An exhibition on Venezuelan-Russian leadingtechnology opened on Monday near Caracas, featuring advanced technology programsdeveloped in Venezuela and about 5,700 Russian scientific projects.
"We are sure that the cooperation between …
Nigeria has accused industrial countries of foot
dragging in the efforts to reduce carbon emission levels, the News Agency of Nigeria reported on Monday.
It expressed the fear that African nations would not be in position to achieve…
Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed on Monday called on vulnerable countries participating in a two-day climate change summit to commit to going carbon neutral.
Since coming to power last year, Nasheed has fast become the moral voice…
Hurricane Ida weakened to a tropical storm on Monday morning as it is approaching the U.S. Gulf Coast, where it is expected to land in the next 24 hours, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
Ida's top winds fell to 110 kph, the M…
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said
on Monday that his country is ready to build a proposal along with other countries to reduce gas emissions that cause the greenhouse effect.
In his weekly radio program "Breakfast w…
Mrs. Augusta Okantey, Volta Regional Statistician,
on Monday gave the assurance that data to be collected through the 2010 Population and
Housing Census would not be for tax purposes.
She said the information would be critical r…
Professor Clifford Nii Boi Tagoe, Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, said the educational institution's aim of enrolling more students in the Science than the humanities might become a mirage.
He observed that challenges such…
Farmers at Kpongu in the Wa Municipality have held a field day to familiarize themselves with a new drought and weed resistant maize variety, which they intend to adoption for increased food security and incomes.
The new maize variet…
Students of the University of Hong Kong, China, will establish a computer laboratory for Hain community in the Jirapa District next year.
The students are expected to initially provide 10 computers and help the people to mobilise res…
World Vision Ghana with support from its counterpart in the US, has donated relief items worth GH¢ 13, 000 to Saboba District
Assembly for distribution to 500 floods victims in the area.
The items, which include; large quantity of …
The clergy, evangelists and all those who have rained in bible studies, have been urged not to rest on their oars, but make efforts to bring positive change in the lives of people around them.
Reverend Howard Gard, a missionary of th…
Farmers in the Wa East District are afraid of an eminent crop failure, due to this year's torrential rains in the area.
The rains have affected the cultivation of guinea corn, a major staple crop in the district, which often matures …
Vice-President John Dramani Mahama has called on the Ghana Medical Association(GMA)to re-strategise and develop new initiatives to overcome the challenges facing the health sector in the
country.
He said the challenges that confron…
Mr Eric Osei-Bonsu, Managing Director of ARB Apex
Bank Limited, cautioned managers of Rural and Community Banks (RCBs) of activities of fraudsters who were duping banks nationwide.
He said the fraudsters deceptively generated cred…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama, at the weekend said that government was focused and has mapped out strategies to transform the country's economy to ensure qualitative improvement in the standards of living of the people.
He debun…
The Fountain Gate Church, has issued a communiqué on peace and development to the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council (RCC).
The statement which was received by the Deputy Regional Minister, Mrs Lucy Awuni at
Bolgatanga at the …
The Fountain Gate Church, at the weekend
inaugurated a new Junior High School it has built in the Bolgatanga Municipality in the Upper
East Region at the cost of 443,238.98 Ghana cedis.The school complex, called Fountain Gate Internatio…
Drivers in the country, especially those operating commercial vehicles, have been asked to abide by driving and traffic regulations to prevent motor accidents.
Mr Alando A. Sidik, General Secretary of the Ghana Private Road Transport…
Community members have been asked to contribute inputs to district assemblies for the preparation of budgets.
The Budget Analyst of the Bongo District Assembly in the Upper East Region, Mr. Damma Mumuni made the call at a budget forum…
The Kasoa District Police Command has put in measures to help curb the rising incidence of robbery and other crimes in the area.
As part of the measures anyone in possession of a gun or any ammunition has to notify the police especiall…
District Directors of Education from 14 selected districts in the Northern Region, have committed themselves to improve the falling standard of education in the area.
They have therefore laid down plans to be executed every year to r…
Mr. Alex Tettey-Enyo, Minister of Education, has noted that the development of the youth as future leaders is very crucial, in the current fast and increasingly complex world in order to keep pace with new trends.
He said Ghana as a …
When Ramzi entered the 15th year of his life, he accepted his father's request to quit school and start making money to help his family make ends meet.
Yet, little did Ramzi know then that the career his father chose for him was begg…
The Kasoa Police has urged the public to look out and arrest the driver of a KIA Cargo Truck with registration number GW 2160 W, which was stolen from the Kasoa Police station, a few days ago.
This was in wireless message,issued by th…
Police of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have taken control of the town of Dongo in Equateur province, where a clash between two tribes killed dozens of officers coming to
intervene last month, the authorities announced on Sunday…
A strange rainstorm on Saturday ripped-off roofs of six commercial stores in the Hohoe Township, opposite the Coca Cola Depot, destroying items worth thousands of cedis.
The storm, which lasted for about twenty minutes, destroyed it…
Good posture may promote self-assurance and inspire confidence, a new study suggests.
"Most of us were taught that sitting up straight gives a good impression to other people," Richard Petty, co-author of the study and a
psychology…
U.S. researchers have developed new tools that can help scientists visualize how bacteria talk to one another. By using natural product MALDI-TOF (Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption
Ionization-Time of Flight) imaging mass spectrometry, res…
Floods and heavy rain in Eastern and Southeastern Mexico had caused at least 90 oil and natural gas wells to stop working, Mexican authorities reported Sunday.
Fernando Flores, manager of the Integral Asset of state-run oil company Petro…
Sri Lankan weather experts asked the public on Sunday to take precautionary action to minimize the impact of possible lightning attacks during the prevailing inter monsoon season of the country. Head of the Physics Department of the Colomb…
The Asia-Pacific region has become the largest victim of climate change as roughly 70 percent of the natural disasters, believed to be caused by global warming, struck this region, a regional forum report said Sunday.
Climate change is b…
A team of youth is heading to Mt. Qomolangma (also known as Mt. Everest) base camp this week to collect signatures for a petition demanding immediate action on climate change impacts, local media reported Sunday.
Nepalese Youth for Clima…
Mrs. Cate Bob Milliar, the Upper West Regional Director of the Department of Women, has expressed worry about the non involvement of women in peace building and conflict management in northern
Ghana She said though Ghana, in response to …
Seventeen facilitators who handled adult literacy classes in the Kwaebibirem District, have been rewarded for their voluntary work.
They were each presented with a packet of roofing sheets each. Ten of the facilitators handled 228 le…
Management of the Customs Excise and Preventive Services (CEPS), has been asked to build the capacity of its staff for the proper running of the Service.
Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, who made the call, also urge…
Soil scientists have warned of worsening food
insecurity in the next decades unless pragmatic measures were adopted to enhance soil productivity by minimising the effects of changing weather patterns.
Quoting from the Intergovernme…
Mrs Gladys Amaning, Kumasi Metropolitan Director of Education, has asked Ghanaians to support government's efforts at promoting science and technology education.
This, she said, is because science and technology has always been the basis…
Pupils of the Ridge Basic School in Kumasi, have
donated items and a cheque for GH¢500.00 to the inmates of the Garden City Special School for the
mentally retarded.
The items included clothing, shoes, detergents, rice, biscuits a…
Dr George Oduro, Chairman of Takoradi Polytechnic Council on Friday asked the Students Representative Council and other bodies on campus to use dialogue as a tool to address all internal
conflicts.
He said the local unionised worke…
Mr Paul Tawiah Quaye, the Inspector General of Police, was on Saturday a centre of admiral attention as he was awarded Executive Masters in Business Administration with Human Resource Management option, at a congregation held at Legon by t…
The Executive Secretary of the National Council for Tertiary Education, Mr Paul Effah has assured the country's tertiary institutions that government will deliver on its mandate of producing skilled manpower for the nation's growth.
He s…
Mrs Nancy Thompson, Headmistress of the Ebenezer
Senior High School at Dansoman, has called on student associations in the country to contribute
meaningfully to the development of their former schools.
She said the role of former …
President John Fiifi Atta Mills has vowed to ensure that the security agencies are adequately equipped to sustain the fight to significantly bring down armed robbery in the country.
He said there is no way the Government would allow misc…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Saturday gave the assurance that government will "share the limited funds judiciously" to ensure the delivery of quality tertiary education despite current economic pressures, to achieve its vision of a …
President John Evans Atta Mills, on Saturday announced government's intention to establish a public University of Energy and Natural Resources in the Brong-Ahafo Region, to fulfil a pledge in the manifesto of the National Democratic Congre…
Sita Khanal, a 10-year-old girl orphaned by war and deserted by her mother, is not deserted by the society. An orphan's home has taken over the task of bringing her up.
Sita became parentless at the age of four when her father Rajend…
Dressed in black school uniform and on way to school together with a dozen classmates, Farida voiced her hope to serve her war-torn motherland.
"Afghanistan has suffered tremendously from war over the past three decades. Her wounds n…
The British's decision to ban a Malaysian palm oil advertisement has drawn attention from Malaysian officials, local media reported here on Friday.
Malaysian Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Jacob Sagan was quoted as re…
Fort Hood Army Base in the U.S. state of Texas
reopened Thursday evening, several hours after a shooting attack left 12 people dead and 31
wounded, the U.S. department of defense said.
U.S. President Barack Obama lamented the "horr…
The Eastern Regional Population Officer, Mr Kofi Abinah, has called on the government to increase resources for the promotion of reproductive health as a means of helping to protect women and vulnerable children against the negative effect…