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Dr. Selassie Adom, a Psychiatrist at the Pantang Hospital, on Tuesday, said beating a child as punishment for wrong doing does not correct the behavior. She said beating a child rather taught the child to be violent, and cautioned caregivers to find alternative ways of correcting unwanted behavior other than …

Professor George K.T. Oduro, a former Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Cape Coast, says Sub-Sahara Africa educational institutions must as a matter of priority develop African citizenship before thinking global. He said strategic mechanisms had to be put in place to ensure that citizens of the Sub-region who went through …

Lebanese run United Steel Company owes the Ghana Revenue Authority GH¢649 million in unpaid taxes. The heavily indebted steel products maker also owes nine banks and many creditors several millions of Ghana cedis, bringing its total debt burden to GH¢1.6 billion as at 2020. The Company has therefore plunged into …

Fish sellers in the Central Business District of Accra, are mournful that, news of “fish mortality” will ‘destroy’ their market. This followed the discovery of large numbers of different species of fish washed ashore along the coasts of Osu in Accra, Axim-Bewire in the Nzema Municipality of the Western Region, …

The resolution of a 30-year-old impasse between Private Lotto Operators and the National Lottery Authority (NLA) is at the brink of collapse due to the conduct of some members of Ghana Lotto Operators Association (GLOA). Also the conduct of its allied group known as Concerned Lotto Agents Association of Ghana …

Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the Energy Minister, says the intermittent power outages currently being experienced in parts of the country is not because of power generation capacity challenge or fuel shortage. According to him, it was due to the upgrading of the transmission system to ensure power supply reliability across …

Mr George Kweku Riketts-Hagan, Member of Parliament (MP) for Cape Coast South said, he will soon initiate a proposal on the floor of Parliament that will lead to the passage of a Presidential Library law. The law when passed, will allow for the construction of Presidential Libraries based on the …

Madam Mercy Nortey, a resident of Osu Anohor in the Korley Klottey Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, has confessed to eating some of the dead fishes washed ashore over the weekend. She said someone sold them to her on Good Friday, April 2, but upon discovering that they were …

Two teenagers, accused of murdering a 10-year-old boy at Coca-Cola, near Lamptey Mills in Kasoa, have been remanded into Police custody by the Ofaakor District Court. Felix Nyarko, aka, Yaw Anane, a 16-year-old labourer and Nicholas Kini Kwame, an 18-year-old student have been charged with conspiracy to murder and murder …

Mr Abdul-Rauf Alhassan, the Jirapa Municipal Director of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has appealed to Parliament to expedite action on passing the Affirmative Action Bill into law. He said passing the bill into law was a sure way of achieving increased women participation in decision …