ARTICLE BY: ADI NAMARAN COULIBALY, GHANA INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISM, ACCRA My heart aches when I observe these young boys acting as drivers’ mates on our commercial vehicles (trotros). We board these buses on a daily basis and pretend not to see how the future of these children is virtually bleak. Education is [...]
Read the rest of this story »Ghana’s newest make-up artistry institution, Mawuena Makeovers, last weekend held its first graduation ceremony in Accra. Twenty students from the training institution graduated with each receiving a certificate. The CEO of the institution, Martha Mawuena Seshie, commended the students for exhibiting high sense of discipline during their period of training, and further charged them to [...]
Read the rest of this story »Female students of the St. Stephen Secondary-Technical School at Asiakwa, in the East Akyem Municipality, sleep in classrooms due to lack of accommodation. The students, numbering 30, use the classrooms as sleeping places at night because the girl’s dormitory cannot accommodate all the 190 female boarders. They move the classroom furniture outside and arrange their [...]
Read the rest of this story »DR. OSEI BOAITEY, osei.boaitey@yahoo.com The watermelon is a member of the Cucurbitaceae family. They are fruits like cantaloupe, pumpkin and similar plants that grow on vines on the ground. The scientific name for watermelon is Citrullis lanatus. The watermelon fruit, loosely considered a type of melon (although not in the genus Cucumis), has a [...]
Read the rest of this story »In line with its brand promise of quality television, e.tv Ghana, the fastest growing television station in Ghana, has added ‘Panorama’ to its bouquet of programmes. Panorama is a thirty minute social magazine programme that will critically ‘put an eye on our communities’ and seek to address the challenges they face whilst creating a platform [...]
Read the rest of this story »Come Friday, March 30th2012, Ghana will witness an exciting launch of the much awaited maiden edition of the Ghana DJ Awards which promises to go down in the books as one of the biggest events ever in Ghana. Amid massive reviews in Ghana and beyond, the Ghana DJ Awards, organised by Merqury Republic Events, [...]
Read the rest of this story »US President, Barack Obama, has said the “tragedy” of an unarmed black teenager shot dead in Florida should prompt some national soul-searching. The death of Trayvon Martin, 17, gunned down by a neighbourhood watchman, who was not charged as he claimed self-defence, has sparked outrage. “If I had a son he would look like Trayvon,” [...]
Read the rest of this story »Facebook has confirmed it has bought some of IBM’s intellectual property rights. The social network would not provide further detail, but Bloomberg has reported that the deal involved 750 patents involving software, networking and other technologies. It said that Facebook previously owned just 56 secured patents. The move comes less than a fortnight after Yahoo [...]
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