Lifestyle & Social

Aug252023 by Addo Gilbert OduroNo Comments

NIA to resume new registrations on August 28

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has officially announced the resumption of the registration and issuance of Ghana Cards to eligible Ghanaians aged 15 years and above who are applying for the first time. This service, which will be offered free of charge, is set to commence on August 28, 2023. The NIA will facilitate this registration process through eight out of its 16 Regional Offices and all 276 District Offices located across the country. The NIA has received a total of 484,000 blank cards from its technical partners, Identity Management Systems II Limited (IMS II), and CalBank PLC. This initiative has been made possible through collaboration with the Ministry of Finance. This development aims to provide a chance for eligible Ghanaians who have not yet obtained the Gha...

Aug242023 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Live By The Values Of The Virtuous Woman – Mrs. Nyamekye Tells Christian Women

Ghana News, Lifestyle & Social, Pentecost News

Mrs. Mary Nyamekye, the wife of the Chairman of The Church of Pentecost, has urged Christian women to strive to live up to the biblical standards and values of the Virtuous Woman. Mrs. Nyamekye gave this advice when she fellowshipped with women in the Kaneshie Area of the Church at the Kaneshie Central Assembly church auditorium today. Speaking on the topic: “Who is a Woman,” with Genesis 2:19-23, Proverbs 31, and John 4:1-30 as her main scripture references, Mrs. Nyamekye explained that God created all things for the benefit of humanity, and that is why He gave mankind dominion over all that He created. According to her, “It was God who gave man the power to name everything He had created. This is because He created man in His own image, so He has empowered us to do what He is ab...

Aug242023 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Ghana Medical Relief offers free care for 7k residents in Tamale

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing, International, Lifestyle & Social

More than 7,000 residents in Tamale and its environs have received free medical care from the Ghana Medical Relief (GMR), a United States-based non-profit organisation to ensure healthy living. The five-day free medical outreach at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, held from July 24-28, 2023, provided paediatric urology, dental, and obstetrics services to the people. The team also registered 3,100 persons in Tamale and its environs in the Northern Region onto the National Health Insurance Scheme for free and conducted 621 dental procedures and extraction. The exercise was undertaken in collaboration with the John Agyekum Kufuor (JAK) Foundation and the Ghana Airforce, who helped airlift all medical supplies from Accra to Tamale and donated various equipment, incl...

Aug172023 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Unhealthy habits you should stop doing after meals

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle & Social

From an early age, we are taught that clean eating is essential for a healthy life, which is one hundred percent true. The fact is if you eat nutritious food, you will experience an overall better quality of life but if you consume a lot of junk food, you will develop health problems. While nothing can contradict this truth, there are still more benefits that lie in being mindful about what you do right before and after meals. Chances are you are guilty of at least one of these not so good habits after chowing down your dinner. Here are some post-meal habits that could be secretly affecting your health and productivity. Going to bed immediately It is a fact that many of us hit the sack right after a meal. Sometimes we’re tired after a long day and the only thing we want to do i...

Jul282023 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Parliament passes law to criminalise accusations of witchcraft, practice of witchfinders and witch doctors

Africa News, Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle & Social

Parliament has passed a law criminalising the declaration, accusation, naming or labelling of another person as a witch in Ghana. The amendment which was approved on Thursday, also prohibits any person from practicing as a witch doctor or witchfinder. Speaking in Parliament, Speaker Alban Bagbin who announced that the Criminal Offences Amendment Bill 2022 had been read for the third time and passed, explained that it had amended the Criminal Offences Act 1960, Act 29, “to prohibit the practice by any person as a witch doctor or a witchfinder, to proscribe the declaration, accusation, naming or labelling of another person as a witch and for related matters.” Speaking to JoyNews’ Kwaku Asante, one of the sponsors of the bill, MP for Wa East, Dr. Godfred Seidu Jassaw ...

Jul282023 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Koforidua Technical University student wins USA Cooking competition in Ghana

Ghana News, Lifestyle & Social

A Culinary Arts student of the Koforidua Technical University in the Eastern Region has won this year’s National cooking competition held at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra. Victoria Armah, a Level 200 student beat nine other contestants, also Technical University students, to win the ultimate prize. She will benefit from a four-month internship package at the Labadi Beach Hotel, as part of her prize. She also received a hamper and culinary training kits. The biannual National Cooking Competition which was Organised by the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council for Technical Universities across the country, seeks to build an exquisite human capital to man the country’s fast growing hospitality industry. It also aims at equipping culinary students with kn...

Jul182023 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Ghana to launch new HIV self-testing program

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle & Social

Ghana is set to launch a new HIV self-testing (HIVST) program at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly on July 19, 2023. The program on the theme “Test Yourself: Know Your Status” is coordinated by the National Planning Committee (NPC) in partnership with the Ministry of Health. This seeks to make it easier and more convenient for people to get tested for HIV. According to the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC), there are more than 350,000 persons living with HIV. However, only about 71% of them are aware of their status. The remaining 29%, consequently, pose a major concern as they may, unknowingly, be spreading the virus. The Lead Coordinator of the Ghana and AIDS Network Ernest Amoabeng Ortsin explained that the “HIVST is similar to how a malaria or pregnancy test can be done at home ...

Jul182023 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Employers must create HIV/TB policies for the workplace – Ayisi Addo

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle & Social

The National AIDS/STI Control Programme’s (NACP) Programme Manager, Dr Stephen Ayisi Addo, has urged employers to create a workplace HIV/TB policy to help manage and treat employees who have the disease. A workplace policy is crucial, according to Dr Ayisi Addo, because HIV was a problem that affected people who came to work and could potentially be contracted at the workplace. “The workplace is a setting for social interaction and physical contact, which makes it possible for infectious diseases like COVID-19 and HIV to spread. Since HIV can be spread through the workplace, it must also be controlled there,” he emphasized. Dr Ayisi Addo said this at the weekly, “Your Health! Our Collective Responsibility! A Ghana News Agency Tema Regional Office initiative aimed...

Jul122023 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

Students advised to use Internet advantageously

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle & Social

Member of the Tema Secondary School Old Students Association (TOSA), Kwadwo Owusu Baah, has encouraged final year students in Senior High Schools to pay attention to advantages on social media to create passive income for themselves. Mr. Baah said this at a forum in Tema Secondary School dubbed “TOSA Tertiary Talks,” an initiative of TOSA that seeks to call on illustrious alumni of the school to encourage and present to the students a picture of life after school because most of them will graduate without any insight into what lies ahead of them. He said, at their stage, it was critical to identify who they wanted and didn’t want to become in life and seek to also identify ways of working and living that would not add unnecessary risk to their path. He told students that the evolu...

Jul102023 by Samuel AnsongNo Comments

World Wellbeing Week: Self-care and its global impact

Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle & Social

Wellbeing is key to a healthy, fulfilling, and balanced life. Unfortunately, the stresses and demands of our busy, fast-paced, modern lifestyles can often distract us from self-care. But research shows that a lack of wellbeing can indicate declining health for an entire community. That is why leading lifestyle and wellness companies, such as QNET, support World Wellbeing Week (June 26 – 30) by bringing attention to the importance of self-care and its global impact. What Is Wellbeing? ...

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