NEWS IN GHANA

The Second Lady of Ghana, H. E. Samira Bawumia has charged all Ghanaians especially those working in various fields to end Sexual and Gender Based Violence including Harmful Practices (SGBVHPs) in the country to be very circumspect in their everyday comments, actions and attitudes and ensure its synergy to engender the needed support to achieve result. “Our collective comments should really support our agenda and our advocacy more importantly should cut across all facets of our lives. It is not only when you’re in a meeting or at work that you should exhibit it but it should reflect in our everyday life”. Her Excellency Second Lady Samira Bawumia made this known at the inaugural general meeting of the Coalition of Persons Against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Harmful Practices (CoPASH) in Accra on January 18 at the plush Movenpick Ambassador Hotel on January 17. The meeting which is the first of its kind since the launch of CoPASH in August last year was a...

Not many of her kind are that fortunate to have access to basic education, let alone enrol themselves into Senior High School (SHS) to even come out with flying colours despite their woes. Similarly, nowhere in the history of Ghana has it been told about a head porter, popularly called Kayayo, who has demonstrated outmost discipline, commitment and dint of hard work backed by an admirable academic prowess as an achievement. But standing tall among her peers, Abudu Salah,22, a Kayayo who resides within a slum in Accra has defied every odd, broke through the cycle of poverty, torture and all forms of abuses to get herself enrolled into a Senior High School. Ms. Abudu did not only manage to secure an admission into SHS for the sake of it but went ahead to prove herself as the second overall best student in the 2018 West African Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). She did the unthinkable, came out with flying colours, scoring six A’s and two...