Archive For: The Crunch
26th Feb 2015 The National Commission for Civic Education in Ghana recently organized a stakeholders’ meeting in Shama district, with the main aim of mobilizing the voting population to freely participate in the district level elections coming up on the 3rd of March. During the meeting, Mr. Enoch Kojo Appiah, the Chief Executive of Shama ... Read More
26th Feb 2015 And lastly, in a really cool move that should be implemented in more areas of Africa in the spirit of brother and sister hood, Kenyans and Rwandans who wish to visit Uganda will no longer pay work permit fees and or have to fulfill visa requirements to enter the country. This is on the ... Read More
25th Feb 2015 We have more positive news from Liberia. Following last week’s resumption of schools in many parts of the country, and further recession in the number of people affected by the virus virus, President Sirleaf Johnson has told officials to lift the 6 month old curfew that was prompted by the crisis. She ... Read More
25th Feb 2015 A piece of land measuring about two hundred and eighty square meters in Abia state, Nigeria is the proposed site for the new and first of it kind Smart Mall in the world. The project, tentatively called the Aba Mega mall is reportedly expected to be the largest Mall in Africa on ... Read More
25th Feb 2015 Nineteen Team Masseurs have graduated from the first ever training course held at the University of Ghana’s College of Health Sciences, Korle Bu, Accra. The group of women and men, have their certificates as proof of their qualification following their twelve week training. Some participants at the training included some masseurs from ... Read More
24th Feb 2015 Namibia’s outgoing Health and Social Services Minister, Richard Kamwi has recently highlighted the successes of his ministry, saying he is proud of the ministry’s efforts in moving Namibia’s public health system in the right direction since 2005 when he was appointed. Mr Kamwi talked about taking up his designation at a crucial ... Read More
24th Feb 2015 Burundians have taken to the streets to celebrate the release of a prominent journalist, sometime after they took to the streets to protest his arrest. Citizens sang and danced in the country’s capital Bujumbura as Bob Rugurika, entered the city on Thursday the nineteenth after he was freed on bail. Mr. Rugurika ... Read More
24th Feb 2015 It is not easily imaginable that some have no nationalities but clearly this happens and ECOWAS is ready to deliberate on the matter. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in collaboration with the Economic Community of West African States and Cote D’Ivoire’s government have began to co-host the first Ministerial Conference ... Read More
23rd Feb 2015 This year’s World Childhood Cancer day which was marked in Accra on the fifteenth of February has seen the speakers of the event issue a unanimous call for the establishment of cancer treatment centers nationwide. The speakers also requested the inclusion of childhood cancers in the disease treatment list of the National ... Read More
23rd Feb 2015 In Uganda, the country’s parliamentary committee on human rights has drafted a Bill that aims to punish those who abuse the rights of others. Spearheaded by Jovah Kamateeka, the group has started looking into the Human Rights (Enforcement) Bill in Uganda. According to Kamateeka, the objective of this bill is to give ... Read More
