AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine awards scholarship to 50 tertiary students

AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine awards scholarship to 50 tertiary students

As part of efforts to provide a sustainable future for the youth through education, AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine has awarded scholarships to 50 students from its host communities for their tertiary education. All the scholarship beneficiaries will have their school fees, accommodation fees, and all other related costs paid in full by the Mine until […]

Ghana: ADB Donates Food Items to Chief Imam, Others

Ghana: ADB Donates Food Items to Chief Imam, Others

The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) PLC has donated foodstuff including bags of rice and sugar to the National Chief Imam, Dr Sheikh OsmanuNuhuSharubutu, and his team of Imams as part of this year’s Ramadan celebration. Making the donation, the Deputy Managing Director, AlhajiAlhassanYakubu-Tali, indicated that the bank was making similar donations nationwide as part of […]

Pepsodent lauds Parliament for putting oral health in the limelight during World Oral Health Day

Pepsodent lauds Parliament for putting oral health in the limelight during World Oral Health Day

Category Manager for Oral Care, Unilever Ghana, Joel Boateng In a statement read in Parliament, MP for Tema Central, Yves Hanson-Nortey reiterated the need for Ghanaians to take oral health care seriously and not relegate it to the background as has been done with other health issues. Making his statement on the floor of Parliament […]

APCON to Sanction Sterling Bank for Offensive Easter Message

APCON to Sanction Sterling Bank for Offensive Easter Message

By Aduragbemi Omiyale Sterling Bank Plc will be sanctioned for releasing a message believed to be offensive to Christians to celebrate Easter, the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) has promised. Over the weekend, the lender posted an advertising material for Easter and in the message, it compared Jesus Christ with Agege Bread. “Like Agege […]

New one-dose meningitis treatment ‘effective, safer’

New one-dose meningitis treatment ‘effective, safer’

[NAIROBI] A new short-course treatment is effective against HIV -associated cryptococcal meningitis with fewer serious side effects, and has the potential to reduce the length and cost of hospital admissions, a study shows. According to estimates produced by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, cryptococcal meningitis, a fungal infection which invades the lining […]