Vice President John Dramani Mahama, on Friday said the centenary celebration of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah was a call to Ghanaians, especially the youth to re-kindle the spirit of patriotism.
"It is a call to all of us particularly th…
Mr Cletus Avoka, Minister of the Interior has rejected the accusation that he was responsible for last Sunday's violence in Bawku.
He said the accusation the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mr Adamu Dramani made on radio stat…
President John Evans Atta Mills has nominated Prince Askia Mohammed as the District Chief Executive of the Savelugu-Nanton District Assembly.
This is contained in a statement issued in Accra on Thursday, and signed by Mr Joseph Yiele…
The top UN envoy to Haiti voiced belief on Wednesday that the impoverished Caribbean state enjoys "a remarkable opportunity for change."
Hedi Annabi, head of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), briefed the UN Security C…
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday that his administration will not recognize the upcoming Honduran presidential elections, as continued protest against the country's coup
President Lula reaffirmed his gover…
U.S. President Barack Obama pressed for quick actions on healthcare reform in a speech delivered at a joint session of Congress here Wednesday night.
"Our collective failure to meet this challenge -- year after year, decade after dec…
Fiji's interim Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama met Commonwealth Special Envoy to Fiji, Paul Reeves, on Wednesday, and said the government will hold elections no earlier than 2014.
Bainimarama told Reeves and his team from…
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor left Accra on Thursday night for a three-week working visit to the US, Europe and Asia.
Former President Kufuor would first stop in New York where he would formally launch the 700th anniversary o…
The minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Tuesday called on the Police administration to discharge its responsibilities with utmost professionalism devoid of third party interferences.
The group claimed known NPP members and supporte…
Mr Joshua Magnus Nicol, Administrator of the Common fund on Tuesday said the "huge deductions" that District Assemblies claimed were deducted from their Common Fund allocations was on the instructions of the office of the President.
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Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday asked for more public support to facilitate the Kwame Nkrumah centenary festivity, slated for September 21.
He expressed confidence that the committee organising the celebration, under th…
The Busia Foundation has filed a writ of summons at the Sunyani High Court, seeking an order to stop the removal of the bust of the late Professor Kofi Abrefa Busia from the Jubilee Park in Sunyani.
The defendants in the writ are the…
Mr Daniel Yaw Domelevo, a Director at the Controller and Accountant General's Department at the weekend alluded that political infringements in the administrative functions of accountants had been their greatest challenge.
He, the…
Mr. Cletus Avoka, Minister of Interior has asked Immigration and Custom Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) personnel to eschew negative tendencies that would overshadow the well known Ghanaian hospitality and mar the first impression…
Mr Joseph Tetteh Angmor, the Manya Krobo District Chief Executive (DCE), on Tuesday expressed worry about low communal spirit among his people, which he said, was affecting early completion of development projects.
He said until som…
Mr. Henry Ford Kamel, the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, has appealed to chiefs in the Jasikan District to release land for the government to smoothly embark on the Youth in Agriculture programme.
"The programme is a l…
Former President Jerry John Rawlings says the baseline characteristics of any country that wants to develop are probity, accountability and true leadership.
Human freedom, he added, cannot be sustained without the corresponding respo…
Former President Rawlings has strongly denied a report in a Norwegian newspaper in 2007, that he and his wife took millions of dollars in bribe money from a Norwegian cement company, Scancem, whose subsidiary is the Ghanaian company, Ghace…
The Deputy Israeli Prime Minister, Avigdor Liberman arrived in Accra on Monday for a day's official visit.
He was accompanied by 20 businessmen from top Israeli companies, as well as some heads of departments of the Israeli Ministry …
Southern African states have agreed to hold a special summit on Zimbabwe as part of efforts to end a row over a power-sharing pact between its leaders, a spokesman for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Monday.
Heads of Southern Afr…
Mr. Samuel Abulai Jabanyiti, a 36-year-old Teacher at the Chereponi Senior High School in the Northern Region, has been elected by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to contest the Chereponi Parliamentary Seat.
Mr. Jabanyi…
The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and its allies in Ghana have condemned the visit of Israeli Foreign and Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Avigdor Liberman to Ghana on Monday.
A statement issued by Dr. Yao Graham, a member of the group de…
The Israeli Foreign Minister, Mr Avigdor Liberman is expected in Accra on Monday, as part of an eight-day official tour of 5 African countries, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda.
A statement issued and signed by Mr Willia…
Mr. Stephen Asamoah Boateng, former Minister of Information and National Orientation has called on members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to unite and work in harmony as the party prepares towards Election 2012.
He said the task ah…
President John Evans Atta Mills, has urged the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) to deliver on their core mission of safeguarding Ghana's territorial integrity as the nation prepared to exploit its oil find.
He commended the Forces for compl…
The Chereponi Fame, (Chief) Jaminja Malba Gomna, has appealed to the government to beef-up security at Chereponi prior to the by-elections to avoid any violence in that constituency.
He observed that even though the area was relative…
Fairllop International Limited, dealers in luxury cars owes government over one million Ghana cedis being the cost of 35 Jaguar saloon cars it purchased from the Ghana@50 Secretariat after the 50th Independence anniversary celebrations.
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Two Metropolitan and 10 District Assemblies in the Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions have since the beginning of the year not received their share of the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) due to their failure to submit annual budgets.…
Mr. Anthony K. Kusi, Brong-Ahafo Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), on Friday condemned the manner and procedure used by some state institutions to invite officials of the NPP administration to answer questions on issues …
Mr. Adams Sulemana, Assembly man for Boli Electoral Area, has been approved overwhelming as the Presiding Member of the Wa Municipal Assembly (WMA) after two months of controversy.
He polled all the 26 votes cast in the 27-member as…
Women activists of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), have been asked to be wary of rumours being peddled that government has initiated programmes and activities to support them financially.
Mrs. Esther Owusu-Baffoe, Nkoranza So…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Wednesday gave Ghanaians the assurance that Government would not fail to deliver on its promises of improving on their standard of living.
"We can see light at the end of the tunnel," he said when t…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Wednesday urged Ghana's sister African nations to forge greater economic co-operation and partnership to improve the living standards of their people.
He assured the diplomatic community in Ghana …
The New Patriotic Party (NPP), main Minority in Parliament, on Wednesday accused Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, of being untruthful and inconsistent in his presentations on the Ghanaian economy.
Mr. O…
Mr. Joseph Yieleh Chireh, Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, on Tuesday charged the Local Government Service Council to boost decentralisation by recommending practicable programmes required for the needed change.
T…
The Greater Accra Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), at the weekend brainstorm on the best strategies to put in place to context subsequent elections.
The exercise formed part of the agenda of a delegates' …
Mr. Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum, Nkoranza South District Chief Executive, has appealed to Ghanaians to continue to support the government by playing their respective roles effectively towards national development.
Mr. Agyekum was address…
Krachie East District Assembly in the Volta Region is indebted to 11 contractors to the tune of GH¢1,648,223.39 for various jobs done including building the Assembly's office complex and staff accommodation.
Mr Raphael K. Ogyemako, …
Italian aerobatic jets, paragliders with fireworks, dancers and an equestrian fantasia electrified Tripoli on Tuesday night when Libya marked 40 years since a bloodless coup brought Muammar Gaddafi to power.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chav…
Ms Ama Benyiwa-Doe, Central Regional Minister, on Monday said revelations at the on-going Ghana @50 Inquiry, should served as wake up call for public servants.
She said they should see it as "food-for-thought and wake up call" for th…
Mr Alhassan Abukari, Nanumba South District Coordinating Director (DCD) on Monday suggested that private entities should rather be used in the sale of public paraphernalia and souvenirs in future because "assemblies are not buying and sell…
Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, Member of Parliament for Asawase, has called for the amendment of Ghana'a Constitution to enable the leadership of political parties to find replacements for their Members of Parliament (MP) who die before …
The Federal Republic of Germany on Monday stated that peace and security should be viewed as the topmost priority for accelerated development in Africa.
Mr Hans Christian Winkler, Deputy German Ambassador to Ghana, said: "Germany's p…
Mr Kwadwo Nyamekye-Marfo, Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, on Monday told the Jaman South District Assembly to eschew partisan politics when dealing with development issues.
He noted that the district lagged behind in infrastructural d…
A Survey conducted by Ibis West Africa, an International Non-Governmental Organization working in the area of promoting Good Governance in the country, has identified weak substructures of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblie…
Mr Joseph Yieleh Chireh, Minister for Local Government and Rural Development on Tuesday said Government would provide resources needed to strengthen the Institute of Local Government Studies (ILGS) to discharge its duties efficiently and e…
Mr. Yakubu Alhassan Abukari, Municipal Coordinating Director of the Bawku Municipal Assembly on Tuesday called on government to curtail the powers of political leadership in the local governance system to enable civil servants perform bett…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama has left Accra for the Libyan capital; Tripoli, to attend a Special African Union (AU) Summit of Heads of State and Government scheduled for August 30 to September 3.
Mr Mahama was accompanied by th…
Mr. Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister, has urged District Chief Executives (DCEs) and Coordinating Directors of Assemblies (CDAs) in the region to support Ibis West Africa, an international non-governmental organisation (NGO), wor…
British Justice Secretary Jack Straw said on Sunday that trade deals with Libya had no bearing on the decision to free the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, Britain's Skynews reported.
Straw made the remarks after le…