The National President of the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS), Mr Godwin Sowah, has urged politicians not to jeopardise the future children by playing politics with education.
He said the changes in the duration…
Professor Ohene Adjei, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), has urged church leaders to join in efforts at helping Ghanaians to adopt healthy lifestyles.
Effective health care delivery, he sa…
The Volta Regional Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES) is to make its Regional Best Teacher Award a regular feature.
"This is expected to send out a strong signal to the entire staff of GES in the region that we are dete…
Nana George Kofi Dadzie, a member of the Council of State has bemoaned the upsurge of drug abuse in the country's second cycle institutions.
"Almost all the second cycle schools in the country are bedevilled with the drug abuse menac…
Dr Mustapha Ahmed, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayawaso East in Accra, has advised Muslim youth to shun acts of indiscipline and channel their energies into productive ventures.
He said they should do away with violence, vandalism…
The Court of Appeal (CA) will on Thursday, March 18, decide whether or not to set aside the decision of an Accra Fast Track High Court which disqualified the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Adamu Daramani.
The High Court on J…
Dr. Benjamin Kunbuor, Minister of Health has warned heads of health training institutions to desist from the excessive use of school buses as means of transport for funerals.
He said the practice was bad and should no longer be tolera…
The Kotokoli Community in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality has elected Mallam Adama Jibril, a businessman, as its new head at a ceremony at Ejisu.
Malam Jibril, 56, succeeded Alhaji Adam Yahaya who died last month.
Baba Abubak…
A three-day workshop on practical industrial training in polytechnic education for industrial liaison officers on Monday opened at the Takoradi Polytechnic.
Speaking on "The Role of the Industrial Liaison Office in Polytechnic Educat…
A 26-member paralegal association has been inaugurated at Mamponteng in the Kwabre District, with a call on the members to promote and safeguard the rights and freedoms of women and children.
Ms Eudora Oppong, Ashanti Regional Adm…
The Management of Metro Mass Transit Ltd (MMT) on Monday commenced a standardised charging luggage fare in all 16 depots nationwide.
A statement signed by Mr Henk Visschers, Managing Director of MMT, said it had become necessary for …
The Business Studies Centre (BSC) of the National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI), has appealed to the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) to help develop a 10-acre land at Asuoyeboa to relocate the Centre.
This has become neces…
The only National Assessment and Resource Centre for Children with Disabilities and Special Educational Needs has been left to rot due to lack of funds.
The dilapidated wooden structure situated at Achimota a suburb of Accra leaks ba…
An Opel Astra Saloon car, belonging to Mr Victor Francis Darbah, a lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba which was snatched from his driver in Accra last year, has been retrieved by the Winneba Police.
Briefing the Ghana Ne…
A 42-year-old driver has been remanded into prison custody by a Kumasi Circuit Court for defiling an 11-year-old primary six pupil.
Kwabena Manu denied the offence and would re-appear on Wednesday, March 3, 2010.
Police Chief Inspector…
The Right Reverend Francis Amenu, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC), Ghana, has called on Ghanaians to pursue good values.
He said values such as discipline, equity, integrity, fidelity, …
The Ashanti Regional Fire Officer, Philip Arhin Mensah, has urged Liquefied Gas Petroleum (LPG) dealers and hoteliers to put in place adequate safety measures at their workplaces to prevent disasters.
They should ensure that they use…
Nana George Kofi Dadzie, a member of the Council of State, has called on individuals and organisations to support government in the fight against drug abuse, especially wee smoking among the youth.
He said government's efforts to pro…
The only National Assessment and Resource Centre for Children with Disabilities and Special Educational Needs has been left to rot due to lack of funds.
The dilapidated wooden structure situated at Achimota a suburb of Accra leaks ba…
Clothes were dyed with myriad hues as hugs and embraces were exchanged in lanes and bylanes to mark Holi, the festival of colours, which was celebrated with gusto and bonhomie in many parts of India.
People across the country celebr…
The ever vibrant Techiman, on Saturday, stood still as its chiefs and people marked the final funeral rites of Osabarima Dotobibi Takyia Ameyaw II, their once beloved paramount chief.
Nana Ameyaw II, aged 57, reigned for 14 years (19…
Forty-one persons including 18 young women were arrested for indulging in an 'indecent' dance at a resort on the outskirts of the city in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, police said today.
The women, in the age group of 1…
The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has confirmed receipt of a copy of the approval letter by the Ministry of Finance authorizing the payment of all outstanding arrears that government owes its members.
It, however…
Workers of the Meridian Port Services at the Tema Port, on Monday embarked on a sit-down strike, to back their demand for better working conditions.
The workers, who carried placards and chanted war songs at the premises of the compa…
Reverend Alexuis Hubamoulda Jehu-Appiah, Founder of Alexuis Opportunity Foundation (ALOT), an integrated community-based tuberculosis programme, has called for intensive public education against the stigmatisation of tuberculosis (TB) pati…
In a fresh incident of violence against Asians in Australia, a Sri Lankan man and his Indian wife were attacked and racially abused by a group of drunken men at their home here.
A group of 25 drunken thugs bashed up 60-year-old Ranjit…
Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen Tuesday said the appearance of an article in a Karnataka newspaper purportedly written by her, which triggered violent protests in Shimoga and Hassan towns, is a "deliberate attempt to malign" her …
Oil-rich Kuwait, a prime destination for Indian job seekers in the lucrative Gulf, may end recruitment of foreigners in an effort to boost local employment, a media report has said.
According to Arabic daily Al Jareeda, Kuwait has bee…
Forty-five brass stools paired with stainless steel 'thalis' created by contemporary Indian artist Subodh Gupta have filled an entire room at a museum here.
Gupta's striking work 'School' is on till March 27 at the Hauser & Wirth muse…
Seizures of heroin made in various parts of India in the recent past indicate that most of the drug transiting through the country is bound for Europe, a US report has said.
"Most heroin transiting India appeared bound for Europe.
…
The capital city of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Chennai, will soon have a huge high-tech library modeled after the Singapore library.
The state government is preparing to open Anna Centenary library by June this year wi…
Flashing of news on television channels about the kidnapping of a student prompted the abductors to release him, whom they had forcibly taken away from a town in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh.
K Ramu, a third semester student…
A two-day church festival which concluded on the tiny islet of Katchatheevu, in the Palkstrait off India's Rameswaram coast, on Sunday became an occasion for meeting of devotees from India and Sri Lanka.
The feast of St Antony's chu…
Two persons were killed,including one in police firing, and four others injured on Monday in violence during protests by Muslims over publication of an article penned by controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen in a vernacular dail…
Two Sikhs, abducted by Taliban,have been rescued by security forces in the restive Khybertribal region in northwest Pakistan, a week after two members of the community were beheaded by the militants, a military spokesman said on Monday.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,renowned economist and architect of India's economic reforms,was Monday conferred an honorary doctorate by Saudi Arabia's prestigious King Saud University.
Accepting the honour, the Prime Minister recal…
Professor Ohene Adjei, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), has urged church leaders to join in efforts at helping Ghanaians to adopt healthy lifestyles.
Effective health care delivery, he s…
Scientists have detected more than 40 ice-filled craters in the moon's North Pole using data from a NASA radar that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-I.
NASA's Mini-SAR instrument, lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, found more tha…
The Committee for Joint Action (CJA) on Tuesday called for the abrogation of the agreement under which 60 per cent of the PSC Tema Shipyard was divested to a Malaysian company.
A statement signed by Mr Kwasi Adu, Convener of CJA, sai…
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has launched a new project dubbed "Global Futures for Agriculture" to improve agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability in
developing countries.
The project,…
Job Adu Siaw, a driver whose reckless driving led to the death of three pupils and injuries to five other people, was on Tuesday sentenced to a fine of GHC 1,080 by the Asamankese Circuit Court.
Siaw pleaded guilty with explanation t…
The largest fresh water body Sasthamcotta Lake in Kerala is dying, warns environment enthusiasts and earth scientists.
Arid sand beds of the lake have been exposed in many areas. At certain spots, water level has shrunk to 250 to 30…
The Volta River Authority (VRA) on Tuesday launched commemorative stamps to mark the centenary celebrations of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first President.
The stamps, which were printed and issued by Ghana Post on behalf of …
Tema Circuit Court 'A' on Tuesday remanded into prison custody, a 40-year-old man for possessing a bottle of local gin mixed with dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.
Samuel Zahson, who pleaded not guilty to the charge of possessing…
A 55-year-old transport owner who swindled a woman of GH¢100,000 under the pretext of selling to her a house at East Legon in Accra, was on Tuesday sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court.
Prosper Akabuto aka Mr.…
Samuel Zahson, a forty- year old mason, on Tuesday appeared before the Tema Circuit Court 'A' for assaulting his wife.
He pleaded not guilty to the charge, and was remanded into police custody to re-appear on March 16.
The cour…
The Shama District Assembly (SDA) has taken stringent measures to check the falling standards of education in the area, evidenced by the poor performance at the basic education certificate examination (BECE).
The BECE results for las…
Fire outbreaks in the Tema Metropolis increased from 239 in 2008 to 250 last year, Mr Gilford Adams, Tema Regional Fire Officer, told the GNA in an interview.
He attributed the increase to poor handling of naked lights by residents co…
The Forestry Commission (FC) is to update or develop and document new forest reserve management plans for all forest reserves in the country.
Twenty forest reserves have therefore been selected as pilot areas of which four are in the…
A farmer accused of defiling an 11-year-old girl pleaded guilty but with explanation when he was arraigned before the Asamankese Circuit Court on Tuesday.
The explanation by James Birikorang was that the girl willingly agreed to have…