Alhaji Issahaku Salia, Upper West Regional Minister, has suggested to the country's polytechnics to review their curricula to bring them in tune with demands of the labour market and national aspirations.
He said the polytechnics ha…
Nana Kwaku Binnah III, Paramount Chief of Shama Traditional Area, has called for the renaming of the Takoradi International Company(TICO) to reflect the location of the company.
"I wonder why the company should continue to be called …
Mr Kwasi Oppong Ababio, Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive, on Friday presented 299 school uniforms for distribution to pupils in public basic schools at Yawsae and Daadom in the Sunyani Municipality.
The items were received by head t…
Professor Kwasi Nsiah-Gyabaah, immediate past Rector of Sunyani Polytechnic, on Saturday said sacrifice, financial and material resources and total devotion were necessary to improve on the
dwindling membership of the Sunyani diocese of …
South Korea confirmed three more cases of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) on Saturday, raising the number of affected farms to 20. All cases are within a southeastern city where the outbreak was
first reported earlier in the week.
The M…
Emphasising that "fast-start finance" was a vital part of any "balanced agreement" at the UN climate talks here, India has voiced disappointment over the American contribution of just USD 1.8 billion so far as part of a USD 30 billion pled…
Indian Space Research Organisation has given an estimated Rs 500 crore order to Arianespace and renewed the five-year contract with EADS Astrium for joint marketing of satellites, it was announced on Saturday during the visit of French Pre…
Twelve members of the Institute of Incorporated
Engineers were at the weekend inducted into office and charged to apply professionalism in their chosen field and desist from compromising quality standards in their assignments.
Sp…
Seven bomb attacks killed at least 15 people in Baghdad Saturday with an apparent focus on Shiite Muslims, the Interior Ministry said.
Six Iranian Muslim pilgrims were among the dead as they rode on a bus to a Shiite shrine, The New York …
Maize farmers have been cautioned against the use of unlabelled pesticides and other chemicals in the storage of their products.
Mr Benard Kwasi Dwomoh, Managing Director of Bentronic Agro Chemicals, said the practice where some farm…
MTN Ghana Foundation is supporting the Nadowli Assembly Women Advocacy Group (NAWAG) with GH¢42,362.49 for the implementation of the 'B' GREAT Project.
The 'B' GREAT Project seeks to provide Teaching and Learning Materials (TLMs) to …
The 1990 Past OLA Girls Association (POGA 90), as
part of their 20th anniversary, have refurbished and provided a broadband Internet facility to the school's ICT centre.
The group also donated stools for the school's science labora…
At least 17 people, including the driver, were injured when a bus carrying university students crossed a highway median and rolled over in Vermont, police said.
The bus -- one of eight carrying students from the University of Massachusett…
The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), has
passed a vote of no confidence on its President, Mr Anthony Abotsi Afriyie.
At an emergency congress on Saturday, the union said Mr Afriyie had been removed from office with immediat…
The two bodies under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which advise and implement Parties decisions on climate action, had successfully concluded their work
on Saturday.
Their work has made a numbe…
Bush fires have burnt down fifteen high tension poles worth several millions of cedis along the Wahabu and Wellembelle transmission line within the past two weeks.
Mr Ameen Salifu, Wa East District Chief Executive (DCE), who announce…
B C Gupta, Secretary in the Department of Food and Public Distribution, has been elected as vice-chairman of the International Sugar Council for the year 2011.
At the 38th Session of the council held here, Tanzania was elected as its …
Mr Emmanuel Adzei Anang, Member of the Council of State, on Friday pleaded with traditional rulers in the Greater-Accra Region to desist from selling farm lands for residential purposes.
"Stop selling all the lands in the region; res…
Madam Diana Nunoo, a 69-year-old widow, was on
Friday adjudged the 2010 Overall Best Farmer for the Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal Assemble (LEKMA), at the Assembly's National Farmers' Day
celebration, at Nungua.
For her prize, Madam…
Twenty-three (23) farmers including four women, were honoured at this year's Farmers Day celebration in the Nkwanta-North District.
Mr Kojo Lapual of Sibi-Jatokparekpare, the overall best farmer in the district, received a corn-mill and …
The wind of peace blew and became visible on Farmers Day on Friday for the residents of Adaklu-Anyigbe District as the chiefs and people from the three traditional areas embraced each other in love and unity.
This was after the chie…
A 41-year-old Human Resource Manager of the
Ghana Bauxite Company at Awaso, Mr George Ampong was adjudged the best farmer in the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai District on Friday.
He was honoured alongside 25 others including a physicall…
A durbar has been held at Nkawie in the Atwima-Nwabiagya District to highlight the need to end violence against women and children, calling on all and sundry to work to stop abuses against
their fundamental freedom and rights.
Mrs…
The Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council
(RCC) in collaboration with Osu Youth Empowerment (OYE), a youth club, on Saturday embarked on a clean-up exercise at Klottey Lagoon in the Osu Alata Electoral Area.
The exercise was …
Mr Robert Bakah Wavei, Sissala West District Chief Executive (DCE), has expressed disappointment at the inability of at least a farmer in the district to receive an award for
vegetable production.
He said although a number of dams …
Flag Officer Commanding the Western Naval Command, Commodore Timothy Samuel Appiah, has said the Command would ensure security at the Ghana/Cote d'Ivoire border.
He said the military would perform its functions with a high sense of pa…
Mr Kwadwo Agyei-Dwomor, District Chief Executive (DCE) for the Nkoranza North District, on Thursday said, the District Assembly spends about 70 percent of its resources to support educational programmes in the communities.
He was int…
Technology products exhibited by the Ghana Regional Appropriate Technology Industrial Service (GRATIS) Foundation stand at the Volta Region Trade, Investment and Culture Fair at Ho, continue to attract many visitors, especially players fro…
Mr Benjamin Dadzie, the Best Canoe Fisherman in the Shama District, on Friday express grief over continued negative fishing practices in the Shama District.
He said despite the ban on light fishing, DDT, dynamites and pair trawling, …
Many Years (MY) Ventures, dealers in health products and food supplements, on Thursday, donated assorted items valued at GH¢3,400.00 in support of the regional farmers day celebration in Ashanti.
These included 50 knapsack sprayers, …
Twenty-three farmers in the Asante Akim North Municipality were on Friday honoured at a farmers' durbar held at Praaso, near Dwease to mark this year's Farmers' Day celebration.
Mr Elvis Oppong Kyekyeku, a native of Domeabra near Ago…
B C Gupta, Secretary in the Department of Food and Public Distribution, has been elected as vice-chairman of the International Sugar Council for the year 2011.
At the 38th Session of the council held here, Tanzania was elected as its …
Owere Mines, a gold mining company operating in the Asante Akim North Municipality, on Thursday donated items worth GH¢2,500 towards the celebration of this year's Farmers Day in the
Municipality.
The items included a motor bicycle…
The prevalence rate of HIV and AIDS in the Tema Metropolis had increased from 02 per cent last year to 04 per cent this year, Dr Kwaku Sarkodie, Group Medical Advisor at Unilever Ghana Limited, has said.
Speaking at an education for…
South Korea's military suggested Thursday
that it had inflicted "many casualties" on North Korea when it returned artillery fire in response to the North's Nov. 23 bombardment on a southern
island.
"Satellite images show our shells…
The Executive Director of 4H-Ghana, a non-governmental organization, Mr Appiah Kwaku Boateng, has appealed to Ghanaians, especially the youth, to have the courage and test for HIV and AIDS.
He said knowing their status would help in b…
Mr Victor Nkansah, Director of Xtra- Gold Mining Limited, has reiterated the commitment of the company to ensure that communities in its area of operations live dignified lives.
He said the company would help provide the necessary soc…
Annual mammograms greatly reduce the risk of
mastectomy following breast cancer for women ages 40-50, researchers in London found.
Lead author Nicholas M. Perry, director of The London Breast Institute at The Princess Grace Hospital in …
An Accra Fast Track High Court hearing the Ya-Na alleged murder trial on Thursday said it had not received an affidavit filed by Defence Counsel in opposition to a writ filed by the prosecution.
The writ was to call for fresh evidenc…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission Wednesday introduced a plan it said would establish open Internet rules for the first time.
"The Commission itself has a duty and an obligation to fulfill -- a duty to address important open proc…
Roughly 1,000 Iranian expatriates gathered in
front of the European Parliament building in Brussels Wednesday to demand international protection for the Iranian opposition living in Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
Iraqi authorities have put Ashraf…
Mr Amaechi Nelili of Nigeria, 2010 Black Star of Africa winner of Millennium Excellence Awards on Thursday paid a courtesy call on Mr Joe Gidisu, Minister of Roads and Highways in Accra.
Mr Nelili is in Ghana to receive the Black Sta…
ActionAid Ghana, a non-governmental organisation, has presented relief items worth GHc44, 000 to 13 communities in the Central Gonja District that were hit by the floods recently.
The items included 50 bags (100kg) of rice, 200 bags…
Ghanaians have been urged not to be complacent with the gains made in the HIV and AIDS control but should be mindful of their life style in order not to change the trend.
Ms Rose Nani, Coordinator of the New Juaben Municipal Voluntar…
Mr Joseph Kwabena Onyinah, Ashanti Regional Director of Education, has urged teachers to take advantage of the numerous opportunities provided by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to upgrade themselves and improve on their professional com…
The Rev Dr Kwesi Biney, an agriculturist and evangelist, has called for the use of human urine as fertilizer by farmers.
He is contained in a in a paper to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
Rev. Dr. Biney said it was estima…
Fuel-loading at the Bushehr nuclear reactor in Iran is complete, Russian contractor Atomstroiexport said Thursday. Iranian media also reported Ali Akbar Salehi, director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, as saying the fueling proc…
A United Kingdom-based Ghanaian couple on Thursday donated assorted items valued at more than GH¢500.00 to the Asante-Mampong Babies Home.
The items included bed sheets, used clothing, toys and exercises books.
Nana Kwame Baafi…
Efforts at promoting computer literacy among school children in the Ejura-Sekyedomase District has been given a boost with the inauguration of a GH¢5,000.00 computer laboratory at the Dromankuma Anglican Basic School.
It would also …
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has appealed to the government to address the myriad of problems facing farmers.
These include the rotting of food stuck in rural areas because of un-motorable roads t…