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.
…
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.
…
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…
The federal government has expressed concern over
youth restiveness in the country at the heels of the coming elections.
The Minister of Youths Development, Mrs Salome Jankada, made the assertion Monday in Jos, during a courtesy call on…
Malaysia Airlines System (MAS), the national carrier, is likely to cancel its orders for six
Airbus A380 jumbo passenger jets, local press reported Monday.
Despite the huge discounts for the new A350 planes Airbus is offering to almos…
The Most Reverend Gregory Kpiembaya, Archbishop of Tamale Diocese of Catholic Church, appealed to members of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to unite to develop their communities.
He said peace and unity were the …
The Central African State of Burundi has made progress in protecting children from the ravages of armed conflict, but more still needs to be done, especially to improve detention facilities for minors charged with belonging to armed groups…
About 150 people on Sunday donated blood to the Blood Bank of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital under a programme organised by the Hope Assemblies of God Church in Accra with a call on the public to help stock the Blood Bank with adequate sup…
A United Nations-backed meeting to combat the
multi-billion-dollar market for counterfeit medicines has sought to harness technology in the arsenal of weapons used to crack down on the products, which can promote drug resistant strains of…
The world's population is on track to surpass nine billion persons by 2050, according to the newly released 2006 Revision of the official United Nations population estimates and projections, which also predict that the number of elderly pe…
The United Nations system would be far more effective at boosting development in poor countries if its operations were better
streamlined and coordinated, the Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro has said, calling for closer consulta…
Mr Stephen Kwofie, Assemblyman for Atieku in the
Mpohor Wassa East District, has appealed to the Management of National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) and the Mpohor Wassa East District Assembly for assistance for victims in a r…
The Upper East Regional Secretary of the Ghana
National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Mr Linus Cofie Attey has warned that the New Educational Reforms would become a fiasco if salaries and conditions of service of teachers were not impr…
Major Courage Quashigah (rtd), Minister of Health, said the effect of westernization with its associated negative ramification on the cultural and traditional heritages of the country was inimical for socio-cultural cohesion and developmen…
Miss Beatice Abla Senoo, a Wedding Planner in Ho, has urged dealers in wedding paraphernalia to combine dealership with honest sales advice to customers to beat down the cost of weddings.
She said dealers must, therefore, engage sale…
An air-borne red umbrella buoyed by whirlwinds in
Hohoe last Monday, brought some supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) out into the streets rejoicing that the spectacle was a good omen for the Party in Election 2008.
How…
Government’s effort to revamp the educational sector received a boost with the provision of over four hundred computers and accessories to some schools across the country to facilitate teaching and learning.
The computers, donated by…
Reflections on a reverential event to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the Abolition of Slave Trade Act in the UK, will be held at the Elmina Castle on March 25, this year.
The event aims to explore the relationship betwe…
Mr Kwamena Bartels, Minister of Information and National Orientation, unveiled the Ghana News Agency's (GNA) plaque to launch its 50th anniversary and called on the Management to marshal every effort to make the Agency relevant in today's …
The Disasters Management National Institute (INGC) of Mozambique fears to run short of food to assist the victims of floods along the Zambezi river who are already accommodated and resettled in the central Manica, Sofala, Tete and Zambezia…
Captain Nkrabeah Effah-Dartey (RTD), (NPP-Berekum), urged the Ghana Police Service to do all in its power to find the killers of Mr Sam Ennin, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Ghana Journalists Association, to ensure public confidence.…
Mr Samuel Bannerman-Mensah, the Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), has appealed to teachers and workers in the education sector to adopt attitudes that would improve education.
"There is the need for all categori…
The Record Producers and Music Publishers Association of Ghana (REPPAGh) expressed concern about the high level of piracy of music works in the country.
It has, therefore, asked stakeholders in the music industry to continue to lobby g…
Trials of a new drug combination to treat tuberculosis (TB) could cut the length of time patients have to take their medicine by a third, UK researchers say.
In a four-year trial, researchers at St. George's, University of London, com…
Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa Cantellano called on the world to reinforce its nuclear disarmament commitment.
The minister made the call at a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the Tlatelolco treaty, which bans nucle…
Ghana News Agency, (GNA) the nation's only wire service, would be better placed to process and transmit news to primary and secondary consumers when supplied with the state-of-art technology and equipment, Nana Rex Owusu-Ansah, Board Chair…
Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, Minister of Tourism and Diasporan Relations, presented chocolates and other cocoa products to the Osu Children's Home as part of the celebration of the first ever National Chocolate Day.
The occasion, which …
Haulage truck owners within the Shama Ahanta East Metropolis have commended the management of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) for decongesting the harbour and reducing turn-around time.
Mr. Isaac Nketsia, a transport owner, told the GNA …
The Chief of Pankese in the Birim North District, Nana Mireku Dankwa Misah, III, has attributed the achievement of the government during the past six years to its involvement of the people in the decision making process.
Nana Misah …
Thousands of Christians in the Cape Coast municipality attended church service and conventions to mark the birth of Jesus Christ 2000 years ago.
Many of the churches were filled to capacity and extra seating places were created outs…
President John Agyekum Kufuor hit his 68th birthday. The day was marked with a reception at the Osu Castle Gardens.
A galaxy of top Ghanaian musicians and artistes including Ofori Amponsah; Kwabena Kwabena; Abrantie Amakye Dede; A.B…
Management of Value Added Tax (VAT) Service closed down Reality Protection Agency, a security company in Accra for defaulting in the payment of 113.8 million cedis owed to the Service for two years.
The Service realized that the com…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Afigya Sekyere constituency, Mr. David Henric Yeboah has attributed increasing cases of HIV/AIDS to unfaithfulness in marriages.
Speaking to the GNA in an interview on Friday at Agona, Mr. Yeboah obs…
A Togolese man who reportedly chopped off the right ear and two right fingers of his Ghanaian girl friend on suspicions of being jilted was arraigned before an Aflao Circuit Court on a provisional charge of attempted murder.
The ple…
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