Over 160 needy households within the Obuasi Municipality, have benefited from the Government's grants under the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme.
The programme formed part of the government's overall Nation…
The Reverend Erasmus Mensah Laryea, Minister in-charge of the Bohyen Presbyterian Church, has urged Christians to pray fervently for peace to prevail at Bawku and other conflict zones in the country.
He also urged feuding factions…
Reverend Enoch Obuobi, Minister in-charge of the Techimantia District Presbyterian Church, has urged the leaders of the Church to lead exemplary lives for the youth to emulate and grow to be responsible leaders.
Addressing about 20…
The Institute of Accountancy Training on Monday launched its annual week celebrations with a call on the public sector to
ensure an effective and a more harmonized service delivery.
"The public sector operates wherever a government…
Officials of the Cape Coast Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU), on Sunday intercepted 380 parcels of substance suspected to be cocaine concealed 19 travelling bags at Ataabadze-Junction near Elmina in the Central region.
The reg…
Encroachers on the land earmarked for the construction of the Accra Harbour project on Friday resolved to vacate
to enable construction to begin in August.
Nii Teiko Tagoe, Director, Old Accra Conservation Development Project, spea…
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, has cautioned the youth against their involvement in chieftaincy disputes and related issues.
He pointed out that the chieftaincy institution had its own structure and code of ethics to nominate or i…
A businessman who concealed 367.5 grammes of cocaine in his pair of shoes and attempted exporting it to Portugal was on Friday sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by the Greater Accra Regional Tribunal.
Ibrahim Abdul-Karim charged wi…
Nana Ato Arthur, Central Regional Minister on Thursday said Government had spent about 12 million Ghana Cedis on 62 projects in education in the Region.
He said most of them had reached various levels of completion and expressed appr…
The National Investment Bank (NIB) on Friday donated GH¢5,000 to the Adenta Municipal Assembly to assist in the smooth operation of the Assembly which was formally inaugurated earlier this year.
The donation, NIB said, was part of th…
The Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) Chapter of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) on Friday commended the Association for taking action on the alleged assault visited on Mr Joe Okyere, a journalist.
"While appreciating your …
Prosper Kwame Amedior, a 29-year-old former employee of Takoradi Harbour branch of ECOBANK on Friday, appeared before a Takoradi Circuit court for allegedly stealing 42,970 Ghana Cedis belonging to the bank.
His plea was not taken an…
The Police on Friday arrested Mr Jonas Atibil, Assistant Bursar of Bawku Senior High School for carrying two AK 47 rifles, a pistol and some ammunition into Bawku town.
He was riding a motorbike and had the weapons concealed in his b…
A Legal Officer with the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mr. Samuel Bosompem, says assertions that the Commission has "no teeth" or somewhat ineffectual do not reflect the yeoman's job the organization was …
The National Youth Employment Programme (NYP),
has offered employment to 573 youth in the Nkawkaw Municipality under eight
of its modules.
The modules included community education teaching assistant, health extension, sanitation …
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, on Friday called on stakeholders to invest more in higher education for the effective utilization of the country's resources.
He noted that no country could achieve much or realize its developmental …
An Asamankese Circuit court has sentenced Kwasi Kumi, a labourer to 1,000 Ghana cedis fine for stealing six oil palm seedlings belonging to Ghana Oil Palm Development Company.
In default, Kumi who pleaded guilty would serve 18 month…
Right Reverend Daniel Yinka-Sarfo, Anglican Bishop of Kumasi, has charged Ghanaian women to use their God-given talents to contribute meaningfully to national development.
He noted that women through out the world have contributed meanin…
A gender activist has expressed worry that despite government's efforts at improving health care delivery, some communities, especially those in rural areas, continued to experience maternal mortality.
Mrs. Vera Quaye, the Acting Exe…
Government has been urged to include Information Communication Technology (ICT) in its broader strategic plans towards poverty reduction and not to only increase access to the use of the technology.
Mr Anthony Ekow Dadzie, General Secret…
Ghanaians have been called upon to rekindle communal spirit to address the poor sanitation challenges confronting many communities nationwide.
Mr Paul Enyam, leader of the "Yaw Bode Concert Group", who made the call on Sunday in Wa,…
A Tarkwa Circuit Court has sentenced Kofi Kwarteng 29, a small-scale miner to eight years imprisonment on his own plea for inflicting wounds on the breast and left arm of his girlfriend Florence Baidoo 23, with a blade at Abosso-Kakoase ne…
Professor Ken Attafuah, a criminologist and a lawyer, has said that law enforcement was not the responsibility of the police or the state alone, but a process that needed the involvement of the citizenry.
"Law enforcement is an inc…
Dr. Sylvia J. Anie, Director of Policy and Planning, Ghana Aids Commission (GAC), said only about 20 per cent of People Living With HIV?AIDS (PLWHAs) took anti-retroviral drugs in Ghana.
She said the remaining 80 per cent of PLWHAs d…
Women and the youth of Nkonya and Alavanyo in the Volta Region have called on their Chiefs and decision makers to ensure permanent peace through future dialogues and negotiations over disputed land boundaries.
The women and youth, remind…
The Bawku West District Assembly in Upper East Region is to spend about 300,000 Ghana Cedis in the rehabilitation of roads that were affected by floods last year.
The project initiated by Government and being sponsored by World Bank …
Awareness in children's rights in Sissala West and East Districts has increased from less than two per cent to about 99 per cent.
This was made possible through the formation of Rights of Children's Clubs (ROC) in schools from 58 com…
Mr Andrew Adjei Yeboah, Deputy Minister for Lands, Forestry and Mines has said that, one major principle underlying the establishment of Customary Land Secretariats (CLS) in the country is to facilitate proper documentation of land rights …
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Friday cut the sod for work to begin on the reconstruction of two major trunk roads in Brong Ahafo.
The 36.1 million dollars work on the 60-kilometres Techiman-Kintampo road is expected to be complete…
The Mfantseman Municipal Director of the National Commission for Civic education (NCCE), Ms. Margaret Mary Sackey, has called on Ghanaian women to play an advocacy in ensuring peace during the upcoming general elections.
Ms. Sackey u…
The Central Regional chapter of the conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) has acquired a nineteen-seater TATA bus to facilitate movement of the members especially those who do not have school buses.
The bus which …
The Assembly member for Mamfam Electoral area of Apam, Mr. Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah has appealed to the Electricity Company of Ghana to stop arbitrary mass disconnection of power supply to the people of Apam.
Mr. Aidoo-Mensah made the…
The Wa East District in the Upper West Region which has for several years being one of the most endemic districts in guinea worm in the country has not recorded any case of the disease since
the beginning of this year.
During the s…
The Northern Regional Police Command on Friday met executives of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) in Tamale to deliberate on measures to reduce road accidents in the region.
The Ghana Police Service organised the meetin…
Mr Osei Assibey-Antwi, Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, has stressed the need for pastors and religious bodies to sensitize their members and the general public on their civic responsibilities to help transform the country.
This, he sai…
Five policemen from the Bibiani police station were injured when a mob from the Sefwi Subri Junction in the Western Region attacked them while rescuing an alleged murder suspect from being lynched.
The policemen were dispatched to the t…
The Ashanti New Town Court in Kumasi, on Tuesday, sentenced a 22 year old cab driver to two years imprisonment in hard labour, for robbing two ladies of their mobile phones at separate locations.
Samuel Addai pleaded guilty to the of…
The National Insurance Commission (NIC) on Wednesday, organized a forum in Koforidua, to sensitize commercial drivers, car owners and the general public on the different types of insurance policies that exist and the need to ensure that al…
Mr Justice Anin Yeboah, a Supreme Court Judge on Tuesday said more courts would be established nation-wide to enable people have access to justice.
He noted that more courts would not only speed up the administration of justice but a…
The rescue, adoption and enrolment of Master Daniel Ayaaba, a 19-year old farm labour from Bawku in the Upper West Region in school, gave practical meaning to the celebration of this year's International World Day against Child Labour at J…
Mr Yaw Adu-Gyimah, Commissioner of Police, on Wednesday appealed to Senior Police Officers to educate new Constables to refrain from corruption that had become synonymous with the Service.
He made the call when reviewing the passing …
A 31-year old Togolese national, Robert Issaka, alias Robert Ebenezer, a porter at Saltpond, was on Wednesday sentenced to five years' imprisonment by a Circuit Court in Cape Coast for stealing two car bonnets valued at GH¢ 250.
Iss…
The Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) on Wednesday donated GH¢10,000 to three health institutions in Accra to enhance their operations.
The Ghana Heart Foundation (GHF) at the Cardiothoracic Centre of the Korle Bu Teaching H…
Dr Barnabas Amisigo, a Research Scientist at Water Research Institute of Centre For Scientific And Industrial Research (CSIR) on Wednesday, called on African governments to develop the political will to adopt new policies to meet the chall…
The United Nations food agency on Tuesday called on African governments to urgently come up with solutions to curb the soaring food prices sparked by surge in energy and commodities prices by increasing their production.
The UN Food and…
The multi-million-cedi National Accident and Emergency Centre under construction at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi would be ready in August this year.
Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, Chief Executive of KATH who announced thi…
The lack of adequate accommodation for teachers in Nkontommire near Mfensi in the Atwima Nwabiagya District has contributed greatly to frequent absenteeism on the part of teachers who commuted daily to the town from other destinations.
T…
Children in Ghana have called on African leaders to treat them with respect, transmit to them messages of tolerance and fairness, and also involve them in the decision-making process.
This was contained in a resolution signed by 37 c…
Mr. Unas Owusu, Brong-Ahafo Regional President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, has urged Ahmadis to show love
and kindness to their neighbours, irrespective of religious affiliation.
He said such love and kindness would promote pe…
Mr. James Okyere, Techiman Municipal co-operative officer, has advised members of co-operative unions to protect the interests of the unions to be able to achieve set goals.
He noted that most unions and associations became dormant b…
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