The Minority in Parliament on Tuesday reprimanded the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning for drawing GH 93 million from the National Health Insurance Fund to finance Social Intervention Programmes.
According to them, it was a …
The situation in Abidjan, the capital of Cote d'Ivoire, remains volatile, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said here on Monday.
"Patrols from the UN Mission in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) conducted last Friday and Saturday confirmed the use of morta…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here Monday that he will take part in a conference on Libya, which is to be held in London on Tuesday.
The statement came as the secretary-general was briefing the UN General Assembly in a closed sess…
NATO has begun to take over the task of enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya, a day after the bloc decided to take full command of the Libya air campaign, a top military official was quoted by local media as saying on Monday.
NATO was in th…
Egyptian Islamic-oriented Labor Party Secretary-General Magdy Ahmed Hussein announced Monday that he decided to run for Egypt's next president.
At a press conference, Hussein said he decided to run for the presidential polls due to unconv…
The Saudi king Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz expressed on Monday his kingdom's support to Syria in the face of conspiracies targeting its security and stability, Syrian official SANA news agency reported.
King Abdullah expressed his stance via …
Fiji has expressed its readiness to hold talks with Tonga on the saga surrounding the ownership of Minerva Reef, local newspaper Fiji Times reported here Tuesday on its website.
Fiji's Deputy Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs Sila B…
Western coalition launched on Monday air strikes against civilian and military areas in the Libyan towns of Garyan and Mizdah, official news agency Jana quoted a military source as saying.
The agency gave no further details. Garyan is loc…
Russia and the United States have not fully used potential of their cooperation in terms of Afghanistan's economic recovery, top Russian diplomats told U.S. special envoy in Afghanistan Marc Grossman here Monday.
Russian Deputy Foreign Mi…
Thirty-nine South Koreans fled strife-torn Libya Monday, the latest in a series of evacuation of South Korean nationals, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
The group of South Korean employees at a construction company left the northern Af…
A group of U.S. and South Korean civic groups plans to start a North Korea human rights week next month in Seoul, an organizer said Tuesday, amid deepening worries over the communist state's persistent maltreatment of its impoverished peop…
President Barack Obama on Monday delivered a major speech on the administration policy toward Libya, claiming the U.S. military intervention was to avoid civilian casualties in the North African country instead of "regime change".
Facing …
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter began a three-day visit to Cuba on Monday on a mission to help ease tensions between Washington and Havana and he is likely to talk about the release of an imprisoned U.S. contractor.
Carter and his wife…
Forces in support of Cote d'Ivoire's presidency claimant Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday declared control of two more towns after taking a strategic town the previous day.
The Republican Forces backing Ouattara conquered Daloa in the west an…
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will sack the government after unrest erupted in the country and caused the deaths of about 50 people, the official SANA news agency reported Tuesday.
Al-Assad has accepted the resignation of Prime Ministe…
South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik will visit China next month for talks with his counterpart and other senior officials on ways to develop diplomatic and economic ties, Kim's office said Tuesday.
During the April 12-14 trip, Ki…
The planned relocation of most U.S. troops in South Korea to an expanded base south of Seoul will be completed by the end of 2016, the South's defense ministry said Tuesday, confirming a widely expected four-year delay in the multi-billion…
Mr Tony Oteng-Gyasi, a former President of the Association of Ghana Industries, has suggested that every adult Ghanaian be taxed a small amount towards a fund for financing political parties and processes of political change.
This, h…
Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have been told to come out with new strategies to internally generate adequate revenue to complement what they get from the government.
These were contained in a message deliver…
The Minister of the Interior on the advice of the Northern Regional Security Council imposed a curfew on Tamale and its environs with effect from Tuesday, March 29, 2011.
A statement in Accra on Wednesday signed by the Minster, Dr Be…
Mad Hamida Harrison,Convener for Women’s Manifesto Coalition, a non-governmental organization, has noted with regret that few women in the country hold decision making positions and this “makes the existing political structure undemocratic…
President John Atta Mills has launched a GH¢90 million Rural Electrification Project for the people of the Upper West Region at Siiriyiri in the Wa West District, to end his two-day official visit to the Region.
He said 400 communiti…
The Agona East District Assembly has apologized to three chiefs who were not invited to its inauguration on March 15.
The chief are Nana Kojo Amuakwa V, Duakwahene and Krontihene of Nyakrom Traditional Area, Nana Ampim Darko V, Kwanya…
Mr Godwin Nkwuawu, New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) aspiring parliamentary candidate for Ketu-South, said there were signs of erosion of the support for the ruling National Democratic Congress in the Ketu-South constituency.
He said the g…
The Ladies’ Parliament of the Wa Campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS) has been inaugurated with a call on female students to maximise the opportunities it presented to nurture their political ambitions.
Mr. Alhaji A…
Nine New Patriotic Party parliamentary aspirants from four constituencies in the Eastern Region were vetted at Nsawam on Saturday.
They were Samuel Ayeh Paye, the Member of Parliament for Ayensuono, and the former MP for the constitu…
Ghana’s High Commissioner to Brunei Darussalam, Mr Daniel Kwasi Abodakpi, has presented his Letters of Credence to the Sultan of Brunei Darussalam,
Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, at a ceremony in the Nurul Iman Royal Palace …
Three Divisional Chiefs in the Agona East District have blamed the Agona East District Assembly for not inviting them to the recent inauguration of the assembly.
They are Nana Kojo Amuakwa V, Duakwahene and Krontihene of Nyakrom Trad…
President John Atta Mills on Tuesday cut a sod for the construction and tarring of a 30-kilometer stretch of the Wa-Han road at Naro in the Nadowli District.
The project will cost the government 34 million Ghana cedis.
P.W. Gha…
The new Presiding Member of the New Juaben Municipal Assembly, Mr George Abdul Dramani, on Tuesday said he would ensure that the assembly worked as a team in order to achieve development.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Koforidu…
Organised groups within the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), have mounted pressure on the national leadership of the party to postpone the National Delegates Congress slated for April 29 and 30 due to inadequate groundwork.
Scores of …
South Korean companies have decided to evacuate all non-essential personnel from Libya as the United States and its European allies continue to bomb ground targets throughout the country, the government said Sunday.
The Ministry of Lan…
Pakistan is a "very dangerous" country, its former President Pervez Musharraf has admitted.
"It is very dangerous, yes, I will have to admit," Musharraf told Time magazine when asked during an interview whether Pakistan was the mo…
South Korea plans to begin full-scale work to renovate a heliport on Dokdo if Japan lays renewed claim to the rocky islets in the East Sea in its new school textbooks, officials said Sunday.
The planned renovation of the outdated, 20-s…
The South Korean-invested industrial complex in North Korea will eventually help promote economic and political reform in the reclusive communist state and reduce the unification cost for South Korea, a U.S. congressional report said.
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President John Evans Atta Mills at the weekend said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Government was poised to building a solid and resilient economy.
He said the creation of jobs, raising the standards of living of the people a…
A leading member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Sulemana Gado, has urged
the party’s leadership to ensure openness and transparency in the selection of its parliamentary candidates for Election 2012.
He s…
Mr Francis Asenso-Boakye, a 33-year old Consultant of the Spartan Development Solutions, Accra, has filed his nomination to contest the Bantama Constituency New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primaries.
He is campaigning on u…
New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates to parliamentary candidate in the Asante-Akim South Constituency, have been urged to exercise good judgment and act in the best interest of the party.
Mr Adarkwah Yiadom, the Constituency Secretary…
The election of Presiding Member (PM) by the Ejisu Juaben Municipal Assembly, has for the second time ended in a stalemate.
Three rounds of voting and intense lobbying failed to produce a winner with none of the two contestants poll…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama has appealed to traditional leaders to assist the Government to design and pursue effective adaptation strategies to curb the menace of climate change in the country.
Their role, he said, was cru…
Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, former first lady, on Thursday cautioned that “the side-lining of the youth in active participation in national political development can lead to varied forms of rebellion, especially when the economic situati…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP)in the Northern Region will on Saturday begin vetting three of its parliamentary aspirants via video conferencing.
The aspirants who are domiciled abroad are Alhassan Yakubu Tali - based in Germany and as…
President John Atta Mills will on Monday begin a two-day official visit to the Upper West Region, to inspect ongoing development projects and to cut-sod for commencement of other projects.
A programme from the Upper West Regional Coo…
Hundreds of Journalists, who thronged the Congress Hall of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja where the ECOWAS Summit is underway, got disappointed when the leaders after a seven-hour closed-door meeting could not finalize their deliberat…
Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Wednesday afternoon arrived in Accra to begin a two-day official visit to Ghana.
He was welcomed by President John Evans Atta Mills at the Kotoka International Airport after Eugenia Hotor, a pupil o…
Mr George Ayisi Boateng, a founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), had condemned what he said were attempts by some members of the party to cause disunity and wreck its chances of winning political power in 2012.
He wond…
Vetting of Parliamentary aspirants of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) would be held simultaneously across the country from Saturday, March 26 to Tuesday, March 29.
A statement issued in Accra on Wednesday by Mr Jake Otanka Obetsebi-…
An Audit team has begun probing the financial administration of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA).
A reliable source at the STMA told the GNA on Wednesday that the investigations might touch on projects, contracts and…
Mr Victor Gheho, President of Economic Community of West African countries (ECOWAS) on Wednesday called for the establishment of mechanisms to create a congenial atmosphere for peace, unity, development and economic integration in the regi…
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