“Hepatitis B can be contracted through kissing, so be wary of the people you kiss,” Mr Laud Anthony Bassing, a medical practitioner at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, has advised the general public. Comparing it with the HIV/AIDS, the medical practitioner stressed that one can also get Hepatitis B not only by kissing but through sexual intercourse. Mr Anthony Bassing was speaking at a four-day... 

Information clutched upon by TODAY shows that some non-governmental organizations in the Volta Region have been exploiting their workers albeit the fact that they make huge profits. The mistreatment of workers by such NGOs have taken various forms amongst which include payment meager salaries; delay in the payment of salaries leading to backlog of salary arrears; and more importantly compelling their... 

Not a single day passes without the launch of a product of some sort by big corporations like the banks, mobile telephony companies, industries and Non Governmental Organizations. As these institutions try to maximize profit, grow the size of their markets or increase their presence in the society, various strategies are being adopted. Now it has become the norm for such organizations to fall on opinion... 

Jerry John Rawlings and Spio-Garbrah The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is now a threatre of power play, with former President, Jerry John Rawlings, as the chief architect of the art. It might be some nine months into the administration of the party, but from underground findings, the former President has his sight set for 2012, where he hopes to replace the present leadership of the NDC with a... 

“I am the most suitable person to bring the NPP back to power as next National Chairman of the party,” former Tourism Minister in the erstwhile Kufuor administration, Mr Jake Otanka Obestebi Lamptey, disclosed on Asempa Fm, an Accra based radio station on Friday. Obestebi Lamptey, who is highly tipped by political watchers to become the one to succeed Peter Mac Manu as the next Chairman of the... 

TODAY can state that officers of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) have for sometime now been training in makeshifts containers at its training school in Assin-Fosu in the Central Region. The paper learned that the Assin-Fosu GIS training school is nothing more than an uncompleted building which is preventing new officers from using the facilities in the school. These makeshifts are in the form... 

Kayayo In the heat of last year’s electioneering campaign, the President, then Candidate Prof., John Evans Atta Mills, promised that his government will provide shelter for the ordinary Ghanaian. However, TODAY news hounds at many places where ‘Kayayei’-women-porters, ply their trades revealed that their plight continues to deteriorate with each passing day. It was gathered that most of the... 

Group Photograph of UNIYPED Executive Board Universal Network International Youth for Peace and Environmental Development (UNIYPED), a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) has officially unveiled its website to enable the organization to function more proficiently. The website aims at providing in-depth information about the operations, activities and functions of the organization. “Our vision is... 

The Kayayo or the market-carrier is now a household name. In many perspectives, their roles in various market centres are interpreted, depending on how one encounters them. To the sellers of goods and market attendants, they provide a vital service that they have become such an important channel in the distribution of goods and services in many of the country’s markets. In their dire circumstance,... 

Senator Edward Kennedy Senator Edward Kennedy was an extraordinary public servant.  He believed that public service is an honourable call to duty.  He believed that service to your country without expecting personal profit is an important attitude to have.  It was he who said that he did not have to be president to serve his country.  So he served, with honour, as a senator.   He excelled serving...