The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on Sunday presented 12 wheelchairs to 12 handicapped persons at a ceremony at Tepa in the Ahafo-Ano North District of Ashanti.
The beneficiaries were five females and seven males.
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The Techiman Municipal Assembly has presented relief items to the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) for the upkeep of the flood victims in the Upper West region.
The items included 30 bags of maize, 30 bundles of use…
The Mwinikuubu Disabled Women's Association (MDWA), a Wa-based NGO, has called on the Government to make the position of the two per cent share of the District Assemblies' Common Fund reserved for physically challenged persons clear to th…
Four persons, including a 19-year-old Junior High School student (JHS) have been arrested during their illegal operations at 2,100 feet deep the Adansi Shaft mine of AngloGold Ashanti, (AGA)
They are Kwaku Boateng, the JHS student, …
For 12,000 Ghana cedis a 34-year-old farmer at Bechem in Brong Ahafo Region allegedly severed the head of an eight-year-old boy, Emmanuel Agyei for sale to a spiritualist at Enchi in the Western Region.
Assistant Superintendent of P…
A circuit court at Hohoe remanded Kwaku Ademekpor, farmer from Hohoe-Gboxome for possessing five parcels of dried leaves suspected to be Indian Hemp.
Ademekpor, who pleaded guilty to possessing the dried leaves, will re-appear on No…
Two hundred paramilitary personnel have surrendered to pro-Taliban militants in the troubled Swat valley, in a major embarrassment to Pakistan government which has been pushed on the backfoot in its operation to root out extremists from th…
The removal of aquatic weeds from the Lower Volta Basin is expected to begin by the middle of next year.
Mr. Kwadwo Adjei-Darko, Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Environment, told Parliament on Friday that procure…
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi on Thursday organised an outreach programme to offer free medical care and counselling to mechanics and other traders at the Suame Magazine.
The aim was to reach out to the mechanics, …
The Dutch Parliament (Second Chamber) would this week, discuss the motion to support the media in developing countries to be independent and also to focus on developmental issues instead of the mainly political and commercial news.
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Joseph Kwabena Dawson, owner of the MV Benjamin, which was used to ship 77 parcels of cocaine into the country, denied knowledge of ever knowing that his vessel was going to be used to cart cocaine.
He was further answering question…
At least 30 percent of teachers in non-governmental educational institutions must be women, the
government has said in an order, local newspaper The Financial Express reported Wednesday.
The order dated Nov. 1 by the country's Minist…
Some clan heads and chiefs of Anlo on Wednesday called on the Government to, as a matter of urgency, withdraw the military and police deployed at Anlo to enable the people to go about their normal economic activities.
They said this…
Professor Daniel Buor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has instituted a GH¢200 incentive package for teachers and pupils of Atwima Manhyia Methodist Primary School.
Announcing this at the 80th anniversar…
Nobel Prize winning DNA pioneer, James Watson, who recently caused a furore, in an interview he granted Sunday Times, a British newspaper, in which he was quoted as saying Africans were less intelligent than Europeans, has apologised.
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Tema Circuit Court 'A' has fined Benjamin Aggrey 23 and unemployed 1,200 Ghana cedis or in default serve five years imprisonment for
making duplicates of keys to a room belonging to Ms Elizabeth Tawiah and stealing 1,500 Ghana cedis fro…
President John Agyekum Kufuor returned home Saturday evening from the United Kingdom where
he was the international guest speaker at the inauguration of the Black and Rhodes Scholars Union of Exeter College.
President Kufuor was a…
Dr. Kwaku Osafo, one of the six Convention Peoples Party (CPP) presidential aspirants, on Saturday launched his campaign at Nkroful in the Western Region, amid jubilation by supporters clad in party colours.
They danced to brass ban…
Chain saw machine operators battled with time on Saturday to retrieve the body of Foster Ablenyi, 40, a tailor and rescue two others from under a huge silk cotton tree that trapped them at the Messiah healing camp at Bumbula near Kwamikrom…
The Winneba Police in an early morning swoop on Saturday at an abandoned Boatyard near the beach arrested four persons and seized several wrappers of dried leaves suspected to be Indian Hemp.
A police spokesman who disclosed this to n…
Mr. Ralph Ameyaw, Executive Secretary of Council of Indigenous Businesses Association (CIBA) on Saturday called on the youth not to despise trades and vocations but rather embrace skills training to ensure a good and comfortable future.
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Mr. Doe Adjaho, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ave- Avenor has called on government to constitute a Commission of enquiry into the clashes at Anloga on Thursday in which six people, including a Police Constable were killed.
Mr Adjaho mad…
Ibis West Africa a non-governmental organisation, has launched a three million-dollar education programme using the wing school concept to extend free basic education to two districts of the Northern Region.
The programme, known as Al…
The Sissala West District Mutual Health Insurance Scheme (MHIS), now has a membership strength of 25,000 compared to the 5,000 registered members as at last year.
The improvement in the scheme was due partly to a sustained education …
Ghana recorded a 3.8 per cent increase in prisoners population last year and the Eastern Region had the highest number of offences committed.
Out of the total 10,435 offences committed throughout the country, the region recorded 4,24…
The Central Regional Minister, Nana Ato Arthur, on Friday called on parents not to use the Capitation Grant and New Education reforms as an excuse to shirk their parental responsibilities towards the education of their children.
He s…
Tension is still high at the Orile-Iganmu police station in Lagos today, a week after an attempt to burn it down was repelled with sustained shooting by policemen.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that an Armoured Personnel Car…
Taiwan's ruling party said today it had gathered 2.2 million signatures in support of its bid to hold a referendum on joining the UN, a move that is certain to raise Beijing's ire.
The Democratic Progressive Party said that within…
Former Mozambican President JoaquimChissano declared on Sunday that the Mo Ibrahim prize for Achievement in African leadership that he won last week "is deserved by the entire Mozambican
people".
Speaking to reporters at Maputo inte…
Mr. Stephen Asamoah-Boateng, Minister of Tourism and Diasporan Relations, has said the Ministry would soon launch an integral local and international tourism promotion campaign to generate excitement and traffic for the Ghana CAN 2008 foo…
Mrs Gifty Ohene-Konadu, Member of Parliament (MP) for Asante-Akim South, has donated 2,000 Ghana cedis to victims of a windstorm that hit Banso, a farming community in the Ashanti Region, killing a married couple returning from farm.
Na…
A community Health Nurse at the Reproductive and Child Health Unit of the Ministry of Health at Apam, Mrs. Helena Appiah Korankyi Amekah has advised people with symptoms of leprosy to seek early medical treatment, which is free.
He…
The Central Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Mrs. Rose Bio Atinga, has called on the District, Municipal and Metropolitan Assemblies to assist the Ghana Police Service with logistics to enable it to combat c…
Mr Wilberforce Owusu Ansah, Atwima-Mponua District Chief Executive, has stated that the only way to eliminate child labour in cocoa growing areas was to encourage and assist parents to enrol their children in school.
He said the int…
Mrs Efua Amo-Dare, national president of the Council of Catholic Women, at the weekend advised women against step siding men in their development efforts.
She also said the quest for empowerment and progress for women did not mean d…
Old students of the Boana Local Primary school in the Nkoranza District of the Brong-Ahafo region have presented GHC120 (1.2 million cedis) to the first head teacher who started a basic school in the area.
The beneficiary Mr. J.K Sa…
A Breast Cancer Foundation to generate funds to assist needy women in the treatment of breast cancer has been inaugurated in Kumasi.
Felibat Breast Care and Cancer Foundation is in honour of Mrs Felicity Mensah Boahen 44, who died f…
Dr Owusu Achaw Duah, Member of Parliament (MP) for Offinso-South, has toured the United States and Canada to brief citizens of the constituency on developments at home and to encourage them to identify with programmes to speed up the pace…
The chiefs and people of Ejisu-Juaben on Friday held a durbar to honour Mr Akwasi Osei Agyei, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and NEPAD and Member of Parliament for the area.
The durbar, which was organized by t…
New executives for the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) were inducted into office with a call on them to commit themselves to the promotion of students' interest and national development.
"Achieve the task of leading student …
The Association of Judges and Magistrates of Ghana (AMJG), has expressed concern about the resort to instant justice by the public, describing it as an embarrassment to the country.
Mr Justice J B Akamba, President of the Associatio…
Deputy Superintendent of Police Peter Ndekugri Anombugri, Western Regional Police Mobile Force Commander, has said violence would not solve any problem and those who have genuine concerns should address them through proper channels.
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President John Agyekum Kufuor, Chairman of the African Union (AU), has met with Professor Alpha Oumar Konare, Chairman of the AU Commission and other high ranking officials of the commission on the first of a two-day official visit to Add…
The Convention People's Party (CPP) announced that the period of filing of nominations for the various positions to be contested for at the Third National Party Congress would be from October 8-22.
A statement signed in Accra by Pro…
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) added its voice to those of other advocacy groups urging government not to sign the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), currently being negotiated with the European Union.
Mr Tony Oteng-Gya…
Health experts in Accra on Friday advocated the implementation of the Intermitted Preventive Treatment in Infants (IPTi) as an intervention to control malaria and reduce infant mortality.
Findings from studies conducted by the Navro…
Twelve African countries are meeting in Accra to discuss strategies, share experience and draft a road map to ensure successful implementation of the New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD) Home-Grown School Feeding Programme in me…
The Volta River Authority (VRA) and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have expressed gratitude to Ghanaians for their cooperation during the national load shedding period which ended Sept.30, but cautioned that continuous supply woul…
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Professor Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, has charged tertiary institutions especially the universities to train more vocational and technical teachers for the success of the educat…
Dr Benjamin Aggrey-Ntim, Minister of Communications said government would spend about 70 million dollars on the landmark national communications backbone transmission project to provide nationwide high speed broadband at a reduced cost.
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