Human Rights

Tamale, Ghana – A native of Walewale in the West Mamprusi Municipality in the North East Region of Ghana, Abdul-Mumin Ahmed, has lashed out at the Municipal Security Committee and Vice President Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for being responsible for the death of an innocent female teacher who was killed …

Tamale, Ghana – About 500 mass registration web station operators (MRWOs), commissioner for oaths (CFOs) and card verification officers (CVOs) recruited for the nationwide registration of the national identification cards by the National Identification Authority (NIA) have had their October and November salaries blocked, Savannah News has learned. According to a …

Tamale, Ghana – The Damongo Youth Parliament, a civic rights group based in Damongo the Savannah Regional capital is supporting demands by the King of Gonja (Yagbonwura) to have all key government departments centralised in the capital. The group has also served notice that if by December 16th, 2019 the president …

Tamale, Ghana – A newly qualified Ghanaian nurse, Tahidu Sukuratu, has reiterated the general concerns and plight of rotation nurses and midwives in the country who have been working without pay for eight months. She said though they were sacrificing to care for the sick at their various places of …

Sagnarigu, Ghana – Private legal practitioner and broadcast journalist with the Multimedia Group, Samson Lardy Anyenini, has dispelled misconceptions amongst Ghanaians that the Right to Information (RTI) law was made for only journalists. According to Mr. Anyenini, the RTI law (Act 989, 2019) was not made for only journalists or …

Tamale, Ghana – Journalists in the Northern Region of Ghana have been sensitized on their role in advocacy against abuses and all forms of violence against women and children. This was during a two day workshop held on the 15th and 16th November, 2019, organized by Pan-African Organization for Research …

Tamale, Ghana – ActionAid Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) says it is poised at getting the government of Ghana to improve upon workers working conditions. It is also striving to protect the rights of both employees and employers, as well as apprentices and their masters in the formal and informal …

Tamale, Ghana – Zeinab Kadir, a Ghanaian midwife working in the Upper East Region of Ghana, has through a social media post given horrid accounts of challenges facing pregnant women in rural areas. According to her, despite government making medical care for pregnant women free of charge, same could not …

Ghana’s medical emergency care need a lot of input to meet WHO standards. There is serious lack of the needed skill-mix of personnel, consumable, medications at the in-hospital level, while at the pre-hospital level there is lack of knowledge and skill by the public on Basic Life Support (BLS), inadequate …

Tamale, Ghana –Reliable information picked up by SavannahNewsOnline.Com suggest that, Chief Executive of defunct DKM Diamond Microfinance Limited, Martin K. Delle, is still bent on causing unimaginable suffering and hardship to unsuspecting investors across the country. Like DKM Microfinance, Martin Delle is said to have co-founded another ponzi scheme called …