Dr Henrietta Odoi-Agyarko, Deputy Director of Public Health, Ghana Health Service, on Monday called for a multi-disciplinary as well as multi-dimensional approach to curb the high maternal mortality and child morbidity rates in Africa.
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Mr Hackman Owusu Agyeman, Minister of Water Resource, Work and Housing has cut sod for the commencement of a multi billion water and sanitation project for three Dangme districts.
The project, which would provide potable drinking wat…
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr. Yaw Barimah, has urged motorists, pedestrians and road agencies to play their expected roles effectively to ensure a reduction in accidents from now to December.
He cautioned that posterity would n…
About 40 members of the Birim South District Assembly, opinion leaders and Chiefs on Wednesday, attended a workshop on Social Auditing at Akyem Oda.
It was organised by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) to get the el…
Mr Alban Sumanu Kingsford Bagbin, the Minority Leader in Parliament, on Wednesday urged his colleagues to show discipline by example for the citizenry to copy.
"We should stop preaching. We should practise and the people will follow. If…
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…
Instead of the Brazil-England rematch many were expecting, the second semi-final at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™ will be a step into the unknown at this tournament.
France and Portugal have never met at the FIFA World Cup, although th…
Franz Beckenbauer said on Tuesday he hoped coach Jurgen Klinsmann would continue to lead the national team despite a heart-breaking 2-0 loss to Italy in the FIFA World Cup™ semi-finals.
"We trust him, the players trust him. I hope he con…
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…
European stock exchanges dropped heavily in morning trade, dragged down by mining and metals stocks and extending last week's plunge caused by concern about higher inflation.
The falls came as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) annou…
The Convention Peoples Party (CPP) has expressed condolences to the bereaved families, friends, and sympathizers of the Catholic Church over the loss of 35 members of the Abuakwa Parish who perished in an accident a week ago.
The CPP…
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…
David Arkutu partnered by Nii Farl returned a net score of 63, to win this year's Barclays Bank Ghana Limited Invitational Golf Championship played at the Achimota Golf Course in Accra.
The two who played with a combined Handicap of…
Sweden became the first team to win world and Olympic titles in the same year after a 4-0 dismantling of defending champions the Czech Republic in the world championships ice hockey final here Sunday.
Jesper Mattson and Niklas Kronwal…
US President George W. Bush said Sunday that the formation of Iraq's new government will serve as a "devastating defeat" for Al-Qaeda and other terrorists seeking to create unrest in the region.
"I fully understand that a free Iraq wi…
Areeba, Ghana's major mobile phone operators has re-launched a road show aimed at bringing its services and products closer to the people, particularly, rural dwellers, who will have the opportunity of buying Areeba products at special pr…
The Ghana Association of Travel and Tourists (GATTA) has instituted a pageant to encourage young ladies between 20 to 25 years to be interested in the development of tourism.
The pageant was being promoted under a project dubbed: "G…
The Bongo branch of New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the entire Bongo community have hailed the recent appointment of Mr Andrew Awuni as the Press Secretary and Presidential Spokesman to President John Agyekum Kufuor.
"We the people of…
Mylik Sports, organisers of Mylik Classic juvenile soccer tournament has fixed the next edition of the competition for November 18 to 26.
This year’s tournament is meant for Under-19 juvenile teams and 12 teams are expected to partici…
Owning to lack of total support of Ghanaians behind the senior national team, the Black Stars towards the up-coming World Cup, Goldfields Ghana Limited, the headline sponsors of the team has launched a drive to galvanize total support for…
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…
Thirty-five aspiring assemblywomen in the Upper West Region attended a day's workshop on campaign strategies to enhance their chances of winning seats in the District Level Elections in August.
The workshop organized by the Ministry …
Mr. Prosper Adabla, Chairman of the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry observed that Ghana could benefit immensely by collaborating with foreign partners to boost the national economy.
Mr Adabla, who was speaking at a m…
Professor Ernest Aryeetey, Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) on Wednesday said Ghana's economy risked stagnation if its economic structures that had remained the same since 1911 were not change…
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…
The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All-Share Index on Thursday inched up 1.36 points to close trading for the long Easter break at 4,771.00 points from 4,769.64 points on Wednesday.
Fan Milk Ghana Limited led the gains made by four equiti…
Veteran German coach Peter Schnittger has been appointed as boss of Algeria's national football team, the sports ministry said Friday.
Schnittger has coached widely throughout Africa, with spells in charge of Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, …
Australia star Mark Viduka has pleaded with Middlesbrough to agree new deals with Dutch duo George Boateng and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink or risk the collapse of a team that could yet win two cups this season.
Boro are in the last four o…
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…
The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr Boniface Gambila, observed that Ghana could achieve much in terms of development if conflicts such as land litigation, chieftaincy, tribal and religious disputes were avoided.
He made this observ…
The Obuasi office of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has drawn up a programme to sensitise the citizenry on the need for them to actively participate in local governance, more especially on the impending district assemb…
West Akyem District Assembly has acquired a 237 million cedis palm oil processing plant at Topease to create employment for the youth in the district.
The assembly is in addition, making efforts to acquire 405 hectares at Oworam for…
Madam Sophia Horner-Sam, Deputy Western Regional Minister, has urged industries to create employment for the country's youth and supplement government efforts to equip them with employable skills.
She made the call when some nationa…
The Ghana Tuna Association (GTA) has urged the government to expedite action on the establishment of the proposed Tuna Faculty at the Regional Maritime Academy (RMA) to train the requisite Ghanaian personnel in tuna fishing in order to pro…
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…
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