The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has expressed concern about the growing rate of immoral lifestyles among the youth.
He blamed the situation on the failure of the adult population to lea…
The Pro-Vice Chancellor (Pro-VC) of the University of Education, Winneba, Prof. Mawutor Avoke, has observed that though Parliament has passed the disability bill, there is lack of official will at the district and national levels to implem…
The Deputy Western Regional Minister, Ms Betty Bosomtwi-Sam, has charged nurses and midwives in the country to remain committed to the oath they swear before being enrolled into the profession.
She noted that some people entered the …
Alhaji Haruna Abdul-Salam, Nkoranza South District Coordinating Director, has urged heads of departments to open up to their subordinates and acknowledge their talents, skills and knowledge in order to improve upon work place conditions.
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The Member of Parliament (MP) for Gomoa West, Mr Francis Kojo Arthur, has donated bags of cement to some communities in his constituency to support self-help projects.
Making the donation to the people of Gomoa Nkoransa near Apam, Mr …
Mr Emmanuel Sagoe, Gomoa West District Best Farmer for 2010, has expressed concern about the high rent charge by land owners for farming in the area.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency at Gomoa Dunkwa in the Central Region on Saturday…
The leadership of Apam Secondary School Old Students Association (ASSOSA), has decided to provide career guidance counseling to students of their alma mater.
The Association has, therefore, chosen Saturday January 29, as home-coming …
The Volta Regional House of Chiefs and the Volta Region Development Agency (VODA), on Saturday held a special durbar in honour of Mr Gong Jianzhong, Chinese Ambassador in Ghana.
The durbar, characterised by cultural displays, was to …
Mr Robert Kempes Papa Nii Ofosuware, Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), has advised residents in the Metropolis, to ensure that programmes aimed at tidying up their environments were sustained.
He said, such programmes, if sust…
The United States on Thursday launched Delta IV Heavy, the largest rocket ever, carrying a spy satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The three-engine rocket, carrying the 1-billion-dollar top- secret spy satellite NRO…
A Chinese participant has performed well in the Mars-500 project, a simulated space flight to Mars, the project's chief said Friday here.
Boris Morukov, who is also deputy director of the Medical and Biological Studies Institute of the…
Two Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) finished the fist spacewalk this year on Friday, the Russian Mission Control center said.
Oleg Skripochka and Dmitry Kondratyev, both 41, opened the exit hatch of the Russ…
A Japanese rocket carrying an unmanned cargo transporter to the International Space Station (ISS) blasted off Saturday, said reports from Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAEA) has ann…
One of the villages in a remote province in Fiji have expressed delight when the government provided them sewing machines through a donation from China, according to Fiji's Social Welfare Minister Dr. Jiko Luveni Sunday.
Luveni who vis…
Ten suspected drug traffickers were killed in a shootout with Mexican soldiers in a northeastern border state, Mexican authorities said Saturday.
Soldiers on patrol Friday found a camp of armed men, who opened fire on them in the state…
Unemployment insurance payments soared in Italy in 2010, according to figures released Saturday by the trade union CGIL, with more than 1.2 billion man-hours compensated for by the unemployment fund, a rise of nearly a third compared to 20…
Heavy rain over much of New Zealand's North Island has caused slips and flooded roads, and forced the evacuation of a camping ground.
Roads and houses across Auckland have been flooded, and farmers in Northland, Bay of Plenty and Waika…
Singapore leaders have recently flagged the issue of widening income gap as a main concern for the country, and they have been calling for inclusive growth through measures like workers' skill upgrades.
The issue has been making headli…
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said Sunday afternoon that it has found a missing sailboat with five United States citizens on board.
The "The Pineapple," which left Guam on Jan. 6 and was supposed to arrive in Cebu, the Philippines o…
At least 10,000 Dutch students and other university staff gathered in The Hague, the government city of the Netherlands to protest against the planned budget cuts for higher education. A few riots and clashes happened which were quickly su…
The South Sudan Referendum Commission (SSRC) on Sunday said around 99 percent of southern Sudanese had voted for the region's separation from the north according to primary results of the south Sudan referendum.
"98.8 percent have vote…
The Western Regional Director of Health, Dr. Mrs Linda Vanotoo,has charged nurses and midwives in the country to show affection, care and good human relations to patients.
She said there had been instances where the public had critic…
Pastor Yaw Osei Owusu, Brong-Ahafo Regional Overseer of Deeper Life Bible Church, at weekend exhorted Christians in responsible positions to demonstrate Christ-like behaviour to facilitate speedy national progress.
He said p…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Gomoa East, Mr Ekow Okyere Panyin, has appealed to well-to-do Ghanaians to help children from poor homes to acquire education or vocational skills to make them self-sufficient.
He said if the rich de…
The Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Director of Education, Madam Felicia Opoku-Mallet, has appealed to stakeholders to play their respective roles diligently to enhance education delivery in the district.
She said if parents provide t…
Mrs. Patience Opoku, Acting Director of the Department of Women of the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs, on Friday, advised women to be at the forefront in the fight against cultural practices that put their life in danger.
S…
Dzah Nana Yaw, a 22 year-old trader, was on Friday, arraigned before the Kade District Magistrates’ Court on a charge of intentionally and unlawfully causing harm to his friend.
His plea was not taken and he was remanded in prison cu…
Kwadwo Boadi, an unemployed, was on Friday, convicted to a fine of GH¢240, by the Kade District Magistrates’ Court for unlawfully assaulting a man, who dared to confront his friend, now at large for allegedly stealing his mobile phone.
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The Kade District Magistrates’ Court, presided over by Mr Abdul Majid Iliasu, on Friday remanded in prison custody, Agya Owusu, a distiller and Asonahene of Otumi, for defrauding an elderly woman of GH¢160.
Owusu pleaded guilty with …
The Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies have been urged to enact laws that would compel owners of dilapidated structures to pull them down to avert disasters.
Mr David Honarius Mensah, Central Regional National Disaster M…
The Ghana Environmental Awareness Association (GEAA) has called on the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to demolish dilapidated structures in the city, which pose a danger to life and property.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in A…
The recipients of Urban Poverty Reduction Projects, being implemented by the Social Investment Fund (SIF), have expressed concern about the slow pace at which the projects were being executed.
They urged SIF to ensure that whatever w…
Arrangement for the construction of a modern library Complex at Winneba, by Twinning City of Charlottesville, Virginia, in the US, under a sister Cities relationship, is completed.
Mr Kofi Kussachin, Effutu Municipal Co-coordinating …
The Foods and Drugs Board (FDB) has warned the public not to patronise seven herbal preparations of Se Manhyia Herbal Centre located off Obuom Road at Kasoa in the Central Region because they are dangerous.
The preparations are: Sem H…
X-Pharm Consult, a Pharmaceutical Advocacy Group, has congratulated Mr Joseph Yieleh Chireh on his appointment as Health Minister and urged him to work hard to transform the sector.
It said it has every reason to believe t…
The management of Accra Psychiatric Hospital has successfully repatriated the first batch of 30 cured inmates out of the 600 due for repatriation by the end of June this year.
The exercise which is to be conducted on regional basis, …
An unidentified man believed to be in his late 40s was found hanged at a cocoa farm at Gyaakye-Nkwanta, near Tepa in the Ahafo-Ano North district.
He is suspected to have committed suicide.
Assistant Superintendent of Police …
A Kumasi Circuit Court has ordered 10 people to be held in police custody for their alleged involvement in chieftaincy violence at Suakwai near Akropong in the Atwima-Nwabiagya district.
They are Richard Osei Kwadwo, 32, R…
A teenage apprentice “steel bender” has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in hard labour for defilement.
Eric Mensah, 18, was accused of abduction and sexual assault of his 15 year-old victim.
He pleaded guilty to both …
The Ashanti Region Police Domestic Violence and Victims’ Support Unit (DOVVSU), recorded a total of 1,023 cases of parental neglect in year 2010.
During the period there were also 214 defilement cases.
Deputy Superintendent o…
A 75-year old blind man, Kwame Frimpong and his two sons, Kwaku Duah, 38, and Kwaku Manu, 35, have appeared before the Nyinahin Magistrate court charged with causing damage.
They denied the offence and were each granted bail in the s…
Nkoranza South District Directorate of Education, has organised a two-day capacity building workshop to help to update the knowledge of about 100 school-based health teachers on the importance of environmental sanitation waste management a…
Mr Richard Akuoko Adiyia, the Member of Parliament for Ahafo Ano North, said on Friday that Ghanaians must discontinue blaming causes of road accidents on witches and wizards and rather fight the indiscipline on the roads.
He attribu…
Ten out of the 12 people who lost their lives in a road accident at Onyadze on the Winneba-Mankessim road in the early hours of Wednesday, January 19, 2011 have been identified.
They were Kojo Ninsin, Obusuapayin of Asona Clan of Mum…
A 65-year-old farmer has been slapped with a jail term of 21 years by a Kumasi Circuit Court for defiling an 11-year- old girl.
Akwasi Addai pleaded guilty to the offence.
Police Detective Inspector Martin Assenso told the court …
The Nyinahin Magistrate Court has ordered a 42-year- old driver, who knocked down and injured a pedestrian with his vehicle, to pay a fine of GH¢900.00.
Additionally, he is to pay GH¢1,000.00 compensation to the victim or in default s…
The Breman Asikuma District Magistrate Court has sentenced a 22-year-old driver to 10 months imprisonment in hard labour for stealing five bags of dried cocoa beans valued at GHC 600 belonging to the Produce Buying Company.
Kofi Bent…
The Afigya-Kwabre District Chief Executive, Mr Kwaku Oppong-Kyekyeku Kaakyire, has appealed to commercial drivers to ensure that they charge the approved transport fares.
He said they should not hide behind the recent fuel price incr…
One of the three Living Human Treasures recognised by the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Culture, Mr Dakura Sangbagu, was reported dead at the Nadowli Hospital on Thursday, January 13.
The Ministry of Chieftaincy and Culture awarded the…
The Eastern Regional Commanding Officer of the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit, Superintendent of Police James Sarfo-Peprah, said on Friday that people should stop attributing road accidents to witches and wizards.
“If road accidents…