Kerala Wildlife Department is planning to launch a payment system for various ecosystem services to attract common people to environment conservation missions.
As per the project, anyone who promotes planting and maintaining of tree…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellembelle, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, has donated six brand new dell computers to the Nkroful Agricultural Senior High School (NASS) in the Ellembelle District.
The donation forms part of measures to…
The Chief Justice, Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood at the weekend announced plans by the Ghana Judicial Service, to establish an integrative court complex dedicated to family justice, particularly the needs of women and children.
She said…
The Chaplain of the Presbyterian University College (PUC), Rev. Ebenezer Yaw Blasu has called on the church's educational heads, to enforce the Presbyterian Educational policy of training the youth to use their head, hands and heart.
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Tehran has not stopped its uranium enrichment activities, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said on Thursday, RIA Novosti reported.
"The situation surrounding Iran's nuclear program is well known. Tehran continues enric…
A weak storm moving westward will induce cloudiness over the country with possible slight to moderate thundery showers over most places, according to the weather forecast issued in Accra by the Ghana Meteorological Agency.
A sunny pe…
Multichoice Ghana, on behalf of MNet and Channel O, donated a fully installed HD PVR decoder to Rita Marley, the wife of the late Bob Marley
as a sign of support after the ultra-modern music recording studio she was building in Aburi in t…
The Agona Swedru Council of Chiefs has inaugurated a six-member Planning Committee to plan, supervise and organise the celebration of the 2010 Annual Akwambo Festival of the chiefs and people of the Agona Swedru Traditional Area.
It i…
U.S. medical investigators say they've discovered a drug long used to treat seizures might help reverse or prevent antitrypsin deficiency in children.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center researchers said liver scarring caused by antit…
Security surrounding Dutch homicide suspect Joran
van der SlootJ tightened after prison guards learned of a possible suicide attempt, Peruvian officials said.
Van der Sloot, 22, is charged in Lima with killing Stephany Flores Ramirez, 2…
The Member of Parliament for Sunyani West, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah at the weekend presented an ambulance valued at GH� 25,000 to the Health Centre at Nsoatre in the constituency and promised to do more to help to improve health care deliv…
The National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) is to recruit 1,000 personnel for the Ghana National Fire Service and the Prison Service.
This initiative is part of the new modules of the Programme to provide jobs for the youth. Five …
Alhaji Hafiz Adam, Techiman Municipal Coordinating Director, has advised officials for the 2010 National Population and Housing Census to become well abreast with the tenets of the exercise.
He said the objective for the setting up o…
The Tema Metropolitan Office of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) has asked residents in flood-prone areas in the Metropolis to relocate to safer areas during this rainy season.
The flood-prone areas in the Tema Metro…
Mr Alex Nartey, National Coordinator of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) of the Judicial Service, on Monday launched this year's Legal Year ADR week at Takoradi.
The week, which would be celebrated from June 7 -11, is under the…
The Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) at the weekend organised a day's workshop on the Whistleblowers Act for some journalists in Takoradi in the Western Region.
GACC, which seeks to facilitate anti-corruption activities in Ghan…
The Ada College of Education (ADACOE), at the weekend conferred diplomas on 710 graduates during the third congregation of the academic facility at Ada Foah, in the Greater Accra Region.
The graduates were made up of 193 regular stud…
The Military and Police High Commands had agreed to hold a joint durbar to smooth over the tensed relations between soldiers and the police in the Ashanti Region.
It comes on the heels of the weekend's reported brutal attacks on some…
Mr Emmanuel Kofi Armah-Buah, Deputy Minister of Energy, on Friday said government is committed to a sustainable exploitation of the country's hydrocarbon resources without compromising on the integrity of the environment.
Addressing …
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Johannesburg will be awash with s…
There is no doubt that the name of Dr Kwame Nkrumah is assured in the history of Ghana. It is equally important to state that that without the contributions of the other five members of the “Big Six†family, the accolade being showered…
The Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) on Sunday commissioned 18 Ministers, whom it will deploy to some of its branches across the country to serve the church and help revive faith of members.
The new ministers, comprising 17 males a…
Numo Adinortey Addison, Ashaiman Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), has said the school shift system in government schools, would end in the Municipality by next academic year.
The Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA), he said, would th…
Mrs Elizabeth Amoah Tetteh, Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Pre-Tertiary Education, has observed that the challenges of the global world today could only be confronted with a
credible, well-articulated and sustainable education…
The death toll of the lead poison in northern Nigeria's Zamfara State has risen to 250, local media reported Sunday.
Nigeria's chief epidemiologist Henry Akpan had told reporters on Friday that more than 100 people died due to lead poison…
Forty-one people were killed and 16 others injured in renewed clashes between Messiria and Rizeigat tribes in South Darfur State.
"The clashes started on Thursday and are still continuing. Until Saturday evening, 41 persons were killed an…
Authorities of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) in the Upper West Region have denied a recent report by an Accra based Radio Station that the Ministry had failed to provide tractors to farmers from whom it had collected monies.
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Mr Chieminah Abudu Gariba, Founder and Director of Sissala Heritage Foundation, said the increasing adoption of English, Arabic and other foreign names was detrimental to the development
of Ghanaian culture and identity.
He said am…
A 19-year-old footballer who defiled and impregnated a 15-year-old pupil was on Thursday sentenced to seven years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court.
Abdul Basi Charley, pleaded guilty to defilement, and was convicted on his own …
Rain-caused landslides killed at least 38 people, with 18 missing, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China, officials said Thursday.
Local officials said rescue crews were searching for the others, who were buried by the sl…
India Thursday unveiled its first indigenous vaccine against the dreaded swine flu which claimed over 18,000 lives globally and more than 1,000 in the country.
The country was earlier importing the vaccine from French company, Sanofi…
Dr Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira, has said government's aim of training more health personnel would be defeated if they
are not ready to accept posting to the remote parts of the country.
He said parents should convince their children t…
The Leadership of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) has given the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) a one-week ultimatum to review the recently increased electricity and water tariffs downwards to make them realistic.
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The management of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, a private waste management company, in collaboration with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), is to begin work on a fee-paying solid waste collection system from June, 2010.
Managements of…
A 19-year-old girl has died of swine flu near here, taking the death toll due to the viral infection in south Indian state Kerala to seven in the last one month, prompting the Health Department to issue an alert.
Athira Shiju, a post-…
Most Reverend Professor Emmanuel Kwaku Asante,
Presiding Bishop of Methodist Church, Ghana has expressed regret over what he termed "sex for jobs" practice, which has started rearing its head in the church.
He said highly-placed me…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Friday said the recent increases in electricity tariffs were not to burden Ghanaians with any financial stress.
He gave the assurance that Government still cared about the disadvantaged and vulnerab…
Severe flooding following heavy downpour on Thursday night at Asante-Mampong wrecked properties and left many people homeless.
A twelve-bedroom house totally collapsed and about 40 occupants now have no shelter.
Also carried away …
The Netherlands international non-governmental organisation (NGO), SNV has initiated a partnership to improve upon the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), to instil public confidence in the scheme and facilitate access to health care…
The issue of punctuality in attending to the business of Parliament (MPs) took another turn on Friday, when Mr Cletus Avoka, Majority Leader explained that the lateness of some members was due to the rain.
Mr Balado S. K. Manu, Membe…
The Upper West Region incurred a debt of GH�739,499.81 as administrative cost in the management of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2009, while GH�4,362,818.49 was paid as claims to health service providers.
During …
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…
The Catholic Relief Service (CRS), an International non-governmental organisation on Friday presented a number of items to the Talensi Nabdam and Kassena-Nankana District health directorates in the Upper East Region to facilitate their wor…
Mr Emmanuel Kofi Armah-Buah, Deputy Minister of Energy, on Friday said government is committed to a sustainable exploitation of the country's hydrocarbon resources without compromising on the integrity of the environment.
Addressing …
A Washington-based think-tank Thursday claimed that India is expanding its military nuclear site near Mysore in the southern part of the country.
In a statement released on the eve of crucial Indo-US Strategic Dialogue the Institute f…
There is lot of potential in the aerospace sector, with the space service market likely to grow to USD 7-9 billion by 2015, a top official of Antrix Corporation said Thursday.
However, the domestic market is currently worth USD 2-3 …
Indian pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy Laboratories' UK-based subsidiary is recalling a single lot of its drug Gabapentin, used in the treatment of nerve pain, from the UK market for updating mandatory safety information on them.
"Ra…
The media has been urged to be circumspect in
reporting cases of disease outbreaks since negative reportage can affect the efficient management of those situations.
Dr Mark Hansen, deputy director of Vertinary Services Division (V…
The Asamankese Circuit Court on Friday granted GHC 1,000 bail with a surety to Joseph Mensah, a Cocoa Purchasing Clerk, charged with stealing GHC 750 belonging to his employers.
Mensah who pleaded guilty with explanation will re-appe…
The Bawjiase Area Plan Ghana, has embarked on an advocacy campaign dubbed "learn without fear" to create a safer school environment for children.
A 13-member steering committee headed by Nacyi Barfowa, Queen Mother of Awutu Papase, w…