The Electoral Commission (EC), National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) and Information Services Department (ISD) are
collaborating to make the 2010 District Level Elections (DLE) a success in the Upper West Region.
In this r…
The Dormaa circuit court has granted a GHC 10,000 bail with two sureties to be justified to Kwabena Tih, a farmer at Suma-Ahenkro near Sampa, who allegedly threatened to kill a lotto writer over an alleged GHC100 win.
Tih pleaded not…
North Korea appears to have made little concessions when a top Chinese official visited Pyongyang earlier this week on an apparent mission to defuse tensions over the North's recent artillery attack on a South Korean island, a Seoul offici…
The MP for Odododiodioo, Mr Jonathan Nii Tackie
Komme, has called on the electorate to vote for selfless and hard working people, with the development of their communities at heart, in the District Assembly and Unit Committee elections, …
Parliament began sitting on Friday but had to
quickly suspend proceedings for 30 minutes and later adjourned due to the absence of the Minister of Finance to assist the house to resolve some discrepancy identified in the budget.
…
A 25-year old man, Kwame Amoah was on Friday
sentenced to 12 months imprisonment by a Circuit Court in Cape Coast for stealing six packs of fish and chicken valued at GH¢500.00
He pleaded guilty, amidst crying loudly and blaming th…
The Agona West Constituency Youth Organizer
of the National Democratic Congress, Mr Eric Appoh, has said the youth do not support calls for the removal of the Agona West Municipal Chief
Executive from office.
According to him, th…
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) on Thursday organised a day's workshop with the United Nations Democracy Fund in Kumasi to help deepen public understanding of the constitutional review process.
Traditional rulers, political party…
Mrs Bernice Deh-Kumah, Acting Director of Du Bois
Centre, a Pan-African Advocate, on Friday launched the up-coming memorial lecture series of Dr. William E.B. Du Bois, Mr George Padmore and Dr. Kwame Nkrumah for their contributions to th…
The Eastern Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Ransford Ninson, on Thursday asked political parties not to get involve in the forth-coming District Level Elections.
He indicated that since the election is…
Deputy Superintendent of Police Sampson Agbeko, Brong-Ahafo Regional Coordinator of Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (D0VVSU), has appealed to the media to partner the police in
combating crime.
Speaking in an interview w…
A total of 298,583 children under five years were
immunized against measles and given Vitamin "A" supplementation during the recent national immunization exercise in the Kumasi metropolis.
This represented more than 113 per cent covera…
The Tepa Magistrate Court, has issued an arrest
warrant for a 38-year old labourer at the Anyinasuso Health Assistants Training School in the Ahafo-Ano North District, who is alleged to have swindled a number of people under the guise of…
The Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights
(ARHR), on Friday described as worrying on the occasion of the International Day of Human Rights, why most women in Ghana still do not have the right to negotiate safe sex for protection from s…
The Minority in parliament on Thursday called on government and its agents to desist from unduly meddling in the affairs of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and destabilizing Ghana sports generally.
Mr Asiamah Isaac Kwame, Member …
Mr Fifi Kwettey, a Deputy Minster of Finance and Economic Planning, has called on students, parents and communities in the Volta Region to arrest the falling standards of education in the Region.
He said unless the situation was chan…
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will visit Seoul next week for talks with his
South Korean counterpart on expanding bilateral ties, the foreign ministry said Friday.
During his two-day visit starting Tuesday, Mammadyar…
A two-day validation workshop on Ascertainment and Codification of Customary Law Project (ACLP) for members of the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs opened in Sunyani on Wednesday.
Barima Offe Akwasi Okogyeasuo II, Omanhene of Kok…
Mr Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General, has opened the High Level Segment of COP 16 with a call on governments to be flexible and negotiate in a spirit of compromise and common sense for the good of all peoples.
"Issues of climate …
The Effutu Municipal Director of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mr Richmond Mensah, has appealed to the Chief Justice to extend the Justice for All Programme to the Winneba Prison to help decongest it.
…
The National Union of Ghana Students on Wednesday called on students of Cote D'Ivoire both home and abroad to preserve the sanctity of the country's democratic tenets in the wake of the crises in that country.
A statement in Accra ca…
U.S. automaker General Motors Co. on Wednesday signed an agreement with South Korea's Korea Development Bank (KDB) for the long-term development of its South Korean unit GM Daewoo Auto & Technology.
According to the agreement, GM pledg…
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg
is expected to visit Beijing as early as later this week to seek China's help in reining in North Korea, which has escalated tensions with a recent artillery attack and its ongoing nuclear p…
Members of the UK and Ireland Chapter of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), have expressed deep sadness and shock at the news of the death of Squadron Leader Clend Sowu (Rtd), founding member of the party.
A statement issued by …
Soaring tension has forced the cancellation of the installation of a new chief of Afari, a sprawling community in the Atwima-Nwabiagya District of the Ashanti Region.
The people insisted that Nana Kwadwo Asamoah had no legitimate titl…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Wednesday said Government would in no way sway from its commitment to bring development and ensure the better living standards it has promised Ghanaians.
The President also praised the development…
The Convention People's Party's (CPP) Shadow Minister for Employment, Mrs Susana Adu-Amankwah on Wednesday said a future CPP government would revive Ghana's local manufacturing industrial base.
She said this would help tackle the mas…
President John Evans Atta Mills has asked members of the Council of State to be candid with Government on its performance to enable it to address national issues thoroughly.
He reminded them that they had all sworn the Oath of Secrec…
The United Kingdom on Wednesday welcomed the "strong stance" of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on the political turmoil in Cote d'Ivoire.
The Foreign Secretary, Mr William Hague, said that ECOWAS had "sent a c…
A Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication Studies, University of Ghana, on Wednesday advised chiefs, assembly members and unit committees to engage the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in a dialogue on policy …
A total of 92 newly created electoral areas have
been added to the number of electoral areas in the Western Region, bringing the number to 544 against the previous figure of 452.
Mr Steve Opoku-Mensah, Regional Director of the Ele…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Thursday repeated his call on African leaders to respect the will of the people to forestall conflicts.
He said when leaders realised that the people had an undeniable right to choose, who should le…
A non-governmental organisation has called for a new constitution that would provide for the nomination, election and appointment of 50 per cent men and 50 per cent women to all nominated, appointed and elected positions to the metropolit…
President John Evans Atta Mills left Accra Tuesday morning for Abuja-Nigeria, where he would join other ECOWAS Heads of State for an emergency summit on the political situation in La Cote d'ivoire.
Mr Koku Anyidoho, Presidential Spokesp…
Nana Atta Kwaku II, Safohene of Adonten Division of the Akim Kotoku Traditional Area, has called for an end to installation of people who live abroad as chiefs because this promoted chieftaincy disputes.
He said chieftaincy disputes …
Mr Steve Opoku-Mensah, Western Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC), said on Tuesday that mounting of platforms by aspiring candidates for the district assembly election would start on December 16 and end on December 24.
…
President Lee Myung-bak instructed his Cabinet Tuesday to fortify the five western border islands, including Yeonpyeong attacked by North Korea last month, and step up efforts to improve the living conditions of residents there, his office…
Mr. John Tia Akologu, the Minister of Information, has paid a three-day visit to the Upper West Region to interact with Departments and Agencies under his Ministry.
The Minister is also expected to facilitate the region's turn of the…
Ahead of Premier Wen Jiabao's India visit, China Tuesday said it viewed New Delhi as a partner rather than a competitor.
"India and China, besides being neighbours are partners rather than competitors," Chinese Foreign Ministry spok…
Mrs Rebecca Kabukie Adjalo, Electoral Commission (EC) Member responsible for the Western Region, on Tuesday said the commission had teamed up with the Information Services Department and the National Commission of Civic Education to educat…
The Ministry of Foreign Affaires and Regional Integration in collaboration with stakeholders would organise a State-assisted funeral for the Ghanaian victims of the July 2005 killings in the Gambia on Friday, December 10 in Accra.
A…
Mr Alban Sumani Kingsley Bagbin, Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, has told Ghanaians to hold Government responsible on its manifesto promises and not campaign promises.
He said political campaign platforms were diffe…
As part of efforts by the main opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to clench power in the 2012, it has organised a capacity building workshop for its constituency officers.
The workshop which took place on Tuesday aimed a…
The Government with support of African Development Bank, has rehabilitated degraded forest reserves at Yaya and Nsemere in the Wenchi Municipality of the Brong Ahafo Region.
The venture was made possible under the Community Forestry …
Civil Society Organisations (CSO) under the umbrella of Civic Forum Initiative (CFI) on Tuesday started capacity building training for district coordinators across the southern sector of the country to rejuvenate enthusiasm in the December…
Scores of leading members of the People's National Convention (PNC) on Tuesday called on the Council of Elders of the party to investigate acts of unconstitutionality allegedly perpetrated by the current leadership.
The members known…
Parliament on Wednesday adjourned unceremoniously
over innumerable amendments on the Petroleum Management Bill.
The unusually bulky 61 page Order Paper for the day had 256 amendments which according to Mr Joe Ghartey, New Patrioti…
Out of 1,654 candidates contesting the district level election in the Central Region, 120 are women of which only two are from Cape Coast.
Some 4,403 candidates have flied nominations for the Unit Committee Election with 557 being…
Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan, Chairman of the Electoral
Commission (EC) has slammed the political parties for their involvement in district level elections, a violation of the electoral law.
District assembly elections are supposed to be n…
Ahead of their talks on key issues, including civil nuclear cooperation and terrorism, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday hosted a private dinner for French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni at his residence here …
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