Mr Martin Eson-Benjamin, Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Development Authority (MIDA), on Tuesday said activities of traders on the Apenkwa-Mallam corridor were slowing progress on the N1 Highway project and asked them to move fo…
What would new Apple's iPhone look like? It might be smaller and cheaper! Apple is now working on a mini edition of iPhone, according to foreign media reports Monday.
The new iPhone would be about half the size of the iPhone 4, the Wall S…
Apple is reportedly designing a smaller iPhone in a bid to more directly challenge Google's Android-powered handsets.
The smaller prototype, which was referred to as the iPhone Min by some media, will be somewhere between half the size, o…
South Korea and the United States plan to hold a second round of talks in Seoul next month on rewriting a nuclear cooperation pact that bans the Asian nation from reprocessing spent fuel from civilian nuclear plants, a diplomatic source sa…
South Korea confirmed one more case of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) on Tuesday as quarantine authorities pushed ahead with the second phase of nationwide vaccination of pigs and cattle.
The case, at a pig farm that raised 2,000 animals…
Two members of the crew in a simulated mission to Mars have completed their first walk on the "surface" of the Red Planet, as a part of the Mars-500 project, the Russia's Mission Control Center outside Moscow said on Monday.
The simulated…
Russian authorities on space exploration believed Russia may launch a manned flight to Mars in 20 years, local media reported on Monday.
Vitaly Davydov, deputy head of the Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos), said the mission to Mars is "qui…
Dietary fiber may be associated with a reduced risk of death from cardiovascular, infectious and respiratory diseases, as well as a reduced risk of death from any cause over a nine-year period, according to a report posted Monday in the on…
Scientists have finally cracked the mystery why the vibrant yellows in impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh's paintings turned brown, according to AFP reports Monday.
A super-sensitive microscopic X-ray has revealed that a previously un…
Search engine giant Google on Monday unveiled a tool for its Chrome browser users to block search results from low-quality websites, according to AFP reports.
The new extension, Personal Blocklist, is able to help the users block search r…
Arianesapce will conduct its 200th launch Tuesday, when Europe's second Automated Transfer Vehicle ( ATV-2) Johannes Kepler will be launched by an Ariane 5 ES heavy- lift carrier rocket to take supply to the International Space Station (IS…
Nana Kusi Obuadum Antwi II, Chief of Wawase in the Afigya-Kwabre District, has called on people in the area to give more support to the assembly as it works hard to inject some pace into the socio-economic development of the district.
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A one-year project aimed at building the capacity of forest stakeholders for smooth implementation and compliance of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) signed between the Government of Ghana and the European Union (EU) has been laun…
The Ghana Tourist Board (GTB) has said it was important to step up public education on the health benefits of chocolate to help increase local consumption of the product.
Mr Ekow Sampson, the Ashanti Regional Manager, said the Health …
The Gomoa West District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah, has criticized the past government for not doing enough to provide toilets, a basic need for Ghanaians.
He said it was unfortunate and disgraceful for communi…
Thailand never has ill intention against Cambodia and the country supports "permanent ceasefire" and peaceful means to tackle border issue with its neighbour, Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said early Tuesday morning.
Kasit made the …
Two former Field Officers of the Micro-Finance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) in Ho, Edward Dzah and Paul Yevu, are being sought by the Ho Municipal Police for misappropriating funds and abandoning post.
Mr Carlos de-Souza, a lawyer…
Ms Anneli Vuorinen, Finland Ambassador in Ghana, has commended the Effutu Municipal Assembly for making education its top most priority.
Ms Vuorinen, who is based in Nigeria, made the commendation at a durbar held in her honour by…
Ricerca E Cooperazione, an Italian non-governmental organization, has presented office equipment worth over 10,000 Euros to the Ghana Tourist Board to enhance its service delivery in the implementation of the West Coast Destination Managem…
The Western Regional Police Command on Tuesday warned the public, especially those in the region, to be wary of a private loan financial institution, Consumer Finance Company (CPC), whose agents defrauded people.
Deputy Commissioner …
The Volta River Authority (VRA) has identified two sites in the Upper East Region and two other sites in the Upper West Region for the development of a minimum of 10 megawatts of solar energy, Mr. Sam Appiah, Director of Engineering of the…
The Governance Issues Forum (GIF), a project of the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), on Tuesday organized a one-day training workshop on democratic governance for 36 participants drawn from the informal and formal sectors in the…
The government’s interventions in the education of the children of Ghana are to compliment the efforts of their parents but not to take away parent’s responsibilities, says Mr Henry Kweku Hayfron, Mfantseman Municipal Chief Executive (MCE)…
Government is to launch a nationwide campaign against filth using students at the Senior High Schools, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development has said.
He explained that the project aims to inculca…
The Akuapem Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has commissioned and dedicated an ultra modern hospitality centre at Akropong.
The centre, which had 17 self-contained bed rooms, one dormitory with 20 beds, 140-capacity con…
Fifty workers of the Ghana Audit Service in the Eastern Region, has began a two-day training programme on the use of manual for auditing accounts and operations of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs).
The trai…
Mr Joseph Adu-Boampong, National President of the Ghana Society of the Physically Disabled (GSPD), has urged District, Municipal and Metropolitan assemblies to remove bottlenecks that impeded the smooth disbursement of the Society’s three …
Bishop James Yaw Ahenkorah, General Secretary of the Church of the Lord Brotherhood, has said that it was important the future of the youth of the country was not jeopardized.
He said parents must ensure that their children were guid…
The out-gone Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, has handed-over the administration of the Eastern Region to the newly sworn-in Regional Minister, Dr Kwasi Akyem Apea-Kubi at a brief ceremony at Koforidua.
Speaking at…
Ms Sherry Ayittey, the Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, on Friday appealed to Metropolitan, Municipal and District assemblies
to enforce bye-laws they had enacted to guard against shrinking forests and environmental degrad…
The Western Regional Manager of the Ghana Tourist Board, Mr Ebenezer Ayiquaye Hammond, has warned the youth especially the females to be wary of people who would throng the region as a result of the oil discovery.
He said a number of …
Fijai Senior High School won the Valentine Day mathematics quiz competition organized by the Ghana Mathematics Society at Sekondi on Monday.
The school scored 37 points to beat Ghana Secondary Technical School which obtained 32 in a …
The growth rate of the Western Region reduced from 3.2 % in 2000 to 1.8 % in 2010, according to the provisional results of the 2010 Population and Housing Census, Nana Opoku, the Regional Statistician, told the GNA in an interview.
He…
More than 1,000 members of Brong-Ahafo Lotto Receivers’ Union have staged a peaceful
demonstration in Sunyani against the National Lottery Authority’s (NLA)proposed decision to reduce each member’s lotto sales commission from 25 percent t…
Mr Ignatius Mwinbe-Ere Der, the District Education Director for Afigya -Kwabre, has called for more dedication and hard work from teachers to improve academic performance in schools.
He said they needed to stick to professional ethics…
The Headmaster of Osei Tutu II Senior High School at Tetrem, Mr Samuel Ekuoba Gyasi, has complained about the lack of a science laboratory in the school.
Students studying science have to travel twice a week to the Dwamena Akente…
Science and mathematics teachers have been urged to simplify their teaching methods to help demystify the learning of these subjects to make science-related courses attractive to pupils and students.
Dr Mrs Beatrice Wiafe Addai, Chief…
The Central Gonja District Assembly has provided an 18-seat water closets toilet facility at the Buipe market at the cost of GHC57,000.
The facility was financed from the District Assembly Common Fund and the District Development Fun…
Management of the Upper West Tourist Board has presented boxes of chocolate to some mentally challenged pupils at the Wa School for the Deaf to mark Valentine Day on Monday.
Mr. Henry Yeludor, Acting Regional Manager of the Tourist B…
Fourteen schools in the Twifo-Heman-Lower Denkyira District recorded zero percent in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) held in 2010.
Mrs. Elizabeth Amoa-Tetteh, the Member of Parliament for Twifo Atti Morkwa and Depu…
The Savannah Diamond Cement Company Limited has donated 800 bags of cement to some victims of last year’s floods in the Central Gonja District.
Mr. Kishore Babu, Project Manager of the Savannah Diamond Cement in Buipe who presented th…
The Ghana Tourist Board (GTB) in the Northern Region has presented packets of chocolate to the Nyohini Children’s Home in Tamale for the children of the Home to celebrate Valentine Day on Monday.
Mr. William Ayambire, Northern Region…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Cape Coast, Mr Ebo Barton-Odro, has bemoaned the high rate of neglect of the aged, who he said, were mostly left to fend for themselves.
He said it was on this backdrop that he decided to provide hea…
An estimated 15,000 children would be saved from malaria-related deaths within the next three years if they sleep under insecticide treated nets, Dr Iyabode Olusanmi, Country Representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) no…
Mr. Sam Nasamu Asabigi, Deputy Northern Regional Minister, has appealed to chiefs to stand firm in enforcing bye-laws on the prevention of bushfires and the destructive activities of alien Fulani herdsmen in their communities.
He sai…
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Two Ghanaian students currently studying at the University of Reading in England were the first to be awarded the University’s new Diageo Scholarships Scheme last year, and are aspiring to contribute to Ghana’s economic and agricultural de…
The Reverend James Noble Tulasi, Pastor of Jubilee Christian Centre in Ho, on Sunday urged young people to take their time and go through the rigours of pre-marital counselling before committing themselves to marriage.
He said marria…
Most residents of Googo, a predominantly farming community in the Bawku West District, are destroying trees in the community and its environs alleged to be possessed by evil spirits that are terrorizing the people.
The people are liv…
The Member of Parliament for Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem, Dr. Joseph Annan, has condemned the recent demonstration by a group of fishermen in Elmina, saying it was uncalled for.
At a meeting with fishermen at Komenda Dr. Annan, who t…