A two-day workshop on Chinese Investment in Africa ended in Accra on Wednesday, with a call on African Governments to involve trade unions when negotiating agreements with investors.
Participants at the workshop made up of General Se…
A man who sold Indian hemp to the Asamankese District Police Commander has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by the Asamankese Circuit Court.
Munkaila Musah, 35, pleaded guilty to possessing narcotic drug.
Police Chief Inspector Jos…
Mr. Abraham Dwumah Odoom, Deputy Minister of Health, has stated that, Insurance levy and contributions from the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), contributed 90 per cent of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) op…
Mr Mat Carlson, the outgoing World Bank Representative in Ghana, has praised Ghanaians for their hard work and dedication, which had ensured considerable transformation in the economy.
Speaking at a farewell call on the Asantehene, Otumf…
Five police officers stationed at Techiman in the Brong Ahafo region have been interdicted for allegedly extorting 100 CFA francs from two traders from La Cote D'Ivoire.
They are Sergeant Peter Okantey, Corporal Martin Adjei, Lance C…
Superintendent Ebenezer Lartey, Northern Regional Police Crime Officer has urged students in the region to see themselves as ambassadors of peace, to help make the region a conflict-free area.
The Crime Officer made the call when he …
The Alliance for Mental Health and Development
on Wednesday served about 100 homeless mental Patients in Bolgatanga and Zuarungu a lunch of rice and chicken stew.
They also gave the mental patients clothing from two bales of second …
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Wednesday sworn into office four newly appointed Supreme Court Judges and urged them to ensure even-handedness in the administration of justice.
They are Ms Justice Rose Constance Owusu, Mr Justice …
Nii Allotey Odunton, a Ghanaian, has been elected the new Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority (ISA).
He would begin his four-year term from January 1, 2009.
His election, according to the ISA press rele…
Four persons alleged to be members of a criminal gang, stealing high tension and street light cables in Agbozume and its environs were on Wednesday remanded in Police custody by an Aflao Circuit Court.
The four whose pleas were not t…
A head-on collision between a Sunyani bound OA bus and an articulated truck loaded with teak in the early hours of Thursday at Atwedie near Asankare in the Asante Akim South District, claimed eight lives with many others sustaining various…
School Health Committees (SHCs) in the Adaklu-Anyigbe District, on Wednesday called for the introduction of hygiene as a co-curricular activity in basic schools.
This they explained would facilitate cleanliness among students and san…
Mr. Albert Akomaning, Birim Central Municipal Cocoa Officer, on Wednesday called for the regulation and control of activities of cocoa purchasing companies.
"The desire of some of the companies to buy even wet cocoa beans, had caused t…
Mrs Leticia Osafo-Addo, Member of the Board of Governors of the Ghana Education Trust Fun(GETFUND), has said that, for any country to make any meaningful progress, it must invest heavily in education.
She noted that, the provision of…
George Mensah, a 38-year-old trader, was on Tuesday fined GH¢100, by a Cape Coast magistrate court for inflicting knife wounds on the head of one Mr Kwesi Ibrahim at Kotokuraba in the Central region.
Mensah, who pleaded guilty with …
A Cape Coast magistrates' court on Tuesday, sentenced a 20 year-old tailor, Mohammed Osumanu, to five years imprisonment for unlawful entry and damage, stealing, and assault.
Osumanu pleaded guilty to all the charges and was convicte…
Mr Emmanuel Victor Asihene, East-Akyem Municipal Chief Executive, has advised people to be careful
of groups claiming to be agents of loan companies.
He said the Micro Finance and Small Loans Assistance Centre (MASLOC) had no agent…
The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Joe Ghartey, on Tuesday called for national will to fight corruption.
He said national commitment was paramount in any anti-corruption strategy because though political will was important…
Mrs. Mary Chinery-Hesse, Chief Advisor to the President on Tuesday stated that the general public now have the opportunity
to report public officers who mishandle them in the course of doing their work. by calling the following telephon…
Over speeding has been the main cause of accidents, contributing to about 80 per cent of all road accidents in the Ashanti Region.
Other causes of road accidents however are over loading, use of mobile phones whilst driving, mechanic…
A Cape Coast magistrates' court on Tuesday sentenced Mohammed Osumanu a 20 year-old tailor to five years imprisonment for unlawful entry, stealing, assault and causing unlawful damage.
Osumanu pleaded guilty to all the charges and was …
"Right to Play", a child centred Non-Governmental Organization, has recruited and trained 25 basic school teachers from the Adaklu-Anyigbe District to implement the organization's "live safe, play safe" module.
The module teaches chi…
Four people died and three sustained various degrees of injury on Monday in a fatal accident involving three vehicles at Adansi near Asankare in the Asante Akyem South District.
The dead and the injured persons, who are yet to be identi…
Children working under worst forms of child labour, particularly as head porters at the Techiman Central Market, have been withdrawn and enrolled in schools and vocational centres.
Mr. Davis Boamah-Asumadu, Project Coordinator of Bur…
Ninety-Three Municipal and District Directors of Education on Tuesday received 4X4 Scorpio pick-up vehicles valued at 2,519,580 US dollars from Government.
Government provided the vehicles with funds from the Ghana Education Trust Fu…
The Government's programme of enhancing the efficiency of the road transport sector to promote economic growth was on Tuesday given further push with the start of construction work on the GH¢ 61.2 million Nsawam by-pass road project.
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An Accra Circuit Court on Tuesday sentenced a 45 year-old worker with a private security company to 20 years' imprisonment for having a child with his 16 year-old daughter.
Laud Ford Mensah, who was charged for incest, pleaded guilty…
Dr. Lawson Ahadzie, Deputy Director and Head, Disease Surveillance Department, Ghana Health Service, has proposed the setting up of a multi-sectoral Epidemic Management Committee at the national level to coordinate the management and contr…
A 31 year old Policeman constable is facing trial at the Sekondi High Court, charged with assault and robbery.
He pleaded not guilty and has been remanded in prison custody to re-appear before the court on June 23. His other accompli…
Eight organizations on Tuesday offered sponsorship in cash and kind to support this year's National Tourism Awards to be held on August 2.
The organizations are Golden Tulip Hotel which offered GH¢ 1,000, Latex Foam Company, GH¢ 800;…
Artisans nearly visited the recent incident at Ashaiman on Sunyani when they mourned a colleague but for great restraint exercised by the police there would have been another horror story to tell.
They impeded the free flow of traffi…
The death is reported of Lady Vicky Agyemfra at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital on April 30.
Lady Agyemfra 57 was living in Canada.
She was the sister of Brigadier Francis A. Agyemfra (Rtd) of Institute of Economic Affairs an…
The Tamale Girls International School Complex (TAGIS) in the Tamale Metropolis is being invaded and harassed by thugs who disturb the peace and disrupt teaching and learning.
Mr. Albert Atutiga, Proprietor of the school told the GNA…
Workers under the government payroll have been asked to start processing their documents for at least six months ahead before proceeding on retirement.
Mr. Christian Tetteh Sottie, Controller and Accountant General, said this would h…
Visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed here Saturday that France is committed economically, culturally, and emotionally to Lebanon.
Sarkozy stressed his country's support to Lebanon while talking with newly-elected Lebanese …
Media practitioners have been urged, to adopt "Behaviour change communication", (BCC), as a tool to encourage and sustain positive attitudes towards People Living with HIV/AIDS, (PLWHA).
BCC is a communication process for developing…
Flood victims in the Upper East Region have appealed to the Canadian government to support them with farm inputs.
They said due to the devastating floods that hit the area last year many of them lost their crops and this had brought …
Studies by the World Health Organization had proven that bans on advertisement of tobacco consumption in some countries had drastically reduce the burden of smoking by 16 per cent in countries that had taken legislative steps to stem the t…
The Poultry Development Board on Tuesday called on the government to enact a law to support its establishment to enable it effectively carry out its mandate for the growth of the poultry industry.
In a speech read on his behalf at Wa…
Dr Sam Okoampah Archer, Director in-charge of Policy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation at the Ministry of Manpower, Youth and Employment, on Tuesday underscored the need for Ghanaians to be supportive of government programmes aimed at al…
The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) on Monday opened a Gender Development and Resource
Centre to build capacity on gender mainstreaming.
The Centre would also provide an avenue for research activitie…
Ofori Amponsah, an 18-year-old fitting apprentice has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling a 14-year-old girl by the Juaso Circuit Court.
Amponsah, who pleaded guilty to two counts of defilement and …
The Upper East Branch of the Old Vandal Association (OVA) of the Commonwealth Hall of the University of Ghana (UG), has called on Government to set up a "Peace Committee" to collect views from all the affected individuals or groups in the …
Christians have been urged to see the expression of their spiritual growth in deed, as a matter of responsibility to the society in which they live in.
Speaking under the theme: "Let us go on to Maturity: Living according to the wil…
Vice-President Alhaji Aliu Mahama on Sunday launched a book written by Mr. George Hikah Benson, the Upper West Regional Minister at a brief ceremony at Wa.
The 111-page novel titled; "Child of Death," which has been dedicated to orph…
Catholic Women in the Northern Region, have appealed to the government to, as a matter of urgency, release in full, the feeding grant for northern schools to avoid creating an artificial education gap between the north and the south.
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No Time to Die, the award winning Ghanaian movie, would be among celebrated movies at the 20th Pan-African Film and Arts festival in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, from July 18-27.
The movie would be among the over 70 fi…
Mr. George Hikah Benson, Upper West Regional Minister on Sunday asked chiefs to ensure that political parties dwell on
issues when they come round campaigning in their communities in order to
ensure a violence-free elections.
He…
Alhaji Mustapha Ali Idris, Northern Regional Minister, on Monday visited National Democratic Congress (NDC) accident victims on admission at the Tamale Teaching Hospital.
The victims were on their way to meet the party's running mate…
The Greater Accra Regional Tribunal on Monday sentenced two Nigerians for various drugs offences.
Mondistus Nidimakor was jailed for attempting to export cocaine, while Gabriel Alaoma was jailed for attempting to import heroine.
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