The Rotary Club of Tamale in collaboration with
the Rotary Club of Notfolk District of Virginia, USA, has presented 38,800 pieces of rapid diagnostic kits valued at over 50,000 dollars for the detection of malaria to the Northern Regional…
The gas industry in the United States (US) is not regulated, Dr Dorothy Basset, Dean of the School of Leadership and Professional Studies at Duquesne University, has disclosed.
She said the gas industry is exempted from the various …
The Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), Lt. Gen. Peter Augustine Blay, has given the assurance that the Military High Command would soon supply new aircraft, ships, vehicles and accoutrements to the Ghana Airforce, Navy and the Army to ensur…
A Member of the Council of State, Reverend Dr
Jacob Kofi Ayeebo, has been elected Bishop Coadjutor of the Tamale Diocese of the Anglican Church.
The election, which was conducted in April this year per the Anglican tradition, was c…
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, has urged university graduates to ensure high sense of discipline and work hard to inject some pace into the country's socio-economic development.
The wealth of any nation, he said, was its human res…
The youth of Bawku have expressed concern about the lack of Adolescent Reproductive Health facilities in the town.
The young people expressed the concern at an interface meeting on the theme; "The Youth Participation in Advocacy for …
Hundreds of commuters travelling to and fro the
Accra Cape Coast road are stranded following a heavy down pour, which submerged the road at Otsrekum, a village after Gomoa Potsin near Winneba on Monday morning.
Commuters in commerci…
An Aflao Circuit Court presided over by Mr Francis Obiri, has jailed a corn mill operator 18 years in hard labour, for defiling his neighbour's granddaughter aged nine.
Godwin Fiadzidor, 40, pleaded guilty.
Mr Akwesi Asafo-Agye…
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly's (AMA) Public Health Unit, has trained 20 prosecutors for the Environmental Sanitation Courts to be operational in July 2010, with a call on them not to compromise their positions in the course of rendering…
The management of Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) on Monday, handed over keys to the GH�1,910,000 Housing project at Dunkonah near Weija in the Ga South Municipality to government.
The two-storey accommodation …
A Ho High Court presided over by Justice Kofi Essel Mensah, on Monday sentenced a 19 year-old student to three years imprisonment for manslaughter.
A seven member jury, which found Christian Adzakpo Morkporkpor guilty, however, retur…
Former President Jerry John Rawlings on Monday presented GH�1,000 to Sheikh Dr Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu, National Chief Imam, towards the final funeral rites of the Imam's late younger brother, Alhaji Ibrahim Sharubutu, 82, in Accra.
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The Rotary Club of Tamale in collaboration with
the Rotary Club of Norfolk, District of Virginia, USA, has donated 38, 800 pieces of rapid diagnostic kits to the Northern Regional Directorate of Health Services (RDHS).
The donation…
The Group of Ministers on Bhopal gas tragedy will finalise its report on Monday making its recommendations on relief, rehabilitation and remediation issues and legal options in the wake of the recent trial court judgement in the case.
…
Reverend Mrs Nyuime Adiepena, Coordinator of the
West Volta Presbytery, has urged Christian women to develop the attitude of giving in order to invoke the blessing of God for their lives.
"Jesus demonstrated to us how to give selfle…
A 22-year-old driver who allegedly defiled a 13-year-old class six pupil and afterwards locked her up for three days and nights in a room with no food or water, was on Monday remanded into prison custody by a circuit court in Cape Coast.
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Environmental politics today is about foreign policy and international security, Mr Werner Hoyer, Minister of State from the German Federal Foreign Office, said at the opening of the 2010 Global Media Forum under the theme: "The Heat is On…
The Kumasi Methodist Men's Fellowship, as part of a five year strategic plan, is to construct a hostel and establish a livestock and teak plantation.
Mr Bright Osei Agyemang, Kumasi Diocesan Chairman of the Fellowship, who announced…
Commercial traders, particularly chop bar operators and other food sellers at Winneba Junction had a field day on Monday following a heavy downpour on Sunday, which resulted in river Ayensu overflowing its banks at Gomoa-Okyereko, near Win…
Right Reverend Emmanuel Arongo, Bishop of the
Anglican Diocese of Tamale, has condemned the practice where come pastors exploit people in the name of healing.
The Bishop said this in a Church sermon on the theme, "The Church Mission…
The Kade District Magistrate Court on Tuesday granted a GHC 800 bail with one surety to Kwabena Akomeah, a farmer, who appeared before it charged with threatening a colleague.
Police Inspector D. T. Nartey told the court that both th…
The Nkawkaw Divisional Police has arrested six persons suspected to be members of syndicate involved in stealing electricity cables in the area.
The suspects are Kwesi Osei, aged 44, a chainsaw operator, Abdulai Naski, 22, a scrap de…
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), on Monday pegged the death toll arising from a rainstorm that hit the country from Sunday, June 20, as 26.
Twelve people died in the Central Region, 13 at Ashaiman in the Greater…
The Akwatiahene, Osabarima Kofi Boateng III, has advised the youth who would be engaged in the Youth in Mining Employment Module of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) to strictly abide by best mining practices.
He especia…
Indian-origin doctor Jayant Patel, facing manslaughter charges in Australia was competent enough to perform complicated oesophagectomy operations, his lawyer Monday told a top
court in Brisbane.
Patel's lawyer Michael Byrne told a S…
The Effutu Municipal Director of the Ghana Health Services, Dr. Godfred Kwesi Morrison, has presented medical equipment to the Winneba Government Hospital.
The equipment was funded by Plan Ghana, a non-governmental organisation, and …
The Paramount Chief the Bongo Traditional Area, Naba Baba Salifu Aleemyaroom, has called for the decentralization of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the district level.
He said this when he chaired a function on "World D…
The Adjabeng Magistrate's Court has granted a GH�3,000-bail, with one surety, to Pastor Victor Annan of the Faith Demonstration Ministry International at Darkuman, a suburb of Accra for
disturbing public peace.
He pleaded not gui…
The bodies of two males who lost their lives following the heavy downpour in the Tema Metropolis, on Sunday, have been deposited at the Tema General Hospital.
Hajia Zenabu Abdulai, Tema Metropolitan Co-ordinator of the National Disa…
The Ghana Library Board (GLB), has introduced a proactive, creative and innovative exercise to run Mobile Library Services at schools in deprived communities.
The aim is to send books and information reading materials to the doorstep…
Mr Kobina Prah Annan, Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) on Monday encouraged students to muster the courage to report any illegal activities in society to the authorities for the necessary action to be taken.
"Show …
Ghana prepares to welcome a boxing legend, one of the
greatest sons of Diaspora Africa and a highly distinguished personality. Larry Holmes WBC/IBF
Heavyweight Champion (1978â€1985) and 2nd longest reigning Heavyweight Champion of all t…
With soccer fever sweeping the continent, DStv has scored its own blockbuster goal…revealing that
M-Net will kick-off a sensational new season of Africa’s biggest reality show in just under a month.
The 5TH edition of M-Net’s BIG…
New York's Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad pled guilty to failed use of a weapon of mass destruction Monday afternoon.
Shahzad's noon arraignment was postponed until 4:30 p.m. No reason was given.
Last week Shahzad was indicted …
The bombs that were used in triggering blast at the historic Mecca Masjid in 2007 were assembled in the city itself, according to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Also, the accused, allegedly having links with Rashtriya Sw…
At least nine persons, including three policemen and five BSNL employees, were injured when heavily-armed militants launched two attacks on police, fired rifle grenades at a security camp and
hurled a grenade in the telecom office in Sop…
Elephants in India's southern state Kerala are subjected to "over-work" and "ill-treatment" and are not given proper food or medical support, an animal forum has alleged in a complaint.
Pointing to the sufferings of the large land m…
A Pakistani officer allegedly fired at India's Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp, which is part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in violence-hit Liberia, leaving a civilian seriously injured.
There was no casualty in …
Dr Asibi O. Abudu, a former Chief Economist of the Bank of Ghana, on Friday, encouraged Ghanaians ensure cleanliness, discard nasty thoughts and confront each day with a new
approach to relieve stress.
Dr Abudu gave the advice at a…
In a developing country like Ghana, midwives
are the front-line maternal and child health care providers. They give advice and lifesaving information to pregnant women; they counsel
HIV-positive women on how to protect their unborn chi…
Mr. Osei Yaw Owusu-Sekyere, Chairman of the Western Regional Network of Non-Governmental Organizations (WERENGO), has asked member organizations to undertake more development oriented projects, to improve upon the living conditions in the …
Takoradi based Inter Continental Christian
Prophetic Refree Organization, on Saturday condemned the rising tide of homosexuality in the country.
Speaking at a breakfast press conference in Takoradi, Apostle Abdramane Asare, Head of…
Forty communities in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region who were victims of the 2007/8 flood disaster in Northern Ghana are benefiting from a twenty month "Food for Work" facility.
It seeks to ensure that food insecure house…
The Indian Planning Commission on Friday supported the PMO proposal for a special Rs 982-crore
package for the Bhopal victims.
"I have approved the proposal. This goes through certain processes. At the end we are supportive (of it)…
Though Hollywood directors courted her with roles in their films, Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai says she could not take up the offers because of
scheduling problems.
"It wasn't about an attitude I had, or any inverted ideas about…
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday claimed to have unearthed a multi-crore Railway recruitment scam and arrested eight persons, including an Additional Divisional Railway Manager
and son of a top recruitment board official, for…
A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter Scale hit India's Andaman Islands early on Saturday.
The earthquake with a latitude of 13.4 degree north and a longitude of 93.0 degree east occurred at 4:39 am IST, the Met…
Meeting for the second day in a row, India's Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal gas tragedy Saturday discussed legal options available in the aftermath of the trial court judgement and reached "some tentative conclusions".
"We discu…
Mr Gideon Quaicoo, Deputy Minister of Communication, on Friday affirmed government's commitment towards ensuring cyber security.
He said government had taken the necessary steps to educate personnel of law enforcement agencies, minis…
The members of the Planned Parenthood Association
of Ghana (PPAG), at the weekend, elected a 30 year old banker, Mr Joshua F, Opoku-Menu as its
national president, at the 43rd annual general meeting in Accra.
He defeated a 51 yea…