Six men, including a Catholic priest, pleaded not guilty Friday to the murder last month of a 77-year-old Italian bishop in the diocese he founded in northern Kenya four decades ago.
The accused appeared before Nairobi High Court Judg…
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi is converting two hospitals into teaching hospitals in addition to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) to provide clinical training to its medical students.
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The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi is converting two hospitals into teaching hospitals in addition to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) to provide clinical training to its medical students.
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The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi is converting two hospitals into teaching hospitals in addition to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) to provide clinical training to its medical students.
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Worldwide newspaper sales edged up by more than two percent in 2004 while advertising revenue recorded significant gains, the World Association of Newspapers said Monday.
In its report on trends in the newspaper industry, the WAN sai…
Mr Kusi Aboraa, Ashanti Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has reiterated the need for parents to invest in their children's education and development.
He said investing in children's welfare wo…
The Greater Accra Regional Police Command has chalked another success in its fight against armed robbers by arresting another high profile member of the gang of Aryee Aryetey, alias Ata Ayi, who is standing trial for various robberies.
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The Administrator of the Koforidua Regional Hospital, Mr Lucio Derry, had advised families in the Eastern Region to register with the District Health Insurance Schemes to stop the embarrassment of abandoning their relations at the hospital…
Farmers in the Northern Region have adopted extracts from neem leaves and seeds to control insects and pests.
The neem has an active ingredient called "azadirachtin" that is found in all parts of the tree with the largest concentrations …
The European Union's health commissioner called on Europe on Friday to protect itself from a possible epidemic of bird flu.
"Reinforcing the defences of Europe against infectious diseases is an urgent priority. Health experts warn us …
Dr Kofi Asare, Ashanti Regional Director of Health Services, has observed that radio stations are the worst culprits in the current proliferation of fake herbal and orthodox drugs in the country.
He said it has over the years been th…
Mrs Marian Adum-Atta, School Health Education Co-ordinator of the Accra Metro Education Directorate, on Friday called for responsible parenting, especially in the provision of the needs of their daughters to prevent them from being lured i…
Dr Linda Van-Otoo, the Deputy Western Regional Director of Health, has said the region has not recorded any cholera case for the past three years.
She was speaking at a programme on "Public-Private Partnership For Hand-Washing with Soap"…
The United Nations Secretary-General, Busumuru Kofi Annan, on Tuesday called on Member States and stakeholders to reaffirm their commitment to the telecommunications sector.
In a statement read on his behalf at a flag-raising ceremon…
Tuberculosis (TB) patients have been advised against self-medication and reliance on quack doctors for treatment.
They should rather report early to health facilities to receive free medical attention.
Madam Grace Dwomoh, Kuma…
More than 900 teachers in the Ejisu-Juaben District in the Ashanti Region on Wednesday went on a three-hour peaceful demonstration to demand the immediate transfer of the District Education Director, Mr Festus Boadi-Suadwa.
The demons…
The Iraqi people are suffering from a desperate lack of jobs, housing, health care and electricity, according to a survey by Iraqi authorities and the United Nations released on Thursday.
Planning Minister Barham Saleh, during a cere…
Prosecutors nearing the end of their child sex case against Michael Jackson attempted Monday to flesh out an alleged conspiracy hatched by the pop icon against his young accuser's family.
Telephone records were presented showing dozen…
The Offinso District Health Directorate has started a campaign in some communities, schools and churches to educate them about HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB).
The campaign aims at sensitising the people on the dangers of such disease…
-The National Commission for Civic Education on Thursday honoured the Salaga Secondary School for emerging champions of the Fifth Constitution Game competition for second cycle schools.
The Competition that formed part of activities m…
A 41-year-old man was burned early Thursday after being pushed onto the tracks of the Paris metro by a homeless man, raising concerns about safety in the underground system, police said.
The suspect, who was placed in preventive deten…
Mr. Isaac Edumadze, Central Regional Minister has warned students to desist from practicing occultism and the use of drugs because they could not help them in any way of their education.
Rather their use could ruin their lives and de…
Some citizens of Anum in the Asuogyaman District of the Eastern Region have called on the Inspector General of Police and the MP for the area to help check the recent spate of murders in the town.
This followed the discovery of the b…
A Polish priest who had close contact with the late pope John Paul II, was an informer for Poland's communist-era intelligence service, an official from an investigative institute said Wednesday.
The Polish Institute for National Reme…
Mr.Stephen Boakye, Assemblyman for Abountem in the Bosomtwe Atwima Kwanwoma District has called on the Assembly to rehabilitate all roads linking the town to other areas which are in a very bad shape.
He said the deplorable condition…
Sudan's ruling party, the National Congress (NC) has teamed up with Uganda's ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) to establish computer centers for NRM youth leagues across the country, reported local press on Saturday.
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The Kingdom of Cambodia is a fascinating country despite its tiny size. It is rich in natural resources and traditional culture, and its Angkor Wat is one of the wonders of the world.
However, Cambodia is also one of the world's most-h…
The 31st Annual Conference of the West Volta Presbytery of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana opens in Accra with a call on church leaders to re-package their messages and present them in a manner that would draw more people closer…
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, in power since his country's independence from Britain in 1980, has reaffirmed he will retire in 2008 and stressed that he was not grooming an heir, a state-owned daily reported Friday.
"I have said…
Nana Kwame Eyiah, Tufohene of Apam has urged Ghanaians to show appreciation to hard working medical doctors in rural areas for their invaluable contributions towards the country's health delivery system.
Such moral booster could be d…
A Kumasi Circuit Court had granted a 100-million-cedi bail with one surety to be justified, to Samuel Jones Ayim, a 28-year-old trader for defrauding his colleague of 7,000 Euros.
He pleaded guilty and would re-appear on May 10.
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The Director General of Ghana Aids Commission, Professor Sakyi Amoa has said that under no circumstance should HIV/AIDS status of a person be a pre-requisite to marriage.
He therefore, urged churches and other institutions that forcib…
The Meteorological Services Department, on Saturday announced that the inflow of moisture far into the country is expected to sustain the cloudy conditions over the entire country.
Few thundery-showers are expected over the Eastern, …
Roman Catholic cardinals began meeting Saturday for the 12th and last time before the secret conclave in which 115 of them will elect a successor to the late Pope John Paul II.
The cardinals were expected to wrap up debate on the stat…
The chiefs and people of Mabang in the Ahafo-Ano North District in the Ashanti Region are converting an abandoned post office building under rehabilitation into a police station.
The police station in the town has been temporarily cl…
The Ghana High Commission has donated a mamograph, equipment for breast cancer screening, to the Kumasi South Hospital at Kyirapatre.
The donation was in response to the hospital's appeal launched last year for diagnostic equipment.…
The British High Commissioner, Mr Gordon Wetherell, on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Usman Nuhu Sharubutu, at his residence near the Accra Central Mosque in Accra.
A statement issued by the High C…
Italy on Tuesday adopted the European Union arrest warrant becoming the last EU country to do so following strong opposition from a governing coalition party.
The warrant aims to replace cumbersome extradition procedures by allowing E…
A discharge of water from a dam swept away scores of Hindu pilgrims while they were praying on the banks of the Narmada River in central India, leaving at least 53 dead, senior officials said.
The chief minister of the central state …
The three refurbished wards of the children's block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), was on Monday inaugurated at a ceremony at the hospital in Kumasi.
The project, which involved the laying of new tiles, replacement of …
Baffour Kwasi Afrifa I, the chief of Akim Peseato in the Fanteakwa District, has called on Churches and opinion leaders to assist traditional authorities in abolishing outmoded customs and traditions.
He noted that obsolete traditio…
Dozens of stamp collectors, tourists, priests, nuns and ordinary Romans queued outside a Vatican post office in St Peter's Square Tuesday as rare stamps marking the papal vacancy went on sale.
"They are not particularly valuable, may…
A day after the wedding of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles, more flowers than usual were placed at Paris' Place de l'Alma on Sunday where the prince's
late wife Diana was killed in a car crash in 1997.
Diana admirers placed …
Nigerian Catholics in this mainly-Muslim northern city were deeply moved by Pope John Paul II's funeral on Friday, but outraged that a power-cut prevented them for seeing the end of the ceremony.
"The funeral is the most historic even…
Roman Catholic cardinals convened on Saturday to discuss further details of the transition until a successor is named to Pope John Paul II, and declined afterwards to comment on their deliberations.
A South African cardinal, Wilfrid F…
The Vatican is to issue a set of stamps that will be usable only until the election of a new pope, a period that could be as little as 10 days, it announced Saturday.
The city-state's philately and minting office will issue the set of…
Michael Jackson's defense against child sex charges took a fresh blow Tuesday when his former maid told how she caught him in the shower with an Australian boy.
The woman, whose son tearfully told jurors that he was groped three times…
Japan has welcomed UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's resolve for the world body to adopt sweeping reforms but insisted that an expansion of the Security Council bring new permanent members such as Tokyo.
Annan, presenting a report Mon…
Dizengoff Ghana Limited, dealers in agro-chemicals and Motorola Services is diversifying into aquaculture and its appropriate technology transfer to make that branch in agriculture viable and attractive to farmers in the country.
Mr …
A Sekondi District Magistrate's Court on Monday convicted Egya Mensah, a 20-year-old auto electrician for being on the premises of the complainant, Mr Kwesi Annan, a fish farmer at Effiakuma number one, a suburb of Takoradi for unlawful pu…