The bodies of five would-be illegal immigrants have been spotted in the sea off the Italian island of Lampedusa by a naval military aircraft, after a second ship carrying immigrants sank in the area in two days, the ANSA news agency repor…
Ethiopia braced Sunday for more damage from deadly nationwide flash floods as the government warned that unusually heavy seasonal rains could force the release of water from dangerously swollen dams.
A task force set up to deal with …
President John Agyekum Kufuor expressed absolute confidence in the Georgina Wood Committee set up to unravel the recent cocaine scandal that has hit the country.
Neither the President nor the Government would do anything to undermi…
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene assured Asantes of rectitude when he addressed the Asanteman Council on his return to Kumasi from Morocco.
He said: “I want to send a clear and unambiguous message within the constraint imposed by our…
President John Agyekum Kufuor has given the assurance that the Government will never, for any short-time benefit, tamper with the chieftaincy institution.
He said they were aware of the worth of the institution and would therefore, …
Parents have been advised to re-heat left-over foods very well before they give to their school-going children for breakfast.
Madam Fati Gariba, a Community Health Nurse at Bekwai, who gave the advice, said left-over foods, which we…
Like generals locked in strategic debate about how to prosecute a war where no end is in sight, campaigners in the global AIDS pandemic broadly divide into two camps.
On one side, there are the "treaters," those who demand action for…
Mr. Sylvester Adongo Northern Regional Director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) has urged Agricultural Extension Officers (AEO) in the region to adopt innovative ways to make farming attractive and rewarding in order to boo…
The Controller and Accountant General has explained the cause of non-payment and under payment of salaries of some Health Workers for July 2006.
A statement Mr Kwabena Adjei-Mensah, Deputy Controller and Accountant General Financial Ma…
All valid omissions on the Health Sector payroll submitted to the Controller and Accountant-General (C&AG) have been processed for inclusion in the August payroll.
A circular signed by Mr Kwabena Adjei-Mensah, Deputy Controller & Ac…
The government has channelled colossal financial resources through the banks to strengthen the operations of the Rural Enterprise Project (REP) toward the economic empowerment of rural communities.
Mr Kofi Adusei-Poku, Deputy Minist…
New efforts show AIDS and HIV treatments can succeed in war zones, where people fear bombs and bullets more than a distant death from disease, non-governmental groups said Saturday.
Ahead of the 16th International AIDS Conference, do…
The war on AIDS may last decades, the head of the agency UNAIDS warned here, as experts gathered for the biggest-ever conference on a disease that has claimed 25 million lives in a quarter century.
Peter Piot, UNAIDS's executive direc…
The Justice Georgina Wood Committee investigating two major cocaine-related cases that hit the country late last year and early this year began sitting in camera on Monday to hear testimonies from some key witnesses.
Mr Ransford Tet…
China will offer special students discounts on tickets sold for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, state media reported Sunday.
The measure is meant to promote the Olympic movement among youngsters, Xinhua news agency reported, citi…
Dr George Ofori-Atta, Presiding Arch Bishop of the International Council for the Clergy, at the weekend slammed Christian leaders who condone wrong doing in society because of their quest to acquire material wealth.
He said God had c…
Medical doctors have been admonished to refrain from leaving the country after their training to seek greener pastures abroad since the practice thwarted efforts to enhance health care delivery in the country.
Professor Kwesi Andam…
Mr Daniel Dugan, the Deputy Minister of Fisheries, at the weekend said government would ensure that only people with verifiable project plans benefited from credits under the Youth In Agriculture programme.
He said this would elimin…
Somali pirates on Saturday released a South Korean fishing boat with 25 Asian crew, hijacked in April, after a ransom of hundreds of thousands of dollars was paid, elders and militiamen said.
"The illegal fishermen who unlawfully ent…
The Most Reverend Robert Aboagye-Mensah, Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana, on Saturday urged authorities of educational institutions and the Church to ensure that students combined higher academic achievements with moral …
Dr. Kwame Ameyaw Domfeh, a Lecturer at the Business School Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management of the University of Ghana, Legon, on Thursday expressed concern about the rate of exploitation of natural resou…
Drinking bar operators and food vendors who fail to obtain medical certificates before operating will be sanctioned, a district environmental officer has warned.
Mr George Afranie Buadi, Twifo-Hemang-lower-Denkyira district environm…
The Ashanti Regional Co-ordinator of the Integrated Community Centre for Employable Skills (ICCES), Nana Boateng, has appealed to the Ministry of Manpower, Youth and Employment to adequately resource its youth training institutions to ena…
Dr Henrietta Odoi-Agyarko, Deputy Director of Public Health, Ghana Health Service, on Monday called for a multi-disciplinary as well as multi-dimensional approach to curb the high maternal mortality and child morbidity rates in Africa.
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Mr Hackman Owusu Agyeman, Minister of Water Resource, Work and Housing has cut sod for the commencement of a multi billion water and sanitation project for three Dangme districts.
The project, which would provide potable drinking wat…
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr. Yaw Barimah, has urged motorists, pedestrians and road agencies to play their expected roles effectively to ensure a reduction in accidents from now to December.
He cautioned that posterity would n…
About 40 members of the Birim South District Assembly, opinion leaders and Chiefs on Wednesday, attended a workshop on Social Auditing at Akyem Oda.
It was organised by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) to get the el…
Mr Alban Sumanu Kingsford Bagbin, the Minority Leader in Parliament, on Wednesday urged his colleagues to show discipline by example for the citizenry to copy.
"We should stop preaching. We should practise and the people will follow. If…
A field officer of the East Akim District Secretariat of the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE), Ms Sophia Amponsah had observed that, if more women take up political positions in the country, corruption by political office ho…
Mr Kobina T. Hammond, Deputy Minister of Energy, urged Members of Parliament (MPs) to use part of their share of the District Assemblies’ Common Fund (DACF) to procure low voltage electricity poles for communities in their constituencies.
…
A three-day ECOWAS Brainstorming and Expert Planning Workshop on National Human Rights Institutions opened in Accra on Wednesday to develop an effective strategy to promote and protect human rights in the Sub-Region.
The workshop wo…
A newly-published book said that a U.S. clandestine plan on air raiding China's first nuclear weapon facilities 42 years ago forced Chinese leaders to alter the nation's economic development strategy.
The book on the modern Chinese eco…
About 400 residents of Manhyia, a suburb of Goaso in the Asunafo District of Brong-Ahafo were at the weekend rendered homeless by floods following a torrential rainfall that lasted several hours.
The floods occurred when River Goa o…
Droves of teenagers in the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District have fully taken advantage of the Capitation grant under the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) policy to enrol in basic schools specifically primary one, a survey by t…
The Ghana United Nations Association is embarking on a nation-wide sensitisation campaign to educate Ghanaians on the need to value and appreciate the relative peace and stability in the country.
This is aimed at prompting individual…
British Education Secretary Alan Johnson vowed on Friday to stop feeding pupils the "rubbish that they have been given for decades" with new rules cutting levels of sugar, fat and salt in English school meals.
Rules taking effect in …
Major (rtd) Courage Quarshigah, Minister of Health tasked health workers to abide by the Oath of their profession by attending to their duties with diligence, courage, compassion and trustworthiness.
He said the Oath represented the…
The Atwima-Mponua District Assembly has donated 10 sewing machines worth five million cedis to ten needy girls who have completed their apprenticeship in dressmaking to enable them start their own businesses.
Mr Wilberforce Owusu-An…
Assembly Members of the Hohoe District Assembly on Wednesday took a swipe at the Police and expressed their resentment for the inaction and what they described as gross unprofessional conduct exhibited by Servicemen, which had led to indi…
The Ghana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has called on the Government to facilitate the process of putting monetary value on the determinants which would make workers earn a living wage they had been expecting all along by the end of the y…
Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lampety, Minister of Tourism and Modernization of the Capital City, on Tuesday said Ghana would be the centre of fun flying in West Africa with the introduction and development of the Hang and Paragliding Festival.
…
The Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) has urged churches of the country to help break cultural and
traditional barriers which prevent girls from taking football as a career.
Zambia Daily Mail Friday quoted FAZ president Teddy Mulon…
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Yaw Barimah, has attributed the government's inability to provide adequate social and infrastructure to the needy communities to the bad governance of the previous government.
He said the government …
Taliban insurgents gunned down an Afghan district governor in troubled southern Afghanistan Saturday in an ambush in insurgency-hit Helmand province, police said.
Abdul Majeed, the governor for the province's Baghran district, was kil…
Mr. Daniel Aggudey, Project Coordinator of the Western Regional Mass Drug Administration (MDA) has said that Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) popularly known as Elephantiasis was silently destroying lives, breaking up families and causing permane…
The European Commission may take Germany to court over its failure to implement a bloc-wide ban on tobacco advertising, EU health commissioner Markos Kyprianou said in an interview published Wednesday.
"I am determined to bring this…
Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, former first lady and eight ex-public officials on Wednesday appeared before an Accra Fast Track High Court for alleged impropriety in the divestiture of Nsawam Cannery.
Nana Konadu, who is also chairper…
Mr Joseph Onyinah, Obuasi Municipal Director of Education, has charged heads of public basic schools in the municipality to ensure transparency in the use of the capitation grant.
Mr Onyinah, who made the call at an emergency meetin…
The Board of Directors of Ghana International Airlines Limited (GIAL) terminated the appointment of Mr Brian Presbury, Chief Executive Officer and not Mr Kwdwo Mpiani, Chief of Staff and Minister for Presidential Affairs.
A stateme…
Lieutenant-Colonel Emmanuel Kotia, Commanding Officer of the 66 Artillery Regiment, has said Military-Civil relations in the Volta Region had improved greatly.
He said this had come about with the education of all ranks in the regim…