US has expressed concern over any activity involving visa fraud, in the wake of hundreds of Indian students facing prospects of being deported back home after a California-based University has been shut down by authorities on charges of ma…
Police department in south Indian state Tamil Nadu have 'adopted' 300 border villages to check the influence of naxalite groups.
The 'adoption' process would be completed in phases and the scheme would thwart any attempt by Naxals t…
Global social networking site Facebook has helped an Indonesian citizen of Indian origin to trace his paternal kins living in south Indian state Kerala.
Abubakker, a political activist in Indonesia, has found the ancestral home of h…
The United Nations and the African Union (AU) are expected to convene a high-level meeting in a few days to review efforts to achieve peace, security and reconciliation in strife-torn Somalia, which has been suffering through two decades o…
A top UN envoy on Wednesday called for an end to the ongoing violence in the Sudanese region of Darfur in order to pave the way for "fruitful"
peace efforts in the embattled region, where renewed clashes were reported over the past few da…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday called for a review road traffic laws to empower the law enforcement agencies to mete out stiffer punishments to road offenders.
“The current carnage on our roads is unacceptable and ther…
The chiefs and people of Breman Brakwa in the Central Region, have held a grand durbar to climax the celebration of their two-week Odwira festival.
The festival, which was usually climaxed with durbars, had for decades not been organ…
Medical Officers have been asked to be more cautious in the prescription and dispensing of “Nimesulide” to patients, especially children.
This comes amidst growing global concern about the harmful and damaging effect of the drug on t…
The Bishop of the Sekondi Diocese of the Methodist Church of Ghana, Right Rev. Edward Ofori Donkor, has advised Christians to welcome Jesus into their lives, no matter how the situation might be, because without him there is no life and pr…
The Ghana Food and Drugs Board (FDB) has alerted the general public that, a consignment of Crown Long Thai Grain Fragrant Rice, imported and being distributed for sale by TAJ Investment Limited is found to be heavily infested with weevils,…
Mr Moses Luri, Executive Director of the Sissala Literacy and Development Programme (SILDEP), has stated that, the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG), would be a mirage in the Sissala East and West districts, unless massi…
The District Chief Executive for Sekyere Central, Mr Ebenezer Akuoko Frimpong, has said he would take firm measures to tackle the situation where children are engaged as porters, particularly on market days.
Many school children in the…
The Headmistress of the Cape Coast School for the Deaf, Ms. Barbara Anning, has appealed to organizations and individuals to assist the school to acquire teaching materials to enable it achieve its dream of offering the best of education t…
Ms Ophelia Koomson, Birim Central Municipal Chief Executive, has reiterated the commitment of the government to ensure that no Ghanaian child attend school under trees.
She said the government would continue to allocate funds for the …
The Medical Director of the Koforidua Regional Hospital, Dr Daniel Asare, has called for good remuneration for public servants as a way of helping to reduce corruption.
He said it was not enough to be talking about the negative effe…
Flood waters that swept through Agona Swedru last year has created problems for the Agona West Municipal Assembly as well as the Ghana Education Service which is also in the building.
The Deputy Director in Charge of Administration, …
The authorities of the Gomoa Adaa Vocational Training Institute of the Central Region have appealed to the government to assist the school and prevent it from collapse.
The Headmaster of the School, Mr Plato Kweku Nsowah, told journa…
The Sekondi Sub-Metropolitan National Health Insurance Scheme was adjudged the best performing scheme in the Western Region last year.
The Sekondi Sub-Metropolitan NHIS Manager, Mr. Charles Osei Amoako Enti, told the GNA that the awa…
Widespread mist and fog will affect southern Ghana on Wednesday morning with visibility being poor, according to a statement issued by the Ghana Meteorological Agency.
It said from mid-morning, it would become bright and sunny with p…
Ghana would in July finally declare a break in transmission of Guinea worm eradication to make the country free from the disease.
"It is only when Ghana has reported no indigenous transmission for a minimum of three years after break…
The case in which Stephen Asamoah-Boateng, a former Minister of State and his family had dragged the Director of Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and two other officials of the bureau to court, is now before the Judiciary Committee’…
An Accra Circuit Court has granted two people GH¢4,000 bail each with a surety for allegedly defrauding a businessman in the sum of GH¢3,500 under the pretext of securing an Italian Visa for him.
They are Sulley Jibirim 37, a busines…
Australian Defense force chief Angus Houston on Tuesday said a Commission of Inquiry report into allegations of sexual misconduct on HMAS Success raises serious concerns about navy culture.
Air Chief Marshal Houston had received the 40…
Six more Taliban insurgents were killed in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province when their position was struck by an air strike on Monday, spokesman for provincial administration said Tuesday.
"Intelligence reports indicate that Tal…
Personnel of Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) have arrested ten terrorists elsewhere in the country over the past four weeks, spokesman of NDS Lutfullah Mashal said on Tuesday.
"The successful operations conducted by NDS…
Police will suggest the government to reinforce the state of emergency if the protests in the capital become out of control, police chief said on Wednesday.
The national police chief Pol Gen Wichean Potephosree made the remarks amid th…
A 20-year-old mason, Stephen Gonu, who allegedly defiled a seven-year-old girl in her sleep on Wednesday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court.
Gonu charged with defilement was at a loss as to whether or not he defiled the victim.
…
The Government has been asked to institute a “National Volunteer Day”, during which all resourceful citizens would be expected to offer services and material contributions for the benefit of the poor and vulnerable people in the communitie…
An estimated amount of GH¢ 3,298,555.00 worth of properties, were lost in fire outbreaks in the Tema Metropolis, last year, (2010).
The properties, which included buildings, offices, cars, and personal effects, among others, were gu…
The Kumasi-Takoradi-Elubo branch Chairman of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), Nana Kwasi Koduah Akuoko, has called on all Ghanaians to join in efforts to make the country’s roads safe.
He said road safety education sho…
A farmer at Kontonho near Kofiase in the Asante-Mampong municipality, Opanin Yaw Dente, has appealed to the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) to form functional fire volunteer squads in all farming communities to check wildfires.
He…
Mr Nicholas Nimo, President of CECON, an NGO formed by accident victims has appealed to drivers to observe rules and regulations on the road to avoid rampant road accidents in the country.
CECON was formed to educate drivers and pass…
Investigations by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in the Koforidua Municipality has indicated there is an increasing public concern about the sudden increase of mad people in the area.
Some traders and people in the Municipality whom the …
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has adjudged the Ho Mutual Health Insurance Scheme the best in the Volta Region.
The Scheme was also declared the 10th best out of 145 schemes nationwide at an …
The Akim Oda Magistrate Court has ordered a private lotto operator, Joseph Adamu, to pay a sum of GH¢1,370, for pirating on National Lotteries Authority (NLA) drawn numbers for his illegal operations without authorisation.
Adamu plea…
Nii Nortey Dua, Member of Parliament for the Ledzokuku Constituency, has said the improvement of road networks to ease traffic congestion in the constituency is on course.
A segment of the Accra-Tema Beach Road passes through the con…
The Rev Ama Afo Blay, Board Chairman of the Junior Achievers Trust International (JATI), on
Tuesday appealed to the youth to acquire entrepreneurial skills and set up their own businesses.
This would make them creative and productiv…
Mr Joseph Bukari Nikpe, Member of Parliament (MP) for Saboba constituency in the Northern Region, has initiated moves in collaboration with World
Vision, an international NGO, to address the perennial mass failures in examinations, especi…
The Western Regional Coordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit(DOVVSU), Assistant Superintendent of PoliceLawrence Gbele, on Tuesday expressed worry over frequent abandonment of domestic violence cases reported to the d…
About 203 people are to benefit from the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly’s (STMA) Social Inclusion Transfer project (STI).
Mr. Kobina Annan Prah, Metropolitan Chief Executive, said at a press conference that the STI project was…
The government has awarded on contract the tarring of the Apam junction/Gomoa Nkran/Gomoa Afransi road and work would begin by the end of January, Mr Francis Kojo Arthur, Member of Parliament for Gomoa West, has said.
He was addressi…
The Koforidua Magistrate Court on Tuesday remanded in police custody 27 criminals including two women who were arrested by the police at Pentua Wala, a crime-prone area in Koforidua.
Their pleas were not taken and would re…
Health clinics are not an exclusive preserve of humans but of plants too in south Indian state of Karnataka.
The State Department of Agriculture and Bio-Control Research Laboratories (BCRL) are running a string of 'plant clinics' ac…
South Korea has confirmed two more foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks in the country despite concerted quarantine efforts and wholesale vaccination of livestock, the government said Tuesday.
The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Fore…
Civil aviation authorities of Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) and Chinese mainland signed here Monday a cooperation agreement for civil aviation safety, in an effort to share resources, acquire mutual support and achieve cooperat…
Technology of code division multiple access (CDMA) for data access in Indonesia is expected to grow significantly, leaving a big opportunity for gadget producers to develop smart phone, an executive said here on Monday.
Zhao Guang, vic…
The Midwifery/Health Assistant Training school at Kwahu Atibie has admitted 199 students this academic year.
The students are made up of 37 students to begin courses in three-year diploma in registered midwifery programmes, 53 studen…
Fire on Monday night razed through the boys’ dormitory of the Amaniampong Senior High School at Asante-Mampong causing extensive damage to property.
Mattresses, clothing, chop boxes, trunks and books of 138 students got burnt.
…
The Eastern Regional Police Command arrested 49 drivers and motor bike riders for violating road traffic regulations since the beginning of the year.
Out of those arrested 45 were prosecuted and 24 of them were convicted and fined var…
The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Ghana, Miss Ruby Sandhu-Rajon has commended the Regent of Dagbon, Kapankuya-Na Yukubu Abdulai Andani, and the chiefs and people of Dagbon for the peace prevailing in Yendi and the entire Dagbon Tr…
info@businessghana.com
