The First Lady, Mrs Theresa Kufuor, has called on women to use their majority in the population as a catalyst to propel national development at all levels of society, especially the education of children.
She said without their invo…
A 34-year-old secretary, who allegedly defrauded five persons to the tune of 107 million cedis with the pretext of sending them to Germany, was on Friday remanded by a circuit court at Cape Coast presided over by Mr Mustapha Logoh.
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The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) on Friday appealed to the Government to provide the Judiciary with adequate budgetary allocation to facilitate speedy, efficient and effective administration of justice.
The Association further urged the …
Madam Adgoa Duah, an opinion leader at Atekyedo near Winneba, has appealed to the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) to extend pipe-borne water to the village and its surrounding communities. Making the appeal through the Ghana News Agency…
The East Akim District Director of Education, Ms. Ernestina Ofori has urged headteachers to submit accurate and reliable data on their schools for effective planning.
Ms. Ofori who was addressing a day's workshop on School Mapping at Kibi…
A three-day continuous heavy down pour in the Gomoa and Awutu-Effutu-Senya districts has rendered a portion of the Winneba Junction-Mankessim trunk road at Gomoa Mprumeam impassable creating an acute transportation problem in the area. Veh…
The leadership of Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) is considering forming unions at all levels that would enable them to become part of Trades Union Congress (TUC).
The essence is to create a major mouthpiece that would be r…
Mr Albert Asiedu-Offei, Volta Regional Administrator of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Tuesday said the benefit range of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was not static but dependent on the dynamics of the changing prevailing…
The Bolgatanga Municipal Director of Health Services, Dr. Alexis Nang-Beifubah on Monday described as a wrong conception, the notion by some parents that polio only paralyses but does not kill its victims. He said polio affects the respira…
Single Parent Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has presented a 30-million cedi assistance package to 140 AIDS orphans in basic schools in the Offinso District.
Under the package, school children would be supplied with sc…
The Presiding Member of the Nkoranza District Assembly Mr. Adjei Yeboah has deplored the attitude of some people to discriminate against people living with HIV/AIDS and called for a halt "since every one is at risk."A 10-member community-b…
Hundred (100) Liberian refugees would be repatriated voluntarily from Ghana on Friday October 1. They would form the first batch of refugees from the Buduburam Refugee Settlement in the Central Region, to be repatriated as part of the Trip…
A 31-year-old painter was on Wednesday arraigned at a Circuit Court in Accra for possessing two large parcels and 38 wrappers of cannabis without lawful authority. David Asare pleaded not guilty. The court admitted Asare to 80 million cedi…
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) announced on Thursday that the spillway gates of the Weija Dam have been opened to avert structural damage and advised the public to take immediate precautionary measures to protect lif…
The Kuntanase magistrate court on Thursday fined a 28-year-old drinking bar operator two million cedis for damaging a vehicle belonging to his rival. Kwadwo Atta, who pleaded guilty, will serve a six-month prison term in default. The court…
Two new products from Cuba for the control of mosquitoes were on Thursday introduced by the Ministries of Tourism and Modernization of the Capital City and Science and Environment. The products, Bactivec and Griselesf, would be tested at L…
Do you know that Finland’s education has consistently been ranked as the best in the world?
They believe in the saying ‘Less is More’ and therefore aim at providing many learning opportunities and experiences for the students to he…
The World Food Programmes (WFP) has launched a US$15 million project in support of Ghana’s effort at tackling pervasive problems of malnutrition. This comes against the backdrop of the unacceptably high economic cost to the economy.The nat…
A disability advocacy network has been launched in the Upper East Region to help advocate on issues militating against Persons With Disabilities (PWDs). Speaking at the launch over the weekend, Madam Beatrice Akuah Mahmood , the Project C…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon said here Monday that climate is "a leading political and economic
problem" and "it's time to act" to respond to the problem.
Ban told his monthly press conference here that he also called upon wor…
ISRO has successfully launched the RH 200 rocket, which had a part of its payload developed by students from Vellore Institute of Technology
University (VITU) in south Indian state Tamil Nadu.
The RH 200 rocket, a technology demons…