A Hutu rebel chief linked to atrocities in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo began fighting deportation from Germany where he was detained last week.
Ignace Murwanashyaka filed objections to being deported after his asylum a…
Some people in Accra who viewed the eclipse of the sun with the prescribed eclipse shades tore it into two and shared it with their friends.
They watched the event with one eye while the other eye was protected with their palm.
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Mr Justice Yaw Appau, Supervising High Court Judge in Kumasi, has advised budding lawyers to be courageous in the course of practicing their professional career.
He said courage and bravery were the hallmarks of the legal profession…
A magistrate's court at New Edubiase has sentenced a 41-year-old revenue collector to eight months imprisonment for falsification of accounts.
Yeboah Kankam Dacosta pleaded guilty to the charge and asked for leniency.
Police C…
Shareholders of the SG-SSB Limited expressed satisfaction with the Bank's performance for the 2005 year and voted unanimously for the Bank to purchase 10 per cent of issued shares to raise share price.
The Bank at its 26th Annual Ge…
Clients of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in some parts of the Upper East Region have begun defrauding the scheme, Mr James Maurice Abakisi, Builsa District NHIS Manager, has said at the weekend.
"Under the pretext of be…
The Ministry of Education and Sports has expressed serious concern about demands by custodians of lands for compensation in respect of school lands, some of which were acquired as far back as the 1920s.
Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, Minister …
The Ministry of Education and Sports said Wednesday, March 29, the day on which a solar eclipse is expected, is not a public holiday, as the event would last for only three minutes.
Mr Ato Esuman, Chief Director of the Ministry, who…
Mr Eddy Obeng-Darko, the Atwima-Nwabiagya District Director of Education, has stated that the youth had a responsibility to halt the alarming rate the environment and the ecosystems were being destroyed.
Mankind's existence and the …
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Kwaku Amoako, Brong Ahafo Regional Unit Commander of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DVVSU) expressed concern about the increasing number of divorce cases in the Region.
He sai…
The Ministry of Lands, Forestry and Mines has within the past three years spent about 167 billion cedis on the Government's Plantation Development programme.
The programme, being sponsored through HIPC funds, has three components, re…
A paramount chief of the Mo Traditional Area has appealed to northern scholars to put politics aside and marshal meaningful plans to develop the north to solve the acute poverty there.
He said there was a lot of income-generating ac…
The Adansi South District Assembly has set up a five-member committee to investigate circumstances that led to the inclusion of the 31st December Women's Movement Day-Care Centre at New Edubiase benefiting from the capitation grant.
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The Atwima-Nwabiagya district secretariat of the Non-Formal Education Division (NFED) of the Ministry of Education and Sports on Thursday presented incentive packages to 43 facilitators for their hard work and dedication at a ceremony at …
The Kwahu South District Director of Education, Mr James Nii Okaija Dinsey, has ordered the temporary closure of St. Peters' Secondary School and all the 1,262 students sent home with exception of some few prefects following students' dist…
Suspected outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu area spreading quickly through farms around the north Nigerian city of Kano, the head of a government clean-up team said on Tuesday.
Shehu Bawa, the leader of Kano State's bid …
Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama has tasked journalists to admit their professional weaknesses and rally social support for development initiatives and expansion of public knowledge through informed and rigorous analysis.
Journalis…
Mr Philip Basoah, Sekyere East District Chief Executive, has called on chiefs in the district to create land banks in their areas of jurisdiction for development.
He said this could attract investors to the district that had been inc…
The Ministry of Tourism and Modernisation of the Capital City on Monday condemned the indiscriminate use of the Kente cloth by some institutions and persons in recent times.
A statement signed by Mr Ferdinand O. Ayim, Personal Ass…
Ghana would host a Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge to facilitate the identification and testing of potentially beneficial low-cost naturally derived medicinal products for the prevention and managem…
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Elections Committee announced on Tuesday that it was postponing the election for the position of Corporate Member until the GJA Corporate Membership was duly constituted.
A statement signed by…
A South African Airways flight on Monday night made an emergency landing at the Kotoka International Airport after developing a technical problem shortly after take-off.
Sources at the offices of South African Airways on Tuesday con…
Madam Veronica Darko, Chief Executive of the Nurses and Midwives Council of Ghana, has reminded health professionals, especially nurse managers, that patients have the right to quality healthcare delivery at anytime.
Madam Darko sai…
The Osu Mantse, Nii Nortey Owuo III declared that he had not authorised the Mankralo or any other person to seize any properties or make any public statements regarding Osu Stool affairs.
In a statement signed in Accra by Nii Okwei …
The government spent over 1.6 billion cedis on the cocoa spraying exercise in the Adansi South District between May and November last year.
It is therefore not true that the same government, having spent so much to improve the cocoa…
Yusif Yakubu, a science student at the University of Ghana (UG), Legon, who has won a scholarship to study medicine at the Lugansk State Medical University, Ukraine, on Sunday began a walk from Kumasi to Accra to raise funds to support hi…
The decentralization policy is to empower the people at the local and grassroots level to participate in governance and to ensure the sustenance of true democracy in the country, Mr James Kwabena Appiah-Awuah, Nkoranza District Chief Exec…
The Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of the Methodist Secondary School at Sekondi has presented a block of two classrooms and a 10-seater water closet toilet to the school.
The projects valued at 350 million cedis were meant to ease …
Twenty-six students in the Central Region will benefit from a scholarship to pursue their Senior Secondary School education as from this year.
The scheme instituted by Mr Ato Essuman, Member of the Council of State, would cover a boy…
Ghana on Thursday joined the world to launch the Global Status of commercialised Biotech and Genetically Modified (GM) Crops report for 2005.
The report released on January 11 by the US-based International Service for the Acquisitio…
Well established farmers have been urged to set up demonstration farms to train the youth interested in farming as a vocation in modern methods.
Nana Kwaku Nsiah of Kuma Farms and the 2004 National Best Farmer, when he visited Ambro…
The Ministry of Energy has attributed the recent power outages to obsolete equipment being operated by the Volta River Authority (VRA) and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
The power outages on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 of Janua…
The Youth of Namolo, a suburb of Navrongo in the Kassena Nankana District of the Upper East Region have initiated a move, aimed at addressing the developmental problems in the community, through reducing poverty.
As a first step, th…
Security agencies at the country's frontiers have been reminded of the extra vigilance and coordination they were required to put up to secure national security and stability.
Mr Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong, Inspector-General of Poli…
Nim Furniture and Pest Control Company has donated 10 million cedis worth of airtime to the Ministry of Health on the Metro TV.
A statement signed by Mr Dan Osman, Public Relations Officer of the Ministry, said the airtime credit wo…
The Ashanti Regional Secretariat of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), has called for the collective efforts of stakeholders tackle the outbreak of bushfires and incidence of Cerebral Spinal Meningitis (CSM) that had b…
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BANGUI, Jan 9 (AFP/) - Thousands of people in the capital of the Central African Republic were forced to walk to work or school Monday after a strike in protest at rising fuel costs ke…
A 167-page book on the mysterious deadly disease Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), which according to medical experts affect one in a million people was at the week-end launched in Accra.
The book titled; "O Love...That Will Not Let Me…
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Tuesday called on the Muslim community to use the celebration of the Eid-Ul-Adha to pray for more peace, harmony and mutual understanding that would bond all Ghanaians together.
They should also ask f…
Mr Yaw Osafo Maafo, Minister of Education and Sports has stated that the government would ensure that citizens are lifted from the shackles of ignorance and poverty in this scientific and technology era.
He said, "Science and techno…
Participants at the 57th Annual Near Year School, which ended at the week-end at the University Ghana, Legon have recommended to Government to declare this year, 2006, as a "Year for attitudinal changes at workplaces".
Government as …
The Upper West Region this year recorded only one road accident from December 25 to January 3, 2006 making it the first time it recorded such a limited number of accidents during the yuletide.
Apart from a private vehicle that had a…
Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, Minister of Education and Sports, has advocated the active involvement of the youth in the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
He said the organisation of focus group discussions and other participatory exercises…
Police Officers, who fall abysmally below the pass mark at various Police training courses, would be withdrawn, Mr Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong, Inspector General of Police (IGP), said on Thursday.
The IGP was speaking at the opening …
Mr Osei Bonsu Amoah, Deputy Minister of Education and Sports has allayed fears of athletes that the relocation of the running tracks at the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium to the El Wak Stadium in Accra will not perish the sport.
The Deputy…
About 164 teachers drawn from four circuits of the Amansie East District in Ashanti have attended an HIV/AIDS workshop aimed at equipping them with the requisite knowledge on the disease.
The circuits were Bekwai, Asiwa, Abosamso and…
Argentine Palaeontologists have discovered the largely intact skeleton of a young titanosaurus that lived 71 million years ago, local media reported.
"What's extraordinary about this is that the remains were articulated, as if the ani…
Well-to-do Ghanaians have been urged to show love and compassion to the needy and vulnerable people in society.
They should also use part of their wealth to support the poor and contribute to their welfare to enable them feel happy …
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Challenge Heights, a Non profit organisation, Mr James Kofi Annan, has commended the Ghana Education Service (GES) for taking punitive action against some head-teachers in Accra for sending pupils …
The Minister of Energy, Prof. Mike Ocquaye, has called on the people to embrace policies of government because those policies were meant to improve the standard of living of the people of Ghana.
He assured that the government would n…