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The lack of health structures at the Sissalla West District of the Upper West Region is impeding access to health delivery, Dr Mathias Tengan, the District Director of Health, has said. There are 42 functional CHPS compounds but 20 of them currently function without physical structures. Dr Mathias expressed the…

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ABANTU for Development and its partners have re-echoed the need for government to swiftly pass the Affirmative Action Bill into law before the upcoming 2023 District Assembly elections. According to them, the Affirmative Action Law presents itself as the guaranteed way to ensure women’s increased and effective representation at the…

The Zanlerigu Junior High (JHS) and primary schools in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region are faced with a furniture shortfall of 135, denying some of the pupils the opportunity of sitting on chairs to learn. Some of the pupils are compelled to sit on the floor while…

The only place of convenience serving the over 500 inhabitants at Nketsiahkrom, a suburb in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan area has been shut down. The community, which is along the coast of Sekondi, has therefore resorted to using the beach as a place of convenience as nature calls, and wantonly…

The inadequate classroom furniture, with some classes without a single one, has compelled the pupils of Gundork and Damolg-Tindongo basic schools in the Upper East Region, to sit on the bare floor to learn. The Ghana News Agency (GNA), during a visit to the schools in the Nabdam District, observed…

Why having so many uncompleted buildings and other physical infrastructure is not seen as a blot on our planning in this country is surprising.

On May 25, 2021, the website of Ghana’s Parliament published the following: “The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon Alban S. K. Bagbin has today opened the Second Meeting of the First Session of the Eighth Parliament with a firm commitment to see to the passage of the Affirmative Action Bill…

The construction of a sixteen-unit classroom block with auxiliary facilities for students of Dodo-Amanfrom D/A Islamic Primary School in the Kadjebi District of the Oti Region have been abandoned for more than two years. The project, undertaken with funding from the Zongo Development Authority to replace the current dilapidated structure…

Although fictional, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story The Visit provides a glimpse into a world where gender roles are reversed; men stay home and care for the children and home while women go to work and provide financially for the family. This role reversal throws a spotlight on some of the inequalities…