A circuit court at Juaso, has sentenced a 25-year-old unemployed man to 18 months imprisonment in hard labour for stealing six bunches of plantain.
Kwabena Frimpong pleaded guilty to the offence.
Police Detective Inspector Adu …
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has directed that the publication of schools examination results table by the Ghana Education Service be stopped.
Mrs Wendy Enyonam Addy-Lamptey, Principal Assistant Registrar of the Counc…
Ms Anima Wilson, Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, has urged corporate bodies to support equipping prisoners with skills that would enable them to lead decent lives after serving their jail terms.
She said it was important to focu…
The Assin South District Coordinating Director (DCD), Mr Thaddeus Zaasan, has commended private basic schools in the country for withstanding the scare of the Capitation Grant.
The DCD said many Ghanaians thought the private schools …
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Gomoa West, Mr Francis Kojo Arthur, has urged Ghanaians to desist from insulting their leaders in the name of democratic dispensation.
The practice of democracy does not mean one can insult any body,…
The Kasoa District Police Headquarters has expressed gratitude to the people of the area for giving police information that had led to the arrest of criminals operating in the area.
The Kasoa District Police Commander, Deputy Superi…
The Northern Regional Police Command has arrested a passenger bus travelling from Kumasi to Bunkrugu with lots of ammunition concealed under the driver's seat.
The vehicle, which was arrested on Saturday morning at Datoyili near Tamale,…
Miss Joana Daglah, a basic school pupil, has appealed to the government to come out with an ICT Instructors' Training Scheme to turn out more qualified personnel to handle the teaching of the subject in basic schools.
She said many t…
More than 1000 cocoa farmers and their dependants in 11 cocoa growing districts were at the weekend given free health care screening at Bibiani in the Western Region.
A team of health professionals from Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and…
The Prince Claus Funds in the Netherlands under its Cultural Emergency Programme is supporting the restoration of the Colonial European/ Garrison Cemetery in Cape Coast with 30,000.00 euros.
The cemetery, situated at Bakaano in Cape…
Mr. Abu Kansangbata, the Nadowli District Chief Executive, has appealed to chiefs, assembly members, elders and opinion leaders in the district to follow proper immigration procedures
before settling Fulani herdsmen.
He said the ac…
Managers of organisations have been asked to transfer their knowledge and skills to other workers towards the socio-economic and political development of the country.
Professor Anna Reynolds Barnes, Senior Lecturer, Animal Science De…
The Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC), a civil society organization, through the Ambassador Girls Scholarship School Programme (AGSP), has supported over 2,000 deprived girls and boys in some deprived communities in the Upper E…
The queen of Kronko near Ejisu, Nana Kyerewaah Panin, is reported dead at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi at the age of 100 years.
A grandson and spokesman of the royal family the Rev Father Joseph Binney, Nyinahin Catho…
Mrs Theresah Adomako Tawiah, the District Chief Executive for Atwima-Mponua, has appealed to Muslims to put premium on the education of their children.
Islam, she said, makes it mandatory that "they take good care of children" and…
Oseadeyo Akumfi Ameyaw, Omanhene of the Techiman Traditional Area, has called on his subjects to be disciples in telling the truth when it comes to chieftaincy issues.
"Preaching the truth like disciples of Jesus Christ would enable …
Prof John B. K. Aheto, the Dean of School of Business Management, Central University, has called for efforts from major stakeholders to improve education infrastructure to increase access to education.
Prof Aheto said this at the Sil…
A circuit court at Juaso, has sentenced a 25-year-old unemployed man to 18 months imprisonment in hard labour for stealing six bunches of plantain.
Kwabena Frimpong pleaded guilty to the offence.
Police Detective Inspector Adu …
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has directed that the publication of schools examination results table by the Ghana Education Service be stopped.
Mrs Wendy Enyonam Addy-Lamptey, Principal Assistant Registrar of the Counc…
Ms Anima Wilson, Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, has urged corporate bodies to support equipping prisoners with skills that would enable them to lead decent lives after serving their jail terms.
She said it was important to focu…
An umbrella body of Indian universities and its counterpart from Taiwan have signed an accord for academic cooperation through collective research and faculty exchanges.
An agreement to this effect was signed by the
Association of In…
The Fair Wages and Salary Commission on Friday took its national education programme on the Single Spine Pay Policy (SSPP) to public workers' in Cape Coast.
The Director, Pay Policy Analysis and Research of the commission, Mr. John Y…
Cola major Pepsico Thursday denied the charge that its plant in Pudussery in Palakkad district, in Indias's southern state Kerala has been causing depletion of ground water in the arid area by over extraction of water.
Reacting to t…
Kerala government would declare 60 per cent villages and 17 taluks in the southern Indian state as drought-hit, Revenue Minister K P Rajendran told the Assembly Thursday.
The government had sanctioned Rs 10 crore to district collector…
Mr Daniel Bampoh, a Director of Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) on Thursday stressed the need to enforce planning regulations by Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to improve operations of the company to deliver on its mand…
Guidelines for transactional arrangements on the three-tier voluntary scheme designed for companies with Provident Funds targeting the informal sector associations is to be out by end of March.
Mr Seth Terkpeh, Deputy Minister for Fi…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama returned home on Thursday afternoon from India after a week's official visit.
During the visit, the Vice President attended the sixth Indian-African Conclave, an event which brought together Indian …
Mr Seth Terkpeh, Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, on Thursday said the cedi’s depreciation worsened the situation of a bad budget practice in the disbursement of the GETFund by the previous administration.
He said it…
The Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr Samuel Sarpong, has appealed to members of the assembly not to rush to the media to complain about issues they did not have the full facts and figures.
He reminded them of the oath of se…
Three assembly members in the Ada Traditional Area have said sea erosion along the coastal stretch of Ada was a threat to the area’s development.
Mr Eric Kpalam, Mr Abednego Adzeirdzi and Mr Elias Agbovi, assemblymen for Pute, Kol…
The Assistant Communications Officer of the Ghana Water Company Limited/Aqua Vitens Rand Limited, Mr. Nicholas Nii Abey, has said frequent power fluctuations and interruptions had been affecting water supply to the Northern Region.
Mr…
Two labourers of the Jillof Waste Management Company Limited were on Wednesday remanded into police custody for stealing armoured cable valued at 780 Ghana Cedis, the property of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR).
Francis Korsah and Iss…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, has tasked the Inspectorate Division, Guidance and Counseling Unit and Circuit Supervisors of the Ghana Education Service(GES), to put their acts together and correct THE negative behaviou…
Mr. Aminu Salifu, the District Chief Executive for Wa East, has said the non-existence of basic infrastructure and social facilities was discouraging government workers from accepting positing to the area.
Private developers are equa…
The Director of the Counselling Centre of the University of Education, Winneba, the Rev. Eldad Bonney, has said a well-packaged education accessible to women would be a major step towards poverty alleviation and enhance sustainable develop…
Defilement cases in the Cape Coast Metropolis reduced from 76 in 2008 to 65 in 2009 as a result of education programmes carried out by officials of the Central Regional offices of the Domestic Violence Victims and Support Unit (DOVVSU) of …
Personnel of the Pay Office of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) on Wednesday donated food items to the inmates of Dzorwulu Special School in Accra.
They included bags of rice, gallons of cooking oil, cartons of biscuits, fruit juice, cra…
Abubakari Iddrisu, a 20-year-old barber,has slashed the throats of three kids who are his nephews killing one and two are in critical conditions at the Tamale Teaching Hospital.
The victims are Mustapha Abdul-Jahir, the 8-year-old dec…
A 27-year-old ex-convict was on Thursday sentenced to 12 months imprisonment by the Mpraeso Circuit Court for stealing a quantity of okro.
The ex-convict, Kwaku Boateng, who is also a porter at the Nkawkaw lorry park, pleaded guilty …
Mr Fred Ohene-Kena, the Chairman of the Minerals Commission, has said government would not tolerate the behaviour of prominent persons in the society who connive with illegal miners to destroy the environment.
He said by the constitu…
Parents whose children attend Methodist Basic schools at Betom and Soridae have appealed to teachers in these schools to organize extra classes for the children.
They also authorized the teachers to institute daily inspection of dre…
Mr Seth Terkpeh, Deputy Minister of Finance and
Economic Planning, on Thursday said the cedi's depreciation worsened the situation of a bad budget practice in the disbursement of the GETFund by the previous administration.
He said i…
Mr Seth Terkpeh, Deputy Minister of Finance and
Economic Planning, on Thursday said the cedi's depreciation worsened the situation of a bad budget practice in the disbursement of the GETFund by the previous administration.
He said i…
Mr Seth Terkpeh, Deputy Minister of Finance and
Economic Planning, on Thursday said the cedi's depreciation worsened the situation of a bad budget practice in the disbursement of the GETFund by the previous administration.
He said i…
Dr James Awaitey, Tema Metropolitan Budget Officer, has stressed the need to properly number houses to create a data base that would enable district assemblies to improve upon revenue collection.
He explained that the data base would ena…
A circuit court at Asamankese, on Wednesday jailed Kwabena Kankani, a farmer, for 12 months for possessing Indian hemp.
Kankani, who pleaded not guilty, was also fined GHc 1,200 in default he would serve additional six months in pris…
The Upper East Regional Coordinating Council and the Central East Province of Burkina Faso have formed a Trans-Boundary Committee to manage shared Water Resources of the White Volta Basin.
Members of the Trans-Boundary Committee are …
The Tema Circuit Court 'B' on Wednesday sentenced a 22-year-old labourer to 18 months imprisonment for stealing pipes from a building site.
Bismark Asare was convicted on his own plea of guilty to the charge of stealing.
Prosecution to…
The weather is expected to be cloudy with mist and fog patches over the forest and hilly areas this Thursday morning and become sunny and windy in the afternoon.
The Ghana Meteorological Agency's 24th forecast for the country said …
IEPER city in Belgium is to establish a waste recycling plant in Wa under its sister city relationship with the Wa Municipality.
A representative from the Belgian city would visit Wa in April this year to finalize arrangements and co…
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