NEWS IN GHANA

Women in Focus, a Ghanaian faith based organization that trains and builds confidence and hope in beauticians and individuals looking forward to joining the beauty industry has organized 1-day sensitization workshop for over 120 hairdressers and beauticians in the country Mad. Benedicta Minka, CEO of Women in Focus presenting a certificate of to participant The workshop was to equip them with knowledge and skills in order to bring out the best in them to able to meet clients satisfaction. The workshop which took place at Teacher’s Hall near Adabraka in Accra on Friday, September 2, 2016, treated topics including how to make-up the right way, professional application of makeup, how to choose a right hair-do, body massage and nail care, how to match your beads with your dressing and where and when to wear beads. Aside that, they were also introduced to a special hair-do called “Micro hair” as well as tips on hair colour and skin. There was also beads training and...

As part of measures to foster peace in Ghana in 2016 and beyond, Scout and Guide Fellowship Ghana (SGF) has launched a peace project dubbed “Peace Gathering 2016”.   According to the President of Scout and Guide Fellowship Ghana, Dr. Albert Tetteh Botchway, The gathering is intended to among all other things sensitize and educate the general public to be law abiding before during and after the December 7 polls. “What we collectively seek to do and will complete in December is only a demonstration of our preparedness to defend the pillars that ensures peace and stability in Ghana” said Dr. Botchway. Under the project, over 2,000 youths will be selected across the 10 Regions of Ghana (200 from each region) to be sensitized and empowered to serve as peace ambassadors within their various regions. The SGF Ghana peace gathering 2016 program will witness interesting events like public rallies, sensitization forum, peace walks including radio talk shows nationwide to se...

Deputy Director of Public Sector Reform Secretariat (PSRS), Mr. Pethuel Danyo has charged Journalists in the country to dedicate their time to monitor and focus more attention and excessively report on issues of open governance rather than just limiting themselves to covering and reporting on events.   According to him,although the media has a major role to play in monitoring and promoting issues of open governance among others which goes a long way to advance the country, its practitioners have limited its powers only on covering events which he believes it’s about time that old habit dies.   “I think it’s about time the media undergoes a paradigm shift from just covering events and be focused on monitoring, debating and giving full attention and bringing to the fore issues of open governance and actively report on them to whip up citizens interest in the matters and to hold government accountable in every way possible”. Mr. Danyo made the appeal while addres...