting machine and 20 butting press. The Walewale Technical Institute is a mixed school with a population of 1200. The school has trained...

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 create awareness on online safety from abuse and harassment for the girl-child. The report (The State of the World’s Girls Report) is aimed at bringing the issue of online abuse to the forefront especially the way it is disproportionally affecting girls and young women. Launch...

“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 action to find and bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to book. “Parliament expresses deep condolences to his wife and children, family and friends, the Mfantseman Constituency and the entire nation,” the statement said. Murder The 49-year-old MP was reportedly shot by unknown assailants...