The Kade District Magistrate Court has bonded Seth Wutor, who often insulted and threatened to beat and harm her sister, Regina, to be of good behaviour for 12 months.
In default Wutor, who pleaded guilty with explanation, will go t…
Moved by the plight of patients at the Kwahu Government Hospital, Atibie, a student nurse at Presbyterian University College, Asante Akyem campus undertaking his practical attachment at the hospital, has presented items worth GHC 400 to th…
Pathfinder International, an NGO working in the area of healthcare delivery, has organized a week's training workshop on safe abortion care in Bolgatanga, Upper East for midwives in public and private health institutions.
It wa…
Homes belonging to some 50 Baha'i families in a remote village in northern Iran have been demolished as part of a long-running campaign to expel them from the region.
The action occurred in Ivel, Mazandaran, on Thursday, June 22, 201…
The Republic of Bangladesh is studying the operations of Ghana's National Service Scheme (NSS) for replication in that country.
To this end, a two-member delegation from the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Bangladesh arrived in Accra…
A 21-year old welder has been sentenced to 39 years imprisonment in hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for robbery.
Richard Osei Tutu, 21, pleaded guilty.
A State Attorney, Mrs Gyamfuaah Sarpong, told the court that Miss Eunice Arth…
Parliament on Tuesday passed the Mutual Legal and Assistance Bill, 2009 meant to establish a comprehensive legal framework for the implementation of agreements on mutual legal assistance to facilitate the prosecution of transnational crime…
Mr Joe Oten Adjei, Minister of Energy, said on Tuesday that a total of 38 communities in the Pusiga constituency in the Upper East Region are earmarked for connection to the national electricity grid.
Mr Adjei said on the floor of p…
Nii Adjei Kraku II, Tema Mantse, on Tuesday said the falling standards of education in basic schools within the Metropolis must be a matter of grave concern to all stakeholders in education.
The school authorities and parents, he sai…
Nii Armah Ashietey, the Greater Accra Regional
Minister, on Tuesday, inaugurated the merged Out Patients' Department of Ridge Hospital with Adabraka Polyclinic (APC) to ensure efficient health care delivery.
He explained that the me…
The Goaso circuit court presided by Mr Osei Kwame Gyamfi, on Monday remanded Nana Kofi Adade, Akwamuhene of Fawohoyeden in Asunafo North Municipality, for his alleged involvement in illegal timber logging at Ahenkro.
Presenting the f…
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Members of Graduate Students' Association of Ghana (GRASAG), have appealed to government to participate in the funding of postgraduate education in Ghana and review the 2010/2011 academic year fees downward.
In addition, they said un…
Mr. Caesar Kale, the Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, has appealed to landowners to stop selling land that are situated on water ways to developers.
He also appealed to state agencies involved in land administration to stop the…
A 34-year-old Indian cabbie was Tuesday handed out a suspended jail term of 10-months on charges of sexually assaulting a drunken teenager in Australia last year.
A Brisbane district court heard that Indian driver Harmeet Singh sexual…
Professor Ofori Sarpong of the University of Ghana, Legon, has called on Ghanaians, particularly students, to continue planting trees to prevent the effects of climate change.
He noted that trees save rivers and streams from drying u…
India has huge untapped solar offgrid opportunities, given its ability to provide energy to vast untapped remote rural areas, the scope of providing backup power to cell towers and its inherent potential to replace precious fossil fuels, s…
Nii Armah Ashietey, Greater Accra Regional Minister on Tuesday said as part of the strategies to enhance access to effective and efficient health care delivery, government would deepen the concept of Primary Health Care.
He explained…
The National Executive Committee of Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) on Tuesday reminded members that their press identity cards issued in 2007 had expired.
A statement issued in Accra and signed by Mr Dave Agbenu, Organising Sec…
The Kade District Magistrate Court on Tuesday cautioned and discharged a driver, who threatened to beat a farmer to death.
The court presided over by Mr E. Awuah, was of the opinion that Nana Kwabena Baidoo, the driver, was provoked,…
The Police at Nsawam has arrested a 41-year-old suspected drug dealer, Mr Francis Kwaku Kpeli with six parcels of Indian hemp.
He was caught with the substance hidden in a vehicle he was travelling with at Teacher-Mante in the Suhum-…
Dr Nii Adjei Adjetey, Agona West Municipal Director of Health Services, has urged the Agona West Assembly to register flood victims with the National Health Insurance Scheme.
Dr Adjetey, who made the appeal in an interview with the Gh…
Out of a total of 1,020 people screened for HIV/AIDS in 2008 at the Agona Government Hospital 103 came out as HIV positive.
Mr Felix Jacob Obeng Forson, Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Agona West, said this when he addressed a l…
Two Illinois cousins, one of them an India-born American citizen, have been sentenced by a US court to prison for conspiring to kill US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Zubair Ahmed, 31 was sentenced to 10 years in prison, while Khalee…
Diabetics, who need insulin injections daily, may now hope for some relief with Indian scientists having discovered a novel form of the hormone that
can keep blood glucose levels down for upto three months.
A team of scientists of th…
South Korea's central bank Friday raised its key interest rate for the first time since the global financial turmoil as the local economy is recovering at a faster-than-expected pace.
Bank of Korea (BOK) Gov. Kim Choong-soo and other p…
Due to India's limited dependence on external demand and strong fiscal and monetary stimulus measures, the global economic and financial crisis had a relatively muted effect on the country, the Obama Administration told the US Congress on …
The District Chief Executive (for Ellembelle, Mr. Daniel K. Eshun, has appealed to fisher folks in the Kikam, Asanda and Ankobra communities to form cooperatives to enable the Assembly to support them.
He said this when he met fisherme…
Farmers at Akyem Asamama in the Atiwa District of the Eastern Region, are facing serious challenges as the rains set in with no good bridges spanning overflowing rivers.
Rivers Abrasu and Anaso have over-flown their banks making it di…
A Youth Advocacy Assembly held by selected youths in the Agona West Municipality has appealed to the government to, as matter of urgency, pass the Youth Policy Bill into law.
The Assembly said the immediate passage of bill would go a…
Superintendent Mrs Debora Addison-Campbell of the Motor Transport and Traffic Unit (MTTU) of the Ghana Police, said in Accra on Monday that no amount of words and driver education can minimise fatal road accidents.
She said the remed…
Rev Brother Francis Sebo, a Presentation Brother with the Catholic Church has blamed poverty in Africa on greed and selfishness exhibited by some African leaders and well-to-do people who do not want to share with others.
He said the …
Deputy Minister of Health, Mr Rojo Mettle-Nunoo, has advocated for innovative public education on the causes and treatment of Onchocerciasis.
He said this was necessary because of the re-emergence and problems associated with the dis…
North Korea said Friday that an American man it is holding for illegal entry has recently attempted suicide and is being treated at a hospital.
In April, a North Korean court sentenced Aijalon Gomes, 30, to eight years in a labor camp …
A circuit court in Cape Coast presided over
by Mr Richard Asiedu Badu, on Friday sentenced a 20-year unemployed to an 18 year jail term in hard labour, for defiling a three-year old girl.
Daniel Bekoe, popularly known as Paa Kwame, …
Government said on Friday that it is doing everything within its powers to properly settle the former First Family whose Ridge residence was destroyed by fire on February 14.
A statement signed by Mr John Tia Akologu, Minister of Inf…
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has begun research into the possibility of using bio-technology techniques to upgrade the nutritional value of cocoa pod husk for use as animal feed.
Professo…
The new public sector pay policy could stretch the
capacities of the human resource departments of public sector institutions to their limits, a trade unionist observed in Ho on Friday.
Mr Gordon Bodza, Volta Regional Industrial Rel…
The district medical administration is planning a special programme for the prevention and control of dengue fever, malaria and H1N1, district Medical Officer N Sridhar has said.
The programme involves deploying special teams for m…
A batch of 572 Community Protection Assistant Recruits under the National Youth Employment (NYEP) has graduated from the Upper East Regional Police Training School.
The recruits underwent six weeks training instead of the three weeks…
Government on Saturday urged the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) and the utility companies to consider legitimate concerns raised by organised labour and manufacturers about the
recently implemented utility tariffs.
A…
The number of inmates in state prisons in the United States has declined for the first time in almost 40 years, statistics show.
State prisons throughout the country held 1,404,053 people Jan. 1 -- 4,777 fewer than a year before following…
The Jomoro District Assembly has started distributing 194,490 assorted exercise books to basic schools in the district.
The District Chief Executive for the area, Mr Victor Nyanyi Kabenlah, made this known to the Ghana News Agency a…
The containment cap was lifted from BP's gushing oil well Saturday, the first step in what officials hope will be complete sealing of the Gulf of Mexico spill.
A new cap designed to fit tightly over the well should be installed within a f…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, on Friday challenged the Ghana Health Service (GHS), to abide strictly by their service regulations to ensure better healthcare for the
people.
He said since health care delivery wa…
Lightning on Thursday at around 1430 hours struck the residence of the Ketu-South District Chief Executive destroying parts of the building and some household items.
The thunderbolt affected the electrical wiring system causing a bla…
The Tema Regional Police Command has appealed to the general public to volunteer information that would lead to the arrest and prosecution of unscrupulous scrap dealers within the metropolis.
A statement issued by the Public Affairs …
With just a week to go before a sensational new BIG BROTHER AFRICA hits African television screens, speculation about the new show is growing fast as eager fans across the continent gear up for the highly anticipated July 18th launch.
To…
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams would travel to space for the second time in June 2012, the NASA announced on Saturday.
Born to parents from the western Indian state of Gujarat, in Euclid, Ohio, Williams, 44, holds the longe…
Mr. Caesar Kale, Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, has appealed to landowners to stop selling land that are situated on water ways to private developers.
He also advised State Agencies involved in land administration to also stop …