The National Media Commission (NMC) has asked the Board of Directors of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) to recall the Director-General, Mr William Ampem-Darko, to resume duty immediately.
A letter to the Board Chairman signed b…
A 29-year-old unemployed has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for defilement.
Yaw Addo, a married man, pleaded guilty to defiling a 12-year old school pupil.
Police Chief Inspecto…
Nestle Ghana Duchess Club, a women social group, has launched a malaria and nutrition in pregnancy outreach programme at Nyinase in Nkoranza South District of Brong Ahafo.
The programme aims at sensitizing the people about the dangers …
The local consumption and export of bush meat generates a total of $300 million dollars into the Ghanaian economy every year, an official of the Forestry Commission told the GNA in Accra.
Mr. Samuel Afari Dartey, Acting Chief Execut…
A coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGO) working to ensure that a global deal on climate change is reached, has petitioned oil rich Saudi Arabia to be proactive to facilitate the process.
The Abibiman Foundation, Green- Lif…
The weather will be cloudy in the morning over places and becoming hot and sunny with few clouds later in the day.
A 24-hour forecast by the Ghana Meteorological Agency on Friday said there would be isolated cases of thunderstorms or…
A Kumasi Circuit Court has remanded two persons for stealing three cell phones belonging to a scrap dealer.
Mohammed Zaribin, 19, unemployed, and Kwaku Hagan, 35, a scrap dealer, face additional charge of stealing cash of GH¢500 from Abdu…
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs, on Thursday lauded the increase in food production in the Northern parts of the country, particularly the production of rice.
The committee urged the Minister…
Eleven years after the ban on illegal chainsaw milling, the practice continues to be a major source of supply to domestic timber markets, thereby sustaining rural economies and livelihood.
Currently, 86,000 people are involved in cha…
The multi-million cedi state of the art regional hospital in Sunyani completed in 2000 but commenced operation in 2003 was on Friday commissioned by the Vice President John Dramani Mahama.
The 300 bed capacity hospital, constructed b…
Mr Baba Jamal, Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, on Friday reiterated Government's commitment to adequately equip all information officers with the necessary tools, skills and expertise to support the activities of the metropolitan, munici…
The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) and Volta River
Authority (VRA) have explained that the interruption of electricity supply to parts of
the country on Friday between 0700 and 0900 hours was as a result of the loss of two generating unit…
The Mauritanian government throws its weight behind an ongoing campaign against begging in a bid to improve human rights conditions.
Campaigners have set up four centers to take in people who had been reduced to begging in the capita…
The Winneba District Magistrate's Court on Friday jailed a 19 year-old self-styled student from Akim Oda, 24 months in hard labour for stealing 150 meters of telephone cables belonging to the Winneba branch of Vodafone Telephone Company.Sa…
U.S. unemployment rate rose by 0. 4 percentage points to 10.2 percent in October, the highest in more than 26 years, the Labor Department reported Friday.
In the past month, the employers cut 190,000 jobs, more than the 175,000 econo…
U.S. President Barack Obama Friday vowed that his government is working hard to create jobs and restore the economy.
"I will not rest until all Americans want work can find work," Obama said in the White House, hours after the unempl…
The Brazilian police announced on Friday that 12 people were arrested for drug traffic in the states of Parana and Santa Catarina, in he
country's southern region.
According to the police, the arrests took place earlier in the day i…
At least one was killed and several others wounded on Friday as a gunman shot in an office building in Orlando, Florida, said local TV reports.
According to TV WESH, the mass shooting took place on the eighth floor in a downtown Orla…
Death toll of illegal immigrants rose to six in a boat sinking off Aegean coast of Turkey, the semi- official Anatolia news agency reported Friday.
Two more bodies, one Afghan and one baby, were discovered off the Aegean coast in Bod…
Cambodian Phnom Penh Municipality Court on Friday sentenced a local freelancer for two years in jail for publishing disinformation.
"We sentenced Mr Ros Soket, 40, for two years in the jail over the action of publishing
disinformati…
Two sisters who committed various environmental
offences were on Friday committed to a total fine of GHC 120.00 by the Suhum Magistrate Court, presided over by Miss Kokuvie-Tay.
Hilda Ofeibea and Maa Abena who were arrested on benc…
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd lashed opposition climate change skeptics on Friday ahead of next month's Copenhagen summit.
In a lengthy address to Sydney's Lowy Institute on Friday, Rudd declared the skeptics to be gamblers wh…
British Chancellor Alistair Darling called for further cooperation in securing more balanced
global economic growth and combating climate change in the future here on Friday during the G20 Finance Minister and Central Bank Governor Meeti…
The tropical depression Ida left Nicaragua on Friday after causing disasters in many communities in the south Caribbean of the country, the Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies
(Ineter) said.
From hurricane category 1 at the…
The Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai District Assembly, has acquired 5,000 hectares of land towards the implementation of the Youth in Agriculture
Programme in the area.
ready, more than 1,000 youth have registered for the programme that aim…
Isaac Asare Bediako, unemployed, was on Friday put
before the Kade District Magistrate Court for allegedly killing his sister.
Bediako, whose plea was not taken, was on a provisional charge of murder and remanded in prison custody …
The Ghana Library Board (GLB) operates a pilot
mobile library in all the 10 regions to render services to people in communities that have no
access to library,Mr. Guy Amarteifio, Eastern Regional Director of GLB, said on Friday.
…
A magistrate's court at Kade, on Friday remanded
Kwaku Odame Amoah, a farmer, for attempting to murder his brother.
His plea was not taken and he would reappear at court on November 10. Police Inspector Francis Cobbina told the court pr…
The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), on Friday asked the Ghana Education Service (GES) to allow heads of
schools to fill vacancies in schools with first year students according to laid down criteria after first …
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, said illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, was assuming alarming proportions in the Akyem area of the region and this called for an intervention by civil society and other bodies to…
President John Evans Atta Mills has said
Government will resource tertiary institutions to enable them to operate at optimal level.
He said the role of tertiary institutions in national development through the production of high le…
Mr. William Billy Williams, Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, will inspect mobile phone charging solar energy installations built for 20 communities in the Brong Ahafo Region on Friday.
The GHc45,000 project to improve access to…
Ghana and La Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday expressed appreciation on arrangements towards the forthcoming elections in La Cote d'Ivoire this year.
They stressed the need for national reconciliation to ensure peaceful elections.
"N…
Geo Engineering Corporation, A Chinese Construction Company, reconstructing the Kejetia-Abuakwa stretch of the Kumasi-Sunyani Highway, have expressed concern about an anonymous letter, threatening the management of the Company.
The local …
Mr Mahmud Khalid, Upper West Regional Minister, has stated that food production in the region has been declining over the years due to poor soil management.
He said about 25,000 hectares of land had always been cultivated annually bu…
The weather is expected to be sparsely cloudy, hot, sunny and stable for the greater part of Thursday in the Northern Sector.
The Southern half of the country will be cloudy with long sunshine intervals and in the afternoon a few iso…
Pastor Isaac Ekow Eshun, Roman Ridge District Head of the Church of Pentecost, has called on parents to take active interest in the education of their children.
This, he said, would improve the living conditions of the parents in fut…
Mrs. Ekua Tandoh-Bawa, Chief Personnel Officer, Public Works Department (PWD) in Sekondi in the Western Region, has called on government to revamp and empower the department to carry out its mandated role effectively.
She noted with …
For a certain kind of worms, eating sugar may reduce their life span by 20 percent, a new study suggests.
But it's unclear whether the same holds true for human beings, according to the study published in the November issue of the jo…
The National Association of Local Authorities, Ghana (NALAG) is to set up offices in all the 10 regions of Ghana and appoint Desk Officers for the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies.
The move is aimed at making NALAG acc…
The Catholic Church has convened an international workshop on promoting religious tolerance in Africa, in Ho, for front-line Reverend Sisters of the Ministry in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The three-day Inter-Religious Dialogue for Novice Mi…
The Right-Reverend Francis Amenu, Moderator of the Evangelical Presbyterian (EP) Church, Ghana has called on the government to provide reliable and safe means of transport on the Volta Lake to end the fatal accidents on the water body.
…
Mr. Daniel Ohyeamang, Mampong Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), has pledged the assembly's resolve to end child labour in the area, through partnership with the Child Labour Committee, which aims at protecting children's rights.
The …
The Asante-Juaben Government Hospital has, through its own internally generated funds, built a mortuary at a cost of GH¢150,000.
The 100-capacity modern facility would serve the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality and nearby Sekyere-Afram Plai…
Thirteen-year-old Kwasi Boadu stood in the middle of his father's farm confused and angry at himself for his inability to identify the big tree where his father had dumped a heap of cocoyam he was to collect home for the family's supper.
…
Ms. Sherry Ayittey, the Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, on Thursday called for the pursuit of initiatives that would promote sustainable production and consumption of renewable and non-renewable resources.
This will …
Rose Anderson, an eleven year-old pupil of the Catholic Primary School at Nsawam, was killed on the spot when a vehicle ran over her near the Nsawam District Police station on Tuesday.
The Nsawam District Police Commander, Deputy Sup…
The United Nations is Afghanistan would relocate some of its staff from Afghanistan as part of precautionary measures in the militancy-plagued country, a statement of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said Thursday.
…
Two health personnel of the Winneba Government Hospital have appealed to people in the community, to register with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to enable them access free medical care at the facility.
Dr George Prah, a…
The Ministry of Education is to consult with heads of tertiary institutions on how to "stagger'' the admission of Senior High School (SHS) graduates between 2012 and 2014.
The Education Minister, Mr Alex Tettey-Enyo, was explaining to th…