Mr Tsatsu Tsikata, incarcerated Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Former Chief Executive Officer, is alive but in critical condition at the Intensive Care Unit of the Cardio Thoracic Centre at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.…
The European Commission on Thursday welcomed the outcome of the meeting of the ITER Council, the governing body of the year-old ITER Organization.
ITER is an international project of scientific collaboration designed to build an expe…
Members of New Ghanaian Movement (NGM), a political think-tank has appealed to the electorate to vote for a political party committed to genuine national reconciliation and a truly honest government of integrity.
They pointed out tha…
The National Pensioners Association on Thursday elected a new national executive to manage the affairs of the Association for the next four years.
Mr Tawiah Yomoson was elected National President, while Mr S.A. Sesi was elected Vice-…
Former President Jerry John Rawlings on Thursday urged the government, Ghanaians, parents and potential parents alike to make
a commitment to give children a better life for the future, as the bedrock of the nation is the child.
I…
Alhaji Lepowura Mohammed Nurudeen Jawula, Special Advisor to the Minister of Health has launched a brochure on basic facts
about diabetes in children as part of the Ministry of Health's campaign to
halt the spread of diabetes in the co…
Romanian Health Minister Eugen Nicolaescu announced on Thursday the start of the national HPV (the human papilloma virus) vaccination campaign for prevention of cervical cancer.
According to the official, this free vaccination progra…
A set of conjoined twins travelling from Brussels to New York died aboard a plane on Thursday off Canada's eastern coast, Canadian police said.
The flight was about 35 minutes off the coast of the city of Halifax when the girls' moth…
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is funding a project, which would establish human rights education clubs in schools in the Jasikan, Kadjebi, Nkwanta-North and Nkwanta-South districts.
The project is meant to get …
A GH¢100-million major face-lift of the Aflao border, which would span a year has started.
The project involves the completion and rehabilitation of the Aflao border office blocks, residential apartments, reconstruction of the road a…
The Judicial Service on Thursday appealed to the public to embrace the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) programme as a means of clearing the backlog of cases pending before the country' courts.
ADR incorporated in the court adjudi…
A 10-member team would leave the country on November 22 to represent Ghana in the Second International Generation for Peace Camp in Amman, Jordan.
The programme sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme together with Edik…
The Information Services Department (ISD) has
created a webpage on Election 2008 on the on the government of Ghana website (Ghana portal) www.ghana.gov.gh.
A statement issued in Accra by ISD on Wednesday said the election page had i…
Mr Frederick Akwaboah, President of Ghana Institution of Engineers, on Friday called for the development of indigenous engineering and technology capacity to enable Ghana to compete effectively in the global economic environment.
He …
The Minister of State at the Ministry of Public Sector Reforms, Mr. Samuel Owusu-Adjei, has appealed to the youth not to abandon their vocations at their localities and leave for the urban communities to seek for non-existing lucrative job…
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports has revised the education curriculum to produce human resource for the country's petro-chemical industry, Mrs Rebecca Efiba Dadzie, Western Regional Director of Education, has said.
This w…
For the first time in several years, a total number of 266 Muslim pilgrims left Accra on Wednesday morning for Mecca to participate in the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
Unlike previous years, this year's first batch left at the scheduled t…
A Circuit Court in Accra on Wednesday warned investigators against keeping remand prisoners in police custody instead of prison custody.
The warning emerged when the trial judge Mr Mahamadu Iddrisu criticised a Police Investigator, D…
The German Foreign Office is providing a 100,000 euro grant to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) to set up a gramophone and tapes library to preserve archival music works.
The GBC Gramophone Library had not been functioning fo…
A 30-year-old mobile phone repairer, Desmond Adekula, on Wednesday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court charged with conspiracy and robbing a trader of his personal belongings at gun point.
Adekula and two others now at large robbed Mr…
Dr Ahmad Ali Ghane, President of the Islamic University College of Ghana (IUCG) on Wednesday called on Muslims not to do anything that could destabilise the nation during the forthcoming general election.
Dr Ali Ghane who made the ca…
Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, has re-emphasized his call for greater discipline in Ghanaian society saying it was the only way by which the country could attain economic development.
He expressed the displeasure that indisciplin…
Former students of Pope John's Junior Seminary and Senior High School (POJOSS) working with the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), have presented a cash of GH¢10,000 to help their alma mater to carry out a number of development projects.
Initiate…
The Ghana National Fire Service on Wednesday confirmed that five people died in Monday night's fire outbreak at a warehouse at Ablekuma in Accra.
Division Office Grade 1 Daniel Ntim Yeboah of the Weija Fire Service Station, which arr…
Participants at a day's workshop on malaria prevention, have identified the activities of road contractors, especially at the district level, as a major contributory to the increasing incidence of malaria in the country.
They accu…
Health experts have expressed worry over the steady but increasing figures in diabetes cases among children and adolescents in the country.
Such figures were said to send signals to the general population to be wary of an epidemic wh…
Mr John Hobenu, Northern Regional Director of Education has appealed to parents to encourage their children to read to enable them understand the English Language and knowledge about the environment.
He noted that most children did n…
France-based Air Water International Group,
on Wednesday launched a machine that could extract humidity in the air and transform it into water for domestic and industrial consumption.
The product, which is the first to be launched …
Afreak Med Foundation, an international Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) based in Austria, is constructing a 50,000 Euros-ultra-modern hospital for the Tolon community in the Tolon-Kumbungu District of the Northern Region.
The hos…
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon of the United Nations on Wednesday expressed concern at new acts of piracy off the coast of Somalia, urging coordinated international efforts to fight the scourge.
"The Secretary-General expresses his co…
Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was ordered on Wednesday to stand trial in a political smear campaign that targeted President Nicolas Sarkozy, a French judicial official said.
Judges signed an order on Tuesday ev…
The United States on Wednesday reiterated its grave concern over increasing hijacking of foreign vessels near Somalia waters, and expected international cooperation over the issue.
"We in the State Department are trying to come at it…
Italian security forces rounded up 11 members of the banned Moroccan Islamist Al Adl Wal Ihsane Movement (Justice and Charity) over international terrorism charges, local radio reported on Wednesday.
The Italian police have conducte…
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf on Wednesday appealed to world leaders to meet together next year to design a new agricultural order and find 30 billion dollars a year to eradicate hunger from …
The Reverend Joshua William Acheampong, District Pastor of the Patasi Mount Olive Presbyterian Church, has implored Christians to abide by the tenets of the Bible in all their endeavours.
He said the basis of Christianity was to rema…
Defence Counsel for Isaac Abeiku Aidoo, alias Goodies, on Wednesday pleaded with the media to give his client some respite since their reportage on the trial increases the blood pressure of the accused.
"I want the court to use its discr…
Mr. Thomas Imoro Sayibu, Chairman of the Coalition
of NGOs In Water And Sanitation (CONIWAS), on Wednesday stressed the need for Ghanaians to have access to clean toilets.
At a press conference to mark the World Toilet Day, Mr. Say…
Professor Edwin Gyasi, Head of the Department of Geography and Resource Development at the University of Ghana has said there
was the need to place emphasis on brain development in our educational system
to help solve the developmental…
Mothers of three players of Ghana's Black Stars have donated 300 treated mosquito nets to pregnant women at Agogo in the Ashanti Region.
Madam Aba Gyanode, mother of midfielder Michael Essien, Madam Mary Donkoh, mother of central def…
The United States is confident that the Iraqi Parliament would approve a controversial military pact that allows American troops to remain in Iraq until the end of 2011, White House Spokeswoman Dana Perino said on Wednesday.
"We thin…
The Mfantseman Municipal Assembly has provided office accommodation, furniture and computers to the Municipal Mutual Health Insurance Scheme at Saltpond.
The items, costing about GHc5, 000 are to facilitate the work of the scheme and…
President John Agyekum Kufuor has said over 8,000 million dollars owed by the nation had been cancelled during his administration.
President Kufuor said apart from dept cancellation, the Dutch government alone had supported the natio…
Efforts at addressing the acute water shortfall in the north-eastern parts of Accra, has been given a big boost with the completion of the 32-million dollar East-West Interconnection and the Weija Water Treatment Plant Expansion Project. …
Teye Mensah, 36, a health service volunteer at Ningokrom in the Dormaa East district has been honoured by the Wamfie health center for his dedication to duty.
For his reward, the volunteer took home a phoenix bicycle worth GHC 50.
…
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has expressed concern about the manner in which some articulated and heavy duty truck drivers were flouting its directives on the nocturnal movements of their trucks.
This follows the recent review…
The Paramount Chief of Bongo Traditional Area, Bo-Naba Salifu Alemyarim, in collaboration with the Bongo Area Development Programme (ADP) of World Vision Ghana, has honoured six Swiss donors visiting the area in appreciation of their signi…
Squadron Leader Ben Anane Asamoah (rtd), Dormaa East District Chief Executive, has presented a computer and its accessories worth GHC 250 to Wamfie Magistrate's court.
The DCE said the gesture was in fulfilment of a request by the co…
The Energy Foundation has stressed the need for people to use low electricity consuming appliances to conserve energy and to reduce their energy cost.
Mr Ernest Asare, the Director of Communications at the Energy Foundation, who spo…
A South African police officer, accused of firing at a vehicle and injuring eight people of Indian origin, has been denied bail.
The police officer, Hlanganani Nxumalo, 28, attached to the VIP Protection Unit appeared in a local mag…
As India figures among leading countries having a significant number of malnourished children, top international aid agencies including World Bank, UNICEF and USAID came forward Wednesday to support the Government in improving child nutrit…
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