Though a global report shows a modest decline in the rate of child labour, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has expressed doubt as to whether the goal of eliminating the menace by 2016 could be realised.
The Organisation's…
China on Friday moved a notch higher in strengthening ties with Ghana when she donated specialised military vehicles and accompanying spare parts to the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF).
The vehicles, valued at 1.5 million dollars, included …
Mr Daniel Martey, Northern Regional Operations
Supervisor of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, has urged children to be watchdogs, role models and good ambassadors of sanitation.
He said children are a major conveyer of information and could…
Ghana is to hold the first ever in Africa full-scale International Qigong Healing Seminar in Accra, which provides comprehensive training and healing in natural therapy for hundreds of
participants across the country.
The Supreme S…
France gives major boost to international water convention Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France, 3 June 2010 - France is set to become the 20th country to sign up to a key international convention governing the use and protection of rivers a…
Mr Paul Evans Aidoo, Western Regional Minister, on Wednesday inaugurated a five-member Committee of Enquiry into the jail break and escape of prisoners at the Sekondi Central Prisons on May 2.
In an address, he expressed the hope tha…
The National Executive Committee of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has congratulated Ghanaian Freelance Journalist, Kofi Akpabli, for winning the Arts and Culture Award at the 2010
CNN MultiChoice Africa Journalists Award ceremo…
A Court of Inquiry into the Mangalore air crash, which claimed 158 lives, is likely to be notified shortly, India's Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said on Thursday.
"We are going to notify the Court of Inquiry shortly," he told …
The National Media Commission (NMC) on Thursday reminded journalists and media owners of their statutory obligation to protect and defend press freedom in the country.
Mr Kabral Blay-Amihere, NMC Chairman, noted even though the 1992 …
Government is considering a new legislation that would encourage an efficient recycling and re-use of waste water especially by food and beverages industries, which use heavy amounts of water in their operations, Mr Alban S. K. Bagbin, Min…
Members of Media Alliance in Tobacco Control
(MATCO) in collaboration with the Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Health, has urged government to expedite action on the passage of the Tobacco Control Bill into law.
The bill seeks to ban to…
The management of CST Limited, a wire manufacturing company has handed over a 240,000 dollar fencing project to authorities of Ada Senior High Technical School at Sege in the Greater Region.
The three-kilometre wire fence project was…
Members of Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), a political pressure group, on Thursday announced their intention to embark on a massive demonstration to protest against the recent increases in utility tariffs.
They expressed …
Members of the Association of Methodist Men's Fellowship of Ghana on Thursday presented items worth over GH�2,500 to inmates of Borstal Institute in Accra.
They included 25 pieces each of student mattresses, blankets, pillows and p…
Mr Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development has called on human rights activists to remain calm and allow the security agencies to decisively deal with miscreants who foment troubles resulting in conf…
Madam Elizabeth Desouze, Northern Regional Director of Education, has urged teachers across the country to adopt interactive methods of teaching which, she said, was the best means of knowledge acquisition.
She noted that bad teachin…
A-14 member Board of Governors for the Begoro Senior High School (SHS), in the Fanteakwa District was inaugurated on Thursday with a challenge to members to improve on discipline on campus.
Mrs Rene O. Boakye-Boaten, Eastern Regional…
Harsh sentences for Turkish guards convicted of torturing and killing an inmate may show Turkey no longer accepts torture, a human rights group said Thursday. Three guards and a deputy director at Istanbul's Metris Prison were
sentenced …
Mr Michael Kofi Boampong, Chairman of Parliamentary Select Committee on Transport, on Thursday expressed concern about the challenges facing the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), especially encroachment on its lands.
"I would me…
The Management of the Akim Bosome Rural Bank on Thursday donated a number of items to the Akyem Swedru Circuit Court valued at GHc 2,000.00.
The items included three packets of wire netting, two set of stuffing chairs, one table t…
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) branch of the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) has donated a cash of GH�700.00 to support an Art Studio project of the University.
Mr Iddrisu Muniru, Branch Manager, said th…
The United States, Russia and most other countries face growing global terrorism threats, the head of Russia's main domestic security agency said Thursday.
"An analysis of the current terrorism issue shows an increase in terrorism risk th…
Three tobacco corporations sued New York Thursday, claiming the city's anti-smoking posters are unconstitutional, court records indicate.
Corporate giants Reynolds, Philip Morris & Lorillard claim graphic smoking posters that merchants se…
A Sekondi High Court on Wednesday sentenced convicted armed robbers; Jallo Ibrahim and Kwaku Abeiku, to 36 months imprisonment in hard labour each for conspiracy to escape from lawful custody and escaping from lawful custody.
The acc…
An eight-Member Committee has been inaugurated in Tamale to investigate the causes of student's unrest at Ghana Senior High (Ghanasco) which led to the closure of the school on Monday.
The committee chaired by Mr Charles Nyabu, an ed…
In a huge embarrassment for the Indian Army, a Lt General has been accused of sexual misconduct by the wife of a junior colleague, prompting the army to extract his resignation.
59-year-old A. K. Nanda, Engineer-in-Chief, became th…
Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram Wednesday said the Centre would extend all support to the Andhra Pradesh government in southern India to undertake its public welfare schemes.
He was addressing a public meeting in Kalikiri.
…
Indian Army plans to induct new-age gadgets such as micro audio bugs and video devices to keep a watch on terrorist hideouts and their meeting places
and activities, apparently taking a leaf out of James Bond flicks.
"Possible n…
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) circuit court has sentenced a mason apprentice to seven years imprisonment for defiling a 14-year-old house help at Atwima Nkoranza near Kumasi.
Emmanuel Kwadwo Mensah, 20, pleaded not guilty.
Pol…
This year's International Children's Books day has been marked in Kumasi with a call on parents to donate books to their children on special occasions.
This will help children to value books and develop interest in reading.
…
A Kumasi Circuit Court has sentenced Malik Gibriel Bella, a Fulani herdsman, to a 15-year jail term in hard labour for causing harm to his fellow herdsman at Woraso near Asante Mampong.
Bella, 20, pleaded guilty.
Police Chief Inspecto…
The Lambussie/Karni District Assembly is assisting
the District Health Management Team to visit all schools implementing the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) in the district to measure the height and body mass of the children.
…
Academic dons and researchers have said the industrialized world's promise of billions of "new and additional" dollars to help developing nations tackle climate change was meaningless without a baseline from which to count new funds.
…
The case of two soldiers standing trial for the alleged murder of Alhaji Issa Mobilla, Northern Regional Chairman of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), was on Thursday, adjourned to Monday, June 28.
This was because the foreman of the s…
World leaders, opinion shapers, activists, thinkers and captains of industry would converge at Kigali, Rwanda on Thursday, to develop strategies for conserving the biological diversity that binds all life on Earth.
"The iconic and el…
Ghana has only 517 second cycle schools to accommodate thousands of Junior High Schools leavers, who complete Junior High School, Deputy Education Minister, Dr Joseph Samuel Annan told
Parliament on Thursday.
Speaking during questio…
About 602,173 people representing 89 per cent of the population of the Upper West Region have been registered under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) as at the end of 2009.
Out of the number, about 321,138 are children unde…
The Akim Swedru Circuit Court, in the Birim South District of the Eastern Region, has remanded Kwame Amaning, a driver's mate into prison custody for allegedly beating his fianc� for not cooking for him.
Amaning 22, who pleaded not…
Mr Tony Afenyo, Proprietor of Saint Mary's International School at Ashaiman, has said it was important for the government to motivate teachers to enable them to give off their best.
He said given the right motivation teachers would w…
American universities are keen to offer their expertise in setting up of some of the innovation universities in India and one such collaboration
would be announced during President Barak Obama's visit to New Delhi later this year.
…
A teenage pregnant girl at Gakope village near
Kajaji in the Sene District of the Brong-Ahafo Region died three days after a quack doctor operated on her and removed the baby from her womb.
Speaking to Ghana News Agency at Kwame Dan…
The Akim Swedru Circuit Court has sentenced Alex Ntiamoah, a driver to five years imprisonment for stealing electronic items valued at GH�1055.00 from one Gordon Asamani.
Ntiamoah 28, pleaded guilty to stealing.
Prosecuting, …
Isaac Kobina Mensah, a driver, who stole a cab, valued at GH�1600 has been sentenced to five years imprisonment in hard labour by the Akim
Swedru Circuit Court in the Birim South District in the Eastern Region.
Mensah 28, pleaded…
Zoom Lion Ghana Limited, a sanitation company on Thursday launched environmental and sanitation clubs in some schools in the Bolgatanga Municipality to inculcate good sanitary habits in the pupils.
It was also meant to make the schoo…
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), a global broadcasting network on Wednesday broadcasted its "Focus on Africa" and "Africa have your say" programmes live from the studios of Atlantic (ATL FM) in Cape Coast.
ATL FM is a loc…
A total of 1,281 students have gained admission to the 2009/2010 sandwich programme of the University of Cape Coast (UCC).
Eight hundred and eighty one of the students are post-graduate applicants while 400 are undergraduates.
…
The Bawku West District Magistrate court at zebilla has recorded a high number of land cases following a sharp drift of people fleeing conflict-prone Bawku Municipality.
The cases range from multiple and unlawful sale of land.
…
An Accra Fast Track High Court has ordered the official of Ghana Standards Board (GSB) who conducted analytical examination into alleged substances found on Ibrahim Sima, Chief Executive Officer of Exopa Modeling Agency, to appear before i…
The Managements of the Ghana Telecom University College (GTUC), on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Canadian Institute of Learning (CIL), a private career college, to enable the GTUC begin training in computer f…
The Kasoa Police are investigating an alleged assault on Mr Suraj Haruna, Managing Director of Suraj Development Company Limited (SDCL) involved in Real Estate Development, Transportation and
Agriculture by four personnel of Awutu-Senya …