Dr. Douglas Boateng will chair and moderate a panel discussion at the 2010 international SmartProcurement World Conference in South Africa. The theme for the discussion is “The Strategic Mandate of the Procurement Professionâ€.
The 16…
On the wave of the recently ended ‘Go for Gold’ train in Kumasi, Fidelity Bank’s Sales Ambassadors are headed for Tamale in order to prove the bank’s commitment to all Ghanaians. The ‘Go for Gold’ train is a part of the ongoing…
A Sekondi district magistrate's court on Monday imposed a fine of 240 Ghana cedis on Fushina Seidu, a scrap dealer, for stealing a concrete vibrator machine.
Seidu would serve nine months in prison in hard labour in default.
He…
The National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) has presented 400 insecticide treated nets (ITNs) to students of Takoradi Polytechnic, signalling a quest by the relief agency to make the nation's leading killer disease, malaria, a co…
About 200 soldiers of the Third Battalion of Infantry in Sunyani, on Tuesday joined residents in the Municipality in a clean-up exercise that lasted several hours in connection with the Founder's Day celebration.
At Kotokrom near Su…
The South Korean government is reviewing major projects to build underwater tunnels with China and Japan to connect the countries with high-speed railways, government officials said Tuesday.
The officials at the Ministry of Land, Trans…
Two persons have been jailed a total of 20 years in hard labour for stealing large quantities of electricity cables worth thousand of cedis belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana(ECG).
The Mpreaso Circuit Court presided over b…
The Ghana Armed Forces on Tuesday commemorated the Founder's Day with the hoisting of the African Union (AU) and the Ghana flags in Accra.
Founder's Day is the birthday of late President Osagyefuo Dr Kwame Nkrumah and is commemorated…
Otumfuo Kwesi Ageyman IX, the Paramount Chief of Lower Dixcove, has appealed to the government to build a sea defence wall for the town.
He said tidal waves had consumed very important structures including residential and school buil…
Cocobod and a consortium of banks on Tuesday donated two boreholes, anaesthetic machine and patient monitoring equipment valued at GH�87,500 to the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital.
The consortium of banks, led by Standard Bank, pai…
The Western Regional Police Command, has arrested and placed in custody four top officials of the Sefwi Juabeso District Assembly for allegedly defrauding the assembly.
The officials whose names have been withheld are the District Co…
South Korea rose to the world's 31st largest contributor to U.N. peacekeeping forces as the country seeks to play a greater role in the international community, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
The number of South Korean peacekeeping…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday opened a three-day high-level meeting with a plea to nearly 140 heads of state and government to step up efforts in order to translate the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs), the 10-year-old amb…
The New Juaben Municipal Assembly has awarded a contract for the construction of a modern beads' market at the premises of the Centre for National Culture (CNC) at Koforidua to boost the beads trade in the region.
The completion of t…
Mozambique’s Jen became the 9th Housemate to be evicted from the Big Brother All Stars house during Sunday night’s live Big Brother All Stars Eviction Show (19 September at 19:00 CAT on DStv Channel 198).
The show kicked off with IK …
This week Big Brother has challenged the M-Net’s Big Brother All Stars housemates to be greens-men and production designers on an Abacus Gardens Task.
The Head of House, Munya briefed the Housemates that each day they would be given a …
A Magistrate's Court at Akim Oda, has imposed a fine of GH�400.00 on an apprentice carpenter for stealing a sack full of plantain worth GH�150.00, belonging to Banson Antwi and Stephen Nartey, both farmers.
The convict, Kofi Twen…
• Awarded best telecommunications company
• Zain touching lives awarded best television show
Accra, Wednesday 22 September 2010. The Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana has given Zain Ghana the coveted title of Telecommunications …
The Takoradi police have arrested two suspected cocaine dealers, Ibrahim Ahmed, 29, and Tony Hill Walker, 28, who hail from Agona Swedru and Adjumako Okyeso in the Central Region respectively.
The two suspects have been remanded into…
Mr Abu Iddrisu, the Northern Regional Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has said about 22,000 hectares of tree species are lost annually in the three northern regions and 16 million hectares are lost in Africa.
H…
Health Administrators and Support Services have begun a five- day national conference at Busua in the Western Region, to deliberate on how to improve quality care in all public health institutions.
The conference is being held on the…
Miss Joyce Aryee, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, has expressed her displeasure and worry over assault on workers of mining companies by illegal miners.
She said such barbaric attacks had the tendency t…
The continuation of direct peace talks with Israel, depends on whether Israel will keep freezing Jewish settlement constructions. Palestinian National Authority, President Mahmoud Abbas said this in New York, where he'll attend meetings of…
The Deputy Minister of Health, Rojo Mettle-Nunoo on Monday said government would increase budgetary allocation to promote mental health care and build capacity of nurses to identify the signs of depression and treat it on time.
Speak…
Mrs. Agyeiwaa Ampim, Principal Midwifery Officer at the Sunyani Municipal Hospital, at the weekend advised Christians to support and show compassion to People Living with HIV/AIDS.
She said stigmatization and discrimination against su…
Voices for Malaria-Free Future Project of the John Hopkins University Centre for Communication Programmes (JHU/CCP) in Ghana, has called for conscious efforts to mobilize community level advocates in the fight against malaria in the countr…
The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) and Tigo, a telecommunication company, have unveiled an electronic product to assist patients to remember what medicines have been prescribed to them.
The product - mHealth - allows patient me…
Mr Rojo Mettle-Nunoo, Deputy Minister of Health, on Sunday said the Chinese government would soon establish a plantation aimed at promoting the use of herbal drugs.
"The plantation would be for the cultivation of different herbal pla…
Lessons for the future direction in demographic and health research in developing countries will take centre stage in discussions at the 10th Annual General and Scientific Meeting of the INDEPTH Network to be held in Accra from September 2…
The 60th anniversary celebration of Ho Mawuli School is expected to be a great homecoming event for all its past students this November.
The Rev Frank Anku, Board Chairman of the School and Immediate Past Synod Clerk of the Evangelica…
Mr. Kwadwo Agyei-Dwomor, Nkoranza North District Chief Executive, has emphasized the need for Moslem parents to send and keep their children to school irrespective of their sex.
He expressed worry that some Moslem parents encouraged t…
The Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) of Obuasi Senior High Technical (OSHTS) and Christ The King Catholic Senior High Schools (CKCSHS) have been commended for initiating dormitory block projects for their schools.
The Obuasi Municip…
The Universal United Youth Organisation (UUYO), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has organised a quiz competition at Akim Oda as part of a week-long campaign on HIV/AIDS prevention and abstinence, for second-cycle schools and the you…
The Minister in-charge of the Akim Oda Trinity Presbyterian Church, The Reverend Alexander K. Nyantakyi, has called on heads of schools to forge cordial relationships with District Assemblies to facilitate infrastructural development.
…
Mr Edward Gbetodeme, the Keta Municipal Director of the Education, has suggested the establishment of private teacher training colleges to solve the persistent shortfall in teachers, especially in the rural areas.
He was speaking to t…
The contractor working on the rehabilitation of the Half Assini Catholic Primary and Junior High School has abandoned the site despite assurances that the school would be ready for use when the academic year starts.
Mr Paul Whaja, ch…
Authorities of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), have organized a week-long road safety and driving techniques for 50 drivers including two fuel auditing assistants of the University.
The programme is to upgrade their knowle…
our teenagers from Essuekyir, a suburb of Cape Coast, were on Monday morning crushed to death when a Mercedes Benz trailer, veered off the road and run into them.
Kofi Adu, 13, Kwame Santo, 12, Mamoud Adama, 13, and his younger brothe…
Three foreigners suspected to be involved in cross-border armed robbery, especially snatching of motorbikes, have been nabbed by the police at Aflao.
The police have retrieved three such bikes from the rooms of the suspects at Ziorme…
The Local Council of Churches in the Bawku Municipality at the weekend held a service to pray for lasting peace for the area.
The service, a non denominational one, was held in collaboration with World Vision, a Non Governmental Organ…
The Adjabeng Court '2' on Thursday fined Alhaji Sulemana Bussim an amount of GH¢480.00 or in default serve one year imprisonment for allowing his herd of cattle to stray, cause stampede and traffic congestion in the Metropolis.
The c…
The Effutu Municipal Chief Executive, Nii Ephraim, has appealed to the people to cooperate with enumerators and other officials that would be engaged in the forthcoming Population and Housing Census to ensure its success.
He said if c…
The Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Mr Alban S. Bagbin has advised real estate developers to respect building codes and regulations that prohibit building on water ways and locations earmarked for government projects.
He s…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Saturday said that jobs that would be created under the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) were meant for all Ghanaians and not for northerners only.
He said although the project wa…
Twenty-five persons have been confirmed dead, while 103 are on admission at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, following the crash of a cargo-truck, on which they were travelling, at Zagyire, near Kamina Barracks on Saturday.
Twenty-one died …
Vice President John Dramani Mahama at the weekend gave the assurance that Government would equip the Police and the Military with logistics to enable them to boot out all highway robberies in the country.
"Armed Robbers have ove…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama at the weekend called on small-scale illegal Miners in the Tinga area of the Bole District to legalize their activities by registering with the right authorities.
He said the illegal mining popularly…
The National Blood Bank at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, which supplies blood to health facilities in the country to save lives, is running out of stock, Mr Samuel Nunoo, Deputy Chief Blood Donor Organiser of the Hospital, said.
He said…
The Canadian Government through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), is to spend 7.4 million dollars to fund a five-year Ghana Environmental Management Project (GEMP) in the three Northern Regions.
The Project, to be …
Right Reverend Francis Amenu, Moderator of General Assembly of the E.P. Church, has called on members of the Committees of the Church to consider their appointments as a calling to serve God in special ways.
Rt. Rev. Amenu gave the e…