The Director of the Geological Survey Department (GSD), Mr John Agyei Duodu, on Monday urged the national security operatives to investigate the rumours of Sunday's night's earthquake that sent panic across the country.
He said they …
Bishop Tackie Yarboi, Presiding Bishop of the Victory Bible Church, has called on Ghanaians to demonstrate a high level of commitment to fight acts, which hinder national development.
He said bribery, corruption, dehumanisation, th…
Mr. Alex Kyeremeh, Municipal Chief Executive for Techiman, has said government and its donor partners have released GHC 11,000 to the assembly for construction of urban roads in the area.
He said the assembly had planned to sink 79 b…
An Accra Circuit Court on Monday ordered a legal practitioner who stood surety for Dr Michael Bandele Adekunle released on police enquiry bail by the Kotobabi Police to forfeit the GH¢50,000 bail bond to the state.
In addition, the c…
The chiefs and people of the Osudoku Traditional Area have ended their Ritual Blemele Hebrew Prayer festival with a call on Ghanaians to hold people in authority and religious leaders accountable in order to salvage the country from negati…
The United Nations has so far extended food assistance to 60,000 people in the capital of Haiti, which was struck by a catastrophic earthquake last week, with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expected to touch down in the capital Port-au-P…
Suspected militants Monday blew up a government school in northwest Pakistan's tribal region in a latest of series of attacks on educational institutions, officials said.
The militants had planted explosives around the school buildin…
Somali pirates have released a Greek-flagged tanker they had seized earlier, the Greek Coast Guard said on Monday.
All 28 crew members of the vessel Maran Centaurus, including nine Greeks, 16 Filipinos, two Ukrainians and a Romanian,…
South Korea is joining the global wave of helping earthquake-hit Haiti, with the government, conglomerates and citizens mustering up support for the small Caribbean country.
Haiti lies in ruins after the 7.3-magnitude earthquake rip…
The Fijian government will allocate 6 million Fijian dollars (3.1 million U.S. dollars) from its 2010 Budget toward flood protection works to reduce flood damages of agricultural crops, buildings, towns and villages.
Major projects t…
Canada will host a conference of foreign ministers from donor countries later this month to discuss reconstruction efforts in Haiti after the earthquake there, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon announced here Sunday.
The meeting, whic…
At least 53 people were injured on Sunday, five of them with open fractures, when a pavilion collapsed at a hotel in Cancun, a resort on Mexico's Caribbean coast.
The injured people were part of a group of 80 that had been posing fo…
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived on Sunday in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Caribbean nation Haiti, which was destroyed by a Tuesday quake that registered 7.3 on the Richter scale.
Ban came to see first hand…
The Western Regional Office of the Forestry Commission has launched an operation to stop the destruction of forest reserves through illegal farming and timber felling.
The exercise code-named "Operation Halt" would involve the survei…
Fear stricken residents in Cape Coast and Elmina, poured out onto the streets in the early hours of Monday, after receiving calls from relatives and friends to stay off their homes because of an impending earthquake.
Some residents c…
Johnson Kombia, alias "Boga", who escaped from prison custody in Tamale at about 0400 hours last Friday, has called the cell phone of the Upper East Regional Police Commander and threatened to kill him.
This threat has heightened fe…
The management, staff and pupils of Martin Luther King Junior Schools in Tema and Ashaiman have proposed that Martin Luther King's Day be celebrated annually in Ghana.
Every third Monday in January of each year has been set aside i…
The death is reported of Naa Morkor Busia, widow of former Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia.
A statement from the family of Mrs Busia, 85, said she passed away on Sunday, January 17.
It described her as "daughter, wife, mother,…
Newmont Ghana said on Monday that it has finalised plans to compensate victims of the Solution Overflow accident on October 8, 2009, and prevent any future occurrence.
This follows a notification received from the Ministry of Enviro…
A professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil, Prof. Luis Nicolau Pares, has said it was important for Africans to know much about themselves and assist each other to appreciate the importance of their origin, re…
Emmanuel Boadu, a driver, was on Tuesday granted a GHC 1,000.00 bail with one surety when he was arraigned before the Asamankese Circuit Court charged with traffic offences.
Boadu pleaded guilty with explanation to careless driving w…
Big Step Foundation, a non-governmental organization, on Tuesday donated 55 computers, two printers and four industrial sterilizers worth GHC 35,000 to the Akoase community for the establishment of an Information Communication Technology C…
The Kade District Magistrate's court has granted GHC 600 bail to a woman who allegedly insulted another woman at an Akpeteshie bar where she had gone to buy the drink but was told there was none.
Abena Afrakoma pleaded guilty with ex…
A Minister of religion has urged Ghanaians irrespective of their differences in religion, culture and political affiliation to strive for peace and justice in the country.
Venerable John K. Mensah, the Archdeacon of the Kumawu Archde…
he East Akim Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Simon Peter Asirifi, on Tuesday presented three bundles of roofing sheets towards the roofing of the Apedwa Catholic Junior High School new block.
Presenting the items Mr Asirifi advised the man…
Atlas Copco, an international giant in the business of selling and servicing construction and mining equipment, has built a two-classroom block and rehabilitated additional two classrooms for the Obuasi-Anyinam Methodist Kindergarten Schoo…
One person was reported to have died and another injured when fire broke out at the Loading Rag area of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) on Tuesday.
The injured person is in critical condition and has been taken to the Korle-Bu Teaching Ho…
Three local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which misapplied funds provided by the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) for HIV/AIDS activities, had been made to refund the amount involved.
They are Tajaaf Foundation of New Juaben Muni…
Some commuters in the Kumasi Metropolis have appealed to the government to act with urgency to assist private commercial transport owners to acquire high occupancy buses for their operations and bring to an end the transportation crisis in…
A one-day workshop on worst forms of child labour in cocoa growing areas has ended at Duayaw-Nkwanta in the Tano North District.
It was attended by 60 community child labour protection committee members drawn from 10 cocoa growing ar…
Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL) has apologised for the cyanide spillage at its Ahafo Mine Project and accepted to pay the GH¢ 7.0 million penalty the Ministerial Panel that evaluated the accident imposed on it.
The Panel said GH¢ 3…
A one day symposium on wild and bush fires as well as climate change has ended in Techiman with a call on stakeholders to help combat bushfires to protect the environment.
The symposium was jointly organised by the Techiman Municipal…
The Juaso Circuit Court presided over by Mr Justice S.K. Sarpong Appiah has sentenced a mason to six months imprisonment in hard labour for stealing two fowls Kwabena Nyarko, 48, pleaded guilty to the charge.
Police Detective Sergean…
The Juaso Circuit Court has remanded a 20-year-old photographer into prison custody for defiling a six-year-old girl.
Kwaku Emmanuel denied the offence and would re-appear on February 2.
Police Detective Inspector Adu Ofori tol…
Mr Samuel Kwasi Donkor Baffoe, Industrial Relations Officer, Union of Industry, Commerce and Finance (UNICOF) of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) in-charge of Ashanti and Brong-Ahafo regions, has called on employers to respect the rig…
Vietnam will auction one billion U.S. dollar government bonds on the international bond market this year, according to the state bank of Vietnam on Tuesday.
The bonds will be sold to foreign investors in China's Hong Kong, London, Bo…
Wild rumours of an imminent earthquake in Ghana on Sunday night sent tens of thousands of panic stricken Ghanaians into the streets and the open where many spent the night.
The panic was triggered on Sunday night, when rumour mongers, ta…
Few clouds are expected over southern Ghana with widespread mist or fog patches early Monday morning but would become warm and hazy in the afternoon with low chances of showers over the forest belt.
The Northern and Upper Regions wil…
There was widespread panic in the Ashanti Region at dawn on Monday following rumours that an earthquake was about to strike the country.
Mothers with babies strapped at their backs, the aged and able-bodied took refuge in school foo…
Residents of towns in the Brong-Ahafo Region poured into the streets in the early hours of Monday following rumours that there would be an earthquake in some parts of the country.
In Sunyani and the other towns, the Ghana News Agency…
Lack of maintenance of children and mothers, especially teenage mothers, has been identified to be the most prevalent and most worse form of human rights abuse in the Upper West Region.
Out of about 349 cases of human rights abuses t…
The District Director of Education of Talensi-Nabdam District, Mr. Francis Ayaaba, has expressed fears that ICT teaching in schools would be jeopardized if parents and School Management Committees (SMCs) are made to pay electricity bills.
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The mortal remains of Most Reverend Lucas Abadamloora, Bishop of the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocese of the Catholic Church, was on Saturday interred at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Bolgatanga, according to the traditions of the Church.
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The District Director of Education in charge of the Talensi-Nabdam District in the Upper East Region, Mr Francis Ayaaba has expressed fears that Government's intentions to make ICT Teaching in Schools would become a fiasco if parents an…
The U.S. government's railroad czar on Friday praised a comprehensive plan for high-speed passenger rail service in Midwest during a railroad conference in Chicago.
Joseph Szabo, who heads the Federal Railroad Administration, said th…
A Special General Meeting (SGM) of the National Scout Council of the Ghana Scout Association (GSA) scheduled for Saturday 16 January, to elect a Chief Scout Commissioner and his Deputy was called off at the last minute.
Just as the delega…
Three kinases, or proteins, may play a role in memory loss linked with Alzheimer's disease, a new study shows.
The three kinases were found to cause a malfunction in tau, a protein critical to the formation of the microtubule bridges…
Plant scientists at the University of York in the United Kingdom have published the first genetic map of the medicinal herb Artemisia annua. The map, published Friday in journal Science, is being used to accelerate plant breeding of Artemi…
The District Director of Education in charge of the Talensi-Nabdam District in the Upper East Region, Mr Francis
Ayaaba has expressed fears that Government's intentions to make ICT Teaching in Schools would become a fiasco if parents and …
Ghana captain Michael Essien has been taken to hospital after suffering a suspected knee injury in training at the African Nations Cup finals.
The Chelsea star, who was prevented from starting Friday's 3-1 defeat against Ivory Coast by a …