A 22-year-old ex-convict has been sentenced to 16 years imprisonment by a Kumasi Circuit Court for stealing items worth Gh¢1,600.
These included a laptop, two mobile phones and a cash of GH¢10.
Kofi Twum, who was released from prison t…
The Sefwi Wiaso District Magistrate Court in the Western Region, has remanded a 22 years old farmer, Kwesi Kusasi into police custody for defiling a 13 years old girl.
His plea was not taken and the court ordered him to reappear on 3…
A zoology professor at the University of Cape Coast, Prof John Blay Jnr, has said it would require the efforts of district assemblies, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and traditional authorities to…
A team of 30 urologists from Ananse Foundation, a Danish-Ghanaian NGO, in collaboration with Brong-Ahafo Regional Hospital, is undertaking an outreach service at the hospital.
Dr. De Wall Hans, Chairman of the NGO, said at the openin…
Dr Andrews Ayim, District Director of Health for Ketu South and Ketu North districts, has advised pharmacists and pharmaceutical service providers to improve customer service to be able to withstand competition from traditional health prac…
The Eastern Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), on Tuesday launched a Regional Public Education Campaign on the swine flu in K…
Mr. Robert Ajene, a retired educationist, has appealed to district assemblies in the Upper East Region to enact by laws to ban children from going to internet cafés during school hours.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Bolgatanga…
Vodafone Ghana has presented a cheque for GH¢3,000 to the Oguaa Traditional Council to support the Oguaamanhen's Educational Fund.
It also donated some of the company's mobile phones and accessories to the council.
The Chief Ex…
The Asokore Traditional Area in the Sekyere East District of Ashanti Region would soon benefit from a 65,000 Ghana cedis circuit court.
At a sword cutting ceremony to begin the construction of the court on Saturday Nana Susubiribi Krobea…
Residents of Suhum Ahembrem in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar District have appealed to the district assembly to re-construct the bridge over the stream which links the community with the main Suhum/Kumasi/Accra road.
The spokesman, Mr George …
Mrs Angelina Kutin Tandoh, Principal of the Saint Teresa's College of Education, has appealed to the government, the Ministry of Education and other stakeholders and sympathizers to assist the college to surmount its infrastructure inadequ…
Mr. Dominic Nyame, General Secretary for Prestea Concerned Citizen Association, an advocacy group, on Tuesday called on government to restrain Golden Star Resources, a Canadian-US mining company operating in Prestea, from expanding its ope…
Members of the Asante Akim South District Malaria Advocacy Team (DMAT) have urged Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to ensure that the fight against malaria was made a priority on their development agenda.
This, they s…
Patients on Tuesday rushed to the Central Out Patients Department (OPD) of the Korle bu Teaching Hospital to access health care before the doctors stop work at 1700 hours deadline they have given themselves during their work-to-rule action…
Government will soon put before parliament a Cyber Security Bill for consideration, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Communications, said on Tuesday.
He said the bill was part of efforts to check the rising internet fraud which had be…
Ms Sherry Ayittey, Minister for Environment and Science, on Tuesday called for the adoption of responsible lifestyles to ensure that quality of life was not compromised.
She said values and opportunities that made humans to achieve a…
The Government has been urged to ensure that Artemisenin based Combination Therapies (ACTs) that have been jointly recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO), and the Ministry of Health for malaria treatment as part of global effor…
The Ghana Health Service has completed a week long exercise to promote the good health of children in the two the Dormaa districts in the Brong-Ahafo Region and commended parents for their commitment and co-operation.
The children, ag…
A Kumasi circuit court has remanded a 47-year-old unemployed into prison custody for allegedly possessing 320 grams of India hemp.
Kwaku Agyemang pleaded not guilty.
Police Chief Inspector Mary Nana Adwoa Affanyi told the court that pe…
Eight people have filed a suit at the High Court, Commercial Division, to commit top executives of BPI Bank for contempt following the change of name of BPI Bank to UT Bank.
Suit number ACC/4/09 names the plaintiffs as Alex Ashiabor …
The family of an 18-year-old boy who was stabbed to death by a friend at Kurofa, near Juaso in the Asante Akim South District has disputed the age of his assailant, who claimed to be 16 years when he appeared before the Agogo Magistrate Co…
Fire gutted the office of a Deputy Minister of Information, Mr Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa on Tuesday destroying furniture, computer and accessories; a refrigerator; a television set and documents.
When Ghana News Agency arrived at the of…
Dr George Akwesi Amofa, Deputy Director General of Ghana Health Service, said on Tuesday that non-communicable diseases would kill 28 million people in Africa within the next 10 years.
He said the diseases, which include hypertension,…
The new District Chief Executive (DCE) for Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa, Mrs Georgina Nkrumah Aboah has said that government will implement a number of programmes and policies to promote the well-being of women in the country.
She said as a…
The Agona East District Assembly on Friday confirmed Mr John Oremus Arkoh, the President's nominee for the post of District Chief Executive.
Mr Akorh, 60, an educationist, polled 19 out of 28 total votes cast by the assembly members …
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) in the East Mamprusi District recorded 13 domestic violence cases in 2008.
Mr Sulley Sawyer Salifu, East Mamprusi District Director of CHRAJ, who told the Ghana News A…
About 23 per cent of deaths in the Eastern Region last year was due to HIV/AIDS.
This was disclosed by Dr Erasmus Agongo, Eastern Regional Director of Health Service, when Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo Eastern Regional Minister, paid a fam…
President John Evans Atta Mills has reaffirmed Government's commitment towards women empowerment in the country.
He said a vital area of such empowerment would be the application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for …
The Ghana Education Service (GES) in prompt response to the plight of children in Afram Plains, have decided to recruit Senior High School graduates and graduates from other tertiary institutions to teach in schools without teachers.
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Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister has called on civil servants in the Region to endeavour to change the negative public perception about them.
He expressed concern about the negative perception of the public about th…
Members of Breman Asikuma and Brakwa Circuits of the Methodist Church Ghana have donated a total of 750 pints of blood to Our lady of Grace Hospital in Breman Asikuma.
Mr. Alfred Grant-Hutchful, Biomedical Scientist in charge of the …
Mr Alex Tetteh-Enyo, Minister of Education on Friday announced that from next year, teaching and learning of Information Communication Technology (ICT) related subjects would be made compulsory in all basic and senior high schools througho…
The thought by many Ghanaians that success in life depended on going to overseas is just an erroneous impression, Mr. Kwaku Sintim-Missah, a humour therapist said on Friday.
The mentality that one must travel abroad to either Europe …
Mrs Laura Lee, Chief Executive Officer of Maggie's Centre, a Cancer Support Centre in Scotland, has called on health practitioners to use good communications skills to lessen the burden of cancer patients in the country.
"Good commun…
Tanzania has proposed to start joint naval patrols off the Indian Ocean coast to fend off attacks by pirates against commercial ships and it would do so together with neighboring Kenya.
The proposal was made by President of Zanzibar…
The Ghana National Commission (GNC) for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), has decried the increasing rate of immorality, crime wave and other social vices among the youth.
It also expressed co…
The Aveyime National Cattle Ranch in the North-Tongu District is in crisis.
Water and electricity supplies to it have stopped five years ago, and the vehicles used to run the ranch have broken down, while the 22 workers have not been…
An Nkwanta Magistrate Court has sentenced Reagan Adiku, a former student of Damanko Junior High School and his accomplice David Ahortor, a self-styled electrician to 24 months imprisonment, in hard labour.
Adiku and Ahortor pleaded g…
The Zimbabwe government is planning to open information centers in five strategic countries and to expand international media coverage of Zimbabwe as it moves to promote the country as a potential investment hub, The Sunday Mail reported.
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Without a similar controversy that helped "The Da Vinci Code" became an international blockbuster, Sony's "Angeles & Demons" opened this weekend at top of the box office in North America, taking in an estimated 48 million U.S. dollars, pre…
US. President Barack Obama said it is premature to send more troops to Afghanistan at this point.
In an interview published by Newsweek on Sunday, Obama said he dose not has such a plan for now, though it is still possible to add mor…
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Monday said the army would stay in the troubled areas unless peace is restored.
Leaders of around 40 political and religious parties of Pakistan are participating in the All Parties Confere…
Security forces killed two leftist rebels as they clashed on Sunday in the southern Philippines, a military official said Monday.
State soldiers were patrolling in the village of Goma in Digos city when they encountered undetermined …
The body suspected to be that of Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebel leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran's son Charles Anthony and the bodies of three other senior rebel leaders have been found in the northern battleground, defense officials said Mond…
Christians have been asked to tolerate fellow Christians who became Chiefs and Queen-mothers.
"It is better to have Christians rather than non-believers ruling over us, but we shall not compromise with fetish traditional practices," …
The troubled Aveyime Rice Project, revamped by Priarie Volta Limited is expected to harvest about 2,500 metric tones of rice from its first 100 acres early June this year.
Another 100 acres each would be ready for harvest in July and…
Most Reverend Joseph Osei Bonsu, Catholic Bishop of the Mampong-Konongo diocese, has entreated Christians to speak vehemently against ethnicity, indiscipline and other social vices, which are seriously affecting the development of the coun…
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo has called for co-operation from the Regional Co-ordinating Council and the security agencies to help locate and arrest those behind the production of pornographic films in the region. …
Kudjo David, a 25-year old ex-convict, on Monday wept bitterly at the Suhum Magistrate Court after his plea for pardon was turned down by the court presided over by Miss Edem Kokuvie-Tay.
The court later convicted David and his friend…
The Suhum Magistrate Court on Monday convicted two friends to a total of 12 month imprisonment in hard labour for stealing 10 pieces of roofing sheets.
Attah Kwasi, 30, and Kwasi Osei, 27, were convicted on their own plea of guilty t…
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