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This week on STUDIO 53 EXTRA the gorgeous Eku and Dolapo speak to Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes and attends Hennessy’s 50th party, plus the duo chat to top designer David Tlale.
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The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), on Monday appealed to Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) and all other authorities to exercise the greatest level of circumspection in thei…
Dr Benjamin Kunbuor, Minister of Health, has said that at such a time when the nation was striving to advance in development, what it does not need is industrial disharmony.
He said there was no doubt industrial actions in developing …
The Men Fellowship of the Saint Andrew The Apostle of the Anglican Church, has been inaugurated at Sekondi.
Since 2006, the Cathedral Church has existed without Men's Fellowship.
Inaugurating the Fellowship on Monday, Reveren…
The US hopes to work with India to address its concerns about the recent hike in H-1B and L1 visa fee in order to find an "acceptable alternative solution" to the critical issue that threatens to hurt the bilateral economic ties, a top Oba…
The only person ever convicted in the 1985 Kanishka bombing went on trial for perjury, accused of lying to protect the alleged suspects who were later acquitted.
Inderjit Singh Reyat is on trial before a Canadian Court in the provin…
A top American official on women issues is visiting India beginning Saturday to work on the advancement of the US-India Strategic Dialogue on Women's Empowerment and hold interactions with various self-help groups, businesswomen and NGOs.
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Indian percussionists and musicians will stand up and make a noise, literally, to create awareness about the Millennium Development Goals ahead of a review meeting at the United Nations General Assembly Summit.
In a special concert at…
Zambia’s Paloma became the 8th Housemate be evicted from the Big Brother All Stars house during last night’s live Big Brother All Stars Eviction Show (12 September at 19:00 CAT on DStv Channel 198).
Namibian rapper Damara Dik Ding ki…
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Accra, Monday 13 September 2010. Zain Ghana has made telecom history by slashing their call tariffs to only 8 pesewas per minute across all networks, with no registration required…
"The World Bank is probably best equipped to contribute to big ticket, transformative, initiatives: trade corridors, integrated value chains, industrial parks etc., and all this on a purely strategic investment basis. Everything else shou…
A woman living with the HIV virus at Lawra has
said she is distressed because her husband�s brothers were pressurizing her for sex though they know that their brother died of AIDS.
�I have told them that I am carrying the HIV vi…
The Brong-Ahafo Regional Chief Imam, Alhaji Umar Abdul Kadif, has urged Moslem youth to eschew violence and immoral activities and demonstrate that Islam abhors violence and does not teach it.
Addressing Moslems to mark this year�s…
The human rights watchdog on Friday asked local schools owned by religious educational institutions not to discriminate against job seekers who have a different religion.
A man, identified only by the surname Lee, recently filed a peti…
Mr Babal Jamal, the Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, joined hundreds of Muslims to celebrate this year's Eid-Ul-Fitr festival at the Koforidua Central Mosque.
The mosque was filled to capacity as Muslims from all walks of life appea…
A Circuit Court in Asamankese, on Thursday remanded Nathan Ayittey, 25-year-old driver's mate, into prison custody for allegedly killing her girl friend through an abortion.
He is believed to have inserted concoction into the private…
The Kwahu-West Municipal Assembly, on Friday presented a quantity of items to Muslims in the area towards the celebration of the Eid-Ul-Fitr festival.
The items include 30 bags of rice, 15 cartons of cooking oil, 10 cartons of tomato…
Assembly Members and other opinion leaders in the Kwahu-West Municipal have been asked to support the 2010 Population and Housing Census, which commences on September 26.
Mr John Tetteh, Kwahu-West Municipal Officer of the Statistic…
Passion for Needy, a charitable organization, set up by Prophet T.B Joshua, Head Pastor, Synagogue Church of All Nations, on Thursday donated food items worth GHc10,500 to Muslims in Accra.
The items, which would be distributed to th…
The government said Friday that it will give women the right to ask for fewer work hours so they can better raise their children as part of South Korea's ongoing efforts to bolster the low
birthrate.
The 2011-2015 plan to encourage ha…
South Korea's Red Cross said it handed over the body of a North Korean woman on Friday to the North's authorities after it was found earlier this week in a border river swollen by rains.
The woman was believed to be in her late 40s, th…
Muslims in south Indian state Kerala celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr on Friday, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramzan.
People congregated in large numbers in the mosques and Eidgahs across the state, where special prayers for Eid we…
In a goodwill gesture on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr, India on Friday announced the release of 85 Pakistani prisoners, most of them fishermen lodged in various jails in the country.
"On Sep 9, orders have been issued releasing 58 fishermen…
Mr. Paul Evans Aidoo, the Western Regional Minister, on Friday, advised Muslims to adopt lifestyles acceptable to Islam.
He gave the advice at the celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr by orthodox Muslims at Takoradi.
Mr. Aidoo said Musli…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Cape Coast, Mr. Ebo Barton-Odro, on Friday, joined hundreds of orthodox Muslims in the Cape Coast Metropolis, to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr, the Feast of Ramadan, in Cape Coast.
Addressing them later at …
An NGO in the health sector, Health Promotion
Watch, Ghana, on Thursday called for the repeal of the law criminalising attempted suicide and the promotion of public awareness that suicide is a public health problem while many suicides are…
Mrs Ruchi Ghanashyam, Indian High Commissioner
to Ghana, has observed that India and Ghana's 50 years bilateral ties had been tremendous but still needed to be spiced-up for mutual benefit.
"We still have a lot more to do in the eco…
A total of 50 Community Education Teaching
Assistants (CETA), recruited under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) in the Keta Municipal Area, have ended a three week training
programme and ready for postings.
The recruit…
The Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), would from 2011 standardize all qualification and training of Technical and Vocational Education Training
(TVET) in the country.
This would enable people unde…
Two Ghanaian workers of China Jiangxi International Company (CJIC), the Chinese firm constructing the Akatsi-Tadzewu-Dzodze highway, have been run over and killed by the company's tipper truck at a pit at Metsrikasa near Dzodze.
They a…
South Korea will begin mass production of electric vehicles next year, ahead of its earlier schedule, and provide financial support for government use to promote sales of emission-less vehicles, the government said Thursday.
The move c…
Staffan de Mistura, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative to Afghanistan on Thursday, condemned the threat by a religious group in the United States to burn copies of the Koran, warning that it could endanger the lives of peac…
A circuit court at Akim Swedru in the Birim South District presided over by Mr Kofi Akrowiah, on Thursday sentenced a 27-year-old unemployed to three years imprisonment for biting the right thumb of his brother and nearly damaging his head…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Thursday congratulated Muslims for successfully going through the month of prayer and fasting and wished them a happy Eid-Ul-Fitr celebration.
In an official statement issued in Accra, the ND…
The National Church Choirs Union of the Global Evangelical Church, has begun its triennial rally for the year 2010 on the theme: �A Choir after God�s Own Heart - A Tool for Church Growth�.
Reverend Samuel Dumevi, Inter-Church R…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Thursday presented 30 bags of rice and three cartons of cooking oil to three Muslim organisations separately in Accra.
The items were sent to the residence of the National Chief Imam at New Fadama a…
Two women and a man on Thursday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly performing an illegal abortion at a hotel at Anyaa an Accra suburb.
Clement Fameye Akesseh, a nursing assistant, Rebecca Adu and Cecilia Adu, sister…
Mr Abukari Amadu, an employee of First Allied Savings and Loans Company and former Chief Attendant at the Gbewaa Palace at Yendi, on Thursday testified in the Ya Na murder trial at an Accra Fast Track High Court.
Fourteen persons are…
The National Labour Commission (NLC) has directed
the Polytechnic Teachers� Association of Ghana (POTAG) to call off its strike action immediately and return to normal duties.
In addition, the parties in dispute � National POTAG…
Thomas Boateng, a building contractor, who posed as a Warrant Officer Class One (WO1), in the Ghana Army, has defrauded three people of GH�1,350.00, under the pretext of securing them job at TV3 in Accra, has been remanded in prison cust…
Mr Stephen Bekoe, Assembly member for Anum Apapam North electoral area, has appealed to the Department of Feeder Roads (DFR) and the Suhum Kraboa-Coaltar District Assembly (SKCDA), to urgently rehabilitate the poor sections of the Anum Apa…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional
Integration, has requested relatives of Mr Ibrahim Yakubu, a Ghanaian resident in Conakry, Guinea to urgently contact the Legal and Consular
Bureau of the Ministry for an important message.
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It would be "premature" to resume the stalled six-party denuclearization talks before North Korea admits its responsibility for its belligerent behavior and is made to pay a penalty, a former U.S. defense secretary said Thursday.
"I th…
South Korea has ample "experiences" in green growth strategies and should take the initiative in global efforts toward promoting economic growth with low pollution and increases in uses of renewable energies, a U.N. official said Thursday.…
South Korean health authorities said Thursday that they have confirmed the first case of potentially deadly Japanese encephalitis in the country this year.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said a 71-year-old …
The Keta Municipal Assembly has donated food items, sugar and cooking oil and poly mats to Moslems in the area in support of the oncoming Eid-ul-Fitr festival.
Three bags each of maize, rice and beans, a bag of sugar, two gallons of v…
The Agona Swedru high court has fixed September 15 to rule on the motion filed by Supi Abeka Kuntu and two others to pray the court to restrain the Paramount Chief and Queen Mother of
Mankessim from taking part in the celebration of the …
The Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central, Mr Opam Brown Akolbire, has appealed to the Food and Agriculture and Energy ministries to consider building g a dam that would serve as a reservoir in the Upper East Region to harvest spille…
The Adjabeng Court '1' on Wednesday issued a bench
warrant for the arrest of Pastor Victor Annan of the Faith Demonstration Ministry International at Darkuman for failing to appear in court to answer
charges of excessive noise making by …
The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, has appealed to District, Municipal and Metropolitan Chief Executives to supervise the financial administration of their assemblies to avoid embarrassment.
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