NEWS IN GHANA

Ghana has marked this year's Scoliosis Awareness Day with a call on all citizens to join the fight against stigmatization and alienation of persons with scoliosis. The International Awareness Day is a day set aside globally to create awareness and sensitize people on the need to prevent Scoliosis, its detection, treatment, and cure. This year’s event which was celebrated on the theme: “Early detection, early prevention” was staged at the courtyard of the Chief's Palace at Sowutuom, a suburb of Accra. It was chaired by His Royal Highness, Nii Osabu Akwei Ofoli Tibo I, the Chief of Sowutuom-Nsumfa Traditional Area. At the forum, various speakers who took turns to address the participants charged them to speak up for scoliosis victims as well as endeavor to join the fight against stigmatization and alienation in order to galvanize support for the scoliosis victims. Participants were also admonished to help create the needed awareness in a bid to help demystify the myth...

You will be amazed to know that ever since the phenomenon of kidnapping has reared its ugly head in Ghana in 2018 and continue to wreak havoc, many Ghaianains have felt the shivers down their spines but unfortunately not everyone believe the stories. Shockingly, not even the disappearance of the 3 T'aadi girls including the attacks and abduction of some foreign nationals in the country in recent times could cast away their doubts. As doubting 'Thomases',  they might either been waiting to have a taste of the activities of the so-called kidnappers themselves or hear from a close relative who escaped from being kidnapped share his/her story before they can moved. Well for those of you out there who are still living in doubt about the effects of the kidnapping phenomenon happening in Ghana, a 22-year-old SHS graduate who recently escaped from the hands her abductors have been sharing her harrowing story to make you believe. Linda Owusuwaa Danso is a resident of Any...