A two-man delegation from Clark Atlanta University (CAU) in the US would visit African University College of Communications (AUCC) in Accra from Monday, March 28.
A statement issued in Accra on Friday said the delegation to be led by…
Growing cases of incest, defilement and rape are fuelling teenage pregnancies in the Kumasi Metropolis, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Kwaku Amoako, Ashanti Regional Coordinator of the Police Domestic Violence and Victims Support Un…
The Institute of Diplomatic and Development Policies (I-2DP) has opened in Accra to offer training and research opportunities to young diplomats to carry out their duties effectively.
The Institute, the first of its kind in the count…
The Ghana Institution of Engineers (GIE) has
been urged to collaborate with other industrial-based organizations to mount effective sensitization and training programmes to help to
achieve acceptable standards of safety at the workplace.…
The Accra Ring Road Central Rotary Club in partnership with Centre for Health Outreach and
Research Ghana, an NGO has organised a medical outreach programme for residents of Asempanaye.
Asempanaye is in the Akuapim North District of…
A 28-year-old blacksmith who led a gang to rob
traders under the Kwame Nkrumah Circle overhead bridge has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court.
The gang made away with four mobile phones and an unspecifie…
An Accra Circuit Court on Friday remanded into police custody six persons who appeared before it on charges of conspiracy and robbery.
Peter Akakpo, a trader, and Gabriel Kojo Agyeman, Ernest Kwabena Acheampong, Daladi Seidu Grumah, …
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Friday organised a sensitisation programme for the people of Nima in Accra on cholera prevention.
The programme formed part of measures being undertaken by the Assembly in its quest to educate…
An Accra Circuit Court on Friday remanded into police custody six persons who appeared before it on charges of conspiracy and robbery.
Peter Akakpo, a trader, and Gabriel Kojo Agyeman, Ernest Kwabena Acheampong, Daladi Seidu Grumah, …
Accra Brewery Limited (ABL) has presented assorted drinks to Jayee University College Student Representative Council (SRC) in Accra.
The drinks made up of Castle Milk Stout, Milk Malt and Malta Guinness was to support the SRC Week c…
A 68-member police cadet corps of Star Senior High School in Ho was on Friday inaugurated by Mr Alex Bedie, Volta Regional Police Commander with a warning to members to stay above board or be penalized.
He said the eight months train…
A two-day capacity building workshop on the role of non-state actors in the West African sub-regional integration process for 40 participants opened at Abesim near Sunyani on Thursday.
It was organised by the Integrated Social Develo…
President John Atta Mills on Friday appealed to the Mamprusis in Bawku to reconsider their decision to break away from the Inter Ethnic Peace Committee of Bawku to join in pursuit of lasting peace.
He urged the people of Bawku to lay…
Mr Namanga A. Ngongi, President of Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), on Friday said lack of appropriate policy programmes in Africa contributed to poor performance in agriculture.
He said there was the need for African …
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Mike Hamah, has said the country was losing six percent of its Gross Domestic Product through the activities of illegal miners and chainsaw operators.
He said those monies could have b…
The Chief Justice (CJ), Mrs Justice Georgina Theodora Wood, on Friday charged lawyers to be bold and speak the truth even when it is hard and unpopular for them to do so.
She asked them to take a principled stand on what they believe…
The first batch of 450 police recruits have reported at three police training schools to begin their professional training, a statement from the Ghana Police Service in Accra said on Friday.
The statement signed by Deputy Superintend…
Teachers have been advised to remain calm whiles the technical committee set up under the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) corrects the anomalies detected in their salaries under the Single Spine Pay Policy (SSPP).
Dr Kwasi …
A Ghanaian mother, Ms Vida Missah, 57, who had stayed in Cote D’voire for the past 40 years
returned to home at Abiriw-Akuapem with two of her daughters born in that country.
She also came along with 34 Ivorians made up of some memb…
Government has established a Task Force to develop a Draft National Policy Document on Decent Work for domestic workers.
The Policy aims at effectively managing and regulating the activities of stakeholders under terms and conditions…
Mr Kannyiri T. Banyen, President of Tertiary Education Institutions Network (TEIN) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), on Saturday said the fight against the cholera epidemic demanded intensification of health education by all stake…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Saturday said government was committed to ensuring that all Ghanaians attain good quality education and opportunities.
He said these would help them to unearth their talents for personal enhancemen…
Bishop Harrison Overcomers Bible Institute (BHOBI) on Saturday held its Sixth Graduation and Ordination for 89 graduands, who passed out with Pastoral Diploma, in Accra.
The BHOBI which started in 2004 with 50 students currently has…
A member of the Council of State, Dr Ato Essuman, has stated that good quality education could not be attained without a well-trained and motivated teaching force.
He said that the central role of teachers in every education reform c…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Saturday expressed worry about poor sanitary conditions in
the upper East Region.
He, therefore, directed all Municipal and District Chief Executives in the Region to take up the issue of environme…
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, Reverend Dr Joyce Aryee, has called on women in the country to harness their potentials to enable them to effectively contribute to national development.
She asked wome…
Plans are far advanced for the connection of all 18 communities in the Aiyinase North area in the
Ellembelle District to the national electricity grid by the end of the year.
Mr. Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, a Deputy Minister for Energ…
Mr Vincent Senam Kuagbenu, Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), has said this year’s posting of service personnel would focus on local governance and rural development, agriculture, community policing, disaster manageme…
Four persons, including a DGCA official and a pilot, have been arrested by Delhi Police in
connection with the fake flying license scam.
Police said they have arrested DGCA official Pradeep Kumar, pilot Pradeep Tyagi and two touts. O…
A prominent group in Pakistan, the Jamaat Ahl-e-Sunnat, has called for "death" to US pastor
Terry Jones for his act of burning a copy of the Quran and threatened its members will march to the Pakistani capital if the US ambassador is not …
India on Saturday offered help to Myanmar hit by a powerful earthquake causing loss of lives
and damage to properties.
"As your government rallies to provide relief and other assistance to the people in the earthquake-affected region…
India’s global supremacy and unprecedented growth in apparels, textiles and fashion and its
role in shaping the contours of world economy came into sharp focus at the heartland of world fashion – New York on Friday.
The two-day "Fabr…
India will launch a 'forestry satellite' as part of its efforts to monitor the country's green cover, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Saturday.
"We have to monitor (the Green Cover) on realtime basis. We will be launching our …
As Chinese government froze approvals for new projects pending a nuclear safety review,
the country's atomic authority has said it will not shelve plans to build more plants but beef up safety standards in view of the crisis in Japan.
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Californians have been warned not to eat a brand of candy imported from India following tests which found unacceptable levels of lead in the product.
In a statement, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Interim Director, …
The Ministry of Health and the National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP) have announced successes in case detection and management in the global fight against TB and
allied HIV and AIDS prevalence rate in Ghana.
A major breakthr…
A delegation of family doctors of the Park Nicollet Health Services from Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States undertook a health outreach programme at Apedwa and its
surrounding communities at the weekend.
The seven-member d…
The cholera outbreak in the Koforidua Municipality is declining as the daily cases reported at the Koforidua Regional Hospital have dropped from an average of over 20 cases per day to five cases.
As at Tuesday, March 22, the hospital…
Alhaji Haruna Abdul-Salam, Nkoranza South District Coordinating Director, has appealed to the government and the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIS) to provide a monument at Nkoranza to acknowledge the people of Nkoranza
as paceset…
Mr Akwasi Frimpong, an Assemblyman of Daboya Electoral Area in the West Gonja District of the Northern Region, has expressed concern about the increasing rate of hepatitis B cases in the area that has resulted in the death of many.
H…
Members of the National House of Chiefs (NHC) have agreed to appoint a committee to study the outcome of a research under the Ascertainment and Codification of Customary Law Project and take a position.
This has become necessary i…
The Central University College (CUC) is to build a William Ofori Atta Centre for Governance and Leadership for academia, Dr Pastor Mensa Otabil, Founder of the International Central Gospel Church announced on Thursday.
The centre wou…
Mr George Smith-Graham, Chief Executive of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC), on Thursday said about 36 public institutions had so far migrated onto the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS).
He noted that education on the…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, on Thursday called on corporate institutions to partner government to improve operations of the Ghana
School Feeding Programme.
He said such partnership wou…
A 28-year-old blacksmith who led a gang to rob traders under the Kwame Nkrumah Circle overhead bridge and made away with four mobile phones and an unspecified amount of money has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit …
The Court of Appeal on Thursday set aside the ruling of the Human Rights Court last year, prohibiting the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) from investigating bribery allegations against six public officials.
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Excessive verbal abuse by female teachers in particular on the girl-child is affecting the emotional and confidence base of girls.
Ms Benedicta Seidu, Girl-Child Officer of the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Education Service, noted t…
Members of Akim Nsutam Methodist Church, have decided to resume work on their six-unit classroom block, which had been abandoned over five years ago.
Mr James Kwaku Tawiah speaking to the Ghana News Agency at Nsutam said the work was…
The Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (C&AG) have taken steps to rectify anomalies detected in the staff salaries.
A statement issued in Accra on Thursday said to ensure that no indi…
A recent rainstorm in some parts of the Fanteakwa District in the Eastern Region, has caused the destruction of farms and properties.
The cost of destruction was yet to be estimated.
Many houses were destroyed rendered people hom…