The lack of a functional fire tender at the Ghana National Fire Service station in Goaso led to the destruction of nine bedrooms and other valuable property including an unspecified amount of money by a raging fire, all estimated at thous…
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture has
rehabilitated 41 dams and dugouts breached by the floods that hit the three regions in 2007, Mr Yaw Effah-Baafi, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, has
said.
In addition, it has completed the …
Mr. Robert Ajene, a retired educationist, has
said Ghana had a lot of natural resources but they were misapplied and mismanaged by people, especially people in leadership positions.
He said this on Tuesday at a validation workshop on…
Annan Acquah, a 24-year-old level 200 student of the University of Ghana, Legon, has been sentenced to a fine of Gc600 by the Juaso circuit court for impersonating one Agyekum Kwabena Ebenezer in the on-going West African Secondary School …
The Reverend Albert Y. Wurapa, a former Synod Clerk of the General Assembly of the E. P. Church, Ghana, has donated 20 computers with accessories worth GHC 3,000 to the Akpafu-Mempeasem L/A Junior High School.
Rev. Wurapa, a native, …
The Oversight Committee of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) in charge of the Kassena Nankana East District on Tuesday validated research findings on Democracy and Good Governance, Economic Governance and Management and Cooperate Go…
The Media Commissions of Ghana and Sierra Leone
have agreed to support each other in institutional capacity building and
development of joint programmes for the training of journalists and other independent democratic institutions on m…
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural
Development (MLGRD) would from October 19 organise regional consultations to solicit views and ideas on the future of decentralisation in Ghana.
The consultations would provide an opportun…
The air in Ghana has become harder to breathe, not because of insidious climate change but from being poisoned with a new gas called “corruptogen”, which has reduced the available amount of Oxygen available to the ordinary citizen. During …
Newmont's Ahafo Mine has contained and neutralized, within its mine site, a minor chemical overflow which occurred
at its processing plant, a statement said on Monday.
"The overflow at the processing plant on Thursday, October 8, co…
Six out of 145 women taken through clinical breast screening in the Offinso Municipality were diagnosed of breast abnormalities.
Three had lumps in the breasts, two others suffered from discharging nipples and one had a sore on the n…
The Ghana Police Service is reviewing the
syllabus of its training schools with the aim of demilitarizing the personnel and internalizing the philosophy of democratic policing in them.
This was announced by the Deputy Eastern Regio…
Speakers at this year's Mental Health Day
celebration on Monday called on government to pass the new Mental Health Bill into law to improve mental health care in the country.
They noted that the law would promote and provide humane…
The Bosomtwe Rural Bank has introduced a
special loan scheme to support teachers pursuing diploma and sandwich education programmes.
The package covers payment of all fees for the course duration as well as books and other incide…
Professor Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwah, Vice-Chancellor
of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has called for improvement in the conditions of service of university lecturers.
This, he said, is necessary to reta…
A 28-year-old policeman of the Tema Buffalo Unit,
was shot dead at about 1130 hours on Monday, by five armed robbers at the Excel Filling Station at Klagon near Lashibi.
A Home Finance Company bullion van had gone to the filling st…
A 28 year-old physically challenged man has been sentenced to four years imprisonment by a Bibiani Circuit Court for attempting to sell his younger brother for GH¢10,000.
Kwame Acheampong, with an amputated right leg, pleaded guilty …
The Ministry of Transport has directed all drivers
of vehicles above 3.5 tons Gross Vehicle Weight to carry, fill and complete daily work sheets in the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) approved
commercial vehicle log books at all…
The Brong Ahafo Regional Co-ordinating Council at the weekend, organised a health walk, to create awareness among the citizenry on the need to stay fit and healthy.
It formed part of activities marking the 50th anniversary celebratio…
The Young People's Guild (YPG) of the Asylum Down
Presbyterian Church on Sunday organized a thanksgiving service to climax the group's 15th anniversary celebrations.
As part of the anniversary celebrations, the Guild organized a we…
The Maiden Town Hall Meeting in Bolgatanga in
the Upper East Region, afforded residents the opportunity to ask questions they would not have had the opportunity to question the authorities about.
The questioners, who cut across the…
A two-day entrepreneurship training workshop for 50 women micro and small scale entrepreneurs was
opened at Dunkwa-On-Offin on Saturday.
The workshop, sponsored by Unilever Ghana Foundation, was aimed at
improving the capacity o…
An educationist has called on the state, religious organisations, schools and the public to collectively create an enabling environment for the fashioning out of a holistic education towards national development.
Professor Kofi Sraku…
The review of Ghana's constitution must go beyond
the mere altering of text to developing sustainable governance structures on the ground, Dr. Albert K. Fiadjoe, Professor Emeritus of Public Law has said in Accra.
He said the amendm…
Prof Kofi Sraku-Lartey, Principal of the
Presbyterian University College, has said there was the need forr the state,
religious bodies, schools and the community to work together for a conducive
environment not only to enhance develo…
A joint police and forestry personnel
task force at the weekend, destroyed an eight acre Indian hemp plantation,
located inside the Bia-Tano forest reserve in the Asunafo North municipality
of Brong Ahafo.
No one was arrested, …
The world population, which is now 6.8 billion, is
projected to increase to 8.1 billion by 2025.
All the growth is in the developing countries and the astronomical growth of the world's youth population ranging between 15 and 24 years …
The Twifo Heman-Lower Denkyira District Assembly collected GHc 134.8 at the second quarter of 2009 against an annual budget of GHc 293.4, Mr. Joseph Foster Andoh, the District Chief Executive, has said.
Speaking at an assembly meetin…
Wa Polytechnic on Saturday, opened its doors to 665 students to begin a Higher National Diploma programmes in Engineering, Applied Science and Technology and Business, at its seventh matriculation ceremony at Wa.
The Acting Rector of…
The Economic Community of West African States
(ECOWAS) has started a process that aims at encouraging citizens' participation in ECOWAS decisions and activities.
The programme, called: "Community Development Programme," hopes to tra…
Mrs Gloria Attison, a 52-year-old baker at
Regimanuel Gray Estates in Tema, has won the top prize of a Mitsubishi Pajero 4x4 vehicle in the second draw of the Vodafone Rewards Promotion.
Mrs Attison, whose phone number is 020823000…
Professor Joshua Alabi, Rector of the Institute
of Professional Studies (IPS), on Saturday said students who engage in sorcery and occultism chart a course of their lives into
self-destruction.
He cautioned that "The authorities o…
A four-classroom block constructed at Agona Mansofo, near Upper Bobikum by the Seek and Save Mission International, a non governmental organisation, was inaugurated on Friday.
Mr Cicafo Arhin, Executive Director of Seek and Save Miss…
Vice President John Mahama on Saturday paid
tribute to the late Reverend William Warabeh Dontoh, General Superintendent
of the Assemblies of God Church, who died last month, describing his death
as a "great loss to the nation".
…
A total of 15 infant deaths and four maternal mortality cases were recorded in three communities near Awutu Bawjiase during the last six months.
The communities are Awutu Adawukwa, Akuful-Krodua and Homi in the Bawjiase area.
M…
Mr Joseph Yieleh Chireh, Minister of Local
Government and Rural Development, at the weekend said government would review the decentralization concept for conformity and effectiveness, in
line with its campaign promises.
He said t…
Children of Agona Mansofo in the
Central Region will no longer walk the 6.2 kilometre distance to get to the
nearest school because a benefactor has provided one for them.
The four-classroom block was constructed by the Seek and…
A total of 3,160 people who pursued various
courses of study including business management, commerce and education through the University of Cape Coast's (UCC) distance learning programme
graduated at the 40th congregation on Thursday.…
Children in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam (AEE)
district have appealed to the government and the National Youth Council to
speed up the promulgation of the youth policy to serve as a guide towards
the development of children in the countr…
President John Atta Mills on Friday paid a
courtesy call on the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, at his Manhyia Palace
in Kumasi and repeated the government's resolve to tackle head-on the high
unemployment facing the country.
…
Benco Hospitex Company Limited, dealers in medical and surgical equipment, on Friday presented medical equipment worth GHC10,
000 to the Wa Municipal Health Centre.
The equipment included, drip stands, digital weighing scales, stet…
A special audit exercise undertaken by the
National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), has found 10 national health
insurance scheme managers, accountants and five service providers in the
Ashanti Region culpable of misappropriating …
The Food and Drugs Board (FDB) has arrested a
39-year-old Nigerian, Innocent Obiara Ugwuanyi, for allegedly distributing
fake Augmentin, an antibiotic used for the treatment of serious infections.
The original drug is manufacture…
A survey conducted by Action Aid Ghana with
support from United Nation's Population Fund (UNFPA) in the three northern
regions indicates that violence against women contributes to the increasing
rate of HIV and AIDS in these areas.
…
Five per cent of Ghana's population goes to bed
hungry each day, a Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) recent Report has
shown.
The Report further disclosed that the said population was mostly
farmers in the rural areas esp…
Dr.George Sipa-Adjah Yankey, who has resigned
in the wake of the Mabey and Johnson bribery scandal, said on Saturday that he was innocent of the allegations, but had to resign to end attacks on President John Evans Atta Mills and his gov…
Ms. Mary Nuako Bandoh, a Research Scientist at the Crop Research Institute (CRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has appealed to African women scientists to strive for excellence.
They should also collabora…
Mr Speedy Moodliar,a Senior Manager of the Ethekwini Water and Sanitation Services, Durban, South Africa, has urged scientists to teach farmers who grow crops that are peeled
or cooked to use recycled waste water to irrigate their farms.…
Mr Richard Yao Fenuku-Doamekpor, a Senior Manager of the State Insurance Company, has said the capacity of insurance firms in Ghana was being underutilized for national development.
He said the active involvement of insurance compani…
Mr. Richard Quartey, Acting Auditor-General, on
Friday stressed the need for the Audit Service to undergo institutional and cultural change to meet the current demands and challenges of the future.
Launching the centenary celebrati…