Anglogold Ashanti, Iduapriem Mine, located at Tarkwa, has mined a total of 1.4 million ounces of Gold between 2004 and March this year.
This record feat was achieved without any mining injuries and operated one million hours safely w…
Ghanaian employees have been urged to take their wellbeing seriously, work in a safe environment and improve themselves for their own good.
“Without a properly designed well being programme many employees will not to giving off their be…
A Tarkwa circuit court has sentenced 18-year-old farmer, King Solomon to three years imprisonment, for stealing a generator, a computer and an amplifier belonging to the Wassa Nkran Junior High School.
He pleaded guilty.
Prosec…
A 62 year old farmer, Alex Akakpo, has been granted a bail of GHC5,000 for threatening, one Avulore Aloru, with a gun by the Tarkwa circuit court.
He pleaded not guilty and will re-appear before the court on March 22.
Prosecuti…
Mr Forkuo Agyemang, a retired teacher at Timiabu in the Nkoranza North District, has called on municipal and district assemblies to enact bye-laws to check illegal settlement and activities of Fulani herdsmen and their cattle.
He urg…
A severe rainstorm hit Yefri in the Nkoranza North District, ripping off the roofing of five buildings, including the three-classroom block of the local Roman Catholic Primary school and displacing the 120 pupils.
Mr Michael Obour, A…
The Guidance and Counseling Unit of Brong Ahafo Regional Directorate of Education, has organised a workshop on the importance of career counseling to the development of pupils, for headteachers in Nkoranza South District at Nkoranza.
…
The chiefs and the people of Kwadjo-Fosu near Coaltar in the Suhum-Kraboa Coaltar District, have
appealed to the Ministry of Education for assistance to rehabilitate the school block in the area.
In an interview with the Ghana News …
The Jesus Mission Church branch at Panpanso-Krokese near Nsawam, has cultivated six hectares of oil palm and mango plantations.
Conducting the Ghana News Agency round the farm on Tuesday, the Resident Pastor, Francis Kwasi Aboagye, s…
Residents of Busunya, capital of Nkoranza North District, spent about GH¢ 120,000 on development
projects between 2009 and 2010.
The projects included the construction of a Post Office, a Community Information Centre, the provision …
Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD) in collaboration with Action Aid Ghana, both non-governmental organizations, on Tuesday organised a day’s training seminar to commemorate the International Women’s Day in Sunyani.
The event, w…
The newly appointed Director of Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), Dr Peter A. Wiredu, has warned that the new administration would not spare anyone caught engaging in any disgraceful acts of corruption and other forms of criminal activities…
The Gomoa West district Assembly has set aside 35,000 Ghana Cedis from its District Education Fund to assist local needy but brilliantly students to further their education.
The District chief Executive, Mr Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah sai…
The Minister of Education, Mrs. Betty Mould Iddrisu, will on Tuesday meet Finance Minister Dr. Kwabena Dufuor and the Controller and Accountant General, Mr. Raphael Tuffuor in an urgent effort to address the anomalies arising from the migr…
A former Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies(UDS), Professor Saa Dittor has called for a permanent budget purse for research in the annual national budget and financial statement.
He said local funding to hi…
About 2,000 “Kayayee” (female porters), commercial (trotro) drivers and their mates, on Monday received free medical care with dispensing products sponsored Tigo Mobile Network to commemorate the 54 years of Ghana’s Independence at the Tem…
Mrs Theresah Adomako Tawiah, Atwima-Mponua District Chief Executive (DCE), has advised students to always use laid-down rules and mechanisms to address their grievances.
She said they should never resort to violent demonstrations, w…
The Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs (MOWAC), has urged parents and teachers to unearth and develop the talents of the youth.
Madam Mariama Yayah, Acting Director of the Department of Children, of the Ministry of Women and Chi…
Professor John Aheto, a Finance and Management Consultant, has called on public and private university lecturers to constantly interact and share knowledge to enhance the quality of the country’s tertiary education.
University educati…
The Asylumdown Congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, on Sunday, 6th March, cut an anniversary cake decorated in the national colours of red, gold, green and the black star to marked Ghana’s Independence Day celebration.
T…
The Obuasi Municipal Assembly in the Ashanti Region has received items worth GH¢15,000 from Atlas Copco Ghana, a worldwide giant industrial productivity solution provider in commemoration of Ghana 54th Independence Day anniversary.
T…
Ghanaians have been advised to live in peace, unity and love with one another towards a prosperous and Better Ghana.
Mr Peter Light Koomson, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam, gave the advice at a parade of scho…
Scores of people, including students and pupils on Monday visited Takoradi Air Force Base, Western Naval Command at Sekondi and the Second Battalion of Infantry at Apremdo during the Ghana Armed Forces Open Day.
The students include…
The weather would be cloudy on Tuesday morning over the entire country, according to the weather forecast issued by the Ghana Meteorological Agency.
It said there would be moderate rain early in the morning over parts of the western …
The management of Youth for Christ Heritage (YUFRIST), a Christian non-governmental organisation (NGO) on Tuesday distributed assorted items worth GH¢3,500 to residents of Obrachire in the Awutu Senya District of the Central Region.
…
Mr Joseph Kingsley Onyinah, Ashanti Regional Director of Education, has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to take another look at the content of the course modules for teacher trainees under the distance education programme.
…
A two-day training programme for 34 peer educators on HIV and AIDS selected from Sunyani Municipality and Sunyani-West District has ended.
The Project Director of Health Foundation of Ghana, one of the three non-governmental organisa…
Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas Peter Andoh, Commander of the Achiase Jungle Warfare Unit of the Ghana Armed Forces, on Monday said it was not right
for soldiers to assault civilians arbitrarily for wearing camouflages on the streets.
“…
The Christ Apostolic Church International has dedicated two church buildings and a mission house for the Aflao and Akyem Tafo Assemblies of the church respectively.
The construction of the Aflao church was GHC30,000.00 while the chu…
A Takoradi Circuit Court On Tuesday remanded Augustine Ackon, Emmanuel Quayson, Nicholas Anuga and Samuel Ablordeppey in prison custody for stealing 31 maxi bags of fertilizer.
They were charged with conspiracy, abetment and stealing…
Mr Samuel Atidzah, Executive Director of GOSANET Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation has
said students’ knowledge of HIV and AIDS was yet to make them wiser in matters of sex.
He therefore appealed to students not only to re…
The recent outbreak of cholera in the country claimed 34 lives with the Greater Accra Region recording 16 deaths, the highest number.
A total of 2,376 cases were recorded nationwide from September 2010 with the Greater Accra Region r…
Lieutenant Colonel Cornelius Lithur, Commanding Officer of Third Battalion (3BN) of Infantry of the Ghana Army, has assured communities along the Ghana-La Cote d’Ivoire borders of adequate military security.
“The borders are secured …
A group of teachers calling itself Coalition of Concerned Teachers in the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis on Tuesday took to the streets for the third time to express their disappointment about the discrepancies in their salary levels under th…
The Minister of Education, Mrs. Betty Mould Iddrisu, will on Tuesday meet Finance Minister Dr. Kwabena Dufuor and the Controller and Accountant General, Mr. Raphael Tuffuor in an urgent effort to address the anomalies arising from the mig…
Hundreds of people comprising civil servants, market women, hairdressers and seamstresses on Monday undertook a three -hour clean-up exercise at Praso to climax the activities marking the 54th Independence anniversary celebration.
…
Agyewodin Adu Gyamfi Ampem, the Chairman of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Council, has appealed to all stakeholders, particularly teachers in public schools, to have faith in the government’s promise that the impasse over their migrati…
The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS)on Tuesday lauded the contribution of women to national development and called for structural reforms to accelerate women’s empowerment and their rights.
“Today, a substantial number of wome…
The Pacific Islands Forum here Tuesday issued a message calling on Pacific countries and communities to take measures to support women, especially girls' education to mark the 100th anniversary celebration of International Women's Day.
Pa…
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Monday sought 1.4 billion U.S. dollars in its annual appeal to assist children and women caught in crises in dozens of countries, UN spokesperson Martin Nesirky told reporters here.
The appea…
Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar said Monday that Iran's police have seized more than 400 tons of narcotics since March 2010,the local satellite Press TV reported.
The drugs were seized in operations across the country, M…
Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN) Ghana, on Tuesday launched the maiden edition of its mentorship program for female students from selected Senior High Schools (SHS) across the country, to mark the centenary celebration of Internation…
It has been realized that Ghanaian parents are now crossing the northern border to Burkina Faso to have their daughters circumcised due to the criminalization of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the country.
“This has come about du…
The National Secretariat of Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), of the Ghana Police Service, on Tuesday, called for collective efforts against gender-based violence.
A statement issued in Accra to commemorate the Cent…
Mrs Belinda Baffoe-Bonney, Atwima-Mponua District Director of Health Service, has been commended for contributing to the development of health in the area.
Dr Issifu Adamu Alhassan, Senior Medical Officer at the Nyinahin Government H…
Stakeholders in the agricultural sector and development partners are meeting in Accra to develop the required regulatory framework for effective implementation of the Plant and Fertilizer Act (Act 803 of 2010).
The three-day meeting …
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) on Monday organized an open day at its various garrisons in Burma Camp, Accra, to bring the general public closer to the door steps of the Military.
The essence of Open Day is to create a very good rapport…
The National Executive of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), on Tuesday, called on the government, the Ministry of Education, Ghana Education Service and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) to immediately start th…
Undergraduate applicants for admission
into the University of Ghana (UG) for the 2011/2012 academic year would have to acquire credit passes in the required subjects.
Also Students who apply to the university must not only obta…
Ghana’s agricultural sector stands to rake in far more revenue than what is being expected from the oil sector for our development, Dr Samuel Kojo Dapaah, USAID Chief Technical Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture on Tuesday stated.
…