Mr Joseph Amenowode, Volta Regional Minister, has said government would continue embarking on proactive policies and programmes, to ensure access to basic quality health service delivery.
He said it was incumbent on all stakeholders, the…
The Information, Communication Technology module of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP-ICT), has been launched in Ho with a call on the youth to embrace opportunities targeted for economic self-reliance.
Togbe Afede XIV, Agbog…
The first group of software graduates from Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), passed out at a ceremony in Accra, with a call on them not to use the skills acquired to engage in anti-social activities.
The Deputy Commu…
Jonas Atsu, a self-styled businessman, who allegedly stole a brand new motorbike in Ho was arrested in Accra while offering it for sale.
He pleaded not guilty to stealing at a Ho Magistrate Court, presided over by Mr Yaw Atta Sampong.
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The Bibiani Circuit Court in the Western Region, has remanded a 35-year-old farmer into prison custody, for attempting to poison the drinking water of his former girl friend.
Kweku Kweyie's plea was not taken and would reappear before th…
Northern Ghana Aid (NOGAID), an international non-governmental organisation (NGO), has expressed the need for Ghana to renew commitments to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), by spending more on education, health care and foo…
The Court of Appeal has by a unanimous decision, reversed a ruling by an Accra Fast Court in favour of Klujeson International Limited (KIL) against Kasapa Telecom Limited (KTL).
The court reversed the April 25, 2007 ruling by the Fast Tr…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, the Eastern Regional Minister, has said it was unacceptable that some District Chief Executives should be living in rented apartments.
He said most of the new districts created in the region had no basic facilitie…
A clergyman has deplored the high level of greed among some government officials and religious leaders in the country.
Reverend Dr. Isaac Mills-Owoo, Senior Pastor of the Redemption Baptist Church in Cape Coast, appealed to people in au…
The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Ahmed Baba Jamal, has advised parents to desist from cursing their children when they go wrong and invest the little they have in their education.
He said it was not true that people from deprived…
The Ghana Network for Peace, a group striving to bring peaceful co-existence and promote law and order in the Upper East Region, has identified a number of potential security threats in the area for immediate attention.
A communiqué issu…
The late Mr. Dan Augustus Lartey, founder of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), was on Saturday buried with a call on Ghanaians to imitate the politician who upheld honesty, hard work and self-sacrifice.
Conducting the funer…
The Italian Minister of the Interior, Mr. Roberto Maroni will on Monday February 8, pay a visit to Ghana to discuss issues bothering on bilateral relations.
A statement signed by the Ministry of Interior said Mr. Maroni would append …
A three-member delegation from the French Agency for Development (AFD) on Friday toured the ultra-modern Sokoban Wood Village in Kumasi, to acquaint themselves with the operations of the wood workers.
Mr Bruno Deprince, Deputy Re…
A number of commuters, who spoke to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Saturday, on the recent increase in road tolls and its accompanying confusion between drivers and passengers, have appealed to the President to intervene.
Most of t…
Pope Benedict XVI has charged priests to give care and comfort to the sick.
He said Jesus, who was regarded as the divine physician, 'went about doing good and curing all those who had fallen into the power of the devil", according to…
Heads of educational institutions have been asked to insist that cooks and other persons who handle food in schools are medically screened and presented with certificates.
Mr Akanaba Paul Abaa, Kumasi Metropolitan Environmental Health …
The Bawku West District in the Upper East Region is undertaking major infrastructural development projects to open up the area for accelerated development.
Under the development vision projects like education, health, road network and soc…
Reverend Bernard Sallah, Senior Pastor of the Adenta branch of the Action Chapel International, has called on politicians to be tolerant and promote peace for national development.
He advised politicians to take steps to solve the soc…
The Medical Superintendent of the Saltpond Government Hospital, Dr Derrick Akyeampong Bonsu has appealed to the Ministry of Health to relocate the health facility to make room for expansion.
Dr Bonsu said the hospital which was build …
Doctor Osei K. Darkwa, President of the Ghana Telecom University College (GTUC) said the institute would introduce a Ph.D. programme in Information Communication Technology (ICT) this academic year.
He said the programme would also co…
The University of Education, Winneba, has so far trained a total of 7,978 professional teachers through its distance education programme.
Currently, a total of 17,001 students from the southern and northern sectors of the country have…
A taxi cab driver was on Thursday night killed in a car crash at Sefwi-Anhwiaso near Bibiani in the Western Region.
Mr. Wisdom Coffie died on the spot, when he drove his KIA Pride with registration number AS 6559 Y into an articulate…
The Christian Children's Fund of Canada (CCFC), a Tamale-based International NGO offering support to needy communities, last year de-wormed some 50,000 children in 1,027 schools in the Northern Region.
Mrs. Sanatu Nantogmah, Country …
The Asamankese Circuit Court on Friday sentenced two farmers to five years in prison each, in hard labour, for causing harm and possession Indian hemp without lawful authority.
Kwaku Awuah, 26 and Kwabena Prosper, pleaded not guilty.…
Denis Annor, unemployed, who on first appearance before the Asamankese Circuit Court on a charge of intentionally and unlawfully causing abortion on his 19-year-old unemployed lover pleaded guilty, now says he is not guilty.
He chang…
A 25-year old farmer from Enyan-Maim in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam (AEE) District, Kwame Mensah, was on Friday sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a circuit court in Cape Coast for defiling a 13-year old class three pupil.
The court,…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Friday announced that the government would this year replace all the traffic lights with ultra-modern ones that would help reduce jams in the Accra-Tema Metropolis.
The modern traffic lights, he …
The Northern Regional Command of the Ghana Armed Forces has called on all the other security agencies to effectively collaborate in the fight against violent crime and maintain civil order to ensure social security and peace in the region.…
President John Evans Atta Mills at the week-end said that any fight against corruption should start at the leadership level, indicating that the menace often led to unpleasant results.
He said it must be demonstrated that corruption s…
Nobel laureate Prof Jean-Marie Lehn on Thursday welcomed the recent decision of US President Barack Obama to halt 'Constellation', the project that aims to send astronauts to the moon by 2020.
"I support Obama's decision to cancel '…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Gomoa West, Mr Francis Kojo Arthur has cut sod for commencement of work on the Community Health Planning and Services (CHPS) for Abamkrom, Akyempim and Mfantseman communities in the area.
The project,…
India will spare no efforts to contribute to the success of post-Copenhagen process, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared Friday as he announced the launch of a National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency aimed at cutting carbo…
The Agona East District Assembly is to undertake a number of interventions to improve health delivery in the newly created district.
Some of the interventions include the upgrading of the Nsaba Health centre into a district Hospital,…
The United Nations on Thursday announced a further allocation of $ 20 million from its Peacebuilding Fund to the Central African Republic (CAR) to support security sector reform, economic revitalization and the rule of law in consolidating…
The Ho-Accra branch of the Cooperative Transport Union on Friday said it might be forced to increase transportation fares from Ho to Accra if government maintains the new road tolls.
But the local leaders of the Ghana Private Roa…
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday launched an appeal for $1.2 billion to provide life-saving emergency support to women and children impacted by severe humanitarian crises around the world, including the Haitian earth…
Mr Kwasi Amankwaah, Eastern Regional Information Services Department official, has urge Ghanaians to acquire the new Biometric Passport when it takes off in April this year.
He said the current passport would remain valid until Januar…
The Cape Cost-Elmina-Mankesim-Twifo Praso branch of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has appealed to President Mills to help reduce the recently increased road tolls, to make life bearable for them
The drivers made the ap…
The Asante-Mampong Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Daniel Ohyeamang, has warned against arbitrary increases in transport fares by commercial drivers and asked them to revert to fares they were taking prior to the new road tolls.
D…
A 34-year-old farmer who attempted to rape a 70-year-old woman has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour by the Asamankese Circuit Court.
Kofi Nti, also known as Sakora, pleaded guilty to three counts of unlawful entr…
Amasaman Police are investigating circumstances surrounding the death of two well-drillers, Isaac Mensah, 35, and Seth Quaye Addo, 50.
Their bodies were found in a well, which both have been contracted to drill.
Police sources sa…
A 49-year-old corn miller, Richard Gumanu allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday when he discovered his wife was having an affair with her nephew.
Gumanu was found hanged with his bed sheet at his residence at Gyankrom, a suburb of Ns…
Collins Antwi, a security man at a clinic at Hoviefe near Ho, has appeared before a Ho Magistrate Court charged with murder.
His plea was not taken and was remanded until 16 February.
Ms. Sylvia Okan, Inspector of Polic…
Nkatimba Dundisi, a 45-year-old farmer, has been arrested at Funsi in the Wa East District for defiling a seven-year-old Class One.
He is alleged to have lured the girl into his room under the pretext of giving her groundnut cakes and…
A 20-year-old member of a robbery gang who shot and killed a six-month-old pregnant woman at Duase New Site near Kumasi in May last year, has been jailed 110 years in hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court.
Mohammed Musah alias "R…
Two illegal gold miners, Nuredeen Ibrahim, 24, and Kofi Iddrisu, 33, on Friday appeared before Takoradi Circuit Court "A" for allegedly conspiring to commit crime, carrying and using offensive weapons, causing unlawful harm and stealing fi…
The worldwide cancer burden is projected to reach 26 million new diagnoses in the year 2030 and 17 million deaths, with the most rapid increases occurring in low and middle-income countries, according to the International Union Against Can…
A three-member delegation from MTN Ghana on Thursday paid a familiarisation tour of Ghana News Agency (GNA) to acquaint itself of the national wire service's operations and to strengthen the relationship between the two institutions.
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A 15-year old girl died in a tragic accident at Sefwi-Nkateaso near Awaso when an old pit from which she was digging red clay collapsed on her.
As has been the traditional practice by typical rural population, 15-year Akosua Boadua …