Mr Philip Basoah, Sekyere East District Chief Executive, has called on chiefs in the district to create land banks in their areas of jurisdiction for development.
He said this could attract investors to the district that had been inc…
The Ministry of Tourism and Modernisation of the Capital City on Monday condemned the indiscriminate use of the Kente cloth by some institutions and persons in recent times.
A statement signed by Mr Ferdinand O. Ayim, Personal Ass…
Ghana would host a Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge to facilitate the identification and testing of potentially beneficial low-cost naturally derived medicinal products for the prevention and managem…
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Elections Committee announced on Tuesday that it was postponing the election for the position of Corporate Member until the GJA Corporate Membership was duly constituted.
A statement signed by…
A South African Airways flight on Monday night made an emergency landing at the Kotoka International Airport after developing a technical problem shortly after take-off.
Sources at the offices of South African Airways on Tuesday con…
Madam Veronica Darko, Chief Executive of the Nurses and Midwives Council of Ghana, has reminded health professionals, especially nurse managers, that patients have the right to quality healthcare delivery at anytime.
Madam Darko sai…
The Osu Mantse, Nii Nortey Owuo III declared that he had not authorised the Mankralo or any other person to seize any properties or make any public statements regarding Osu Stool affairs.
In a statement signed in Accra by Nii Okwei …
The government spent over 1.6 billion cedis on the cocoa spraying exercise in the Adansi South District between May and November last year.
It is therefore not true that the same government, having spent so much to improve the cocoa…
Yusif Yakubu, a science student at the University of Ghana (UG), Legon, who has won a scholarship to study medicine at the Lugansk State Medical University, Ukraine, on Sunday began a walk from Kumasi to Accra to raise funds to support hi…
The decentralization policy is to empower the people at the local and grassroots level to participate in governance and to ensure the sustenance of true democracy in the country, Mr James Kwabena Appiah-Awuah, Nkoranza District Chief Exec…
The Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of the Methodist Secondary School at Sekondi has presented a block of two classrooms and a 10-seater water closet toilet to the school.
The projects valued at 350 million cedis were meant to ease …
Twenty-six students in the Central Region will benefit from a scholarship to pursue their Senior Secondary School education as from this year.
The scheme instituted by Mr Ato Essuman, Member of the Council of State, would cover a boy…
Ghana on Thursday joined the world to launch the Global Status of commercialised Biotech and Genetically Modified (GM) Crops report for 2005.
The report released on January 11 by the US-based International Service for the Acquisitio…
Well established farmers have been urged to set up demonstration farms to train the youth interested in farming as a vocation in modern methods.
Nana Kwaku Nsiah of Kuma Farms and the 2004 National Best Farmer, when he visited Ambro…
The Ministry of Energy has attributed the recent power outages to obsolete equipment being operated by the Volta River Authority (VRA) and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
The power outages on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 of Janua…
The Youth of Namolo, a suburb of Navrongo in the Kassena Nankana District of the Upper East Region have initiated a move, aimed at addressing the developmental problems in the community, through reducing poverty.
As a first step, th…
Security agencies at the country's frontiers have been reminded of the extra vigilance and coordination they were required to put up to secure national security and stability.
Mr Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong, Inspector-General of Poli…
Nim Furniture and Pest Control Company has donated 10 million cedis worth of airtime to the Ministry of Health on the Metro TV.
A statement signed by Mr Dan Osman, Public Relations Officer of the Ministry, said the airtime credit wo…
The Ashanti Regional Secretariat of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), has called for the collective efforts of stakeholders tackle the outbreak of bushfires and incidence of Cerebral Spinal Meningitis (CSM) that had b…
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BANGUI, Jan 9 (AFP/) - Thousands of people in the capital of the Central African Republic were forced to walk to work or school Monday after a strike in protest at rising fuel costs ke…
A 167-page book on the mysterious deadly disease Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), which according to medical experts affect one in a million people was at the week-end launched in Accra.
The book titled; "O Love...That Will Not Let Me…
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Tuesday called on the Muslim community to use the celebration of the Eid-Ul-Adha to pray for more peace, harmony and mutual understanding that would bond all Ghanaians together.
They should also ask f…
Mr Yaw Osafo Maafo, Minister of Education and Sports has stated that the government would ensure that citizens are lifted from the shackles of ignorance and poverty in this scientific and technology era.
He said, "Science and techno…
Participants at the 57th Annual Near Year School, which ended at the week-end at the University Ghana, Legon have recommended to Government to declare this year, 2006, as a "Year for attitudinal changes at workplaces".
Government as …
The Upper West Region this year recorded only one road accident from December 25 to January 3, 2006 making it the first time it recorded such a limited number of accidents during the yuletide.
Apart from a private vehicle that had a…
Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, Minister of Education and Sports, has advocated the active involvement of the youth in the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
He said the organisation of focus group discussions and other participatory exercises…
Police Officers, who fall abysmally below the pass mark at various Police training courses, would be withdrawn, Mr Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong, Inspector General of Police (IGP), said on Thursday.
The IGP was speaking at the opening …
Mr Osei Bonsu Amoah, Deputy Minister of Education and Sports has allayed fears of athletes that the relocation of the running tracks at the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium to the El Wak Stadium in Accra will not perish the sport.
The Deputy…
About 164 teachers drawn from four circuits of the Amansie East District in Ashanti have attended an HIV/AIDS workshop aimed at equipping them with the requisite knowledge on the disease.
The circuits were Bekwai, Asiwa, Abosamso and…
Argentine Palaeontologists have discovered the largely intact skeleton of a young titanosaurus that lived 71 million years ago, local media reported.
"What's extraordinary about this is that the remains were articulated, as if the ani…
Well-to-do Ghanaians have been urged to show love and compassion to the needy and vulnerable people in society.
They should also use part of their wealth to support the poor and contribute to their welfare to enable them feel happy …
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Challenge Heights, a Non profit organisation, Mr James Kofi Annan, has commended the Ghana Education Service (GES) for taking punitive action against some head-teachers in Accra for sending pupils …
The Minister of Energy, Prof. Mike Ocquaye, has called on the people to embrace policies of government because those policies were meant to improve the standard of living of the people of Ghana.
He assured that the government would n…
Mr Baba Hamid Osman Principal Economic Planning Officer of the Upper West Regional Coordinating Council, has stressed the need for Ghanaians to support and work hard to achieve the targets set out in the 2006 National Budget Statement.
…
Three people, including a four-month old baby, died at the Bibiani Government Hospital shortly after admission when the vehicle on which they were travelling from Kumasi to Kwapong in the Brong-Ahafo region skidded off the road and ran int…
Hundreds of South Koreans have offered to donate eggs for stem cell research in a show of support for cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-Suk despite his admitted ethical breaches, supporters said Sunday.
More than 700 would-be ova donors have …
The Assistant Commissioner of Police, Douglas Akrofi Asiedu on Saturday said it was required of civil society to support the Police Service with the needed logistics to enable them achieve efficiency in their task to enforce law and order …
Delegates at the just-ended Conference of ECOWAS Chief Justices and ECOWAS Court of Justice in Accra have suggested that courses on the ECOWAS Treaty and Protocols be part of the curricula of law schools in member-countries.
Furtherm…
HelpAge Ghana (HAG), a non-governmental organisation on ageing, urged the media to develop interest in issues concerning the old and to give it more coverage.
"If you highlight issues affecting the elderly in our society and it is r…
The refusal of some people to pay their property rates, coupled with lack of revenue collectors in the Jirapa/Lambussie district, was impeding revenue mobilization of the Assembly.
While some landlords constantly chased away revenue…
The Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) of the Ghana Police Service in the Western Region has embarked on a programme to inspect vehicles of companies before they are put on the road.
This would ensure that vehicles, especially cargo…
Mr Daniel Mensah of Gomoa Abonko, who started his education in a non-formal class in 1991, is now pursuing a higher national diploma (HND) course at the Cape Coast Polytechnic.
Mr P.K. Danson, Gomoa District Coordinator of the Non-F…
The Deputy District Officer In-charge of Department of Social Welfare in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar District, Miss Takyiwaa Opong, has expressed concern about the high rate of parental neglect of children in the district.
She said betw…
Members of Parliament (MPs) have deplored the irresponsible manner in which certain mining companies polluted and desecrated water bodies in their areas of operation.
They have, therefore, called for strict monitoring and enforcement …
The biggest international meeting on the bird flu crisis opens on Monday to likely calls for extra money and fresh efforts to bolster defences against the H5N1 virus, starting with the poultry flocks where the deadly foe holes up.
The…
The Osu Traditional Council on Wednesday came to the aid of the National Union of Ghana Students by offering them two buildings to choose from and use one as an office and thus ending the hunger strike threat.
NUGS on Wednesday emba…
A 13-member Country Advisory Group (CAG) on Bio-safety was on Wednesday inaugurated with the task of advising the implementation of the country Programme for Bio-safety Systems (PBS) associate award to promote the judicious use of modern a…
Callous thieves broke into the home of a teenage amputee and made off with the girl's artificial leg, her family said Wednesday.
California schoolgirl Melissa Huff, 16, was horrified to find that the heartless burglars had not only st…
The White House refused to confirm or deny Wednesday that the CIA operates secret prisons, known as "black sites," for Al-Qaeda suspects in eastern Europe and other countries around the world.
The Washington Post reported that the pri…
Dr Kwabena Godfred Ofosu-Budu, a Senior Research Officer of the University of Ghana, Legon, has called on the government, non-governmental organizations and individuals to establish an Agricultural Fund (AGRIFUND) to help develop the rice …