The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ahafo-Ano North, has been given thumps up by his constituents for keeping an election promise he made to them.
Mr Richard Akuoko Adiyiah pledged to ensure the tarring of Tepa Lorry Terminal if voted …
Naa Seidu Braimah, a Council of State Member in the Upper West Region has called on members of the district assemblies to work in unison, to provide the needed development projects for the people to improve their living conditions.
H…
President John Atta Mills has praised the launch of a UN Initiative for an alliance to fight malaria and appealed to African nations to collaborate to eliminate the disease that had become a development issue.
He said despite some prog…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Thursday threw an invitation to the American business community to take advantage of Ghana's enabling environment and invest in the country to improve the lives of the people.
He said Ghana welcomed…
Rev Dr. Jacob Kofi Ayeebo, a member of the Council of State, has proposed a comprehensive plan of action to harness the legacies and ideas of late President Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah into the country's development agenda.
He said th…
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi unleashed a diatribe against the United Nations Security Council but took a shinning to America's new president in his speech to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.
Taking the podium for the first time…
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday called for the return of Honduras' deposed President Manuel Zelaya to his position.
In an applauded speech in the UN General Assembly, the Brazilian president said that the in…
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has lauded Ghana's role in the maintenance of world peace by organising peaceful elections and contributing quality troops for UN peacekeeping missions.
He also commended President John Atta Mills for …
The Africa-America Institute (AAI) has presented President John Atta Mills with the "African National Achievement Award" at its 25th Annual Awards Gala in New York.
In a citation preceding the award President Atta Mills was commende…
The Asunafo South District Assembly spends GHC 1,800 a week to maintain security at Sankore.
The amount is spent on food, drinks and accommodation for the military personnel posted there due to the rampant violent clashes between sup…
The 17th German Federal Elections tagged: "German Federal Elections 2009," is fixed for September 27th to elect members of the Bundestag Federal Parliament.
The general campaign has been mainly dominated by the two leading political …
Nana Yaw Boateng, the Nkawkaw Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Mr Baah Achamfour, the Youth Organizer, were last Sunday allegedly assaulted by party supporters at a constituency executive meeting at Nkawkaw.
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President Barack Obama of the US, in a debut address to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, has called on the global community to immediately embrace a new era of engagement, based on mutual interests, respect and collective…
Israeli Foreign Ministry on Wednesday summoned Egyptian Ambassador to Israel to reprimand the publication of a caricatured photograph of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an Egyptian magazine, local daily Ha'aretz reported on it…
The Republic of Korea (ROK) on Wednesday called upon the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to return to the six-party talks "right away and without any preconditions."
The statement came as ROK President Lee Myung-bak was …
Togbui Mawufeame Fugah, Life Patron of the Atta Mills Foundation, a pro-democracy group, has urged African leaders to focus on strengthening the political unity of the Continent.
African countries, he said, shared common problems of …
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has reminded Ghanaians to recognise the country's heroes and learn to give them their due within the socio-cultural climate.
A statement he issued on the commemoration of the 100th birthday of Osa…
Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet on September 26 in New York during which Salman Bashir will discuss with his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao all issues between the two countries, including terrorism and the "core issue"…
Honduras' deposed President Manuel Zelaya confirmed on Monday that he was in the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa. He said he had returned to negotiate a peaceful return to democracy.
"Thanks to Brazil's Presiden…
Honduras' de facto government condemned on Monday the Brazilian government for hosting ousted President Manuel Zelaya at the Brazilian embassy, where phone calls were made to call for his support.
It is "unacceptable" that the Brazil…
Chinese President Hu Jintao met Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in New York on Monday on China-Japan ties and other issues of common concern.
This is the first meeting between the two leaders since Hatoyama was elected Japa…
South Korean President Lee Myung- bak met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon over climate change, South Korea's role in global issues, and inter-Korean relations, the presidential office said Tuesday.
During the meeting held in Ne…
Honduras' de facto government announced Monday that the night-time curfew declared earlier was extended into daytime Tuesday for fears of protests in favour of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
Earlier, the de facto Honduran government…
Former President Jerry Rawlings has arrived in New York at the invitation of former US American President Bill Clinton and the Africa House of the New York University, to attend events marking the fifth meeting of the Clinton Global Initia…
President John Evans Atta Mills and Vice John Dramani Mahama, at week-end donated various items to a number of Muslim groups in Accra, and thanked them for their prayers for national peace, unity and progress.
The donations, made o…
Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet on September 26 in New York during which Salman Bashir will discuss with his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao all issues between the two countries, including terrorism and the "core issue"…
About 120 Delegates from three neighbouring countries, Ghana , Burkna Faso and Togo, at the end of a three day tri-partite cross border meeting held in Tenkodogo in Burkina Faso, issued a communiqué to reinforce cross border cooperation an…
Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, First President of Ghana, was an embodiment of national unity who did not know the North, South, East or West; President John Evans Atta Mills said in a dawn broadcast on Monday.
President Mills, who was a…
Mr. Stephen Sumani Nayina, the Northern Regional Minister, on Monday appealed to Ghanaians to use the occasion of the centenary of Osageyfo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to be fair in their judgment of all their past political leaders and acknowledge …
Islamic Hamas Movement and Palestinian factions rejected on Monday a three-way meeting between US President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to be held in New York on Tuesday.
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The U.S. government on Monday called on followers and oppositions of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to "abstain from any provocative actions."
"We continue to believe that the best mechanism to restore the democratic order (…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama at the weekend assured the Chiefs of Nzema that the Mills' administration will not do anything deliberately to slight their sensibilities, saying that any perceptions to that effect was not borne out of b…
Mrs Catherine Abelema Afeku, Member of Parliament for Evalue-Gwira, said the Government should consider returning the body of Dr Kwame Nkrumah which now lies in a mausoleum in Accra to Nkroful, his hometown.
She said while she supports t…
The MP for Odododiodioo, Mr Jonathan Nii Tackie Komme, has appealed to Ghanaians to use the centenary celebration of Ghana's first President, Osagyefo Doctor Kwame Nkrumah, which falls on Monday, to unite and work for the advancement of th…
Vice President John Mahama on Sunday underscored the importance of the church and the state working as partners to prosecute a common agenda that will result in accelerated national development.
He said the government sees thriving relig…
Reverend Father Reneus Zenge, a Catholic Priest at Wa, on Sunday said the late Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was a selfless politician who lived his life for Ghana and Africa and therefore the centenary of his birth was worth celebrating.
He sai…
Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of the Asogli State, has pledged to facilitate the resolution of conflicts in the Volta Region.
Togbe Afede who is also President of the Volta Region House of Chiefs, was speaking at a ceremony to receiv…
Vice President John Mahama on Sunday underscored the importance of the church and the state working as partners to prosecute a common agenda that will result in accelerated national development.
He said the government sees thriving relig…
Vice President John D. Mahama has stated that the late Osagyefo Doctor Kwame Nkrumah's legacies had outlived and outshined all his peers several years after his death.
He said Dr. Nkrumah's achievements, vision, zeal contin…
Mr Kwadwo Nyamekye-Marfo, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, has urged operators in the hospitality industry not to concentrate on the cooking of continental dishes alone but promote the consumption of Ghanaian meals to project the local c…
President John Evans Atta Mills at the week-end acknowledged India as Ghana's longest and one of the biggest allies in the world and pledged the country's willingness to embrace the Indian experience in her development efforts.
He pr…
The "One Ghana Unity Flag" arrived in Cape Coast, the Central Regional capital on Friday.
The GNA observed that students and a few residents of the city processed from the Mfantsipim Junction through the commercial streets of the Met…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has alleged that some members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) are in possession of weapons to cause mayhem in the Chereponi by-elections, slated for September 29.
The NDC has alleged that, Alh…
President John Evans Atta Mills at the week-end acknowledged India as Ghana's longest and one of the biggest allies in the world and pledged the country's willingness to embrace the Indian experience in her development efforts.
He pr…
Mr Donald Amuah, a Social Worker, has asked political leaders to engage the youth in activities that would promote unity and patriotism instead of pushing them into partisan politics which was polarizing the nation.
He said a country…
On behalf of the government and people of Ghana, Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday consoled the Government and people of Cuba over the death of Juan Almeida Bosque, one of the Vice-presidents of the Council of State of Cuba, w…
Participants at a discussion in Tamale on the election of District Chief Executives have called for the need to amend the Local Government Law, Act (462) of 1993 to reduce the powers of DCEs to ensure more accountability in the local level…
Justice Isaac Duose, Chairman of Ghana@50 Commission of Inquiry on Thursday bemoaned the lack of valid contracts by most of the witnesses that appear before the body.
He was reacting to answers by some of the witnesses during cross-e…
President John Evans Atta Mills will broadcast to the nation on Monday, September 21, 2009.
A statement issued in Accra on Thursday and signed by Mr Koku Anyidoho, Head of Communications at the Office of the President, said the day m…
The Convention People's Party (CPP) on Wednesday assured Ghanaians that the parliamentary results of the Party in the December 2008 elections showed great promise even though the candidates did not win their seats.
The CPP's share of…
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