A field officer of the East Akim District Secretariat of the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE), Ms Sophia Amponsah had observed that, if more women take up political positions in the country, corruption by political office ho…
Mr Kobina T. Hammond, Deputy Minister of Energy, urged Members of Parliament (MPs) to use part of their share of the District Assemblies’ Common Fund (DACF) to procure low voltage electricity poles for communities in their constituencies.
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A three-day ECOWAS Brainstorming and Expert Planning Workshop on National Human Rights Institutions opened in Accra on Wednesday to develop an effective strategy to promote and protect human rights in the Sub-Region.
The workshop wo…
A newly-published book said that a U.S. clandestine plan on air raiding China's first nuclear weapon facilities 42 years ago forced Chinese leaders to alter the nation's economic development strategy.
The book on the modern Chinese eco…
About 400 residents of Manhyia, a suburb of Goaso in the Asunafo District of Brong-Ahafo were at the weekend rendered homeless by floods following a torrential rainfall that lasted several hours.
The floods occurred when River Goa o…
Droves of teenagers in the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District have fully taken advantage of the Capitation grant under the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) policy to enrol in basic schools specifically primary one, a survey by t…
The Ghana United Nations Association is embarking on a nation-wide sensitisation campaign to educate Ghanaians on the need to value and appreciate the relative peace and stability in the country.
This is aimed at prompting individual…
British Education Secretary Alan Johnson vowed on Friday to stop feeding pupils the "rubbish that they have been given for decades" with new rules cutting levels of sugar, fat and salt in English school meals.
Rules taking effect in …
Major (rtd) Courage Quarshigah, Minister of Health tasked health workers to abide by the Oath of their profession by attending to their duties with diligence, courage, compassion and trustworthiness.
He said the Oath represented the…
The Atwima-Mponua District Assembly has donated 10 sewing machines worth five million cedis to ten needy girls who have completed their apprenticeship in dressmaking to enable them start their own businesses.
Mr Wilberforce Owusu-An…
Assembly Members of the Hohoe District Assembly on Wednesday took a swipe at the Police and expressed their resentment for the inaction and what they described as gross unprofessional conduct exhibited by Servicemen, which had led to indi…
The Ghana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has called on the Government to facilitate the process of putting monetary value on the determinants which would make workers earn a living wage they had been expecting all along by the end of the y…
Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lampety, Minister of Tourism and Modernization of the Capital City, on Tuesday said Ghana would be the centre of fun flying in West Africa with the introduction and development of the Hang and Paragliding Festival.
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The Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) has urged churches of the country to help break cultural and
traditional barriers which prevent girls from taking football as a career.
Zambia Daily Mail Friday quoted FAZ president Teddy Mulon…
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Yaw Barimah, has attributed the government's inability to provide adequate social and infrastructure to the needy communities to the bad governance of the previous government.
He said the government …
Taliban insurgents gunned down an Afghan district governor in troubled southern Afghanistan Saturday in an ambush in insurgency-hit Helmand province, police said.
Abdul Majeed, the governor for the province's Baghran district, was kil…
Mr. Daniel Aggudey, Project Coordinator of the Western Regional Mass Drug Administration (MDA) has said that Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) popularly known as Elephantiasis was silently destroying lives, breaking up families and causing permane…
The European Commission may take Germany to court over its failure to implement a bloc-wide ban on tobacco advertising, EU health commissioner Markos Kyprianou said in an interview published Wednesday.
"I am determined to bring this…
Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, former first lady and eight ex-public officials on Wednesday appeared before an Accra Fast Track High Court for alleged impropriety in the divestiture of Nsawam Cannery.
Nana Konadu, who is also chairper…
Mr Joseph Onyinah, Obuasi Municipal Director of Education, has charged heads of public basic schools in the municipality to ensure transparency in the use of the capitation grant.
Mr Onyinah, who made the call at an emergency meetin…
The Board of Directors of Ghana International Airlines Limited (GIAL) terminated the appointment of Mr Brian Presbury, Chief Executive Officer and not Mr Kwdwo Mpiani, Chief of Staff and Minister for Presidential Affairs.
A stateme…
Lieutenant-Colonel Emmanuel Kotia, Commanding Officer of the 66 Artillery Regiment, has said Military-Civil relations in the Volta Region had improved greatly.
He said this had come about with the education of all ranks in the regim…
A Hutu rebel chief linked to atrocities in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo began fighting deportation from Germany where he was detained last week.
Ignace Murwanashyaka filed objections to being deported after his asylum a…
Some people in Accra who viewed the eclipse of the sun with the prescribed eclipse shades tore it into two and shared it with their friends.
They watched the event with one eye while the other eye was protected with their palm.
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Mr Justice Yaw Appau, Supervising High Court Judge in Kumasi, has advised budding lawyers to be courageous in the course of practicing their professional career.
He said courage and bravery were the hallmarks of the legal profession…
A magistrate's court at New Edubiase has sentenced a 41-year-old revenue collector to eight months imprisonment for falsification of accounts.
Yeboah Kankam Dacosta pleaded guilty to the charge and asked for leniency.
Police C…
Shareholders of the SG-SSB Limited expressed satisfaction with the Bank's performance for the 2005 year and voted unanimously for the Bank to purchase 10 per cent of issued shares to raise share price.
The Bank at its 26th Annual Ge…
Clients of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in some parts of the Upper East Region have begun defrauding the scheme, Mr James Maurice Abakisi, Builsa District NHIS Manager, has said at the weekend.
"Under the pretext of be…
The Ministry of Education and Sports has expressed serious concern about demands by custodians of lands for compensation in respect of school lands, some of which were acquired as far back as the 1920s.
Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, Minister …
The Ministry of Education and Sports said Wednesday, March 29, the day on which a solar eclipse is expected, is not a public holiday, as the event would last for only three minutes.
Mr Ato Esuman, Chief Director of the Ministry, who…
Mr Eddy Obeng-Darko, the Atwima-Nwabiagya District Director of Education, has stated that the youth had a responsibility to halt the alarming rate the environment and the ecosystems were being destroyed.
Mankind's existence and the …
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Kwaku Amoako, Brong Ahafo Regional Unit Commander of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DVVSU) expressed concern about the increasing number of divorce cases in the Region.
He sai…
The Ministry of Lands, Forestry and Mines has within the past three years spent about 167 billion cedis on the Government's Plantation Development programme.
The programme, being sponsored through HIPC funds, has three components, re…
A paramount chief of the Mo Traditional Area has appealed to northern scholars to put politics aside and marshal meaningful plans to develop the north to solve the acute poverty there.
He said there was a lot of income-generating ac…
The Adansi South District Assembly has set up a five-member committee to investigate circumstances that led to the inclusion of the 31st December Women's Movement Day-Care Centre at New Edubiase benefiting from the capitation grant.
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The Atwima-Nwabiagya district secretariat of the Non-Formal Education Division (NFED) of the Ministry of Education and Sports on Thursday presented incentive packages to 43 facilitators for their hard work and dedication at a ceremony at …
The Kwahu South District Director of Education, Mr James Nii Okaija Dinsey, has ordered the temporary closure of St. Peters' Secondary School and all the 1,262 students sent home with exception of some few prefects following students' dist…
Suspected outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu area spreading quickly through farms around the north Nigerian city of Kano, the head of a government clean-up team said on Tuesday.
Shehu Bawa, the leader of Kano State's bid …
Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama has tasked journalists to admit their professional weaknesses and rally social support for development initiatives and expansion of public knowledge through informed and rigorous analysis.
Journalis…
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 …
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