The Minister of the Interior, Mr Martin Amidu, has said inadequate logistics facing the Ghana Police Service was a major set-back at efforts by the police in fighting crime.
He said the Ghana Police Service personnel of 23,000 neede…
The out-going Northern Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police Angwubutoge Awuni, has appealed to the government to consider providing a helicopter to the police in the Northern Region.
He said the Northern Region…
The Awutu Magistrate's Court on Wednesday slapped a fineof GHc400 on Evans Twumasi, unemployed, on the charge of stealing pieces of iron rods valued at about GHc500.
He pleaded guilty and would be jailed for six months in hard labour i…
The chiefs and elders of the Western Nzema Traditional Council have pledged their full support for the establishment of a gas plant in the area for the development of Ghana's emerging oil industry.
This follows a meeting with the Ghan…
Personnel of insurance companies on Thursday donated blood to the National Blood Bank of Korle-bu Teaching Hospital, to help solve the problem of blood shortage at the medical facility.
More than 200 workers donated to the bank in th…
The University of Cape Coast Practice Senior High School has presented relief items to the Agona Nyakrom flood victims at Agona Nyakrom.
The items include used clothing, children's wear, foot wears, toilet rolls, bags of rice, soap a…
Following a proposal by an independent human rights expert to set up Commission of Inquiry into alleged human rights violations in Myanmar, India questioned the utility of such a probe with a "fact finding mandate."
India has pointe…
Ms Elizabeth Adjei, the Director of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), is suggesting that residents around the country's borders should be given special identification cards to reduce the time they spend in going through immigration proc…
China's soaring demand for luxury wood furniture is fueling the destruction of Madagascar's forests, says a new report launched Tuesday at the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan.
The report from Global Witnes…
The Soka Gakkai International (SGI), a Buddhist organization, has held a two-day West African Youth Conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the Dr Daisaku Ikeda's declaration that the "21st century is the century of Africa."
The …
Prince Joachin of Denmark on Wednesday cautioned the Government not to neglect the agricultural sector against the background of the socio-economic fortunes of the emerging oil and gas industry.
He expressed confidence in the prospec…
Ghana has finalised the National Plan of Action for the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 in which women's participation in peace and security institutions and conflict prevention would be increased.
T…
The Ho Municipal Assembly Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit is to post health teams at vantage points to facilitate the medical screening of food vendors.
The team would painstakingly cover the whole municipal area.
Mr …
A Principal Midwife at the Manhyia District Hospital in Kumasi, Mrs Millicent Afful, has called on Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to enforce sanitation by-laws with a firm hand.
This, she said, has become necessary t…
One hundred communities in the Amansie-West and Asante-Mampong districts of Ashanti Region, would benefit from an education project, pioneered by Care International to increase enrolment, retention and academic performance of girls in basi…
Dr Ashley Deans, a renowned physicist, educator and author will deliver series of lectures on Consciousness- based Education in Accra from November 1 to November 4.
Consciousness-based Education is a system that promotes the full dev…
Four persons on Wednesday appeared before a Sekondi District Magistrate's Court for alleged robbery.
They are Benjamin Amoah, 20, Maxwell Arthur, 20, Kwesi Essandoh, 19 and Kwame Ankama, 25.
In the dock with them was Richard Ba…
The chiefs and people of Adamorobe near Aburi in the Akwapim South Municipality, on Tuesday launched a four-year development plan aimed at revamping the self-help spirit to improve on the living condition of the town.
As part of the …
The Founder of Alexus Life Opportunity Foundation, a non- profit organisation on Wednesday, spoke against the detention of patients suffering from infectious diseases in prayer camps, saying it poses a public health risk.
Reverend…
Dr Alex Dodoo, President of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISoP), on Wednesday asked patients to be assertive and demand answers for the quality of service being rendered to them by medical practitioners.
He said it …
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday launched the 2010 National Mass Measles Vaccination campaign in Accra, as part of efforts to help free all children in the country from the scourge of the disease.
The nationwide exerci…
Mr Antwi-Boasiako Sekyere, Deputy Minister of Employment and Social Welfare, on Wednesday said although Ghana is always in the lead in the ratification of international treaties, the country is always found wanting in implementing them. …
The Akuapem South Municipality has committed GH�50,000.00 towards the construction of a three-storey market at Aburi in the Eastern Region.
Mr O.B Amoah, Member of Parliament for Aburi/Nsawam has also provided GH�25,000.00 from h…
The Volta River Authority (VRA) will discharge small volumes of water from the Akosombo Dam in a controlled manner if the level of the Volta Lake rises above 277 feet.
Mr. Kweku Awotwi, Chief Executive of the VRA, announced this at a…
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) on Wednesday distributed 2,000 pieces of free school uniforms to brilliant but needy pupils in some selected schools in the metropolis.
This was in fulfillment of the election campaign pledge m…
Conservation of environments needs to occur in conjunction with international development, the director of the World Bank said in Japan.
"Preserving ecosystems and saving species are not luxuries for the rich," said World Bank President R…
The estimated volume of undiscovered oil in Alaska was revised to a significantly lower volume because of new data, the USGS director said.
The U.S. Geological Survey found that there are around 896 million barrels of undiscovered oil in …
Crews with Pacific Gas and Electric found leaks on main gas pipelines and other facilities in California that required immediate repair, the utility said.
PG&E said it conducted surveys of its gas transmission system in California and fou…
The Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, Mr Caesar Kale, has announced that functional literacy training could be the key medium in helping to attain Ghana's Millennium Development Goals.
Mr. Caesar Kale made this announcement when h…
The 'superbug', impervious to almost all known antibiotics and claimed to have emerged from India, has been detected in Israel for the first time in a woman who was recently hospitalised in New Delhi.
Doctors at the Sheba hospital n…
A 52-year-old farmer, Kwabena Okae, also known as Kwabena Dapaah, was on Wednesday put before the Kade District Magistrate's Court charged with murdering a woman at a funeral at Adankrono.
Okae was said to have shot Adwoa Owusua, 50,…
A tsunami triggered by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake left hundreds of people missing or dead and thousands homeless Tuesday in Indonesia, authorities said.
The quake struck Monday off the coast of Sumatra. Henry Dori Satoko of the Mentawai I…
Mr. Sulley Abudu Zakaria Lord, West Mamprusi District Chief Executive (DCE), has said females have suffered the consequences of several unfavourable gender policies.
These have affected their progress, he said, and called for those p…
Mr Kwasi Boakye, Nsawam Goil Station Manager, on Tuesday appealed to the police to clamp down on criminal activities in the town, which is undermining socio-economic activities.
He said some of the culprits operate around the Goil St…
Police in Ho have arrested three out of six suspected armed robbers who allegedly attacked a student and took away his mobile phone and money.
The suspects are Robert Feh, Daniel Mortey and Selorm Aguadze, all unemployed and residi…
The airlifting of Muslim Pilgrims to the Holy land of Mecca is progressing smoothly without any hitch, since the first batch of pilgrims were flown out on Monday, October 25th, 2010.
Over 700 pilgrims have so far left Accra for Mecca…
People in the Gomoa West and Gomoa East districts have appealed to the government to rehabilitate the Gomoa Afransi/Gomoa Ankamu road.
They told the GNA in interviews that the bad road was affecting economic and social life of the peo…
Dr Nii Oakley Quaye-Kumah, the Deputy Minister of Roads and Highways, said on Wednesday that Ghana Bauxite/Excel Haulage Limited, a mining company, has provided funds for the rehabilitation of Akwawso Bridge as part of their social respons…
Rev Frank Anku, a past Synod Clerk of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, has inaugurated a Ghc 47,000 library for the Ho Bankoe Evangelical Presbyterian Basic School with an appeal to young people to cultivate the habit of reading.
…
MTN Ghana on Wednesday organized a customer education on its products and services for market women at Makola as part of its customer service week celebration, in Accra.
The exercise aimed at raising the awareness of the public about…
Nana Emelia Rachel Fosu, Headmistress of Nkoranza Senior High School (SHS), has urged the town's folk to enroll their children in the school to enhance their development.
She disclosed that out of the 450 fresh students admitted to s…
The Reverend Emmanuel Kojo Osei has been inducted as District Minister of the Presbyterian Church for Nsuta with a call on the church to focus more on bringing peace and progress to society.
It should help to calm tension, unite the…
Blustery weather moved into the eastern third of the United States Wednesday, with storms extending from the Deep South to Delaware, weather forecasters said.
Meanwhile, parts of the Midwest and the Ohio Valley were under wind advisories,…
U.S. President Barack Obama highlights Domestic Violence Awareness Month Wednesday, delivering remarks at the White House, the administration said.
Obama will highlight the coordination and cooperation across governmental agencies to prot…
A factory fishing ship caught fire more than 200 miles off the coasts of Britain and France Wednesday stranding its 111 workers, authorities said.
Britain's Maritime and Coastguard Agency said most of the crew of the Athena were evacuate…
More deaths occur from natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific than any other place in the world, a U.N. report released in South Korea found.
A report from the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the U.N. I…
Tragedy hit Wamanafo, in the Dormaa East District of Brong Ahafo, on Monday, when two young men got drowned in the Supre stream, at the outskirts of the town.
Police Chief Inspector A.A. Douduo told the GNA at Wamanafo that, a 32 yea…
Residents of Kwanyaako in the Twifo Hamang Lower Denkyira District of the Central Region witnessed the gruesome murder of a young boy on Tuesday, October 12, 2010, throwing the town into a state of mourning.
Seventeen-year-old David …
A 22-year-old teacher, Eric Abaidoo has been remanded into Police custody by a Magistrate's Court in Cape Coast for indecently assaulting a nine-year-old pupil.
He pleaded not guilty and is to re-appear on October 27, 2010.
Pro…
Mr. Casely Hayford Ababio, the President of Brong-Ahafo Regional branch of Ghana Traditional Caterers Association, has appealed to the government to enact laws and legislation that would regulate the activities of traditional caterers.
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