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…
The Mass adoption of solar panels by the public as the standard lighting device in Ghana has been on the increase due to the current load shedding of electricity from the national power.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GN…
Ghana is firmly committed to the goal of linking various national transmission grids in the sub-region to create a wholesale power market in West Africa.
Deputy Energy Minister, Inusah Fuseini, who gave the assurance, said Ghana woul…
Mrs Patricia Akua Adika, Second National Vice President of the Ghana Registered Nurses Association (GRNA) has advised members to eschew negative tendencies, and rather uphold professionalism in the discharge of their duties.
She furt…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellembelle, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, has urged the management of Adamus Resources Limited, a gold prospecting company operating in the District, to ensure environmental safety by observing the Environm…
A three-day workshop to build the capacity of selected field officers of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), to control locust and grasshopper invasion of farms, has been held at Akyawkrom in the Ejisu-Juaben municipality.
T…
Dr Robert Baffuor, Vice President of Ghana Telecom University College (GTUC), on Wednesday said the university had instituted measures to enable it win next year's National Technology Quiz Competition.
He said these include quiz comp…
The Mayor of Accra, Dr. Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, on Wednesday toured some development projects in the metropolis to assess progress of work.
The tour which took him to Osu Market, Additrom School at Adabraka, Odawna Pedestrian Shoppin…
Information Minister Mr. John Tia Akologu has urged the staff of his ministry to put aside party affiliations, ethnicity and work harmoniously to achieve national goals.
"I want all of us to work selflessly as a team for a worthy cau…
About 250 people have been rendered homeless, following the destruction of 25 buildings, including a health post, by a rain storm that hit Buffiama in Wa East District in the Upper West Region.
Mr. Kparibogo Widuma, Chairman of the D…
Nana Kofi Yirenkyi, also known as, "Jesus One Touch", Founder and General Overseer of Jesus Blood Ministry at Oblogo near Accra, has pleaded not guilty to incest and defilement.
Earlier, he was charged with incest but when he appeare…
Millicom Ghana, operators of Tigo cellular network, is to rehabilitate 32 deprived basic schools in the Greater Accra Region, as part of its social responsibility.
The project, which would be extended to cover 36 districts, would ben…
The Reverend Mrs. Jemina Amanor, Country Director of Compassion International, a non governmental organization that takes care of poor and vulnerable children on Wednesday said child neglect was the biggest crises facing the world today.
…
Mrs Roberta Mary Appau, Headmistress of Our Lady of Mercy (OLAM) Senior High School in Tema, has advised students in second cycle institutions to choose suitable subjects for their final examinations.
That, she said, would enable the…
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Special Taskforce has embarked on an operation to confiscate musical instruments from some recalcitrant churches and drinking bars whose activities create a high level of noise above the permissible de…
The Kasoa district Police Headquarters has embarking on a special anti armed robbery eradication campaign and has therefore appealed to the people to cooperate towards its success.
The Kasoa district Police commander, Deputy Superint…
A total of 189 defilement case cases were recorded in the New Juaben Municipality in 2009 as against 159 recorded in 2008, the Eastern Regional Director of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOSSU), Deputy Superintendent of Pol…
Mrs. Melonin Asibi, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Director of the Department of Women, has appealed to women to get actively involved in district assembly elections.
She said since women were in the majority, there was the need for them t…
Apostle Samuel Doku, Vice President of Ghana Conference of Religions for Peace (GCRP) has called on the leadership of "mushroom churches" to align their bodies with recognised religious organisations.
He said this would ensure that t…
The Kasoa District Police Headquarter has embarking on a special anti-armed robbery eradication campaign and has therefore appealed to the people to cooperate towards its success.
The Kasoa District Police commander, Deputy Superinten…
Child Rights International (CRI), a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), has expressed worry about the use of children in the advertising industry, considering the fact that it was illegal for children in Ghana to be gainfully employed unt…
Volta Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) David Ampah-Bennin on Tuesday told police personnel in the region to go out in the night and fish for information that would aid them in their work.
This is becaus…
A 24-year-old armed robber, who shot and killed his victim after robbing him of GH¢96,200.00 has been sentenced to 80 years imprisonment by a Kumasi Circuit Court.
Prince Adu Boakye denied killing Yaw Atta Obiri, a businessman, and m…
Ms. Agnes Gandaa, the Partnership Coordinator of the Tamale Ecclesiastical Pastoral Province Council (TEPPCON), has appealed to the government to flush out Fulani herdsmen from the northern parts of the country.
She said the activitie…
The Ghana National Association of Social Workers (GNASW), has underscored the need for civil society to continue to fight for the protection of citizens' human rights.
A statement signed by the Association's President, Mr Peter Amos …
Ms Agnes Gandaa, the Partnership Coordinator of the Tamale Ecclesiastical Pastoral Province Conference (TEPPCON), has appealed to people especially women who enter politics with the aim of fuelling conflicts and vengeance to be mindful tha…
Two soldiers who are being held for the alleged murder of Alhaji Issah Mobilla, ex-Northern Regional Chairman of Convention People's Party (CPP) on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to the charge of conspiracy to murder and murder.
The so…
Kwabena Kankani, a farmer who has been in prison custody since August 2007 following his arrest for a drug related charge, was on Wednesday jailed 12 months in hard labour by the Asamankese Circuit Court.
Kankani pleaded not guilty a…
The Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service (GES) are organizing a re-training programme for teachers of English, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies.
Mr Samuel Bannerman-Mensah, the Director General of the GES, said…
An unemployed who was hired to sell mobile phone cards but made use of the proceeds to pay his debts has been arraigned at the Kade District Magistrate's Court.
Aboagye Dacosta pleaded guilty for stealing GHC 124 of his employer, Jus…
The Kade District Magistrate Court on Wednesday ordered that a boy who gave his age as 14 be sent to the boy's remand home at Osu in Accra until March 25 for multiple theft.
The boy, Kofi Babone, (not his real name), a school drop out…
A 71-year old farmer of Akoefe-Atsati in the Ho Municipality, was on Tuesday remanded in prison custody by a Ho Circuit Court for allegedly defiling a 13-year old class five pupil.
Kwadwo Koku pleaded guilty but said his attempts to …
Wonder Azorli, 25, a farmer has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by a Ho Circuit Court for defiling an eight-year-old pupil at Kpetoe in the Adaklu-Anyigbe District.
Assistant Superintendent of Police Anthony Danso told the co…
The UN General Assembly has declared 2011-2020 as the first "Decade of Action for Road Safety" in a bid to halt increasing trends in traffic deaths and injuries worldwide.
Welcoming the initiative in a Statement copied to the Ghana Ne…
Mr Samuel Ayeh-Paye, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayesuano, on Tuesday appealed to the Minister of Roads and Highways to consider giving the Adoagyiri-Coaltar-Donkrokyiwa a face-lift by tarring the roads in the area.
He said it was …
Kojo Dormo, 32, Farmer, has been handed over to the police for allegedly stealing cocoa from the farm of his former employer.
Mr Kofi Appiah-Ntori, Chief Inspector of Police in charge of Hohoe- Bla Police Station, told the GNA on Wed…
The Wa East District, one of the most deprived districts in the country, is developing a four-year medium term development plan to help provide the infrastructural needs of the district.
The plan would seek to provide major projects…
A cross section of Indians the Ghana News Agency (GNA) interviewed in New Delhi and Haryana cities see Ghana as a country of soccer legends and great politicians.
They said that had propelled Ghana to greater heights in the World map.…
A five-day in-service training workshop for 90 Community-Based Agents (CBA) of the Ministry of Health (MOH) is underway at the Ajumako District Hospital.
Participants were drawn from the 163 communities in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam Di…
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…
Professor Daniel Bour, Provost of Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has urged Christians to show stronger inclination towards helping to ease the discomfort of the poor and socially disadvantaged.…
Professor Daniel Bour, Provost of Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has urged Christians to show stronger inclination towards helping to ease the discomfort of the poor and socially disadvantaged.…
Professor Daniel Bour, Provost of Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has urged Christians to show stronger inclination towards helping to ease the discomfort of the poor and socially disadvantaged.…
Participants at a forum in Kumasi to discuss the management of the expected revenue from the nation's petroleum resources,have called for stringent and effective legal framework to prevent looting by the oil companies.
They said the laws…
Mr Maxwell Kofi Jumah, the Member of Parliament for Asokwa, has challenged the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) to utilize its legitimate right of being the highest political authority in the Metropolis.
Mr Jumah said Article 241 of the …
Kwabena Asomani, 35, an ex-convict was on Tuesday sentenced to two years imprisonment in hard labour by the Mpraeso Circuit Court presided over by Mr. Alex Owusu Ofori for stealing.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful entry a…
The National Secretariat of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), in collaboration with the Netherlands-based International Centre for Emergency Technique (ICET), would soon establish an emergency preparedness centre to pr…
Parliament has been asked to expedite action on the Mental Health Bill and pass it into law to help attract more professionals to the country’s psychiatric hospitals and institutions.
Mr. Kingsley Asamoah-Bediako, a Deputy Chief Heal…
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