The Kade District Magistrate's court has remanded in prison custody Yaw Ebenezer, unemployed, charged with stealing 10 gallons of palm oil with three others who are at large.
Ebenezer pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy to s…
The Nyinahin Magistrate Court has ordered a 16-year old apprentice electrician accused of indecent assault to be held in police custody.
Kofi Mensah has denied the charge of defiling a nine-year old pupil.
The Court presided …
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo has called on the district assembly desk officers of the School Feeding Programme, to avoid inflating figures of children benefiting from the project in their districts with the intensi…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, has warned District Assembly Desk Officers of the School Feeding Programme to avoid inflating numbers of beneficiary children.
He said they should desist from such acts because even…
The Saint Bernadette Soubirous School on Friday presented a GH¢5,000 cheque to the Ghana Eye Foundation (GEF) to climax its 30th Anniversary celebrations.
Mrs Mary Aquiline Cato, Headmistress of the School said the presentation was in…
The weather will be cloudy and misty over southern Ghana early in the morning but clearing off by mid-morning to a windy and sunny afternoon.
The weather forecast issued by the Ghana Meteorological Agency said forest, hilly and coasta…
Hamidu Amadu, a herdsman, was on Friday convicted to a fine of GHC 720 by the Kade District Magistrate Court for stealing a bull valued at GHC 500.
In default Amadu who pleaded guilty would go to jail for 18 months in hard labour.
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In a re-union, a 15-year old girl from the Indian state of Rajasthan, who was found alone in a train last month at Central Railway Station in the
southern metropolis, was united with her father after police tracking his where about.
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The Ghana Highway Authority Divisional Union of the Building Materials Workers Union (BMWU) has called on the Ministry of Roads and Highways to revamp its mobile maintenance units by providing tools to ensure safe, reliable and quality mai…
Dr. Thomas Akabzaa, Senior Lecturer at the Earth Science Department of the University of Ghana, has called on government to immediately develop a national mineral policy, spelling out the country's expectations of her mineral wealth.
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The Afram Plains Development Organisation (APDO),an NGO dedicated to poverty reduction in the country, on Thursday sensitized key stakeholders in the water sector on the appropriate point of use (POU)water treatment in the country.
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India and Pakistan have realised that only they can resolve the differences between them and United States will encourage the two nations to do so, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.
"I think both countries realise there …
The Wa Municipality recorded 98 fire disasters last year but no death with damage caused to property valued at about two million Ghana cedis.
Domestic fires topped the fire outbreaks during the year accounting for 35 cases while bush…
The Rural Enterprises Project, a poverty alleviation project that targets the vulnerable but entrepreneurial poor, has provided tools to 28 graduate apprentices at Nadowli.
The tools are to enable the apprentices to establish viable…
An 18-year-old cattle herdsman was on Thursday arraigned before the Tema Circuit Court 'A' for defiling a six-year-old girl.
James Tei pleaded not guilty to the charge and has been remanded into prison custody to re-appear on March…
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) on Friday rallied to the aid of Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School (OKESS), pulling down illegal structures built on the school's land at Old-Tafo.
About two-thirds of the school's land had virtually…
National Service Persons have been urged to be sacrificial and diligent in the execution of their duties.
The Upper East Regional Director of the National Service Secretariat, (NSS) Mr. George Naawinyelle, made the call in a speech re…
An all-purpose Centre of Technology would be put up for the Women's Training Institute of the Department of Community Development in Ho.
The Centre is to transform skills training in the school into a more functional and job market …
Mr Mohammed Ali, Presiding Member of the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA), on Saturday launched a Muslim Endowment Fund known as WAQF Foundation at Takoradi, He said with proper management, the Foundation would achieve a lot i…
Colonel Anthony Asare, acting General Officer Commanding (GOC) the Northern Command, has pledged the Military's commitment to work together with the police and other security Agencies to rein in violent and organized crime in the country.
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Some heads of Senior High Schools in the Volta Region on Saturday called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) and government to institutionalize regular refresher managerial courses for
heads of SHSs to ensure good management practices a…
The Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Alhaji (Dr) Asomah Abu Bandah, has announced the introduction of a new Executive Educational Management Masters degree programme at the University.
The programme will be he…
The 'Pongala' festival,recorded as the largest religious gathering of women in a single day by the Guinness world records, is expected to draw
more than 3 million women at the Aattukal Bhagavathi temple here on Saturday.
'Last year…
Britain's leading Non-Resident Indian (NRI) hotelier Joginder Sangar has been presented the
Community Award in recognition of his outstanding
philanthropic work in the UK.
At a ceremony held in the House of Commons, Rev Jesse Jackso…
Three persons including an author of a book, allegedly containing anti-Islamic material,were arrested in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh in south India, police said Friday.
The book, 'Crescent over the World' a compilation of artic…
India is sending a special aircraft to Afghanistan to bring back the bodies of its nationals including army officials, who died in suicide attacks in Kabul Friday.
A team of army officers and officials from the
Ministry of External A…
A missing male computer engineer working at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research(IGCAR) at
Kalpakkam near the southern metropolis was found dead near a railway track, police said Friday.
The body of 37-year old S Ananthanarayanan…
The Supreme Court Friday sought an explanation from the Andhra Pradesh government in south India as to why it had deployed the elite anti-Naxalite
force 'Greyhounds' to quell the students' unrest in Osmania university, the hotbed of Telan…
Mrs Olivia Afi Sosu, former Volta Regional Director of Education now retired,on Friday received an Opel Astra car from the Regional Directorate in appreciation of her contribution to the development of education in the region.
Mrs So…
Mr Albert Kan Dapaah, Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has been unanimously elected as the Chairman of the West
Africa Association of Public Accounts Committee (WAAPAC).
A press release issued in Accra, …
Royal House Chapel International on Thursday donated detergents,food and drinks to the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons.
This formed part of the 50th birthday celebration of the General Overseer of the church, Bishop Samuel Korankye- A…
Over 50 retrenched workers of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL)in the Volta region seemed to have missed out on a tools package, as part of
the company's retraining and resettlement programme for affected workers.
Only 43, out …
Grameen Foundation, an NGO in healthcare services, is pioneering a concept of using mobile phones to monitor the condition of pregnant women and babies.
Ms Kirsten Gagnaire, Project Manager in an address at the fourth anniversary cel…
A storm that started as a whirlwind on Thursday swept through the Zongo section of Wa and destroyed several buildings.
The freaky storm that lasted for about five minutes ripped off the roofs of five compound
houses, a mosque, elect…
Dr. Alexis Nang-beifubah, the Upper West Regional
Director of Health Services, has appealed to all doctors and nurses from the region to clear their conscience and come back home to help save the lives of their own people.
He said t…
The Ministry of Tourism was presented with posters,which portrayed Ghana's intangible cultural heritage in Accra on Friday.
The Ministry by United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Office for the West A…
President John Atta Mills on Friday morning availed himself of the current National Identification exercise being conducted nation wide.
The President presented himself for the registration process at the Osu Castle Gardens in Accra.…
A private school proprietor has appealed to the government to give some support to the private schools to enable them to run smoothly.
Madam Emelia Kusi, Chairperson of the Kwabre District branch of the Ghana National Association…
Residents of Old Ningo in the Dangme West District have expressed concern about the acute water shortage facing them over the past six months and appealed for assistance.
They said at a forum that construction of boreholes by DANIDA …
The Committee tasked to investigate the recent fire outbreak that claimed the lives of two employees and damaged a loading gantry at the Tema Oil Refinery has recommended that the driver and mate of the loading vehicle at time of the accid…
A philanthropist, Mr Peter Hammond, has built two classrooms and painted the old block of the Elmina Catholic Boys Junior High School (JHS) at the cost of GH¢30,000.00.
Mr Hammond said at an inauguration ceremony that he decided to u…
Four persons who stood sureties for a woman suspected to have defrauded someone by false pretences were on Friday granted GHC 8,000 bail with two sureties each by the Kade District Magistrate Court.
They are Ernestina Ntiamoah, Adu K…
The Kade District Magistrate's court has remanded in prison custody Yaw Ebenezer, unemployed, charged with stealing 10 gallons of palm oil with three others who are at large.
Ebenezer pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy to s…
The Afram Plains Development Organisation (APDO), a non-governmental organisation dedicated to poverty reduction, has sensitized some key stakeholders in the water sector on the appropriate point of use (POU) treatment in the country.
…
The Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis is experiencing water rationing as a result of the drying up of River Pra and River Anakwa that supplied water to the treatment plants at Daboase and Inchaban.
Mr. Mark Teiko Cudjoe, Production Manage…
The Police administration has charged personnel of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to elicit information leading to apprehension of individuals regarding fire outbreaks and bomb threats in the country.
Mr. Paul Tawiah Qu…
Sheikh Dr Amin Bonsu, Chief Executive of the Amen Scientific Herbal Hospital, has called on Ghanaians to observe environmental cleanliness, which he said was one of the safest ways of remaining healthy at all times.
This he said woul…
Mr Alex Tettey-Enyo, Minister of Education on Friday announced that the Ministry is developing a programme for the phasing out of the school shift system.
He said the sector has noted with concern the negative effect of the shift sys…
Mrs. Betty Mould-Iddrisu, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, on Friday pledged to ensure that justice becomes accessible to all the citizenry irrespective of their status in the society.
She said the provision of efficient an…
Mrs Abena Fredua-Okyere, Co-ordinator of Dreams and Team Club and Headmistress of the Rosharon Montessori School in Tema, has taken a swipe at irresponsible parenting, which has crept into the society.
She stressed that the practice …