NEWS IN GHANA

The Student's Representative Council of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) under the auspices of its Women’s Commission has launched the 2016 women’s week celebration with much emphasis on educating students on abortion. This year's event which is on the theme: ‘A b ortion and the Tertiary Student’ comes with varieties of fun-packed activities lined-up to whip up students attention towards successful week celebration. Highly tipped on the events calendar are line-up of interesting activities like clean-up exercise and food bazaar which comes off at the school campus on Thursday, April 21 followed by fashion show, trade fair and Pre- party on April 22.  The celebration will be climaxed with a delightful night show to crown the next ‘Face of GIJ‘for 2016 at the Alisa Hotel   in Accra on April 23. Speaking at the launch, Head of Marketing Department for GIJ, Mrs. Rodaline Amartey advised the students to concentrate their minds solely on studies for now and

Dr. Constance Bart-Plange, Programme Manager of the National Malaria Control Program of the Ghana Health Service has called on all Ghanaians to help champion the crusade towards the fight against malaria in the country. This, she hinted will help Ghana meet its goal of reducing the disease and death due malaria by 75% by 2020. Dr. Constance Bart-Plange made the call at a press briefing to launch this year’s World Malaria Day celebration in Accra on Tuesday, April 19, organized by the Ghana Health Service (GHS). This year’s World Malaria Day which will be celebrated on April, 25 worldwide was chosen to commemorate the global effort to fight malaria on the theme: “End malaria for good and invest in the future”. Dr. Constance Bart-Plange observed the country in its quest to reduce the threats of malaria to completely 0% since 2012 has made significant gains of 45% reduction in malaria deaths but quickly added “Ghana is in a critical situation which demands that