The government of the Netherlands has spent more than 80 million euros over the past five years to improve and expand water supply in the Central Region to help solve the perennial water problem of the Region, particularly Cape Coast and …
Professor John Evans Atta Mills, Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) made a cash donation of 200 million cedis to the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly to help resettle the Tamale rainstorm disaster victims.
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Alhaji Baba Salisu, Director, Ghana Identification Board has urged Moslem youth to aspire to higher heights by increasing their crave for knowledge.
Alhaji Baba who was speaking at the 41st National Islamic Youth Camp at Kadjebi said sat…
Professor Kenneth A. Attafuah, an International Human Rights Consultant has stressed the need for human rights education in secondary schools to instil the cardinal values of integrity, discipline, self-respect and democratic practice amo…
President John Agyekum Kufuor in consultation with the Council of State has nominated Mrs Justice Georgina Theodora Wood for appointment as the new Chief Justice of Ghana.
A press release signed by Mr Andrew Awuni, the Press Secreta…
Contrary to expectations Dormaa-Ahenkro, the hub of the poultry industry in the country, last Wednesday received reports of the appearance of the Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) in Tema with relative calm.
Investigations conducted by Ghan…
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) have launched a joint handbook for lawmakers to help them devise the necessary strategies, from introducing legislation to allocating public funds, to pro…
Cash and property worth millions of cedis were destroyed when the house of a 62-year-old widow caught fire at Acherensua in the Asutifi North District of the Brong-Ahafo region.
The whole compound house consisting of about 14 room…
Volta Region recorded 53.1 per cent passes in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in 2006.
Six out of the 15 districts in the region improved in their performance over 2005.
They were Kpando, Krachi West, Nkwant…
A thirty-eight-year-old pregnant mother of four, died on the spot when a truck she was travelling on somersaulted at the outskirts of Garu on Tuesday.
Asiini Laari was said to be returning home on board the truck together with othe…
The Civil Society Coalition on Land has presented a communiqué to the Ministry of Lands, Forestry and Mines to support the smooth implementation of the Land Administration Project (LAP) in Accra.
The communiqué draws attention to so…
Mr. Kwabena Agyemang-Badu, Nkoranza District Director of Education, has urged candidates for the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) to avoid examination malpractices or would be made to face the full rigours of…
The authorities of Saint Anne's Anglican School Complex in Kumasi have been accused of preventing three candidates of the school from writing their last paper of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), which ended last Friday.…
Alhaji Mustapha Ali Idris, Northern Regional Minister has urged radio stations in the region to be circumspect about drug related advertisements.
He asked them to broadcast such advertisements in accordance with the ethics of advert…
An American couple, Mr. Kirt and Hilda Bromley, Chief Executive Officers of 'Books for Africa', an NGO, has presented 15,000 assorted books to a new library complex at Drobo in Jaman South district of Brong Ahafo.
The library comple…
Mr. Peter Tenganabang Nanfuri, former
Inspector-General of Police (IGP), was outdoored as the Paramount Chief of the Jirapa Traditional Area with the skin name, Naa Ansoleh Ganaa II.
Naa Ganaa, who is the grandson of the first Chi…
The authorities of the Juaso District Hospital in the Asante-Akim South District have expressed grave concern about the increasing public outcry about fees charged by Hospital to convey patients to referral health facilities in its ambula…
The Asante-Akim North District Assembly has taken steps to boost the NEPAD School Feeding Programme in the District.
The Assembly has taken advantage of the vacation of basic schools to assemble the various cooks engaged under the pr…
The Methodist University College (MUCG) unveiled a five-year strategic plan, which gives the school a blueprint to undertake specific development projects between 2006 and 2011.
It is also designed to enable the university to take a …
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr. Yaw Barimah has observed that recent crimes in the country were becoming sophisticated and the country seems to be overwhelm by crime.
He said the country therefore, needed a sophisticated police …
A delegation of Provincial Commissioners from the office of the President of Kenya arrives in Ghana on Saturday to understudy Ghana's conflict prevention approaches.
A statement in Accra on Friday signed by Mr Iddrisu A. Siddiq, Pub…
The Right Reverend John Harvey-Ewusi, Methodist Bishop of the Sekondi Dioceses, said moral education was necessary for the nation's growth and poverty reduction.
He said moral growth could be achieved through the assistance and recognit…
The Most Reverend Dr Justice Offei Akrofi, Archbishop of the Church of Province of West Africa and Anglican Bishop of Accra, urged society to be circumspect and not play politics with peoples names and dignity.
He said it was import…
President John Agyekum Kufuor urged Ghanaians not to let the demise of the Chief Justice, Mr Justice George Kingsley Acquah diminish the commitment of the nation towards the reformation of the processes for the administration of justice.
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The Minister of State at the Office of the President, Ms. Elizabeth Ohene has stated that a nation requires the dynamism, the awkward questioning, the enthusiasm and even exuberance of it's young people. Ghana would move forward rapidly w…
Mr. Patrick Seidu Zakari-Saa, Northern Regional Director of the Department of Women said parents at Saboba in the Saboba/Cheriponi District were using various means to withdraw their female children from schools for marriages.
He sa…
Reverend Emmanuel Yaw Agyei, the West Akyem Presbytery Chairperson on Wednesday urged Christians to intensify their evangelism to help change society for the better.
He expressed the worry that people like drug peddlers and armed ro…
Togbega Gabusu the VI, President to of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs refused to accept an offer to chair the opening ceremony of a local governance seminar in Ho until its organizers apologized for the late start of the programme.
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Mr Mohammed Amin Adam, Tamale Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), has inaugurated an 11-member committee instituted to oversee the distribution of relief items for the Tamale rainstorm disaster victims.
The committee will be respons…
The Northern Network for Education Development (NNED), an NGO has commended the government for its relentless efforts to provide quality education for all children in the country.
It welcomed the gains made through the introduction …
The Government has urged students of the University of Ghana to remain calm while government discusses their concerns about the new residential policy with the authorities with a view to addressing them.
A statement signed by Papa O…
A total of 635 youths have been employed under the National Youth Employment at Nkwanta in the Volta Region from May last year to March 2007.
Mr Joshua Makubu, Nkwanta District Employment Coordinator told the Ghana News Agency that …
The government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has vowed to crack down on unjustified price
hikes for essentials, local newspaper Gulf News reported.
A statement released by the Ministry of Economy on Wednesday was quoted as sayin…
The Mankranso magistrate court has remanded a 35-year-old farmer of Yaw-Kobikrom near Mankranso in the Ahafo-Ano South district in prison custody for murder.
The plea of Kwame Yankyera was not taken and would re-appear on May 22.
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Ministers of State, New Patriotic Party (NPP) members, friends and sympathizers of the late Madam Hawa Yakubu, First Vice National President of NPP met in Accra to express their condolences to the family of the deceased.
The meetin…
Mr. Patrick Issahaku Zakari-Saa, Northern Regional Director of the Department of Women, has expressed concern that some cultural and religious practices impeded the fight against HIV/AIDS.
He said "Some people have misinterpreted so…
Mr. Kweku Tuoho Bombason, a level 300 student of the University for Development Studies (UDS), Nyankpala Campus, has commended the National Executive Committee of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) for successfully negotiating fo…
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has issued a two-week ultimatum to hawkers who were allocated spaces at the Pedestrians Shopping Mall at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle to occupy them immediately or lose them.
Mr Stanley Adjiri-Blankson,…
A Tuberculosis patient in Sinazongwe district in Zambia has advised government to sensitise rural communities in order to help discard myths that indicated that TB is caused through witchcraft.
Eliya Gotomani is of the view that the …
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, sat in state to receive homage at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi as part of activities to mark Akwasidae.
People from all walks of life were at the palace to be part of this great festivity.
The Vice-Pr…
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has met with Lebanese and Israeli armies to discuss how to implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1701, local newspaper The Daily Star reported.
UNIFIL Commander Major-General C…
Hundreds of families are fleeing the restive Somali capital of Mogadishu following fierce battle between insurgents and Somali government
troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers.
There is a tense calm in the capital Thursday but an interm…
Mr Oscar Kweku Appiah, Chairman of the Mankessim
Number Three branch of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has appealed to the courts to give drivers a hearing when they appeared before them for committing traffic offences.
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The cyclone and following rainstorm that swept northeast Madagascar last week have killed 21 people, according to statistics published by the National Committee for Risks and Catastrophe Council.
Two were injured and five were missing …
One female and 39 male Zambian international
peacekeeping soldiers died between from 1995 and last year, Zambia News and Information Services reported.
It quoted the country's Defence Minister, George Mpombo, as saying that a total o…
A delegation from the United Nations Peace-building Commission, the body created in 2005 to focus on reconstruction, institution-building and the promotion of sustainable development in
post-conflict countries, kicked off its first-ever m…
Government is to name the flyover at Alajo on the Kwame Nkrumah-Achimota road after George Alfred Grant (Paa Grant) as part of a number
of steps towards recognising the nations heroes.
The President has further directed the Ministry o…
The Birim South District Security Committee (DISEC) has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on Oda Nkwanta and Akyem Gyadam following disturbances after a football match between the two communities.
Mr Frank Kwame Busumtwi, Birim South Dis…
The Edikanfo Foundation (EPF) a Kumasi based
non-governmental organization has donated books worth 10 million cedis to the Ahensan M/A JSS in Kumasi.
The NGO has plans to provide 100 assorted books and 200 computers to eight scho…
Papa Owusu Ankomah, Minister of Education, Science and Sports has called for an end to the buck passing of duties in the Ghana Education Service (GES).
He said as a Minister, he would not sit down and allow this type of bureaucracy to co…
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