The incidence of global child labour has reduced by 11 per cent, from 246 million in 2000 to 218 million in 2004, Mrs Agnes Gorman, Ashanti Regional Labour Officer has said.
Mrs Gorman, who was speaking at a three-day sensitisation …
Alhaji Ishak Abubakar Bonsu, Asunafo North District Chief Executive, has said members of cocoa-spraying gangs who would engage in the sale of the spraying materials would be punished.
He said this during a one-day visit to Brodedwo,…
The South Korean government on Wednesday denied a report that South Korean negotiators will meet with South Korean hostages in Afghanistan.
South Korean government negotiators have been stationed in the southern Afghan province of Gaz…
Parliament has approved a 12. 5 million euro loan to support the rice sector in four regions as part of Ghana's poverty reduction strategy.
The loan agreement, between the government and the Agence Francaise de Development, is part …
Following are the 24 men's main draw teams of the beach volleyball world tour Al Grand Slam which
is slated for August 1-5 in Klagenfurt, Austria:
Mariano Baracetti/Martin Conde, Argentina
Andrew Schacht/Josh Slack, Australia
…
Saudi Arabia's crude oil production capacity has reached 10.8 million barrels per day (bpd), the
country's state oil company Saudi Aramco announced.
The company is sparing no efforts to raise its oil production to meet the market de…
Two armed robbers who mounted roadblocks and snatched mobile phones and money from people have been arrested and placed in police custody at Bibiani.
Assistant Superintendent of Police Felix Toya, Bibiani District Police Commande…
About 1,200 young men and women on Monday stormed the Ho Sports Stadium to be recruited into the Ghana Armed Forces.
As early as 0530 hours, the Stadium was full of expectant applicants short-listed for the Army, Navy and Air force …
The Police administration said it was too early to conclude that the recent spate of murders in the country were cases of 'contract killing' because motives of the killings had not yet been established.
"Investigation has also not …
Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Member of Parliament for Bantama and Minister-designate for Water Resources, Works and Housing has presented 300 bags of cement worth GH¢ 24,000 (24 million cedis) to some selected schools in the constituency on…
The Ashanti regional office of the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD Control Unit of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has identified the outbreak of the cocoa swollen shoot disease in some communities in the Amansie West District of…
Government has released GH¢ 5,500,000 million cedis for the provision of water in the guinea worm endemic communities to support the contribution from donor partners.
An additional GH¢ 50,000 (500 million cedis) has also been voted f…
The National Women's Committee of the Ghana Trades Union Congress has congratulated The Chief Justice Mrs Georgina Wood on her appointment as the Chief Justice.
A message signed by Nadia Ibrahimah, Head of the Women's Desk said, "O…
Some 495 private houses that were either destroyed or had their roofs ripped off in a recent rainstorm that hit the Tamale Metropolis, have been rehabilitated through the Tamale Disaster Relief Fund.
Alhaji Mohammed Baba, the Metrop…
A Regional Tribunal in Accra on Tuesday remanded in custody a miner at Akwatia in the Eastern Region who colleted 3,000 GH Cedis (30 million cedis) from a salesman in Accra under the pretext of supplying him with gold but failed to deliver…
Over 600 children of Osaebo and Sakyi Agyakwah primary and JSS now find it difficult to attend school as the only wooden bridge over river Nar Tawiah is submerged in flood waters.
Nii Arday IV, Chief of Afutu, a suburb of Nsawam who…
Teachers have been advised not to meddle in the local politics and chieftaincy matters in the communities where they teach in order not to lose trust and the confidence reposed in them by the people.
The Fanteakwa District Director …
An African American family has instituted a 5,000 dollar-micro credit scheme for Liberty Specialist Institute, a private vocational school in Koforidua.
The fund is to grant small loans to graduates of the Institute after they have …
The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has received a Spanish grant of two million euros to purchase a digital border surveillance system to enhance security at the Aflao border.
The service has also installed a software for the process…
The Atebubu District Office of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice is investigating a case in which a 20 year-old student of Yeji Secondary School became blind in her attempt to abort a three-month old pregnancy she w…
The Ghana Education Project (GEP), an Nkwanta-based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) is to build an exclusive state-of-the-art girls' school from the basic to the university level at Nkwanta in the Volta region.
Ms Gill Norris, Ch…
A 10-member team of U.N.
inspectors arrived in Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), on Saturday to verify and
monitor the shutdown and sealing of the nuclear facilities in
Yongbyon.
Upon h…
Teachers in the Upper West Region who are customers of the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) have warned they would leave the bank en bloc if, what they termed the use of indecent language and mockery by bank officials on them, continued…
The Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma district of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) has taken delivery of 1,875 bags of fertilizer from the government to support the activities of the agricultural module of the programme.
The fer…
Four persons who allegedly murdered and secretly buried a 30 year old man have been remanded into prison custody by a circuit court at Techiman presided over by Mr. Justice Godwin Kwasi-Kumah.
The court ordered Alhaji Yusifu Mataba A…
Sanitation guards selected from eight districts in the Eastern Region on Monday ended a day's orientation workshop on the socio-economic implication of environmental sanitation on the nation.
The districts are Kwahu West, Kwahu South…
Most Reverend Dr Scott Earl Mclaughlin, Archbishop and Primate of the Orthodox Anglican Church in the United States, would inaugurate the first Orthodox Anglican Church in the West African sub-region in Ghana on July 28 this year at Sekon…
Malawi has imposed an immediate ban on importation of livestock products from Tanzania due to the outbreak of Rift Valley Fever, which affects cattle, goats, sheep and pigs.
Malawi's Department for Animal Health and Livestock Developme…
Six additional trucks of United Nations food aid have reached Gaza, a Palestinian spokesman said Sunday.
The trucks delivered 210 metric tons of flour from the U.N. World Food Program to the territory, which descended into violence l…
A group of researchers from the University of Nottingham said in a report that pills were better than injections for treating children infected with community-acquired pneumonia.
Child patients taking pills recovered as quickly as tho…
British researchers has confirmed a link between depression and low levels of folate, a vitamin which comes from vegetables.
The link emerged after a review of 11 previous studies involving 15,315 participants, researchers at the Univ…
The Hostellers Association at Effia-Kuma New Site on Thursday, demanded an explanation from the Police as to why they threw tear gas into private hostels occupied by students of Takoradi Polytechnic during the recent disturbances at the s…
A decision to double the salary of President and Vice President was Thursday deferred by the Union Cabinet, which decided to take up the matter before the Monsoon Session of Parliament.
Information and Broadcasting Minister P.R. Das…
The production, trafficking and consumption of most illegal drugs remained steady last year and law enforcement agencies are becoming more successful in their fight against the scourge, according to a United Nations report.
The latest f…
Plan Ghana is organising a ten-day Capacity Building Workshop on Adolescent Reproduction Health for 34 nurses selected from Government Health facilities in the Central Region, at Winneba.
Participants were from the Gomoa, the Awutu-…
A third Singaporean died of dengue this year, local media reported on Wednesday.
The patient was a 66-year-old Singaporean-Chinese male, who developed a fever on June 15, Channel NewsAsia reported.
He was initially given outpatien…
Four persons suspected of breaking into shops in Koforidua and stealing large quantities of goods were on Wednesday arrested by the police.
The four, aged between 25 and 30, whose names are being withheld by the police were arrested…
Authorities in Cambodia said Wednesday they had found the wreckage of a plane that had crashed and confirmed there were no survivors among the 22 people aboard.
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said 13 of the victims of the Mond…
Russia's foreign minister Wednesday paid a visit to the West Bank to discuss the crisis that drove Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas out of Gaza.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met for nearly two hours with Abbas, and dis…
Mr. Abdul-Rahman Gumah, Municipal Chief Executive for Bawku, has commissioned a ¢1.2 billion office complex for the Bawku Teachers Cooperative Credit Union Association (BTCCUA).
The event coincided with the 19th Annual General Meet…
Senior Democrats in the Senate are confident that the comprehensive immigration legislation that attempts to come to terms with the growing number of "illegals", including a large number of Indians, and a pathway to citizenship will clear…
A two-week mass spraying exercise to reduce the spread of mosquitoes in the Greater Accra Region began on Tuesday targeted at the breeding catchment areas in Accra and its environs.
Inspecting the equipment and chemicals before the …
The newly created Nanumba South District Assembly in the Northern Region, has between 2005 and June 2007 spent more than 8.5 billion cedis on development projects in the area.
About 7.3 billion cedis came from the District Assemblie…
Russia is interested in partnership and cooperation in the field of energy with countries of South-eastern Europe, but also with Europe as a whole while respecting high ecological standards, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in the Cr…
Angola's National Assembly has recently given the government the green light for the legislation on the exploration of gas within the framework of the "Angola LNG" gas project and on oil award for appraisal, development and production of …
Apostle Schambach Amaniampong, Head of the Christian Redemption International Ministry, has predicted an economic boom for Ghana during the jubilee year.
"From the realms of the spirit I can see the line up of major investors to Gha…
The Western Regional Zonal Office of the Food and Drugs Board (FDB) on Tuesday advised the public not to transact business with an unidentified person who has been posing as an enforcement officer of the board.
A press release from the …
Guinea worm prevalence in the Northern region remained high due to insufficient potable water, partly because some water supply systems in that part of the country have broken down.
For instance the supply systems in both the Tamale …
Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama at the weekend hailed the revised edition of the Laws of Ghana 2004, as reader friendly book that will appeal to a wide variety of people from different backgrounds.
"This is the strength of the law…
The Academic Board and authorities of universities in the country have been urged to encourage post-graduate studies.
Professor Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwah, Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST),…