The Minister of Regional Co-operation and NEPAD, Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku has charged border operatives and agencies in the Upper East Region to begin looking at new ways and open up by doing better than what they have been doing in the past…
The Government has released 2.4 billion cedis out of the 10 billion cedis approved as Youth Fund to a number of selected institutions to be used in upgrading their job creation centres.
Mr Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, Minister of Education, …
A farmer has been granted 10 million cedis bail for wielding a pistol at his wife in the night on the Dodowa-Ayikuma road in anger by the Tema Circuit Court 'A'.
Kwasi Lartey, who pleaded not guilty, will have to support his bail …
Mr Ben Abdallah, Ashanti Regional Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has congratulated Muslims for successfully going through the Ramadan that ends on Thursday.
The Regional Organiser in a message sent through the Ghana New…
A police constable suspected to be among three armed robbers, who attacked a private medical practitioner at Suhum, Dr Nartey Marbel at his clinic and robbed him of six million cedis has been arrested.
The suspected armed robber was…
Expectant women in the first three months of pregnancy have been cautioned against self-medication since it has been identified as a common cause of children born with malformation.
It is very dangerous for them to take enemas, herb…
The Deputy Chairman of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mrs Augustina Akosua Akumanyi on Wednesday appealed to traditional rulers do away with cultures that were inimical to good governance.
The Deputy Chairman was…
Workers of the Volta Regional Directorate Ghana Education Service (GES) are of the opinion that the formula for computing SSNIT Pensions makes a handful of top executives rich pensioners while impoverishing a majority of retired middle an…
The Ghana Education Service (GES) on Thursday warned against the taking of bribes during admissions into Senior Secondary Schools (SSS) and asked anybody with information on such matters to report to the regional or district directors for …
Nii Lantey Vanderpuye a former Parliamentary Candidate for Odododiodoo Constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has denied that he conspired with two others persons to recruit prosecution witnesses to take photo's during the…
About half of the 30,000 cases that have been received by the Women and Juvenile (WAJU) Unit of the Ghana Police Service, were as result of non-maintenance of children by their parents a WAJU official said on Wednesday.
Mrs. Elizabet…
The Adansi South District Assembly has voted 150 million cedis towards disaster management in the district this year.
Mr Francis Dorpenyoh, Adansi South District Co-ordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO),…
A committee set up by Mr Sampson Kwaku Boafo, Ashanti Regional Minister, to investigate complaints against the College of Art, a private school in Kumasi, on Tuesday presented its report to the Minister.
The four-member committee com…
Implementing agents of Africa Youth Alliance (AYA) project in Gomoa, have held a meeting at Apam on Tuesday to plan strategies to procure funding to sustain the project when it comes to an end in March 2005.
AYA is a programme directe…
Mrs Vesta Adu-Gyamfi, Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Integrated Rural Art and Industry of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has urged teachers to be conscious of the outcome of their work and have co…
A three-day National Annual Ghana Health Service (GHS) Quality Assurance Conference was opened at Sunyani on Monday.
A delegation of 50 made up of Regional Health Directors, Health Administrators, Officials of National Health Insuran…
Eight women singing groups from the Bongo District of the Upper East Region at the weekend featured in the finals of a traditional folkloric music competition held at Bongo.
Mr. Andrew Awuni, Deputy Minister of Information and a nat…
Dr Emmanuel Kwesi Aning, a researcher with the African Security Dialogue and Research, a security think tank, on Monday said recent research indicated that Ghana's gun making ability has become more sophisticated and compete fairly with th…
The President of Senegal Abdoulaye Wade, on Monday said the incidents of wars, conflicts and poverty were no justification for the violation of the rights of children.
He said wars, conflicts and poverty were being used as tools to enga…
The Eastern Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr Emmanuel Quaye-Sowah, has charged women to support their fellow women occupying high public positions to enable them to bring honour and image to wome…
Accra, Oct. 14, GNA - President John Agyekum Kufuor on Thursday said the Government would continue to create the enabling environment towards the attainment of macro-economic stability, good governance, transparency and rule of law to a ma…
The Western Regional Residency of Mr. Joseph
B. Aidoo, the Regional Minister has no fire extinguishers.
The building, which was constructed in the 1960s has seen no renovation
and the electrical wiring are too old and could resul…
The board of directors of the Golden Beach Hotels of which the Elmina Beach Resort is a subsidiary has undertaken to contribute 10,000 US dollars annually towards the development of Elmina as part of its social responsibility to the commun…
A four-day workshop on the World Bank sponsored health component of Promoting Partnership With Traditional Authorities Project (PPTAP) has opened in Kumasi.
The workshop is designed to build the capacity of the participants that com…
Mr. Mawutor Goh, Ho Municipal Chief Executive on Wednesday called for the promotion and implementation of all legal and institutional frameworks that facilitated women empowerment.
Mr. Goh, who made the call at the launch of the Volta R…
Mr. Clement Eledi, Deputy Minister, Food and Agriculture, on Wednesday called on the public to insist on food safety, to help reduce the high incidence and economic consequences of food borne diseases.
He said food borne diseases remai…
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has developed a new computer software to link four key departments of the assembly to promote integrated and efficient service delivery in those departments.
The landmark computerization and n…
Mr Ben Nii Ablorh Annan, Presiding Member of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) was on Wednesday re-elected to serve another two-year term.
He polled 72 votes out of 99 ballots to beat his challenger, Mrs Bennie Brown Nuamah, an …
Mrs. Justice Sophia O.A. Adinyira, an Appeal Court Judge has observed that, inadequate funding was hampering the efforts of organizations and agencies fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country.
She noted that even where funding exis…
The US Embassy in Accra on Wednesday announced that applications for the 2006 Diversity Via (DV) Lottery would be accepted between November 5, 2004 and January 7, 2005.
A statement issued in Accra said persons seeking to apply must r…
A day's seminar aimed at sensitizing stakeholders, including opinion leaders, traditional rulers and the clergy engaged in the fight against AIDS in the Awutu-Effutu-Senya has ended at Winneba.
The workshop, which was organized by th…
The Archbishop of Cape Coast, His Eminence Peter Cardinal Appiah Turkson is representing Ghana at the Sixth German-African meeting of Bishops currently, taking place in Akosombo in the Eastern Region.
The meeting, which started on Mo…
A benevolent society, "Onuado Kroye Kuo" at Atonsu "S" Line in Kumasi on Saturday, presented a poly-tank worth three million cedis to the Kumasi South Hospital at Kyirapatre.
Making the presentation, Nana Sarfo Antwi-Boasiako, Vice-…
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Saturday said the government was committed to ensuring equal distribution of resources and development project to benefit the people without discrimination.
He said, "Our focus is to fairly distribute res…
Plan Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has spent one billion cedis to improve the living condition of the people of Ekumfi Nanaben in the Central Region.
The money was spent on the provision of a clinic, furniture, potable…
Kwasi Adu Asabir, 59, a farmer and Unit Committee member at Akutuase near Agogo in the Ashanti Akim North District was last Wednesday trapped to death by a wall at the Krontihene's Palace.
Kwaku Amakye, 19, who was also trapped was r…
The First Lady, Mrs Theresa Kufuor, has called on women to use their majority in the population as a catalyst to propel national development at all levels of society, especially the education of children.
She said without their invo…
A 34-year-old secretary, who allegedly defrauded five persons to the tune of 107 million cedis with the pretext of sending them to Germany, was on Friday remanded by a circuit court at Cape Coast presided over by Mr Mustapha Logoh.
…
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) on Friday appealed to the Government to provide the Judiciary with adequate budgetary allocation to facilitate speedy, efficient and effective administration of justice.
The Association further urged the …
Madam Adgoa Duah, an opinion leader at Atekyedo near Winneba, has appealed to the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) to extend pipe-borne water to the village and its surrounding communities. Making the appeal through the Ghana News Agency…
The East Akim District Director of Education, Ms. Ernestina Ofori has urged headteachers to submit accurate and reliable data on their schools for effective planning.
Ms. Ofori who was addressing a day's workshop on School Mapping at Kibi…
A three-day continuous heavy down pour in the Gomoa and Awutu-Effutu-Senya districts has rendered a portion of the Winneba Junction-Mankessim trunk road at Gomoa Mprumeam impassable creating an acute transportation problem in the area. Veh…
The leadership of Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) is considering forming unions at all levels that would enable them to become part of Trades Union Congress (TUC).
The essence is to create a major mouthpiece that would be r…
Mr Albert Asiedu-Offei, Volta Regional Administrator of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Tuesday said the benefit range of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was not static but dependent on the dynamics of the changing prevailing…
The Bolgatanga Municipal Director of Health Services, Dr. Alexis Nang-Beifubah on Monday described as a wrong conception, the notion by some parents that polio only paralyses but does not kill its victims. He said polio affects the respira…
Single Parent Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has presented a 30-million cedi assistance package to 140 AIDS orphans in basic schools in the Offinso District.
Under the package, school children would be supplied with sc…
The Presiding Member of the Nkoranza District Assembly Mr. Adjei Yeboah has deplored the attitude of some people to discriminate against people living with HIV/AIDS and called for a halt "since every one is at risk."A 10-member community-b…
Hundred (100) Liberian refugees would be repatriated voluntarily from Ghana on Friday October 1. They would form the first batch of refugees from the Buduburam Refugee Settlement in the Central Region, to be repatriated as part of the Trip…
A 31-year-old painter was on Wednesday arraigned at a Circuit Court in Accra for possessing two large parcels and 38 wrappers of cannabis without lawful authority. David Asare pleaded not guilty. The court admitted Asare to 80 million cedi…
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) announced on Thursday that the spillway gates of the Weija Dam have been opened to avert structural damage and advised the public to take immediate precautionary measures to protect lif…
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