A Hohoe circuit court has sentenced Theodore Gbone and six farmers, all of Gbi-Kledzo, for conspiring to trespass and trespassing on a piece of land that does not belong to them.
They were Paul K. Gbone, Felix Gbone, Henry Tsetse, Do…
The Rotary Club of Tema has held its President�s Ball, consisting of a fund-raising and dinner dance, during which new officers and Board of Directors of the Club were inducted into office for a two-year term.
Nana Yaw Gyane is the…
The Tema Metropolitan Office of the Electoral Commission (EC) has proposed to the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to create 12 additional Electoral Areas in the Metropolis.
The Tema Metropolis, which is made up of …
Two persons were on Wednesday put before an Accra Circuit Court for their alleged involvement in the riot at the premises of the Accra Fast Track High Court when the case of 14 persons accused of allegedly murdering the King of Dagbon, Ya-…
The Indian Army has noticed "hell of a lot of attempts" by terrorists to infiltrate into Indian territory along the international border in the northernmost Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir this year.
But, "we have a tight noose al…
Canada Tuesday sought deeper cooperation from India in checking illegal migration and combating unscrupulous agents involved in defrauding Indians wanting to go to that country for greener pastures.
The issue was taken up by Canada'…
A total of 141 Indians, the last batch of the 442 fishermen freed from Pakistani prisons, Tuesday left for their homeland through the Wagah land border.
The fishermen, who had all been held in jail for three years or more even after c…
US has said it is looking at India to see what changes can be made in certain provisions in the Nuclear Liability Bill, which was recently passed by the Parliament.
"We continue our discussions with the Indian Government on this issue…
Two persons have been arrested from Pune and Nashik by Mumbai's Anti-Terrorism Squad in connection with the German Bakery blast case in Pune that left 16 people dead, Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil said on Wednesday.
Himayat Ba…
As hopes for any deal on global warming dims at the Cancun meet later this year, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres on Wednesday made it clear that the Kyoto Protocol will continue post 2012 as a second protocol since it does not have a …
North Korea's food shortages are expected to worsen this year due largely to floods that swamped tens of thousands of hectares of farmland earlier this summer, a South Korean expert said Wednesday.
Kwon Tae-jin, a senior researcher at …
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il extended his thanks Wednesday to Chinese President Hu Jintao for sending a consolatory message on the North's recent flood damage, Pyongyang's official media said.
Kim's brief message did not mention the…
The amount of land owned by foreigners in Seoul declined for the first time in four years, municipal officials said Wednesday.
Foreigners possessed 3,801,782 square meters of land in the capital as of the end of June, down by 0.57 perc…
More than 180 aged compressed natural gas (CNG) buses will be put out of service by November, and hundreds more will be put through rigorous safety checks, the prime minister's office said Friday in announcing measures to prevent a recurre…
The chief of Wawase in the Afigya Kwabre District, Nana Obuadum Kusi Antwi I, on Tuesday appealed to the government and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to ensure that education resources and logistics are fairly distributed to all parts …
The Metropolitan Public Health Department (MPHD) of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has embarked on a special exercise in collaboration with the Police to arrest all stray animals found within the Metropolis and the owners prosecuted…
The Otuasekan Rural Bank at Kofiase in the Mampong municipality continues to support quality education and quality health delivery in its catchments areas.
The Bank has built a four-bedroom headmaster's bungalow for the Kofiase Senior Hi…
Pastor Eric Ossei Yeboah, Bantama District Pastor of the Seventh-Day-Adventist (SDA) Church in Kumasi, has cautioned Ghanaians against the obsession for material wealth saying it will only plunge the nation further into economic problems. …
A seven-member technical committee to review existing laws on broadcasting in Ghana, as well as the draft broadcasting bill, was inaugurated in Accra on Tuesday.
The bill which is expected to be placed before Parliament early next ye…
The New Juaben Traditional Council has urged all aspirants to various stools in that Traditional Area and their supporters to abide by the laid down customary law and usages to ensure continued peace and prosperity in the area.
The c…
The management of Vodafone Ghana has has introduced a new product that offers the lowest mobile tariff in the Ghanaian telecommunications
industry.
A statement issued in Accra on Tuesday by the Corporate Communications Department…
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The largest festival celebration in London, Notting Hill Carnival.
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We met up Ghanaian hip-hop/hiplife group created by founding members an…
Mrs. Elizabeth Amoah-Tetteh, Deputy Minister of Education, has undertaken several projects to enhance the socio-economic development of the Twifo-Atti Morkwa constituency in the Central Region.
The Minister has through the MP's commo…
The Government Statistician, Dr Grace Bediako, has urged Information Officers to sensitize the public on the forthcoming 2010 population and housing census.
She was addressing a two day sensitization workshop for 400 Regional, District I…
Togbega Gbogbolulu V, Paramount Chief of Vakpo Traditional Area, has inaugurated a 27-member Board of Directors to manage a GH�50,000 Education Endowment Fund established by the Traditional Area Council to promote education.
In an …
The Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs (MOWAC) has intensified efforts to monitor and ensure strict enforcement of existing laws on child protection.
It has pledged its commitment to deal with parents and guardians who failed i…
A three-day workshop on the management of clinical care for health management teams in the Western Region opened at Takoradi on Monday.
The workshop, organized by the Ghana Health Service (GHS), was sponsored by the United States Agen…
A Parliamentary Aspirant for the Democratic Freedom Party in the 2008 Elections for Tema East, has appealed to the Electoral Commission (EC), to disqualify aspiring candidates in the upcoming District Assembly Elections, who have posted th…
The Italian Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Tullio Guma, on Monday praised Ghana for maintaining the peace suitable for investment.
He urged Ghana to take advantage of the many support programmes and projects being offered by the Italian Gov…
Mr Raphael Tuffour, acting Controller and Accountant General, on Monday called on accountants in the public sector to acquaint themselves with financial reforms in Public Financial Management Systems.
He made the call on Monday at the…
Police Superintendent James Sarfo Peprah, Eastern Regional Commander of the Motor Transport and Traffic Unit (MTTU), has challenged personnel of the unit to be more vigilant to ensure that defaulting drivers did not go scot-free.
He …
Tanzania’s Mwisho and Zambia’s Paloma up for eviction this week on M-Net’s Big Brother All Stars after Monday’s (6 September) nominations. For the first time in five consecutive weeks, Munya is not in danger of leaving the Big Brot…
Mr Donatus Akamugre, Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) in charge of the Upper East Region, has refuted allegations by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Upper East branch that the programme had not increased from 18 schoo…
Mr Osei Boamah, the Western Regional Chairman of the Ghana National Chemical Sellers Association (GNCSA), on Monday, said the increasing rate of selling drugs in buses, in the rural areas and in unapproved container shops, could endanger t…
Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has voted a 30-million-Canadian-dollar grant to assist some selected countries in Africa to address malaria development programmes.
Proposals from beneficiary countries to be …
Dr Elias Sory, Director-General of Ghana Health Service (GHS), on Monday urged health workers to work hard to ensure quality health care delivery in Ghana.
He said the current record of health care delivery in the country was below e…
The National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) of the Ghana Health Service has taken its Roll Back malaria prevention sensitization initiative to the doorsteps of corporate institutions, to solicit their support to achieve NMCP targets.
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Dr. Owuraku Arthur, Homeopath in charge of the Alpha Homeopathic and Botanic Clinic at Assin Fosu, has called on traditional authorities in the rural communities to play a role that would make the people to value the importance of good san…
The Evangelical Church of Ghana has trained 170 youth in Bolgatanga in career development at four-day camp at Winkogo
The youth were drawn from Bolgatanga, Winkogo, Dakiu and Sakote undertook the training at a four day camp organised…
A total of 59 hectares has been cultivated with a variety of tree species in the Birim Central Municipality under the Youth in Agriculture Module of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP).
The plantations, which are sited at…
The Births and Deaths Registry in collaboration with Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and its partners, UNICEF and Plan Ghana, would observe the Seventh Births and Deaths Registration Day celebration this month.
A st…
The Muslim Caucus in Parliament on Monday launched the Zakat and Sadaqa Trust Fund to fight poverty, disease and deprivation among Muslim and non-Muslims in the country.
The Fund would offer scholarships to students in financial cri…
Mr. Raphael Tuffour, acting Accountant General, on Monday called on accounting officers of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) and Metropolitan, Municipal and District assemblies to acquaint themselves with financial reforms in Publ…
The Sissala Literacy and Development Programme (SILDEP) in collaboration with SNV have carried out an assessment on the implementation of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region.
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The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCO) Limited might be compelled to demolish structures erected less than 50 feet from its high tension towers unless those involved took steps to vacate those areas.
This is to protect the public interest and p…
The General Secretary of the National SSNIT Pensioners Association, Mr Edward Ameyibor, has appealed to the elderly to educate young politicians to understand that politics was not a matter of life and death.
He said it was time that…
The mismanagement of community water systems under the Community Water and Sanitation Agency has been identified as the major challenge threatening the sustenance of water supply in the Volta Region.
Water and Sanitation Development…
Mr Alex Tettey-Enyo, Minister of Education, has advised the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Ghana, to device schemes aimed at increasing the number of professionals for increased revenue generation to wean the country off donor support.
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The management of Vodafone has launched "Power to You" campaign, which marks a new chapter for the company in Ghana as it works more proactively in bringing more products and services to the Ghanaian market.
A statement signed in Acc…
The Accra Regional Police Command on Tuesday spelt out precautionary measures to curb the high rate of car snatching and the use of unregistered motor bikes to commit crimes in the Accra Metropolis.
"Much as the Police Service is fac…