The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) has adopted a Technical Assistance Plan (TAP) to serve as a working document for its operation.
The overall objective of the Plan, which was sponsored by the Partnership for Child Development…
Two motor riders, Ebenezer Sarfo Darko and Kweku Ofori, both teachers, died soon on arrival at the Suhum Government Hospital when their motor bike collided with a bus.
Mr James Sarfo Peprah, the Eastern Regional Commander of the Moto…
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will promote the protection of mother languages by employing new information technologies, the Paris-based organization said on Thursday.
The protection campaign, wh…
One hundred and twenty Police personnel drawn from Brong Ahafo, Eastern and Greater Accra Regions have undergone orientation at the Police Training School in Pwalugu in the Upper East Region to take up operation in Bawku.
DCOP John …
The Navrongo Police in the Upper East Region is looking for two rape suspects who allegedly raped a woman.
The woman, who reported the matter to the police wearing only her underwear and a Tee Shirt on February 6, 2011, was allegedly…
One died and 16 passengers sustained various degrees of injuries in a road accident that occurred at Nkawkaw-Amanfrom.
Briefing the Ghana News Agency in Koforidua on Thursday, Mr James Sarfo Peprah, the Eastern Regional Commander of …
Then, on Monday evening, 28 February, M-Net will screen the 83rd Academy Awards, which will be co-hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway.
Franco, who currently can be seen in "127 Hours," will be making his second appearance on an Os…
Please find below the guest list from Monday 21 February to Friday 25 February for the Late Show with David Letterman. It’s another star-studded week as Dave interviews Tom Brokaw, Forest Whitaker, Josh Groban and Paris Hilton. The Late Sh…
U2’s Cape Town concert this Friday February 18th will be broadcast live on Highveld and KFM in South Africa, alongside a live stream on Dstvafrica.com, only available and free throughout the African continent.
U2 played a huge show …
Mr Samuel Ransford Asiedu, a Labour Consultant, has reminded employers and employees that job vacations, commonly referred to as annual leaves, were mandatory rest periods.
He said any arrangement to waive such periods for one reason…
The Director of the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) of the University of Cape Coast, Dr George K. T. Oduro, has said that the process of achieving quality human resource development requires effective leadershi…
Three students of Ashesi University College in Accra have been selected to participate in the 2011 Goldman Sachs Spring Internship Programme in London.
The students were selected from hundreds of applicants who applied from universi…
The weather on Friday will be partly cloudy and misty in the morning over southern Ghana while the afternoon will be warm and unstable with scattered showers and thunderstorms, according to the weather forecast issued in Accra by the Ghana…
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has paid GH¢77,825,509.98 as claims for services rendered to clients by the various health care providers as at August 2010 in the Brong-Ahafo Region.
Mr Philip Baazeng, Deputy Director …
CNBC Africa has confirmed that popular late-night show "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" will return in primetime 21:00 (CAT) beginning March 1, 2011. After an absence of over 24 months, dozens of viewer emails and open letters by journalis…
Alcatel-Lucent Optism™ extends opt-in mobile marketing to emerging markets with leading consumer brands
Paris and Barcelona, February 16, 2011 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and Millicom Ghana Ltd (MIC), under the brand …
Green Cross International (GCI) and Giorgio Armani are partnering to promote access to safe drinking water through GCI’s Smart Water for Green Schools project in Ghana. A comprehensive support and solidarity network has been devised around…
More than 600,000 people in Central, Volta, Eastern and Northern regions will soon benefit from a 77.34 million-US-dollar rural water supply project to help to increase coverage in the remote parts of the country.
The project to be …
The First Lady Mrs Ernestina Naadu Mills, on Wednesday advised the youth to jealously treasure the African cultural identity, which espoused mutual respect, knowledge and peace as tools for self development.
“Without true knowledge o…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday attributed the high rental rates of hotel rooms in the major cities of the country to inadequate decent accommodation facilities.
“Most of our four-star hotels charge beyond $200.00 a nig…
Students of Mount Temple Comprehensive School, Ireland, have established a 25,000 cedis Early Childhood Development Centre at Adaklu-Abuadi in the Adaklu-Anyigbe District.
The Centre would secure the safety and good care of the child…
The Chairman of the Ashiedu Keteke Sub Metropolitan Area, has appealed to parents and guardians not to capitalise on government interventions in the educational sector to run away from their responsibilities towards their children and ward…
Residents of some communities in Accra at dawn on Wednesday experienced what eyewitnesses described as an earth tremor.
The incident which occurred around 0400 hours affected communities like Taifa, Dome, Tantra Hills, Achimota, Kwab…
Madam Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, noted on Wednesday that the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as a means for the eradication of extreme poverty has become a global challenge in recent t…
A couple who were busted by the Police for allegedly trafficking six women from Gushiegu and Ashiaman in the Northern and Greater Accra Regions to Lagos and engaged them in prostitution were on Wednesday put before a Circuit Court in Accra…
The Food and Drugs Board (FDB) on Wednesday cautioned the public against patronizing soft drinks from Ambiance Farms and Food Processing and Sunrise farms and Drinks Company Limited.
It said since the products had not been registered …
The Ministry of Trade and Industry on Wednesday announced guidelines or modalities for the importation of African Textiles Prints with effect from Monday, March 21, 2011.
A statement issued in Accra by Ms Hanna Tetteh, Sector Ministe…
An international evangelist, Dr Lawrence Tetteh, on Wednesday called for an end to intolerance of one another, personality attacks, insults, ethnic
and divisive politics that are conspiring to tear the nation apart.
In a message ahe…
The Madina District Police Command, has arrested five persons for allegedly manufacturing local pistols in a special operation, which spanned three regions.
Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) David Eklu told the Ghana News Agency i…
Samuel Kwame Akwetey, 26-year-old farmer, was on Wednesday sentenced to three years imprisonment in hard labour for stealing by a Koforidua Circuit Court, presided over by Mrs Babara Tettey-Charway.
He pleaded not guilty to five coun…
Drama unfolded at the Takoradi Hospital on Wednesday afternoon when a middle-aged man wielding a sharp machete stormed the Accident and Emergency Ward shouting and ordering all patients, nurses and doctors of the ward to vacate the premise…
Speakers at the second Volta Basic Schools Drama and Poetry Festival Wednesday urged pupils and students to cultivate the habit of reading beyond their textbooks.
The two-day competition organized by the Centre for National Culture (C…
Lamentations and admonitions about the dangers of teenage pregnancy, environmental degradation and the loss of Ghanaian cultural values were brought alive with effect in poetry recitals at the Volta Basic Schools Drama and Poetry Festival …
Government has commended Social Investment Fund (SIF) for its immense contribution to capacity building and logistical support to Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to promote poverty reduction in the country.
Mr Samuel …
Mr. Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum, Nkoranza South District Chief Executive, has appealed to teachers to redouble efforts to ensure a remarkable improvement in the standard of education.
He urged all workers to work harder to commensurate t…
Some residents of Amasaman and its environs in the Ga West Municipality, have expressed concern about the abrupt end of a project that was meant to give them access to portable water.
A random sampling of views by the Ghana News Agen…
Dr Samuel Aborah, Clinical Coordinator, Bolgatanga Regional Hospital, on Wednesday called on the Health Ministry to provide the region with W 135 vaccines to help in the control of the perennial problems of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis (CSM).…
Mrs Juliana Azumah-Mensah, Minister of Women and Children’s Affairs, is leading a Ghanaian delegation to attend the Commonwealth Annual Consultation of National Women’s Machineries (NWM) as well as the Commonwealth Gender Plan of Action Mo…
Ernest Dompreh, 22-year-old gold digger, was on Wednesday arraigned before the Asamankese Circuit Court charged with sodomizing a seven-year-old boy.
He pleaded guilty to having had sexual intercourse with the boy through the anus an…
Eric Kwaku Offei, a driver, was on Wednesday arraigned before the Kade District Magistrate Court for stealing a taxi cab.
Offei pleaded guilty with explanation and the court presided over by Mr Abdul Majid Iliasu remanded him in pri…
Participants at a workshop on the negative impact of malaria have been urged to wage war against malaria because it is the main cause of poverty in the Bawku area.
The workshop, organized in Bawku on Wednesday sought to inform, e…
Mr Alfred Vanderpuije, Mayor of Accra, on Tuesday evening drove away hawkers selling on the streets as well as pedestrian walkways as he continued his tour of the capital.
Places visited included the Pedestrian Shopping Mall and the …
Five hundred students of the Suhum Presbyterian Senior High School (SHS) are studying under trees and in a dining hall, the Headmaster of the school, Mr Emmanuel Danso, told the GNA on Wednesday.
He said this at the presentation of boo…
A school block built by the Gomoa West District Assembly for the Gomoa Maim District Assembly Primary School has been inaugurated.
The building estimated at a cost of GH¢79,000 was built from the District Assemblies Common Fund.
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A water closet public place of convenience built by a business woman at Boadua near Akwatia, was inaugurated on Wednesday.
According to Madam Esi Bensua, the business woman, she built the “Jesus Promise Toilet” as her contribution to…
Madam Mary Adepesa, Bawku West District Director of Health Services, on Wednesday expressed concern at the high rate of teenage and unintended pregnancies in the district.
She said about 75 per cent of young girls between 13 …
The Ghana Education Service (GES) is reviewing educational manuals and handbooks for Headteachers, Circuit Supervisors, and School Management Committees (SMCs) to help improve the quality of teaching and learning at the basic schools.
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The Zonta Club of Accra has donated child delivery kits to the Golden Jubilee Health Centre at Mankessim Municipality in the Mfantseman Municipality.
The kits worth 1,000 US dollars were from a sister club in Hamilton to improve mate…
Fishermen from Kormantse near Saltpond in the Mfantseman Municipality, have pledged support for the Fisheries Act 2002 (Act 652) and Fisheries Regulation 2010 Legislative Instrument (LI 1968).
The 2010 LI was to protect the fisheries…
The Second Lady, Mrs Lordina Mahama, has donated assorted items worth GH¢8,000 to the Golden Jubilee Health Centre at Mankessim in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region.
The donation, made through the Mfantseman West Memb…