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Richard Kofi Jordan, General Secretary of mortuary workers Union is asking persons who wish to die to wait until they resume work after their strike action which comes off on November 20, 2018, MyNewsGh.com has filed. “Those who intend to die during that period should wait when mortuary men are back to work they die. Simple” he sounded a word of caution indicating that their planned strike action will come off as planned unless government heeds to their concerns. Advertisement Mortuary men in public health facilities are up in arms with the government over their poor working conditions and are therefore demanding improved services including the salaries they say is nothing good to write home about. According to the aggrieved morticians, they are exposed to several diseases in view of the dead bodies and chemicals they come into contact with but each time they raise concerns, the government appears to be dragging its feet. “The chemicals we use give us five different kinds of cance...

As parts of efforts rendered by various institutions to end teenage pregnancies in various basic schools in the country, Primad organization, a Non- Governmental Organization has paid courtesy visit to Manso Abodom L\A Junior High School at Abodom in Amansie West District to educate the students about the need to abstain from premarital sex as a teen and concentrate on their studies while in school. The exercise which took off today 19th of October, 2018, provided the opportunity for the students to interact with the keen and most influential delegations from Primad organization and free Sanitary pad were presented to the students for menstrual hygiene. Speaking to Metro Fm’s Omono Asamoah after the presentation, the President of Primad Organisation Ms Priscilla Asamoah Baffour opined that the motive behind this exercise is to eradicate teenage pregnancy and also promote menstrual health and personal hygiene in rural Communities. She indicated that the provision of menstrual pad is...

The King of Asanteman, His Royal Highness Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has extended his royal benedictions and blessings to the National Organizer and Acting General Secretary of the governing NPP, John Boadu for his outstanding contribution not only to the cause of his partyand government but to the development of Ghana at large. He recounted the leading role played by John Boadu to bring sanity to the NPP when the party was facing crisis inthe run-up to the 2016 elections and ensuring that the party won the polls. His Royal Highness also made an instructive statement tothe effect that the Assins, John Boadu’s ethnic orientation,originated from Asanteman, precisely Amakom, Kumasi from where they moved to their current settlement in the Central Region. To this extent, the Asanteman Overlord posited that the Assins are technically Asantes and therefore he sees JohnBoadu who is an Assin man, as his brother/subject deserving of his support at all times. The King made these remarks and showere...