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+ A management consultant, Mr Ishmael Yamson, has entreated the government not to depend solely on donors and bilateral and multilateral benevolence for vaccines to protect the citizens against COVID-19. He opined that resources to fund the procurement and deployment of the first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines must come from domestic sources and not borrowed funds. According to him, the country needed “to demonstrate that we are ready to help ourselves” before calling for external support. Mr Yamson, who is the Executive Chairman of Ishmael Yamson and Associates, told the Daily Graphic ...

705 A research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence has shown that a ‘shadow pandemic’ in the form of sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) has emerged due to the upsurge of the disease. The research said since the COVID-19 outbreak, emerging data and reports had shown that all types of violence against women and girls, particularly domestic violence had intensified raising concerns as a ‘shadow pandemic’ growing amidst the COVID-19 crisis. The research which was commissioned by FIDA Ghana with support from the STAR Ghana Foundation discovered that most of the...

  A research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence has shown that a ‘shadow pandemic’ in the form of sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) has emerged due to the upsurge of the disease. The research said since the COVID-19 outbreak, emerging data and reports had shown that all types of violence against women and girls, particularly domestic violence had intensified raising concerns as a ‘shadow pandemic’ growing amidst the COVID-19 crisis. The research which was commissioned by FIDA Ghana with support from the STAR Ghana Foundation discovered that most of the ...

We need your support to produce excellent journalism at all times. TWITTER, a social media platform that is popular among Nigerians, has explained why it established an African station in Ghana and not Nigeria, which is the most populous African nation. Twitter announced the African station on Monday in post by Founder Jack Dorsey. Dorsey said Ghana was a supporter of free speech, online freedom, and the open internet, which the platform was also an advocate. The official announcement further read that Ghana’s recent appointment as host of the Secretariat of the African Continental Free Tr...

Women In Technology Uganda (WITU) newly added hub to AfriLabs' Pan-Afrikan Innovation Hub Network. (COURTESY PHOTO) Pan-Afrikan Innovation Hub Network, AfriLabs has today announced that it has added 28 new innovation-tech hubs, 7 new cities and 1 new country, to its Pan-Afrikan Innovation Hub Network. This totals to 268 innovation hubs in 49 African countries. The newly added hubs, 14 were from Western Africa, 9 from Eastern Africa and 5 from Central Africa. From Eastern Africa, two were Ugandan hubs; Muni University Business Incubation Centre and WITU Hub. Esther Nansbuga, Programmes Manager...