John Ahiale, the 36-year-old proprietor and Headmaster of a Junior High School (JHS), who was arrested at Akwatia while sitting this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), was on
Friday arraigned before the Asamankese Cir…
Right Reverend Sampson Yamoah, Methodist Bishop of the Wenchi Diocese, on Thursday expressed concern about organizational rivalry, ethnocentrism, partisan politics and chieftaincy
disputes that have engulfed the Church in recent times.
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The Upper East Regional Co-ordinating Council (RCC), on Friday denied a publication in the Daily Dispatch that the council awarded contracts for the provision of school infrastructure without going through the tendering process.
A st…
The Bishop of Cape Coast Methodist Diocese, Bishop Nicholas Asane, on Friday called for the formation of credit unions and welfare schemes to support Christians in Churches.
He said the products when made available in Churches would …
In a bid to thwart hacking, the Indian government has started keeping secret files in stand-alone computers devoid of any external links and storage devices.
Official sources said the step has been taken after frequent attempts by int…
Alex Moro, unemployed, who demolished a bathhouse, a property of an adjoining landlord, the complainant, has appeared before a circuit court, presided over by Mr Kofi Akrowiah, at Akim
Swedru in the Birim South District of the Eastern Re…
Mr David Asante, an educationist, has appealed to government to support less endowed private schools to promote teaching and learning especially in the rural communities.
Mr Asante, who is the proprietor of the Sun Rise Preparatory S…
Old Vandals Association, the alumni of Commonwealth
Hall of the University of Ghana, Legon, is to hold a crisis meeting on Sunday to be followed by a press conference on Monday.
The gathering would be as a result of the outcome of a…
The Chairman of the Prisons Council, Air Marshal John Asamoah Bruce has announced that the Council would ensure that expansion of the country's Prisons and introduction of formal and informal education.
He explained that this would he…
A proposal for the banning of importation, sale and use of second-hand lorry tyres has been submitted to government for consideration, as part of measures to reduce road accidents in the country.
Mr. Elvis Gbesemate, Volta Regional …
Mrs. Ama Benyewa-Doe, Central Regional Minister, has called on the people of Effutu Municipality to let peace to prevail in the area to avoid lost of lives and properties.
She said development and progress could take place in the are…
Youth and Sports Minister, Ms. Akua Sena Dansua,
said on Tuesday that Africa's hope of renewal would remain a dream unless adequate investment was made in the youth to properly empower them for the future.
She said a significant po…
A nine-member Ashanti Regional disciplinary committee of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has been inaugurated with a call on the members to ensure fairness in the application of the rules.
Mr Joseph Kingsley Onyinah, Regional Direc…
The Police on Thursday nabbed two men for
possessing a knife and other implements when they turned up in the Court trying Nana Darkwa Baafi, a radio commentator.
Nana Darkwa is said to have accused former President Jerry John Rawlings …
The President of the Central Regional House of
Chiefs, on Thursday expressed concern about the high incidence of teenage pregnancy in the Region and appealed to his colleagues to lead the campaign against pre-marital sex.
Daasebre …
Mr. Mahmud Khalid, Upper West Regional Minister, has charged the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) to embark on educational programmes, that should be geared towards eliminating bribery and corruption from all sectors of publi…
The College of Art and Social Sciences (CASS)
of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has rewarded 23 individuals and corporate bodies for hard work and outstanding contribution to the development of the College…
Two loan facilities have been sourced from the Exim Banks of India and America to procure fire controlling appliances and equipment for the country's fire stations.
The India Exim Bank is supporting the Ghana National Fire Service (G…
The Council of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) at its meeting in Kumasi on Friday appointed the Pro-Vice Chancellor, Professor William Otoo Ellis as the new Vice Chancellor for a four-year term.
A statement …
The Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper
East Region, has organised a two-day workshop at Paga for stakeholders on the validation of the assembly's medium term plan to forge the development
pattern of the area.
The district …
Muslim clerics and scholars have welcomed the capital punishment awarded to the Mumbai terror
attack convict Ajmal Amir Kasab saying the court verdict has reiterated the faith of all countrymen in Indian judicial system.
"There cou…
World Red Cross Day is being marked on Saturday in Ghana, with the call on the citizenry to treat environmental sanitation as a top priority for posterity.
The day, under the theme "Urbanization and its Impact on communities" is cele…
Members of Food and Beverages Association of Ghana (FABAG), has cautioned the government to tighten its security networks at Ghana's entry points or risk losing millions of cedis to illegal alcohol dealers.
"Their activity is not only …
The Ministry of Health (MOH), on Wednesday, took
delivery of 345 vehicles, valued at 7.3 million dollars, to assist in the health delivery of people in deprived communities.
The vehicles, which were supplied by Auto World Limited, …
Computer Aid to Ghana, a Danish-based Non Governmental Organisation (NGOs), on Friday donated items worth GH¢35,000 to some educational institutions in Akropong-Akwapim in the Eastern Region.
The items presented in Accra included com…
A prophetess of the Christ Apostolic Church of the Suhun circuit, on Saturday called for State-Church collaborate to find solutions to the country's problems.
Prophetess Elizabeth Quayebea Bradu of a prayer camp of the Church at Anum…
The National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), on Friday launched two new modules in Navrongo in the Kassena-Nankana East District and Sirigu in the Kassena-Nankana West District, all in the Upper East Region.
The Trade and Vocation…
The Ashanti Regional Director of the Department of Social Welfare, Mr Jacob Achulo, has advised the physically challenged to take advantage of the department's skills training programmes to become economically self-supporting.
He sa…
Ghana's quest to switchover from analogue to digital terrestrial broadcasting under the 2006 Geneva Agreement could be realised before the stipulated period of 2015 spelt out by the agreement.
"Although the international deadline for…
The Ministry of Foreign affairs and Regional Integration on Wednesday requested Mr George Riby-Williams, of House No. D 621/3, North Swalaba, Accra and father of the late Mr Lanquaye
Riby-Williams, to contact the Legal and Consular Burea…
Parliament on Thursday okayed a Credit agreement between the government of Ghana and the Central Bank of Austria for an amount of 7,495,000.00 for upgrading and enhancement of technical and
vocational training centres in the country.
…
Ghana needs a comprehensive policy for the development of the necessary legal, nstitutional, and delegation frameworks for effective management of the emerging oil and gas industry before production begins this year.
This was contain…
Road works carried out under the Feeder Roads Improvement programme (FRIP) in seven districts in the Eastern Region were on Thursday handed over at a ceremony at Miaso in the Fanteakwa
District.
The roads covering a total of 648.1 …
Mrs Justice Mariama Owusu, an Appeal Court Judge,
has appealed to personnel of the Judicial Service to reaffirm their corporate commitment towards upholding the tenets of the constitution, rule of law and administration of justice.
…
The Public Affairs Unit of the Eastern Regional Police Command has appealed to the public to help identify the family of a dead man found floating on river Beyera near New Tafo on April 23, this year.
The deceased, who was found nak…
The Madina 'Point 5' Residents Association has appealed to the Ga East Municipal Assembly to provide the community with potable water, toilet facilities, electricity and other social amenities to improve upon the living standards of the p…
Dr. Sekou Nkrumah, National Coordinator of National Youth Council (NYC), on Friday said the National Youth Policy, which had been on the drawing board for years, would be launched later this year.
Addressing the opening session of th…
The Central Regional Minister, Mrs. Ama Benyiwa-Doe, on Friday called on all citizens and residents of Cape Coast to collectively contribute their quota to make the celebration of this year's Fetu Afahye Festival special.
The Ministe…
CARE International Ghana, a Non Governmental Organisation based in Tamale, has provided support for 26 communities in the Lawra District to develop Community Action Plans (CAPs).
The CAPs, which contain the visions and development ne…
Mr Henry Ametefe, Volta Regional Co-ordinator of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), gave the assurance that government would continue to support disaster victims through the
organisation.
He, however, appealed to…
Security services, workers of Zoomlion Ghana Limited and individuals in Ho on Saturday engaged in a three-hour clean-up in preparedness for any flood.
They cleared weeds, desilted gutters and re-charted waterways mainly at flood pron…
The Centre for National Culture (CNC) in Kumasi
came to life as Asanteman gathered for a spectacular cultural performance, to mark the 60th birthday of the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.
Various traditional dances including "Akos…
The acquisition of a grader by the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District Assembly last year has made it possible for the assembly to construct nine access roads and rehabilitated seven others.
The new roads are Hasowodze-Ba Ndaam, Abowinmu S…
A group of young people at Adidome in the North Tongu District, at the weekend marked this year's May Day with a clean-up exercise at the North Tongu District Hospital at Adidome.
The youth cleared the weeds, and cleaned in and aroun…
An Akim Swedru Circuit Court in the Birim South District, on Friday sentenced an 18-year-old unemployed, Ebenezer Boadi, to 18 months imprisonment for stealing two foldable iron chairs valued at GH¢80.00.
He pleaded guilty to the cha…
The Akim Swedru Circuit Court in the Birim South District has imposed a fine of GH¢200.00 on Kofi Kyei Baffour, a farmer, for biting the back of another farmer in the course of a scuffle.
Baffour would serve a five-month prison term …
Police Lance Corporal Mathew Nde Appiah, 32,
stationed in Tamale, on Friday morning shot and wounded his wife, Dorcas, with an AK47 assault rifle, accusing her of infidelity.
The woman is reported to be in critical condition at the T…
Four passengers travelling on a bus were killed on the spot and another died later at the hospital when the bus veered off the road, crashed into an electricity pole and somersaulted at Adansi, near
Breku, in the Asante-Akim South Distri…
Dr Martin Amoah, Head of the Department of Design and Technology, Kumasi Campus of University of Education, Winneba, has appealed to corporate bodies and philanthropists to be more supportive of skills training programmes for the nation's …