The Society of Family Physicians of Ghana (SOFPOG) has called on the executive, legislature, and the judiciary to consider reviewing laws that criminalise attempted suicide in Ghana. The Society said government and other law enforcement agencies must focus on measures that will provide the framework for suicide prevention and the management of persons who attempt … Read more
Dutch doctors have come out against a controversial proposed law that would allow assisted suicide for those who feel their lives are complete, and not just for people in unbearable suffering. “Such a radical proposal is not desirable for practical reasons and for reasons of principle,” the Dutch Doctors Federation, representing some 59,000 practitioners and … Read more
A clinical psychologist Dr. Samuel Atindanbila has called for the country’s law on suicide to be reviewed to help reduce the menace of the sordid act. According to him persons attempted taking their own lives or abet the commission of suicide need counseling to be reformed rather than being criminalized as per the Criminal Offences … Read more
Pressure Group, OccupyGhana has demanded police arrest, and prosecute to the full extent of the law, persons in the video seen stripping and sexually assaulting a woman accused of theft in Kumasi, Ashanti Region. A video circulating on social media, detailed this instance mob justice from last Friday, which saw the mob beat the woman … Read more
Pressure Group, OccupyGhana has demanded police arrest, and prosecute to the full extent of the law, persons in the video seen stripping and sexually assaulting a woman accused of theft in Kumasi, Ashanti Region. A video circulating on social media, detailed this instance mob justice from last Friday, which saw mob beat the woman in … Read more
Every 15th of January in Nigeria is celebrated as Armed Forces and Remembrance Day. That date is unique because of two landmark events in the history of the Nigerian military. First, it was the first time the military staged a successful coup in 1966. Second, it was a day of victory for the Armed Forces … Read more
There are instances when the words above headlines obituaries. Even in the absence of such a headline, the unexpected death of someone often results in the utterance of these words. At times the pain is so unbearable that it is wished that the death could be reversed to prolong living with that loved one (be … Read more
One of the more subtle manifestations of the intimate link between (unconscious) human emotions and behaviour is illustrated by the simple concept of choice and how this is so often reduced to a dichotomy between two bad options. In such circumstances, most people choose whatever they consider to be ‘the lesser evil’. But how often … Read more
Dante Alighieri, a poets and a great philosopher once said that “the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintained their neutrality.” Our own very distinguished Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka also said, “the man died in him who remained silent in the face of tyranny.” I … Read more