The Standard Chartered Bank has handed over 520 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Tema General Hospital to support the work of frontline healthcare staff as efforts to treat new cases of COVID-19 in Ghana step up. The items which included N95 masks and surgical gloves come on the backdrop...
Ghanaian actor, businessman and politician, John Dumelo, has shared his experience in the creative arts industry, business and politics on the second edition of the brand new series on Y107.9FM’s ‘Myd Morning Radio Show’ dubbed the YLeaderboard Series. The ‘Y Leaderboard Series’ is a new segment of the ‘Myd Morning...
… Joe Mettle, Kofi Kinaata, Diana Hamilton, Efya, Wiyaala, Medikal, Amandzeba, others to perform The nation’s biggest music stars are set to celebrate the country’s frontline health workers with a virtual concert organized by the Ghana Music Awards Foundation. Performances from Joe Mettle, Kofi Kinaata, Diana Hamilton, Efya, Celstine Donkor, Akwaboah, MOG,...
Happy FM, Ghana’s leading sports station, has brought together key decision-makers to discuss what strategies the Ghana sports industry should adopt in response to the current disruption with a knowledge-sharing forum titled ‘The Effects of COVID-19 on Sports.’ The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has sent shockwaves around the world, leading...
Appolonia City celebrated Mother’s Day by hosting ‘Mama’s Lunch with Ama’, a one-of-a-kind encounter with Ama K. Abebrese, the award-winning British Ghanaian actress, television presenter, and producer, who recently became a homeowner in the city. Three winning mothers – Perpetual Osei, Majorie Brown, and Charlotte Paemka – shared their life experiences and...
AiW note: The launch of Between the Generations- An Anthology for Ama Ata Aidoo at 80, due to be hosted by Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka in March, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The book, marking the Ghanaian writer’s 80th birthday, is a collection of short stories...
If my legs were big enough to wear the shoes of our President, I will use the mandate given him to confront patriarchy. I will raise the larger issues of gender, class, and use my speech to breathe new life into the debate around gender equality. I will speak about...
It was on February 14, 2019 that this writer wrote an article with a misleading title: ‘THIS IS NOT FOR RICH PEOPLE’ it said—when in fact, it was an exposition into the nation and continent’s industrialisation journeys. It proffered public/private partnerships, university/industry collaborations, the creation of research universities et...
Today is International Day of the Family all over the world. It is an occasion for us to celebrate the importance of the family and the benefits we all derive from the family. As Ghanaians, we all belong to a family whether we were born into it or through...
The Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) has produced a video entitled – Obour, a MUSIGA success story, 8-years on covering the eight-year reign of the former President of the Union, Bice Osei Kuffour aka Obour. The video chronicles the elections in Tamale that resulted in Obour’s presidency from 2011 through...