The Agona Municipal Director of Education, Mrs. Jane Chinebuah, has appealed to the Ghana Education Service to provide resources for in-service training for teachers of Special Needs Education.
She said since challenges facing such te…
All 105 low cost houses at the Mawuli Estates in Ho are being put for sale by government to occupying tenants.
Under the terms, buyers would make a 20 percent initial payment and pay the rest in three months.
The houses are in …
Two brothers, aged three years and eight months, were burnt to death when the room in which they were sleeping was razed by fire at Amedzikope near Agbozume.
Courage and Bismarck Kotso were burnt beyond recognition and have since bee…
A medical assistant at Nkoranza has suggested to metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies to institute award schemes to honour outstanding workers to boost their morale and to increase productivity.
Mr. Sylvanus Be-ir, who is…
A magistrate's court at Bibiani in the Western Region, has remanded a 27-year-old farmer, Kwaku William into prison custody for allegedly stealing a goat valued GH¢50, at Sefwi Surano 'A'.
The accused, who pleaded guilty, would reappear …
Mr. Emmanuel Andema, District Chief Executive for Kassena Nankana District, on Friday called on government to strengthen its collaboration with the Catholic Church to promote education for the rapid development of the country.
He sa…
All revenue collection agencies are to be integrated as soon as a bill to that effect is passed in Parliament, Mr Samuel Sallas-Mensah, the Executive Secretary of the Revenue Agencies Governing Board, said on Thursday.
He said this w…
The Association of women living with HIV/AIDS in the Upper West Region, on Thursday, appealed to the government to consider exempting HIV/AIDS patients from premiums to various National Health Insurance Schemes.
They have also called o…
Six persons who were allegedly picked up in connection with the 61 parcels of cocaine seized at Tema Port from a 40-footer container on Thursday have pleaded not guilty to narcotic related charges levelled against them.
Augustina Abu…
The Fast Track High Court (Commercial Division) on Thursday threw out a motion for stay of execution filed by Intercity STC Coaches Limited in respect of a matter between the company and Svani Limited, a firm that deals in vehicles and acc…
Action Aid Ghana (AAG), an international non-governmental organization, has organized a forum on HIV/AIDS in Bolgatanga to draw the attention of world leaders, governments and non-governmental organizations to be more committed on the figh…
The Volta Regional Office of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has embarked on a drive to help public office holders overcome conflict of interest challenges that confront them in the discharge of their assi…
A survey conducted by the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), a civil society organisation fighting corruption, indicates that the trust Ghanaians have in the government ability to fight corruption had dropped from 67 per cent in 2007 to 58 …
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Circuit Court has sentenced a 19-year-old to 35 years imprisonment in hard labour for robbery.
Justice Kojo Owusu Amoah pleaded guilty to the charge.
Police Chief Inspector Isaac Apenteng, giving …
A pregnant Chicago woman became the fourth person in the US Illinois State to die of the A/H1N1 flu a day after she gave birth, officials of the Public Health Department said on Wednesday.
The latest death was a 20-year-old woman fro…
Ghana and three other West African countries are to benefit from a 70 million-Euro grant from Spain, to manage projects pertaining to the environment.
The other beneficiary countries are Senegal, Cameroon and Ivory Coast.
Mr…
Nana Kofi Ansah II, Chief of Mpakadan in the Akwamu Traditional Area in the Eastern Region, has appealed to the Ministry of Tourism, to exploit the immense tourism potential in the area.
He said the development of tourism, would go a…
The Accra Regional Police Command, has arrested three men who duped a Jordanian, Abdel Karim Mohammed, of 29,500 Euros.
The three are Michael Allotey, a taxi driver, Robert Mensah and George Ametepe. The fourth man, who is a Nigerian…
Mrs. Gladys Asamoah, a Public Health Nurse at the Kumasi Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), has urged food sellers to ensure that they sold neat and hygienic foods to the public.
She noted that most of the food sold were contaminated…
The Catholic Church, in collaboration with Catholic Relief Services, International Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development (IFDC) and Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) are supporting 10,000 farmers to increase rice produc…
Mr. Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister, on Tuesday assured contractors in the Upper East Region that the process of awarding contract would be open and transparent.
"You will be given a level playing field to tender and since…
A 41-year old Marketing Implementer of Shell Ghana and Togo has been installed as the Paramount Chief of Breman Asikuma Traditional Area, under the stool name Amoakwa Baidoo VIII.
The Chief known in private life as Mr Michael Baidoo,…
A 26-member planning committee, headed by Mr Emmanuel Antwi-Boasiako, Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa (AOB) District Coordinating Director, has been instituted to plan the celebration of Odwira, a festival of the chiefs and people of Breman Baako.
…
Fuel filling stations in Tema have not experienced shortages of petroleum products despite complains about shortages in parts of the country.
A visit to the stations by the GNA in Tema on Tuesday showed that the attendants were servi…
Brigadier-General Martin Kwaku Gamiel Ahiaglo, General Officer Commanding the Southern Command of the Ghana Army, has appealed to soldiers to respect the country's constitution and the civilian population.
He made the call at a durba…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, on Wednesday commended the private sector, especially the 31st December Women's Movement, on their efforts to promote pre-school education.
He said government placed premium on pre-s…
The status of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) is to be changed to an authority to empower the agency to demand compliance with road safety laws and regulations.
Consequently, the Ministry of Transport, would soon put an am…
The Kasoa District Police Command has given a two weeks ultimatum to owners of unauthorized sign boards erected at Kasoa, to remove them or face full prosecution.
The District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Jo…
The National Lotto Authority (NLA) has filed an application to invoke the supervisory jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to quash the orders of an Accra Fast Track Court (FTC) in a matter between the authority and the Ghana Lotto Operators …
The media have been urged to give greater publicity and support to women in diverse leadership positions in the country, to help push the national development agenda forward.
The capabilities of women who form half of the population when…
About 200 school children absent themselves from school daily to engage in all manner of jobs at illegal mining (galamsey) sites in the Asutifi District, Mr. George Amanor-Kyeremeh, the District Director of Education, said at a one day e…
People who were injured and relatives of those who lost their lives during the Ashaiman police shooting incident are yet to be compensated one year after the incident.
Two persons, Moses Kassim and Moses Ofori, died and several people su…
An educationist, Madam Dorothy Eghan has cautioned the youth against immoral behaviour and persistent acts of indiscipline, stressing that such vices could compromise their future.
She said teenagers who succumbed to peer- pressure t…
Mr Alex Asum-Ahensah, Minister of Chieftaincy and Culture has stressed the need for a clear-cut policy to determine the nature of the relationship that should exist between state institutions and traditional authorities, especially at the …
A new study has identified a specific class of pharmaceutical drugs that could be effective in treating babies vulnerable to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), because their mothers smoked during pregnancy.
The findings were publi…
The UN General Assembly adopted on Wednesday a resolution that called on relevant UN organs to give attention to the security implications of climate change.
The resolution, approved by consensus by the 192-member body, called on rel…
The 56-member house of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) have requested for an increase in their allowances as motivation for them to work effectively.
They complained that allowances given to them were woefully inadequate to enco…
The Volta Regional Police Highway Patrol Squad has intercepted quantities of dried leaves suspected to be cannabis stashed in the rear compartment of a Taxi cab belonging to Nana Kwame Ansong, a sub-chief of Worawora.
Briefing the Gh…
A total of 472,871 children aged below five years were immunized against poliomyelitis in the Brong-Ahafo Region during the just-ended immunization exercise.
Mr. Opoku Agyemang, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Coordinator of the programme, …
A senior Islamic Hamas official on Wednesday expressed his movement's readiness to resume the indirect negotiations in Cairo to finalize a prisoner exchange deal with Israel.
Osama al-Muzeini, who is involved in the file of captive I…
A circuit court in Techiman in the Brong Ahafo Region has remanded a refrigerator mechanic in police custody for two weeks for allegedly stealing GHc 4,700 (47 million old cedis) belonging to a returnee from Libya.
Kwaku Addom, 26, p…
Mr Ebenezer Akuoko Frimpong, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Sekyere Central in the Ashanti Region, has called for the support of all stakeholders to help achieve the set goals for the district.
The DCE said in spite of his leader…
A Circuit Court in Accra on Thursday sentenced two Police Constables to 10-years' imprisonment each on charges of conspiracy and robbery.
Joseph Frimpong, 25 and Frank Boakye 27, who pleaded not guilty to the charges, intercepted a Mali…
Mr Michael Cudjoe Ntumy, Techiman Circuit Court Judge, has exhorted Christians to respect and obey the country's laws.
Speaking on the theme; "The Christian and Contemporary Law," at the Fountain Gate Chapel International in Techiman…
An Accra Fast Track High Court on Thursday sentenced a 45 year-old businessman Theophilus Eugene Afari Bossman to 15 years' imprisonment for attempting to export 2,174 grammes of cocaine to the United Kingdom.
Bossman reportedly conceale…
Nana Ofori Owusu, Community and Public Outreach Officer of the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) on Thursday said the Authority would rehabilitate 30 classrooms in five communities in the Akuapim South Municipality to improve teachin…
The Minority in Parliament on Wednesday observed that "the detention" of Mr Kwadwo Mpiani, former Chief of Staff, by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), amounted to the constriction of "the frontiers" of democracy.
"We ass…
The Student Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Education, Winneba, and the Chaplaincy of the University have presented a cash for GH¢2,000 to support as a female student having kidney problems.
Madam Augustina Amponsah, …
Most Reverend Philip Naameh, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Tamale, has appealed to Catholics in politics and in positions to influence policy to let their faith guide them in making decisions.
He said they should ensure that decisio…
Emmanuel Amenyo, a 20-year-old farmer, was on Wednesday sentenced to a jail term of 12 months for stealing GHC 260.
He pleaded guilty.
Police Inspector Wisdom Nuworkpor told the court that a petty trader, Bismark Frempong-Manso, met an…