On tapping local production to weather a crisis
What is your assessment of how Ghana has handled the COVID-19 pandemic?
YOFI GRANT: Ghana was one of the first countries in Africa to move swiftly and impose tough restrictions at the start of the outbreak. The country has handled the situation fairly...
As part of efforts to contain spread of the COVID-19, Zoomlion Ghana Limited on Thursday (June 06) disinfected nine mosques in various parts of Accra.
They included the Madina Central Mosque; Shia Mosque, Madina; Al-Aziz Central Mosque, Burma Camp; Ahlul-bait Institute Central Mosque; Alhamadiya Mosque; and the Military Barracks Central...
A recycling plant in Tanzania’s port city of Dar es Salaam has traded paper for plastic bottles and started making anti-coronavirus face shields that are being snatched up by hospitals and health centres nationwide.
Until earlier this year, Zaidi Recyclers had a thriving business in processing waste paper which it...
The Executive Council of the Association of Rural Banks, Ghana, has registered its appreciation and commended all the rural banks which have so far supported government in the fight against spread of coronavirus.
The total amount involved in this support is approximately GH¢400,000 - which went into the purchase of...
While the country has demonstrated great appreciation for the work that frontline health workers are doing and have done during the outbreak of COVID-19, a recent revelation that some frontline health workers in the Ashanti Region have been infected by COVID-19 is rather unsettling.
We learn that investigations have already...
The medical industry post COVID-19 will not be the same. Herbal and alternative remedies have gained huge popularity amid this pandemic. The global complementary and alternative medicine market size is projected to reach US$296.3 billion by 2027, exhibiting a CAGR of 19.9%, according to a new report by Grand View Research,...
In contributing to efforts that encourage a healthy lifestyle, Herbalife Nutrition has shared some fitness tests for consideration as home workout routines among individuals. Five fitness activities - including kick-ups, planks, dance, hula-hoops and touching the toes - improve muscle and joint suppleness, relieve lower back pain and improve...
The Northern Regional Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES) joined the world to celebrate the National Menstrual Hygiene Day with a call for the provision of toilet facilities which are gender friendly with changing rooms.
It also called for an advocacy on the continuous education targeting girls, boy and...
Gender Advocacy NGO, Bridge for Equity Ghana, has presented a petition to the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, to nudge government to scrap taxes on sanitary pads and enable local production across the country.
In a six-month campaign dubbed ‘No Pad Tax’, the NGO believes that scraping the...
Two landfills—one in the Kpone Katamanso Municipality, Greater Accra Region, and the other in the Asokore Mampong Municipality, Ashanti Region, will soon be turned into multi-purpose recreational centres.
This came to light when the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Mrs Cecilia Abena Dapaah, undertook an inspection tour of the...