A peace concert was held at the Takoradi Jubilee Park to encourage and elicit peace from all Ghanaians before, during and after the December general elections.
A large number of enthusiastic music lovers, especially the youth filled …
The Winneba Magistrate's Court has sentenced a 22- year old Plumber to nine months imprisonment with hard labour for destroying a kiosk and attempted to steal.
Kwame Bentum pleaded guilty.
Narrating the fact of the case to the …
Christians have been urged to be bold enough to stand up against anything which sought to drag the name and image of Christ and the religion into disrepute.
"Christians who form about 70 percent of the total population of the country m…
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Saturday announced that government has planned to tackle the residential accommodation problems in all the 38 Training Colleges of Education in the country.
He said this forms part of the New Educatio…
Mr. Affail Monney, Vice President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), has appealed to journalists and other media workers in the Western Region, to continually operate within the professional standards.
He said any deviation …
Ahmed al-Mirghani, former Sudanese president, died in Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria on Sunday, the Egyptian official MENA news agency reported.
Mirghani, who is also a vice-president of Sudan's Democratic Unionist Party, passed …
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit the Middle East later this week, in a new bid to push forward the staggering Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
U.S. State Department announced Thursday that Rice would travel to Is…
The Central Regional branch of Domestic Violence Victim Support Unit (DVVSU), has sensitized opinion leaders in five districts on the harmful effects of domestic and gender-based violence.
The participants were made up of traditional …
Mr Anthony K Ahiaba, Registrar of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs, has advised kingmakers in the country to follow laid down procedures in the selection and installation of chiefs to avoid conflicts.
He noted that non-observance o…
Armed men on Monday abducted one French aid worker from Afghan capital Kabul and killed an Afghan who tried to prevent the abduction on the spot, officials said.
"It occurred at around 9:10 a.m. local time (0440 GMT) when three gunme…
There have been 132,249 HIV-acquired cases reported in Vietnam nationwide, the Vietnam News Agency reported on Monday, citing the source with the Ministry of Health.
According to the official statistics released at the 16th Meeting o…
The Reverend Fr. Victor Sackey, Executive Secretary of the Cancer Society of Ghana this weekend advised Ghanaians, especially women to have periodic cancer check-ups since breast cancer was curable if detected early.
He said most peo…
Mr Mawuena Amedorme, Graduate of Tema School of Technology, using local materials has developed a machine to boost large scale production of Batik Tie and Dye in the country.
The machine, 17 feet long, six feet wide and five feet hig…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) activist has blamed the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) and the National Democratic congress (NDC) administrations for creating the mass unemployment in the country.
Mr Felix Nyarko Antwi, Fi…
MTN, in accordance with its pledge to promote quality journalism in the country, on Monday presented prizes to winners of various prizes in the 2007 Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Awards.
Ms Mawuena Dumor, Corporate Service Dire…
Mr. Vincent O. Quarcoo, National President of Ghana Bar Operators Association (GHABOA), has asked members of the association not to open their drinking bars and spots on Election Day, December 7, 2008.
He said that would forestall any…
The police at Afianya on Sunday intercepted an Urvan bus carrying 119 parcels of dried leaves believed to be Indian hemp.
The 119 parcels in black polythene bag was concealed in the bus with registration number GW 8931 Z, loaded with cas…
The Nkoranza police are searching for a nursing mother who allegedly abandoned a day's baby boy at a public toilet at Nkoranza.
The baby wrapped with a piece of cloth in a black polythene bag has been retrieved and admitted at Saint…
The Reverend Fr. Victor Sackey, Executive Secretary of the Cancer Society of Ghana this weekend advised Ghanaians, especially women to have periodic cancer check-ups since breast cancer was curable if detected early.
He said most peo…
Voices for Malaria-Free Future Ghana, a malaria advocate group, on Monday asked politicians, especially presidential candidates, to make malaria a campaign issue in the 2008 general elections.
Malaria is the leading cause of morbidit…
Christians have been urged to be bold enough to stand up against anything which sought to drag the name and image of Christ and the religion into disrepute.
"Christians who form about 70 percent of the total population of the country m…
Mr. Frank Marcellus Kwame Busumtwi, Birim Central Municipal Chief Executive, on Sunday called on farmers to undertake modern agricultural practices to preserve the country's forest.
He said that the wanton destruction of the forest …
A workshop aimed controlling outbreak and transmission of Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) in the West African sub-region was at the weekend open in Sunyani, capital town of Brong Ahafo.
The three-day event was being attended by chief vet…
Police personnel from Kibi have arrested four suspected armed robbers who allegedly hijacked a truck load of 600 bags of cocoa near Suhum in the Eastern Region.
They are Kofi Oppong, George Baah 40, Ankomah Dudra 25 and Bediako Osei …
The United States Government on Friday donated a Toyota Land Cruiser worth 55,000 US dollars to the office of Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) HIV/AIDS control programme.
The vehicle is to enable the office to run its administrative duties e…
Four Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETfund) sponsored projects estimated at about GH¢ 970,300 were inaugurated in separate beneficiary communities in the Ketu-North District on Friday.
They are a GH¢ 380,000 single-story 12-unit cla…
The leadership of Music Copyright Society of Ghana (M-COSGA), said it did not authorize anybody or group of persons to use the name of the Society to collect royalties for musicians.
It, therefore, described as unfounded allegations and …
Mr. Stephen Ameyaw, an Italy-based citizen of Nkrankwanta has presented educational materials worth thousands of Ghana cedis to 252 basic school pupils at Nkrankwanta in Dormaa municipality.
Mr. Ameyaw said the items, which comprised…
One month before world governments go to Oslo, Norway to sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), Pacific governments have been urged to show greater commitment to victims of the cluster munitions by initialing the convention, accor…
A group of gunmen attacked an oil vessel and kidnapped at least 10 crew members, including seven from France, early Friday off the coast of Cameroon, agencies reported.
This has been confirmed by oil services company Bourbon, for wh…
Government has approved the construction of a 171,372 Ghana cedis two stream Kindergarten project under its Golden Jubilee projects for Kade.
Mr Yaw Yiadom-Boakye, Kwaebibirem District Chief Executive who announced this at the assemb…
A traditional ruler has appealed to philanthropists, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and organisatons to come to the aid of the people of Kyekyewere to help raise their living conditions.
Nana Yaw Boakye Ababio, Chief of Kyekyewere…
The Akwaaba Decline, which will pave way for the expansion of the Chirano underground mine has been inaugurated at Akwaaba in the Western Region.
Mr John Seaward, General Manager of Chirano Gold Mine, performed the ceremony at the week-e…
Chiefs of Defence Staff of ECOWAS member states have ended their 23rd meeting in Conakry, Guinea, approving a field training exercise (FTX) in 2009 for the logistic component of the ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF) to evaluate its capacity to su…
Reverend Alexander K. Nyantakyi, the Minster of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana at Akim Oda, said poor academic standards in the country was partly due to indiscipline among students.
He cited alcoholism, drug abuse, hooliganism, i…
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Saturday announced that government has planned to tackle the residential accommodation problems in all the 38 Training Colleges of Education in the country.
He said this forms part of the New Educatio…
Nana Ameyaw Yeboah II, Chief of Sikaa, a farming community in Nkoranza District of Brong-Ahafo Region, has presented a 21 inch coloured television set to authorities of the local Presbyterian Primary School.
The television set valued…
George Adusu, 36, and his accomplice, Raphael Hevi, 35, both traders have been arrested by the Hohoe Police for dealing in fake currencies.
Mr Kofi Adei-Akyeampong, Hohoe Divisional Police Commander, who briefed the Ghana News agency…
Students of public schools were on Friday called upon to project the image of their schools by showing commitment towards their studies.
Mrs Florence Dennis, Project Director of Tema Meridian Rotary Club who made the call at the week…
The Goaso police have detained Ali Salaam 22, a chainsaw operator for allegedly killing Police Sergeant James Adoma Nimako when he resisted arrest in the Bosombiposo Forest Reserve in Asunafo South Municipality of Brong Ahafo Region on Wed…
Due to the high illiteracy rate among women, most of them are ignorant of their rights.
Mr. Reginald Sackey, Assembly member for Essam Electoral Area, made the observation at Akim Oda in the Birim Central Municipality, shortly after at…
The Akim Swedru Circuit Court in the Eastern Region, has sentenced a 25-year-old farmer charged with defilement, to 15 years imprisonment in hard labour.
Kofi Yeboah pleaded not guilty to defiling a 12-year-old girl.
Police Inspect…
Ministers of Justice and Interior from ECOWAS Member States have adopted in Praia, Cape Verde, two main documents strategic to West Africa's renewed fight against illicit drugs and organized crime.
The two documents, to be presented …
A philanthropist and participant of the second Kente Festival in Dallas Fort Worth, America has donated a Dell computer with accessories to Anglican Vocational Technical School in Accra to enhance teaching and learning there.
Mr. Wal…
Mr Joe Baidoo Ansah, Minister for Aviation on Thursday said the Accra International Airport could be at its present location and still be used for the next 20 years.
The assurance was amidst concerns to calls by some Members of Parlia…
Daasebre Professor Emeritus Oti Boateng, Omanhene of New Juaben, says in a competitive world of constant change, developing countries risk further marginalization unless critical manpower needs are trained locally to protect national inter…
Mr. Thomas Bismark Boakye, Western Regional Coordinator of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), on Thursday called on commercial drivers to avoid excesses on the roads to prevent accidents and loss of lives as this year's Presidenti…
A Circuit Court in Accra on Thursday ordered the arrest of a former student of Accra Polytechnic who gained admission into the school with a forged Senior High School results slip.
This followed Charlotte Mensah's absence in court when t…
President John Agyekum Kufuor has urged the Judiciary to be always mindful of the public's demand for justice that was efficient, fair and effective.
The transparency, fairness and speed with which cases were dealt with by the courts…
Mr. Ernest Debrah, Minister of Food and Agriculture, on Thursday said though human resource development and capacity building programme had led to increased food supplies and crop yields, poverty still remained a major problem among rural …
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