"I hated Kingdergarten because I was too old for the class. I am happy to be in Class One," Regina Kakraba, a nine year-old pupil of the Apenkwa Presbyterian Primary School, said on Tuesday.
Her joy and happiness were also shared by m…
A total of 78 new pupils registered to begin school at the Anaji Estate Key Primary School on Tuesday.
This came to light when the Ghana News Agency (GNA) visited some schools in the metropolis on my first day at school, which falls…
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Kwadwo Afram-Asiedu, on Tuesday joined pupils in the West Akyem and Akuapem South Districts to celebrate 'my first day at school".
Accompanied by the Regional Director of Education, Mrs Renee Boakye-…
Reverend Joseph Dzandu, Volta Regional Director of Victory Bible School International on Tuesday, exhorted Christians to stop murmuring about their fears of the December 7, elections and rather seek God's "cover for the nation" through con…
The Nzema East Municipal Police Command is looking for a hit-and-run driver, who knocked down a motor rider and his pillion rider at Bobrama near Kikim, killing one instantly and the other dying later at a hospital.
The police comm…
Dr Audrey Gadzekpo, Acting Director of the School of Communication Studies (SCS) of the University of Ghana, Legon, has appealed to media practitioners to become voices to the marginalized in society.
She said they should use their …
Mr Charles Benjamin Mensah, Principal of St. Joseph's College of Education at Bechem in the Brong Ahafo Region has advised teachers to constantly upgrade their knowledge and teaching methods to enhance their work.
Mr Mensah was addre…
Communities in the Twifo Ati Morkwa constituency were on Wednesday urged to undertake regular clean-up exercises to support the government's sanitation policy, which seeks to prevent epidemics in the country.
Mr Agyeman, NPP chairman…
Midwives have been urged to change their perceived negative attitude towards pregnant women during ante natal care sessions to make health facilities more receptive to clients.
The National President of the Government Registered Midwi…
Aqua Vitens Rand Limited (AVRL) on Monday said the source of the stinky dirty tap water problem that faced residents of parts of La and Osu in Accra had been discovered and resolved.
Communications Director of AVRL, Mr Stanley Martey,…
Mr. Francis Eghan, former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Western Regional chairman, on Monday appealed to government to revamp the Ghana Railways Company (GRC), to enable it to contribute effectively to national development.
He said that …
Some Ghanaian scientists have said the persistent inadequate funds for research and excessive delay in the release of research funding by the government could stall Ghana's moves to attain a middle-income status by 2015.
They describ…
Vice President Aliu Mahama on Monday urged African governments to increase spending in the health sector, especially in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, to enable the continent to achieve universal access and the Mille…
The Bolgatanga Municipal Health Insurance Scheme (BMHIS) has registered 116,762 subscribers since it started operations in November 2005.
It registered 14,601 as of August 2008 for the formal sector mainly civil and public servants a…
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, (PCG), Right Reverend Dr.Yaw Frimpong-Manso, has called on Ghanaians to forgive and forget all wrong committed against each other to promote peace, unity and reconc…
The head of the Bosnian Muslim forces during the Balkan wars of the 1990s was sentenced by a U.N. court to three years' imprisonment on the charge that his troops meted out cruel treatment to Bosnian Serb soldiers captured during the confl…
The U.N. members States have endorsed India's viewpoint that the General Assembly should begin the inter-governmental negotiations on expansion of the Security Council, with consensus emerging in favour of starting parleys by February next…
The phenomenon of climate change is turning out to be "worse than most projections", U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has said, pointing out the need for cooperation among all sectors, including the faith community, to tackle the crisis.
Globa…
Mr Alhassan Samari, Upper East Regional Minister, on Wednesday, appealed to donor partners to contribute to the Northern Development Fund (NDF), established by the Government to enable the three Northern Regions, which are the most poorest…
A Nigerian rebel group embattled with military forces on early Monday when they attack Alakiri oil flow station complex.
The group killed an unknown number of people working for the station belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development…
Israeli army on Monday shut down commercial crossing points into Gaza in response to a rocket attack that targeted southern Israel territories a day earlier.
Palestinian security sources said that the work at Karni and Sofa crossings…
Colombian police seized 150 guns and 700kg of drug in a hiding place of a Colombian paramilitary chief in the northwest Antioquia province, authorities said Sunday.
Police found on Saturday the hiding place during an operation codena…
The Catholic Bishop of Yendi, Bishop Vincent Sowah Boi-Nai has added his voice to the condemnation of the recent violence that erupted at Tamale and Gushiegu in the Northern Region.
He said violence should not be the means of handlin…
The militant group in fight with Nigerian government forces said on Saturday that 27 hostages, including five foreign oil workers, have been trapped in a fighting zone in Eleme-Tombia, a riverside community in the Degema council area of Ri…
The people of Oboadaka near Suhum in the Eastern Region, on Friday spent several hours in a clean-up exercise in the town.
Led by Mr. Nene Tettey, Elder of the community, the group tidied up their boreholes, weeded alongside the feeder…
Aidnaction International, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in United States has presented
Butterfly Sewing Machine each to each of the seven graduands of Christian Vocational Centre at a ceremony at Breman Asikuma.
Mr. …
The death toll of Los Angeles train collision rose to 18 overnight and more bodies are expected to be found as rescue workers pick through the wreckage of Friday's accident, officials said Saturday.
A Metrolink commuter train collide…
An engineer's error was blamed for Friday's deadly train collision in Los Angeles that killed at least 18 people and injured 135 others, a railway spokeswoman said Saturday.
A contract engineer who was driving the Metrolink train was…
Mr Joe Baidoo-Ansah, Minister of Aviation, was installed Nkosuohene (development chief) of Ahanta under the stool name Nana Kojo Dade I,
He was installed at a colourful ceremony at Busua, the traditional capital of the Ahantas in the…
Nii Kommey Mensah Larsey, the Second, Chief of Fafraha, has called on politicians to ensure that their utterances promote peace and national unity as the campaign for the December 2008 general elections heats up.
He said as the natio…
Moslem have been urged to use the Ramadan prayer and fasting period to ask for God's wisdom and blessings to enable the people to choose a deserving leader for the country in the upcoming elections.
They should also use the period to…
The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana, Most Reverend Dr Robert Aboagye-Mensah, on Friday dedicated a GH¢1.5 million office complex for the Cape Coast Diocese of the Church.
At a special service attended by both the cl…
Tanzania's Latoya and Botswana's Tawana became the first two Big Brother Africa 3 housemates to be 'evicted' from the Big Brother house last
night (14 September), in a show screened live on M-Net and DStv Channel 198. But, in the ultimate…
A Municipal Director of the Non-Formal Education Division (NFED) of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports, has said that, much had been achieved by the nation through the use of adult education as a tool for national development.
…
Germany is set to see another major consolidation in its banking sector with the biggest private bank, Deutsche Bank, poised to buy into the country's biggest retail bank Postbank, German media said on Friday.
According to the Handel…
The chiefs and elders of Dome in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar District of the Eastern Region, on Wednesday appealed to the Minister of The Interior and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to establish a police station at Dome.
Making t…
The European Union (EU) on Wednesday welcomed the peacefully held Angolan elections and called on Angolan authorities to continue efforts to consolidate peace and to make progress toward democracy in the country.
"The European Unio…
Zain Telecommunication Limited, a mobile telecommunication giant in partnership with Ericsson and the Earth Institute, has extended its operations to the Millennium Village of Dertu in Kenya.
"The service will help subscribers to ide…
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Tuesday inaugurated a 500,000 Ghana cedis state-of-the-art Information, Communication and Technology Centre (ICT) at Nkwantakese in Afigya-Kwabre District of Ashanti.
The centre is part of government'…
The Hunger Project, Ghana, is working in partnership with seven communities in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar District in the Eastern Region, towards the sustainable end of hunger and poverty.
Nana Appiah Bediako, Mankrado of Dome near Kuan…
The Ghana Baptist Convention has urged politicians to include Trokosi and other social problems in campaign messages instead of promises which are usually not fulfilled.
The convention believes that the issue of Trokosi and other soc…
The Ministry of Tourism and Diasporan Relations is in talks with the Ministry of the Interior to find lasting solution to security threats at hotels along the coasts and elsewhere.
The Ministry is also advancing plans to provide a pr…
Bishop James Yaw Ahenkorah, General Secretary of Church of the Lord Brotherhood, has urged the youth to entrust themselves into God's care and protection to help them grow into responsible adults.
Bishop Ahenkorah made the call at a …
A Ghanaian-based NGO, Network for Anti-Suicide and Crisis Intervention (NACI) on Tuesday expressed concern about the rising cases of suicide in the country and urged the public to help curb the trend.
The NGO, which is dedicated to s…
A total of 1,906 pregnant women have so far registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in the Bibiani-Anwhiaso-Bekwai District.
Mr. Kingsley Adjei Manu, the District Chief Executive, announced this at the second ordinary…
The Presbyterian Church on Sunday called on political parties in the December 7 polls to put on the "Armour of God" to be able to overcome conflicts and challenges that would confront them physically and spiritually.
It said the them…
The Atwima Nwabiagya Mutual Health Scheme through its Internal Generated Fund (IGF), is constructing a storey building office estimated at GH¢300,000 at Nkawie.
The first phase, which consist of offices for the Scheme Manager, Accountant…
A Bolgatanga Circuit court has sentenced two scrap dealers to seven years imprisonment each in hard labour for stealing Ghana Telecom (GT) cables.
Musah Osmanu a 35-year-old Nigerian and Adare Absobsaah 32, a native of Bolgatanga pl…
Over 6,000 private candidates are writing the November/December 2008 West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in the Tema Metropolis.
The examination which started nationwide with Chemistry Practical on September…
Normal water supply to the northeastern parts of Accra, has resumed after completion of work on the installation of higher capacity pressure pumps at Accra Booster Station.
The Booster Station was shut down for 10 days to enable con…
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