The British government on Wednesday unveiled two stamps to commemorate the wedding next month of Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, and Camilla Parker Bowles.
The couple are pictured in an informal and relaxed mood on a f…
The notorious Gambino crime family, one of New York's five big "La Cosa Nostra" mafia clans, was dealt a severe blow Wednesday with the arrest of its top two acting leaders and the arrest or indictment of 30 others associated with the grou…
Unilever Ghana Limited (UGL) on Thursday presented 24 used computers valued at 48 million cedis to nine first and second cycle schools in the Tema municipality to enable the children get abreast with the computer age.
Making the pre…
A Palestinian gunman from the radical Islamic Jihad faction was killed by Israeli gunfire in the northern West Bank on Thursday, Israeli military sources said.
The Palestinian was killed as he opened fire on soldiers from within a hou…
Papa Owusu Ankoma, Minister of the Interior on Thursday said the Government would ensure that the rights of Ghanaians living abroad illegally, was respected in accordance with international human right standards.
He said his outfit h…
Madam Sophia Horner-Sam, Deputy Western Regional Minister Designate, on Tuesday proposed that 40 percent of appointments of District Chief Executives (DCEs) be reserved for women.
She made the proposal in a keynote address read for h…
Mr Yaw Barimah, the Eastern Regional Minister, has urged regional heads of public and civil services to work together to make the region the beacon to others in socio-economic development.
Addressing his first official meeting with …
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has launched the first phase of the computerisation and networking of the Town and Country Planning Department and other development control and management sections of the assembly in Kumasi.
T…
The United States has promised an early answer to new European proposals for persuading Iran to renounce its suspected nuclear weapons ambitions, a senior State Department official said on Wednesday.
The official, who asked not to be …
Mr Joe Kingsley Hackman, NPP-Gomoa West, on Thursday urged the Attorney - General's Department to fast track the prosecution of criminals as soon as they were arrested to deter other robbers and social miscreants.
He also recommended…
Peter Anno, a 23- year old Farmer, has been remanded into prison custody by the Techiman Circuit Court for defrauding one Mr Kwadwo Ameyaw of 6.3 million cedis.
Anno pleaded not guilty to two counts of intent to fraud and defrauding …
The Accra City Campus (ACC) of the University of Ghana on Friday celebrated its first Students' Representative Council (SRC) anniversary week with the launch of a news magazine that would serve as a mouthpiece for students.
The 24-page…
Mr. Charles Kallah, Brong-Ahafo Regional Secretary of Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), has urged teachers to live above reproach so that the Association would have the moral courage to defend them and fight for improvement in…
The Volta River Authority (VRA) is committed to the welfare and safe environment of communities of its operations, Ms Abla Fiadjoe, Manager of Community Relations of the Authority, has stated.
She gave the assurance at Yeji, capital …
Mr. Albert Kan Dapaah, Minister of Communications, attending the second Preparatory Meeting (PrepCom) of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva, Switzerland, has presented Africa's decisions arrived at during the just…
Two men killed four children and seriously wounded at least eight others Sunday at an indoor skating rink in China's northwest region of Xinjiang, before one of them committed suicide, state media said.
The two unidentified men rushed…
Judah I Music Productions and Promotions, would on Sunday March 6, stage a free charity dance at the Naa Seidu Bomi Park at Wa to support orphanages and other institutions and destitutes in the Upper West Region.
Ras Edorh Anani Amewn…
A Tarkwa Circuit court, presided over by Mr. John Aject Nasam on Friday jailed Mr. Ellis Anane, 58, a businessman based at Tarkwa, 20 years for defiling a 14-year old girl.
Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Alex Asamoah of Tarkwa poli…
World Vision Australia (WVA), an International Non-governmental Organisation, has made a donation of medical supplies worth 100 million cedis to the Atua Government Hospital in the Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region.
The item…
Mr. Ambrose Dery, the Upper West Regional Minister has urged the media not to hesitate in their duties to expose wrongdoings in all the spheres of development in the region.
He said people were free to criticize, "but those who critici…
Egyptian doctors have successfully operated on a two-headed baby, removing the second head and neck to leave a normal baby girl after the successful operation, surgeons said on Saturday.
"The operation lasted 15 hours and it was a com…
The Tema Regional Command on Friday night arrested a notorious jailbird, Emmanuel Sackey Tetteh alias Mpata for terrorising residents of Accra and Tema.
Soon after released from the prison, where he served for eight years, Tetteh, an art…
Kweku Quaye alias Togbe, who allegedly led a gang of armed robbers to steal an amount of 18 million cedis at the residence of the Anglican priest at Eyifua a suburb of Cape Coast three years ago, was on Tuesday committed by a magistrates c…
A 27-year-old labourer, Kwabena Fosu, alias 'Gadafi', who broke into a mechanic shop at Amakom and made away with items valued at 2.2 million cedis, was on Monday sentenced to three years in jail in hard labour by a Kumasi circuit court.
…
Records at the Children's Ward of the Tarkwa Government Hospital, Tarkwa indicate that malaria ranks high among other cases in the admission of children.
Sister Victoria Pepprah-Mensah, Nursing Officer in-charge of the Paediatrics Un…
A 21-year farmer of Live, a farming community in the Akatsi District, has been jailed seven years by the Aflao circuit court for defiling a school girl aged 12.
Mr Pius Cudjoe, a Police Chief Inspector, told the court that the victim…
Participants at the three-day African Regional Preparatory Conference on the Information Society on Thursday tasked development partners and business communities to make available critically needed funds for the development of Information …
The Pentagon Thursday defended a Marine Corps general who was quoted as telling an audience this week that it was "fun to shoot some people," referring to insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lieutenant General James Mattis was "counse…
A number of lotto stakers in the Tamale Metropolis have expressed their dissatisfaction about the delay in the payment of their winnings by the Department of National Lotteries (DNL).
Speaking to the GNA in Tamale on Tuesday, they sa…
The father of British photographer Julie Ward, murdered in a Kenyan game reserve in 1988, on Thursday said he would present fresh evidence to Kenyan investigators in what could be his last effort to resolve the mysterious death.
John …
An immigration expert attending the second World Summit on Information Society's (WSIS) Africa conference in Accra on Thursday said Africa must strategise to tap the rich resources of its citizens living abroad for the region's socio-econo…
The four diploma-awarding Teacher Training Colleges in the Eastern Region, have appealed to the Ministry of Education and Sports to expedite action on the release of student allowances to help solve the acute feeding problem facing them. …
The Aflao District branch of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church has put in place the necessary arrangements for the construction of an ultra-modern basic school complex as soon as the District Assembly allocates a plot of land for the projec…
The number of French 15 year-olds unable to spell correctly has doubled in the last four years with more than 56 percent scoring zero out of 20 in an exam-level dictation, according to a group that campaigns for a return to traditional tea…
Gunmen shot dead a senior Baghdad judge and his young son on Tuesday and then danced in the street, shouting "This is what will happen to the traitor Shiites", one
of the dead man's colleagues told AFP.
The assailants, driving an O…
Police in Zambia have rounded up around 150 suspected illegal currency dealers, in an operation aimed at wiping out the black market trade.
Police sealed off a main road in the capital's city centre where illegal currency dealers are …
The Chaplain of the Ghana Police Depot, Deputy Superintendent of Police, George Arthur, has stressed the need for the appointment of more chaplains into the security services to offer pastoral care for the personnel and their families to e…
Muslims throughout the country on Thursday celebrated Eid-Ul-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice.
The Muslims dressed in colourful clothes, held prayers at mosques and a number of open spots.
Eid-ul-Adha commemorates the obedience …
The Government has initiated the process to establish a permanent Hajj Board that would work all year long to eliminate the hardships and inconveniences associated with annual pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia.
Vice President Aliu Mahama, …
A petrol tanker driver who was made to cart premix fuel to Afram Plains, and diverted 13,800 litres pre-mix fuel valued at 46.5 million cedis has been remanded into custody by the Tema circuit court.
Kofi Obeng pleaded not guilty and wil…
Three houses and property worth millions of cedis have been destroyed at the weekend when a bush fire engulfed Zuime-Agabadikope, a farming community near Aflao.
Three bans of corn, goats and undisclosed amount of cash were also lost…
Alhaji Abubakar Sumani, Member for Tamale North, on Tuesday called for a an arrangement whereby Hajj Pilgrims up country would fly from Tamale Airport while those down south used the Kotoka International Airport.
"In the General Ache…
"The woman, whose body was found at the Madina Cemetery, was a Prostitute I killed on New Year's Day in self-defence," one David Bruce has confessed to the Police.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) In-Charge of the Madina D…
A 24 year old hotelier, who used the name of the Acting Minister of Food and Agriculture, Major Courage Quashiegah (rtd) to defraud one Mable Chirapanga, unemployed, was on Tuesday remanded in prison custody for fraud.
Kofi Quashiega…
A gang of thieves who on Saturday tied up two night watchmen and broke into the offices of Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) with the hope of stealing valuable items and money, left the premis…
Japanese physicians said on Wednesday that they carried out the world's first live transplant of tissue from the pancreas in an attempt to help a severely diabetic woman in her 20s.
They said the operation was successful, with the wom…
Carmella Warren, an American woman, who was extradited from her country to stand trial on drugs charges after escaping from a Police station two years ago, was on Wednesday remanded into Police custody by an Accra Circuit Court.
Carm…
Personnel of the Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) and the Ghana Immigration Service, at the Ghana-Togo border at Aflao, have arrested one Police Chief Inspector Paul Azaglo for interfering with their work.
Miss Yaa Kesiwaa A…
Any Ghanaian Journalist who wins the prestigious 2005 CNN African Journalist of the Year Award would get a bonus of 5,000 dollars in cash from Global Media Alliance (GMA), the organisers of the awards.
Mr Edward Boateng, the Managing…
The Ofoase-Ayirebi constituency branch of the NPP has held a non-denominational thanksgiving service at Akim Ofoase on Sunday to express their gratitude to the Almighty for the peaceful general elections last December.
Delivering the …
info@businessghana.com
