Well, let me share with you these few lessons I wish I had known back in the day. It may still be useful to someone out here.
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The Trust Mother and Child Hospital at Osu in Accra has introduced an innovative service that will help detect all kinds of diseases and ailments in children right after they are born.
Known as the Well Baby, the service will provide thorough screening and diagnosis for newborn babies in order to prevent complications.
Curt von Badinski, a mechanical engineer and co-founder of a San Francisco-based tech company, has a six-hour daily commute from Los Angeles – most of it by plane.
Five days a week, he rises at 05:30 for the 15-minute drive to Bob Hope Burbank airport, for a 90-minute flight to Oakland, located 353 miles (568km) north west. For a monthly fee of $2,300, he can access unlimited flights on a single-engine turboprop airplane.
We all know we're supposed to show up to work on time, respect our managers, and meet deadlines as assigned. But here are a few things not to do if you want to succeed on the job.
Complain too much
It's one thing to occasionally express your displeasure with the way work situations are being handled, but if you get into a routine where you're griping to your coworkers on a consistent basis, you'd better change your ways.
There are many ways for people to be unhappy, but happy people have common characteristics. And that is why a good way to be happy is to learn the common traits of happy people and apply them.
To live the happy life we all yearn for, you need to focus on these lessons which are not only useful but are also timeless in nature.
International Needs Ghana, an international non-governmental not-for-profit Christian organisation, is organising a gospel music concert to raise funds to support its work of bringing transformation to individuals and communities.
When Terry Gobanga - then Terry Apudo - didn't show up to her wedding, nobody could have guessed that she had been abducted, raped and left for dead by the roadside. It was the first of two tragedies to hit the young Nairobi pastor in quick succession. But she is a survivor.
It was going to be a very big wedding. I was a pastor, so all our church members were coming, as well as all our relatives. My fiance, Harry, and I were very excited - we were getting married in All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi and I had rented a beautiful dress.
The Good Book says there is time for everything under the sun; time to be born, grow ,acquire skills, work, marry and start a family. There is also retirement, time to give up your regular job due to old age, ill-health or loss of job. Different countries have different ages for retirement.
In Ghana, the retirement age is 60, the same age the World Health Organisation (WHO) sees as old age.
Whenever and wherever she takes up the mantle of leadership, she performs her role so passionately that each time she makes history.
About 21 years ago, Mrs Gifty Affenyi-Dadzie was elected the first female President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and made history right there for contesting the highest position in a male-dominated profession and winning admirably.
There are so many things that can kill the careers of good, hard-working people. Honest mistakes often carry hard-hitting consequences. Little things can add up over time and undermine your career just as much as one huge lapse in judgement.
The good news is that if you stay aware of them, these are all things that you can control before they creep up on you and kill your career.
Many people get tired showing up for work every day just because they are supposed to.
They go not because they want to, but because they need to put food on the table and keep a roof over their head.
Most people have lost that loving feeling they had for their job and don’t know what to do.
The supreme behaviour and lifestyle you must Supreme to love God and genuinely love people. Next, make sure you bask in and totally enjoy divine peace-peace that comes from Christ.
Remember the disciples of Jesus. When Christ was crucified, their world’s caved in. They were confused, frustrated, embarrassed, shamed and extremely afraid.
They locked themselves up behind closed door. But on Resurrection Day Jesus appeared to them, standing in their midst, breathed on them and gave them divine peace. What a great relief, Christ was there for them.
In whatever situation, the true believer has to look up to Jesus who is there for them. Always bask in His peace. For “thou dost keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee” (Isaiah 26:3).
In addition be thankful. A grateful person is usually a joyous and peaceful person.
The Bible passage in Colossians Chapter 3 gives the final critical principles to follow in practical holy living (v.16&a
Energy needs increase by an average of 300kcal throughout pregnancy. This should be properly adjusted for taking into cognisance factors such as pre-pregnancy weight, activity level and the trimester of pregnancy.
We are all constantly in pursuit of happiness. Every day, we make choices in life that affect how we feel and think about ourselves.
We usually believe we are making good decisions that will bring us closer to a state of well-being. The only problem is that sometimes the choices we make actually increase our anxiety and despair.
These designs graced the runway of the Accra Men’s Fashion Week(AMFW) 2017 held at the Lifestyle Gallery in Accra recently.
This year’s event which was hash tagged #ManItUp hosted some of the finest and creative men’s wear designers Africa has ever birthed from Ghana, Gambia, Ivory Coast, and Togo among others.
If there is such a place as heaven for farm animals, it must be a lot like Santuario Igualdad Interspecies, an incredible sanctuary for domestic animals destined for slaughter or left for dead.
Here, not only do they get to live in perfect peace and harmony, but they receive all the love and affection they deserve.
Couples looking for a unique and unforgettable wedding day experience can now add walking barefoot on broken glass on their list of options.
A Spanish company recently introduced the service as a metaphor for marriage.
It was the first time ever in this country and the participants, as well as the audience, anticipated a first-rate presentation at the open-air Pechakucha night at the Goethe-Institut in Accra.
In the end, the capacity crowd was thrilled with rapid-paced verbal and pictorial presentations that made them wonder why such an enlightening method of artistic interaction had not already taken root here.
Creativity is not important just for artists and musicians, nor is it a superfluous “add-on” quality that is nice to have in a workforce.
Everyone has some spark within him/her -- you just need to allow that creativity to flow. Here are a few tips on how to stir up creativity in your employees.
While the exercise bike has long been known to make you a bit sore down there, it could actually be doing some real damage.
According to research published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, spending too much time on an exercise bike or an actual bike can desensitise your nether regions to the extent that you enjoy sex less.
Life can indeed get stressful, and that can make you lose focus of what life should really be about.
To simplify your life you have to live as if every day is a vacation.