Mr Henry Richardson, the Birim Central Municipal Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has explained that the main causes of power outages in the municipality is due to natural hazards and not deliberate.
He made this k…
Ten farming and fishing communities linked to a common feeder road in the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District of the Eastern Region, have appealed to government to redesign the road.
The communities including Tetekasum, Godziase, Kwame Kyere…
Most of the Purchasing Clerks (PCs) from some of the Licensed Cocoa Buying Companies (LBCs) have capitalised on the ignorance of some farmers in the country, to cheat them in the payment of bonuses due them.
It is an accepted fact, t…
Cocoa farmers at Gye Wani Nkwanta near Akim Oda in the Birim Central Municipality, have accused Purchasing Clerks (PCs) from the various Licensed Cocoa Buying Companies (LBC) in the area of cheating them, by adjusting their weighing scales…
Birim Central Municipal Best Farmer, Mr Emmanuel Duah, has urged the Committee entrusted with kilo deductions on cocoa in the Municipality to keep proper accounts of such funds.
He said due to improper records on the kilo deductions ma…
Physically-challenged persons, in all the 27 districts in the Ashanti Region, are to receive training in proposal writing, to enable them to access district assemblies' common funds.
Mr Yaw Poku Attakora-Asamoah, National Vice President …
Mr Stephen Ameyaw, an Italy-based citizen of Nkrankwanta, has presented education materials to 252 basic school pupils at Nkrankwanta in the Dormaa municipality.
Mr Ameyaw said the books, pens, pencils, mathematical sets and other le…
Prof Paul B Tanzubil, the Rector of the Bolgatanga Polytechnic, has blamed the low enrolment of students into the polytechnic on the poor standard of science and technology education at the non-tertiary level in schools in the region.
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A five-day international ICT workshop to empower women in the explicit handling and management of the Internet and other ICT systems opened in Accra on Monday.
Dubbed the AfNOG Chix, the workshop would provide hands-on training where…
Mrs. Comfort Tsiame, an Assistant State Attorney, Monday advised security personnel to be conversant with the country's election laws and act strictly within those laws without intimidating voters during election this December.
"We n…
The National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) has so far employed over 13, 265 youths in the Northern Region through its various employment modules Since it inception in 2006.
The NYEP has employed 1,849 youth under its health exten…
The Ghana Ports and Harbour Authority (GPHA) has allegedly blacklisted the Ghana Association of Stevedoring Companies (GASCO) and six stevedoring companies from being allocated stevedoring berthing at the Tema Port.
The affected private …
Oseadeeyo Addo Dankwa III, Okuapemhene, has cautioned that Ghana had grown past the age of ethnic wars, therefore politics should not be based on ethnicity to fuel tension during this year's electioneering campaign.
He therefore call…
Mr Thomas Ofori-Donkor, Atwima-Nwabiagya District Chief Executive, has inaugurated a GH¢ 350,000 three-unit classroom block for Kyereyaase Junior High School (JHS), a small farming community near Nerebehi in Ashanti.
Initiated under …
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso says reform of the U.N. Security Council was "tremendously important" for both India and his country and expects China to back Tokyo's campaign for a permanent seat under the G-4 initiative.
"The U.N.…
About 37 people escaped unhurt when three vehicles on which they were travelling bumped into each other at Pankrono near Kumasi on the Kumasi-Tamale high way at about 11 am on Monday.
The three vehicles were Nissan mini bus with regi…
The Upper East Regional branch of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) at the weekend called on government to embark on regular in service training programmes for all categories of teachers.
A communiqué issued at the en…
The Volta River Authority (VRA) on Monday said the power outages which occurred in the country over the weekend were due to a series of contingencies experienced on its transmission system.
A statement signed by Ms Abla Fiadjoe, Dire…
Afigya-Kwabre District Assembly with its capital at Kodie has no district Police Headquarters, Mr. Kwasi Karikari Achamfour, the District Chief Executive, has said.
Speaking to newsmen after an assembly meeting at Kodie on Monday, he…
The Assembly Member for Akim Osino, Mrs Margaret Amponsah Doku has initiated a project to organize women in her electoral area to enable them get financial assistance from the Mumuadu Rural Bank.
She explained that, the initiative wa…
A circuit court in Sunyani on Friday granted a total bail of 45,000 Ghana cedis with a surety to each of eight NDC supporters who allegedly threatened the life of the campaign manager of the NPP Parliamentary Candidate for Atebubu.
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A total of 622 fresh students were admitted to the Catholic University College of Ghana at Fiapre in Brong Ahafo on Saturday with a call on them to remember that they had entered the institution to acquire knowledge and skills to become fu…
The government in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport has handed over facilities of the former Institute of Ghanaian language at Ajumako to the authorities of the University of Education Winneba.
The Vice c…
A total of 301.5 kg of cocaine was seized in two police operations in the Argentine provinces of Salta and Mendoza, according to reports published on Monday.
The police said 263 kg of cocaine was seized Saturday during an operation i…
Egypt has handed out its vision to rival factions of Hamas and Fatah for settling their rift and making a Palestinian national reconciliation, Palestinian sources said on Tuesday.
Riyadh al-Maliki, Information Minister of the Fatah-b…
The mystery viral hemorrhagic fever which killed three people in South Africa has been provisionally identified as an arenavirus, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and the Department of Health said on Sunday.
"T…
The Ghana Water Company, is to shutdown the Weija Treatment Plant tomorrow Tuesday October 14, for a day to undertake industrial works to facilitate increase water supply.
The 24-hour shutdown would mark the final shutdown of the pla…
Mrs Gladys Amaning, Kumasi Metropolitan Director of Education said education must been seen as a corporate enterprise that required the collective efforts of the government and the private sector to ensure quality delivery.
She said …
The Gumani Child Care Development Project (GCCDP), a Tamale based Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), has presented educational materials worth GH¢15,000 to some 6,000 needy school children within the Tamale Metropolis.
The material…
Reverend R. K. Asamoah-Prah, Atonsu District Minister last Sunday observed that spiritual revival has been a bane on the growth of Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG).
He said the leadership of the church in the congregations, distric…
Forty girls drawn from five Communities in New Juaben Municipality have undergone three months vocational training in cookery and braiding.
Thirty two of them had cookery training at Liberty Specialist Institute while the eight had b…
Alhaji Abubakar Saddique Boniface, Minister of Works, Housing and Water Resources on Friday said the objective of government was to implement a sustainable housing policy that would enable all Ghanaians to get access to secure housing and …
Newly created Adenta Municipality is to have a sub-office of the Electoral Commission (EC), an official said in Tema on Saturday.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in his office, Mr Michael Boadu, Tema Metropolitan Electoral Of…
Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, at the weekend called on the Management of John Deere International, a US-based tractor manufacturers, to supply affordable tractors to the Ghanaian market to facilitate government's vision of modernising…
The Tema Chapter of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has pleaded with stakeholders of education to find a lasting solution to the accommodation problems facing the Tema Metropolitan Education Directorate.
The Association…
Mr Akwasi Osei-Adjei, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Cooperation and NEPAD on Saturday urged the global consular community to loosen harsh consular regulations that erected barriers against immigration.
"This is how you can m…
The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has congratulated the 2008 National Best Teacher, Mr. Saddiwue Boateng and all the other teachers who received awards at recently held National Teachers Award.
"The Union shares in their jo…
The Ghana Police Service has assured the public that it would continue to wage a relentless war on violent crime, especially armed robbery.
Mr Kofi Duku Arthur, Director General of the Service in charge of Technical said there was th…
The exhibition of the Voters Register ended Saturday with many exhibition centres across the country recording average patronage.
The weeklong exhibition of the Voter's Register commenced throughout the country on Sunday October 5 2…
A Circuit Court at Fiapre in the Brong Ahafo Region on Friday sentenced a Sunyani-based photographer, Godwin Asumani, to four years imprisonment for inflicting knife wounds on his wife.
Godwin pleaded guilty to the charge of causing …
iBurst Africa, an internet service provider, on Thursday launched two products, iShield and iSpeed, as part of its programme to improve users' experience of the internet.
While the iSpeed provides fast and reliable connectivity, the …
Ghana has been identified as one of the countries
on the continent most affected by glaucoma with 8.5 per cent of persons above
40 years having the disease and 7.7 per cent of persons above 30 years also carrying the disease.
Thi…
The publisher of the London-based Ghana Review, Nana Otuo Acheampong, has said he was robbed of cash and other valuable items last Saturday night in a swift action by three men as traffic inched along on the airport road in Accra.
In…
A "Stand up and Take Action" campaign against poverty and inequality was launched on Thursday to press upon governments and policy implementers to redouble efforts towards halving poverty by the year 2015.
The campaign, which is in s…
The first batch of 10,000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-designed laptop computers for Ghanaian school children would roll out next month.
A formal agreement for delivery of the computers dubbed; "wonder machine" is set …
An Akim Swedru Circuit Court on Thursday sentenced Kwasi Semanu, unemployed to four years imprisonment for stealing electric cables belonging to Mrs Florence Okyere Twum a trader at Akim Oda.
Semanu pleaded guilty to conspiracy to s…
Mr Samuel Asare-Konadu, former student of Department of Building Technology at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), on Thursday presented nine computers and accessories valued at 11,000 Ghana cedis to facilitate acad…
Ms Esther Obeng-Dapaah, Minister for Lands, Forestry and Mines on Thursday observed that inefficient processing technologies, methods and equipment by wood users in Ghana accounted for the depletion of Ghana's prime timber species, other f…
Stakeholders in mental health on Thursday said mental health, which had been neglected and stigmatised, should be given priority attention to ensure equal treatment of patients.
They noted that absence of political will, financing an…
A group of musicians and other performing artistes left Accra on Thursday for Bolgatanga and Bawku in the Upper East Region where they will be met by another batch of local artistes, traditional rulers, religious bodies and the youth in a …
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