Ghana's sentinel surveillance report on the prevalence rate of HIV on adults, indicates that the pandemic has increased from 2.6 per cent to 3.6 per cent in 2003, representing a 50 per cent rise since 2000.
Sex between males and fema…
The Kumasi South Hospital at Kyirapatre will be turned into a Centre of Excellence for Maternal and Child Health Care, Dr Frank Abebrese, the Medical Superintendent has announced.
He said the hospital was being supported with funds f…
Eight communities in Bowiiri Kyirahi in the Volta Region and the Ghana Forestry Commission on Friday signed an agreement to implement a collaborative management of the Odomi River Forest Reserve for five years.
Representatives of th…
Mr Ernest Opoku, Ahafo-Ano South District Electoral Officer, has stated that it was the responsibility of all Ghanaians to ensure peaceful, free and fair elections.
Addressing an Inter-party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting at Man…
Alhaji Mustapha Ali Idris, Minister for Works and Housing, on Tuesday advised local institutions helping to address some of the multi-faceted challenges confronting the Water Sector to establish the necessary linkages that would check the …
A two-day training programme for 50 mushroom farmers drawn from 13 districts of Brong Ahafo has started at Techiman.
It is being organised by BENOOM Mushroom Complex and sponsored by Opportunity Industrialization Centre (OIC) an Inte…
It will be fairly cloudy over southern Ghana in the morning with mist and fog over the forest and high grounds,
the Meteorological Services Department said on Wednesday.
The afternoon is expected to be warm and sunny with rain …
Mr Richard Hinneh, Nkoranza District Director of Health Services (DDHS), on Monday expressed concern about the high rate of maternal deaths prevalent in developing countries including Ghana.
He cited that between January and June thi…
The Adventist Development Relief Agency (ADRA) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have worked together to undertake development projects at Sikaa in the Nkoranza District of the Brong-Ahafo Region to improve…
A one-day Participatory Forest Management (PFM) workshop and off-reserve management ended at Nkawie in the Atwima district on Monday.
The participants were drawn from the seven districts under the Nkawie forest district, comprising …
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on Tuesday presented a total of 288 boxes of disposable medical items to three hospitals in Ho.
The items included surgical drapes, culture tubes, absorbent pads surgical masks, hot and col…
About 1.27 million children in Ghana aged between five and 17 years are engaged in activities classified as child labour, Mr Emmanuel Otoo, an International Labour Organization (ILO) representative in Ghana said on Tuesday.
He noted…
Mr. Albert Kan Dapaah, Minister of Communications on Wednesday launched a new Internet Service Provider (ISP) - Busy Access, operated by Busy Internet Ghana to deliver broadband Internet connectivity to corporations in Accra and surroundin…
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has asked the electorate to go into the election on December 7 and vote according to their conscience and not allowing themselves to be influenced by financial or material doles.
It…
A forum on the Abidjan Convention for Cooperation in the protection and development of the Marine and Coastal Environment on Wednesday opened to discuss papers that gave general overview of issues including fisheries, oil and gas, coastal …
Mr. Paul Okoh, Member of Parliament (MP) for Asutifi North on Tuesday spoke against the poor structures constructed at Ntotroso by the Newmont Ghana Gold Limited to resettle affected people due to the execution of the project.
If the…
The Government has between 2001 and 2004 spent a total of 7.9 billion cedis on the construction of 55 schools in the Amansie West district of Ashanti.
Mr Ben Kwakye-Adeefe, the District Chief Executive who disclosed this, said fundi…
Takoradi, Nov. 24, -GNA Madam Sophia Horner-Sam, Deputy Western Regional Minister has advised the Police personnel not to allow emotions to take the better part of them in the performance of their lawful duty.
She said, as professi…
Mr Clement Eledi, Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, on Wednesday stressed the need for different farmers' organisations in Ghana to form a single platform to promote economic development and eliminate poverty and food insecurity.
…
Mr Emmanuel A. Akuffo, Acting Chief Director, Ministry of Lands and Forestry, on Wednesday said the legal regime on land comprised hydra-headed of laws and in such a pluralist legal system, there was bound to be conflicts in the rules and …
Elders of the three clans around the Songor Lagoon on Tuesday declared that they did not want a monopoly in the production of salt in the area.
"We wish to assure you and all Ghanaians that we are not against the development of the …
The Department of Meteorological Services, on Saturday says the weather will be generally cloudy with high humidity, giving way rise to mist and fog patches forming over forest and valleys in the morning. The day will be hot and sunny with…
His Eminence Peter Cardinal Appiah Turkson, President of the Catholic Bishops Conference, on Tuesday called on people who had been urging the Churches to pray for peace for the country to work towards this goal.
He said it was wrong …
The Executive Director of the Game and Wild life Society (GWS), Dr Erasmus H. Owusu, has warned that over exploitation of forest resources threaten the existence of Forest Reserves and National Parks.
He said loggers especially chain …
Mr Crosby Ashun, Headmaster of Mfantsipim School, on Saturday confirmed rumours that some students in second cycle institutions in the country engaged in occultism.
He said the practice had assumed high dimensions and needed to be ch…
Prof Akilakpa Sawyerr, the Secretary-General of the Association of African Universities (AAU), has appealed to African governments to give more support for institutions of higher learning, particularly the universities.
He said this …
Ms Comfort Anderson, a 48- year-old woman from Twifo Mintaso, was on Friday adjudged the best farmer in the Twifo-Heman-Lower Denkyira District at the district's 'Farmers' Day', at Ankaako.
Fifteen farmers including Mr Abraham Odoom…
Alhaji Hamzar Umar Danjumah, the Volta Regional Imam, on Saturday expressed concern about the inability of Christian and Moslem leaders to bring erring public figures, especially politicians, to order.
He said as guardians of the spiritu…
Muslim in Winneba and its surroundings villages on Saturday converged at an open space at Alatakokodo, a suburb of the town, to celebrate the Ed el Fitr.
Alhaji Gibril Abubakar Ahmadu, the chief Imam of the Winneba district who led th…
Maulvi A. Wahab Adam, Ameer and Missionary in-charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, on Saturday urged Ghanaians to divest themselves of rancour, acrimony and divisive tendencies and work together to build a strong nation.
He said con…
The national congress of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) opened in Accra on Saturday to enable members to discuss how to advance the objectives of the association.
High on the agenda is the consideration of the proposed amendm…
The Eastern Regional Branch of the Federation of Muslim Women of Ghana has presented items worth 2 million cedis to three institutions in the Akuapem South and Suhum -Kraboa-Coaltar districts.
The items that included second hand clot…
Ghana Cement (GHACEM), a major cement producing company, on Tuesday presented 1,540 bags of cement to sixteen communities in the Volta Region to support their development.
The cements valued at 72.3 million cedis, were to be used to…
The District Chief Executive for Gomoa, Miss Joyce Aidoo has urged the clergy to extend their services beyond the church.
She said by so doing they would be serving God through mankind.
The DCE made the call at a farewell ser…
The Susana Wesley Mission Auxiliary of the Mamprobi Methodist Church in Accra has donated a wheelchair to Mr Emmanuel Asante, a crippled Craft Instructor at the Mpasatia Local Authority Primary School in the Atwima District of Ashanti.
…
The Minister of Regional Co-operation and NEPAD, Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku has charged border operatives and agencies in the Upper East Region to begin looking at new ways and open up by doing better than what they have been doing in the past…
The Government has released 2.4 billion cedis out of the 10 billion cedis approved as Youth Fund to a number of selected institutions to be used in upgrading their job creation centres.
Mr Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, Minister of Education, …
A farmer has been granted 10 million cedis bail for wielding a pistol at his wife in the night on the Dodowa-Ayikuma road in anger by the Tema Circuit Court 'A'.
Kwasi Lartey, who pleaded not guilty, will have to support his bail …
Mr Ben Abdallah, Ashanti Regional Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has congratulated Muslims for successfully going through the Ramadan that ends on Thursday.
The Regional Organiser in a message sent through the Ghana New…
A police constable suspected to be among three armed robbers, who attacked a private medical practitioner at Suhum, Dr Nartey Marbel at his clinic and robbed him of six million cedis has been arrested.
The suspected armed robber was…
Expectant women in the first three months of pregnancy have been cautioned against self-medication since it has been identified as a common cause of children born with malformation.
It is very dangerous for them to take enemas, herb…
The Deputy Chairman of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mrs Augustina Akosua Akumanyi on Wednesday appealed to traditional rulers do away with cultures that were inimical to good governance.
The Deputy Chairman was…
Workers of the Volta Regional Directorate Ghana Education Service (GES) are of the opinion that the formula for computing SSNIT Pensions makes a handful of top executives rich pensioners while impoverishing a majority of retired middle an…
The Ghana Education Service (GES) on Thursday warned against the taking of bribes during admissions into Senior Secondary Schools (SSS) and asked anybody with information on such matters to report to the regional or district directors for …
Nii Lantey Vanderpuye a former Parliamentary Candidate for Odododiodoo Constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has denied that he conspired with two others persons to recruit prosecution witnesses to take photo's during the…
About half of the 30,000 cases that have been received by the Women and Juvenile (WAJU) Unit of the Ghana Police Service, were as result of non-maintenance of children by their parents a WAJU official said on Wednesday.
Mrs. Elizabet…
The Adansi South District Assembly has voted 150 million cedis towards disaster management in the district this year.
Mr Francis Dorpenyoh, Adansi South District Co-ordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO),…
A committee set up by Mr Sampson Kwaku Boafo, Ashanti Regional Minister, to investigate complaints against the College of Art, a private school in Kumasi, on Tuesday presented its report to the Minister.
The four-member committee com…
Implementing agents of Africa Youth Alliance (AYA) project in Gomoa, have held a meeting at Apam on Tuesday to plan strategies to procure funding to sustain the project when it comes to an end in March 2005.
AYA is a programme directe…
Mrs Vesta Adu-Gyamfi, Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Integrated Rural Art and Industry of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has urged teachers to be conscious of the outcome of their work and have co…
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