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GBC A visit to any city in Ghana today will reveal heaps of uncontrolled garbage,general littering in the environment, including streams and drainage channels . The problem of solid waste management is a direct result of challenges including the rapid growing urban population, few waste treatment options in Ghana, irregular collection of solid waste, negative habits and apathy of the general public towards the environment. The rate at which solid waste is rearing up on our streets and drainage is menacing that it is difficult to tell when “Accra is going to be the cleanest city in Africa” as declared by the Akufo Addo led-administration since it assumed power after the 2016 general elections would be achieved. Speaking at a recent sanitation launch, Sanitation Education Everywhere by the Walcourt Green, a Non-Governmental Organization which aims at promoting sanitation, Hon. Patrick Buamah, the Deputy Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources voiced out that, “Most recen...

Currency Converter X Apps The Republic of Ghana, is a West African country located along the Gulf of Guinea (the northeastern most part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean) between the Republics of Ivory Coast and Togo. Ghana borders the Republic of Burkina Faso to the north, the Republic of Togo to the east, the Republic of Ivory Coast to the West and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. It has an estimated population of 29 million. There are certain challenges pertaining to the structure of the economy which if not reversed, our quest for middle-income status via industrialisation will continually remain elusive. The structural characteristics identifiable with the pattern of production, consumption and exchange of the Ghanaian economy constitute the most fundamental causes of its underdevelopment and retrogression. “ Politicsis the major course of our economic challenges such as poverty, unemploymentand inequality. Politicians destroy the economy every four years duringelections a...

The Best Graphics Tablets Journalism is “an account of existing real world as appropriated by the journalist and processed in accordance with the particular requirements of the journalistic medium through which it will be disseminated to some section of the public.” McNair, B., Hibberd, M. and Schlesinger, P. (2002). Journalism is an institution that has been established by the society to play a specific role. Journalism is one of the most important social, cultural, and political institutions. Journalism has been around “since people recognized a need to share information about themselves with others” (Zelizer, 2004, p. 2). Code of ethics, according to the Business Dictionary, is written set of guidelines issued by an organization to its workers and management to help them conduct their actions in accordance with its primary values and ethical standards. Just as any profession, journalism also has its code of ethics that guides its practitioners in their line of duty. J...

machboos_alamy A Moroccan woman has been accused of killing her lover and serving up his remains to Pakistani workers in the United Arab Emirates, prosecutors say. The woman killed her boyfriend three months ago, they say, but the crime was only recently discovered when a human tooth was found inside her blender. She confessed to police, calling it a moment of “insanity”, state-owned newspaper The National reports. The woman, who is in her 30s, will go on trial pending an investigation. She had been in a relationship with the victim for seven years. According to The National, she killed him after he told her he was planning to marry someone else from Morocco. While police did not reveal how he was killed, they said his girlfriend had served up his remains as part of a traditional rice and meat dish to some Pakistani nationals working nearby. The discovery was only made when the victim’s brother went looking for him at their home in the city of Al Ain, which sits on...

One shouts from the west, “Enough is enough”, another voice is heard from the east, “We deserve better”, panting from the south managed to say, “the students’ brutality must end”, and from the north came a loud noise chanting for the removal of the Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (hereinafter referred to as KNUST), Professor Kwesi Obiri Danso.  The student body together with the executive body of the Students Representative Council (hereinafter referred to as SRC) decided to boycott classes on Monday, October 22, 2018 as a way of registering their displeasure with happenings on campus. There has been a lot of tension in the school following the university's decision to convert all the unisex halls into mixed halls.  Since the decision was taken, some students and alumni have constantly kicked against it and have clearly stated their reluctance to support such an idea. In a press release by the executive council of the SRC ...