Students from 16 tertiary institutions nationwide would compete for an enviable position in the 2009 Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) Ghana National Competition on Thursday and Friday.
Participating institutions include, University…
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo said technical and vocational education which has the capacity to turn Ghana's economy round, has receive little attention over the past years.
He therefore called for the introdu…
Chief Superintendent Edward Oduro-Kwarteng, Mampong Divisional Police Commander, has advised restaurant and food joint operators, butchers, as well as livestock breeders to ensure that unwholesome animals are not slaughtered for public con…
A social worker has appealed to managers and caretakers of orphanages to offer quality care for the children in their care to ensure their proper growth.
Madam Mabel Asafo-Agyei, Superintendent of Mampong Babies Home, said when these chi…
A five-member delegation of the Boabeng-Fiema monkey sanctuary management board has toured the nine fringe communities to educate the people against practices that would affect the development of the sanctuary.
The delegation, led by…
The Government and other Stakeholders of Education have been called on to design programmes that would help police personnel to upgrade themselves professionally in the various universities.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency…
The Kwahu West Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Alex Obeng Somoah, on Wednesday urged the media to give constructive criticism and suggestions on government policies and programmes to ensure the success of the country's democratic proce…
A Tarkwa Circuit Court presided over by Mr Samuel Obeng Diawuo has remanded a 23-year old man Kwasi Voluba, alias red, for murder.
His plea was not taken and the court ordered him to re-appear on June 4, 2009.
The Prosecuting D…
The Ghana Library Board in collaboration with the American Embassy in Ghana has started a programme to inculcate the habit of reading in children in some deprived basic schools in the Effutu Municipality.
Mr Thomas C. Brown, Head of C…
The Effutu Municipal and Awutu-Senya District Coordinator of the National Youth Council, Mr Emmanuel S. Martey, has advised the youth to desist from fraudulent (Sakawa) activities, which is on the ascendancy in some parts of the country.
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The Asamankese circuit court on Wednesday remanded in prison custody Isaac Boamah, a farmer aged 24, who appeared before it charged with having had sexual intercourse with a three-year-old baby girl through her anus.
Boamah pleaded guilt…
The Spanish government on Tuesday decorated Mr Francis Alex Tsegah, Ghana's immediate past Ambassador to Spain, with that country's Order of the Civil Merit.
The award was in recognition of his roles in the establishment of the Ghana…
Eight out of the 13 Assembly members from the South Dayi District Assembly who voted against the President's nominee for the District Chief Executive slot on Wednesday refuted bribery allegation.
"We have made our decision as Assembl…
The Very Reverend Samuel Dadzie, Circuit Superintendent Minister of the Methodist Church at Nsuta in the Sekyere Central District, has ordered Mr Christopher Opoku-Agyemang, an evangelist of the church at Beposo, to stop all his activities…
A two-day national forum on the duration of Senior High School opened in Accra on Wednesday with the broad aim of fostering consensus for enhancing an effective implementation of programmes to ensure equity in education.
Being held o…
Mr Tibila Sandow, Wa Municipal Director of Ghana Meteorological Agency on Wednesday gave the assurance that Upper West Region would record normal rains which would not pose serious threats such as floods and other major rainfall-related di…
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) is likely to seal a deal for better conditions of service when they meet the health minister and his team on Tuesday.
The GMA leadership and the government met over the weekend and are expected to …
Five people, including an 80 year-old man and a pregnant woman, had all their personal effects and cash running into thousands of Ghana Cedis destroyed, when a three year old boy set their house on fire at Suhum last Wednesday.
Speak…
Chief Superintendent Edward Oduro-Kwarteng, Mampong Divisional Police Commander, has advised restaurant and food joint operators, butchers, as well as livestock rearers to ensure that unwholesome animals are not slaughtered for public cons…
Taxi drivers applying Suhum-Akorabo, Suhum-Nankese, Suhum-Amanase and Suhum-Kwano roads had threaten to go on demonstration against the police, who continue to harass them and extorted huge sums of money from them without pointing out the …
Managers and Caretakers of the various orphanages in the country have been advised to offer quality care for the children in their care to ensure their proper growth and development, Madam Mabel Asafo-Agyei, Superintendent of Mampong Babie…
UN Envoy Ellen Margrethe Loj has stressed the importance of women's participation in peacekeeping and called on troop and police contributing countries to follow Ghana's example.
Ms Loj said this when she presented UN peacekeeping me…
The Effutu Municipal Police commander, Assistant Superintendent of Police Francis Yiribaare, has said fraudulent acts in the municipality continue to increase for the past two years and called on the public to help reverse the situation.
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The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, has called on teachers to make the teaching and learning of the French language attractive at the basic level.
He made the cal at the Annual Divine Mercy French Award to school chi…
The Akuapem Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana has organized a health screening exercise for its members at Nsawam in the Akuapem South District.
About 400 people were screened on a number of health related diseases such as …
Three children whose mother locked them up while going out to collect her mobile phone, died in a fire outbreak, which occurred in her absence at Akwatia at the weekend.
The children, Maa Abena 8, Kwadwo Adu 5, and Agya Yaw 3, were l…
The Bibiani circuit court has remanded a 49-year-old evangelist for raping 26-year-old nurse at Sefwi Nsawora in the Western Region.
Joseph Dadzie pleaded not guilty and will re-appear on May 29.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Joseph …
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources on Monday began a two-day sensitization workshop to educate traditional rulers and assembly members in the Nkoranza Traditional Area on the functions of the Customary Land Secretariats (CLS).
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The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) in collaboration with the Canadian Teachers Federation on Tuesday presented building materials worth GH 2,000 cedis to the AME Zion Primary School at Kobedi in the Sunyani Municipality to r…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Tuesday assured investors of Government's protection and urged them to feel free to make Ghana a preferred investment destination.
He reiterated Government's request to investors to use more of loca…
The management of Basic Needs International, an NGO on Mental Health, on Tuesday presented 1,000 copies of "Essential Skills for Mental Health Care" to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to boost mental health care.
Mr Peter Yaro, Countr…
Five drivers at Bibiani in the Western Region were fined GH¢100 each for various traffic offences by the Bibiani Circuit Court.
They were Kwaku Nkrumah 21, Kwame Antoh 42, Eric Mensah 32, Frank Addai 24 and Tina Omega 24.
They …
Anlo Secondary School (ANSECO) is celebrating its golden jubilee. The School which is located at Anloga in the Volta Region was established on April 10, 1959 by three founding fathers - Torgbui Adeladza II; Mr. C. K. Fiagbe and Mr J. W. K.…
Mensah Ahiaforkpor a 35-year-old unlicensed driver, was jailed three years in hard labour by the Aflao Circuit court for the death of three passengers in an accident involving his uninsured and un-roadworthy vehicle on the Afife-Ave-Dzalel…
A Hohoe Circuit Court has sentenced Bright Future, a cobbler to two years imprisonment for stealing a ram and two nanny goats, belonging to Iddrisu Malik of Hohoe and Manfred Brempong of Santrokofi-Benua near Hohoe.
Bright pleaded gu…
Six persons arrested in connection with the 71.45 kilogram's of substances believed to be cocaine seized at the Tema Port last week on Tuesday made their second appearance before an Accra Fast Track High Court.
Augustina Abu, importer, Y…
France affirmed Tuesday that it supported additional sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) after its second nuclear test and missile fire, local sources said.
"We want a strong reaction from the (UN) Secu…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration on Tuesday drew the attention of the travelling public to a law on foreigners passed by the Serbian Parliament in October last year.
A statement signed by Ms Georgina Djameh, A…
Mr Jo Rispoli, Head, Technical Cooperation Department of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), on Tuesday said a holistic approach by law enforcement agencies to combat human trafficking was necessary to eliminate the practic…
Geneva Global (GG) and Free The Slaves (FTS), international NGOs working in partnership with local organizations to prevent and address contemporary slavery and child trafficking in mining and fishing areas in Ghana, on Tuesday called on p…
Mr Paul A. Ayamga, Headmaster of Kongo Senior High School (KOSHIS) in Talensi-Nabdam District, on Tuesday appealed to Mr Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister for the early completion of the school's new building.
He said the d…
A new six-classroom block, an office, store and a KVIP place of convenience being constructed by Talensi-Nabdam District Assembly for Namoranteng community at a cost of 105,717 Ghana cedis is being delayed due to irregular release of funds…
A District Court at Wamfie in the Dormaa East District has sentenced a 21 year-old second-hand clothes dealer, Kwame Isaac, to two years imprisonment for kidnapping and holding a 19 year-old girl hostage for two weeks.
Chief Inspecto…
An official of the Centre for National Culture (CNC) has appealed to the Ghana Education Service to take steps to revive music education especially at basic and second-cycle levels.
Mr. Samuel F. Adjei, Director of the Kumasi branch of t…
The Women's Fellowship of the Ghana Police Church on Tuesday donated 50 bed sheets and two baby trolleys valued at GH¢1,200 to the Female Ward of the Police Hospital in Accra.
Madam Cecelia Afriyie, President of the Women's Fellowshi…
An unknown assailant, a driver of a cabby on Monday inflicted multiple machete wounds on Ivy Afua Okrah, an 18 year-old student of the Akpafu Mempeasem Senior High School in the Hohoe Municipality.
Okrah, who suffered various cuts on…
A driver of a cab, whose identity is unknown, on Monday inflicted multiple machetes wounds on Ivy Afua Okrah, an 18 year-old student of the Akpafu Mempeasem Senior High School, in the Hohoe Municipality.
Okrah, who suffered various c…
A nine-member Board of Directors of 37th Military Hospital was on Wednesday inaugurated with a call on them to ensure that the hospital became autonomous.
It was also tasked to ensure that funding and health care financing was a prec…
The Rural Enterprises Project (REP) has organized a two-week in-service training workshop for the Mankessim branch of the Association of Beauticians and Hairdressers to update their skills.
The participants were taught modern cosmeto…
An overview of a research presented on Monday in Accra said government lost $18 million annually as result of illegal chainsaw milling.
It said the loss was twice the annual revenue (stumpage fees) collected by the Forestry Commissio…