The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that Ghana has been recognised to be one of the first to eliminate trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide.
Good corporate governance is defined as the structures and processes by which companies are directed and controlled. It helps companies improve on performance by operating more efficiently to remain sustainable.
All over the world, the incidence of cancers, as well as other diseases, is on the rise, with both men and women not being spared the ravages of these killer diseases.
Movement of goods and services is one facet of human endeavour that is carried out daily in all parts of the world. This is done through road, rail, water and air transport.
Mental illness is by far the biggest health challenge that confronts economies of the world. The World Health Organisation, in 2010, said the illness cost the world $2.5 trillion that year, while it is projected to cost about $6 trillion by 2030.
The issue of plastic waste has assumed a worldwide dimension, with dire consequences for the environment and causing climate change that appears not to go away, in spite of efforts by nations and environmental experts to deal with the problems.
At the mention of the word census, many minds are directed at the counting of people within an area or a country. Generally, census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.
The eventual take-off of the registration for and issuance of the Ghana Card to Ghanaians last Monday, after its abortive start on May 28, is welcome news, indeed.
From its inception as the Independent National Electoral Commission to its renaming as the Electoral Commission (EC), the election regulation body has done a lot to enhance the democratic dispensation of the country.
End hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture are part of the Sustainable Development Goal Two (SDG 2) that seeks to end hunger.
The importance of peace to the advancement of societies and the world at large cannot be overemphasised. There has never been progress in societies where violence and lawlessness are a part of their existence.
Ghana is known to be an agricultural country because about 60 per cent of its labour force is engaged in the sector. In spite of the fact that the country has a total land area of about 23.9 million hectares, 57 per cent of which is suitable for agriculture, it is yet to realise its full potential in that area.
Today, Ghana joins the rest of Africa to celebrate 55 years of the founding of the African Union (AU), originally the Organisation of African Unity (OAU).
Over the past one and a half years, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has progressively eased its hitherto extremely tight monetary policy stance, seeking to balance its key inflation targeting objective with support for faster economic growth.
Development everywhere has never occurred in a vacuum; it has happened because of well thought-out programmes and policies that have consciously been followed.
The banking sector has generated a lot of heat and anxiety among stakeholders in the financial services industry following interventions by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to ensure that the banks do the proper thing in the course of their work.
Though the issue of who first brought cocoa to the Gold Coast has come under serious debate, we know that after Tetteh Quarshie had brought the seeds from Fernando Po and planted them, other people took some of the seeds and planted them.
