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…
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…
President John Agyekum Kufuor received Letters of Credence of four new Ambassadors accredited to Ghana at the Castle, Osu.
They are Mr Saadi Mohamed Altumaizi, Ambassador of the State of Palestine; Mr Miroslav Krench, Ambassador of …
Mr. Kofi Dzamesi, Volta Regional Minister has warned that communities, which vandalize public property such as Police stations, would face the full rigours of the law.
"This is because lawlessness, instability and disorder are not co…
President John Agyekum Kufuor laid the foundation stone for the construction of a four-million-dollar National Mosque on 1.7 hectares at Kanda in Accra.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has made available 264,000 dollars while the Ghanai…
Former Liberian leader and fugitive war crimes suspect Charles Taylor was arrested Wednesday in a northern Nigerian town near the Cameroon border, police spokesman Haz Iwendi said.
"Mr. Taylor has been arrested. He was arrested in the…
Fugitive Liberian warlord Charles Taylor has "agreed" to stand trial at the international tribunal in the Hague, but not in Sierra Leone where he faces an indictment for alleged crimes against humanity, his spiritual counsellor said.
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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 …
The 60-year-old UN Human Rights Commission was due to bow out Monday to make way for a streamlined council that activists hope will be sprightlier in tackling abuse.
The 53 states in the Human Rights Commission were holding their fina…
Mr Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, Member of Parliament (MP) for Suame, has assured Ghanaians that the Representation of People (amendment) Act will ultimately prove to be a unifying factor in spite of the rather contrived confusion and chaos that…
Former Liberian leader and war crimes suspect Charles Taylor has disappeared from the villa in which he was living in exile in Nigeria, the Nigerian presidency said in a statement Tuesday.
The statement said Taylor had left his house …
Prof Dominic Fobih, the Minister of Lands, Forestry and Mines, has said the drive for investors to take advantage of the country's stable political and economic climate would not be complete if land was either unavailable due to encumbranc…
Runaway Spanish league leaders Barcelona are already dreaming of a future that will feature France striker Thierry Henry as they enter the home straight in La Liga with a nine-point cushion.
The Catalan club switch from the Mediterran…
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…
Ghanaians have been asked to patronise goods produced within the country to enable local industries to expand their operations.
The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Kofi Osei-Ameyaw said the shift to the patronage of local p…
European lawmakers will present a petition to the
European Commission on International Women's Day on Wednesday, calling for tough measures to prevent thousands of women and girls being forced into prostitution in Germany during the socce…
Real Madrid put a turbulent week behind them on Saturday with a 2-1 victory over city rivals Atletico Madrid but Barcelona moved on towards a title defence with Samuel Eto'o securing a 3-2 home win over Deportivo La Coruna.
The win l…
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…
GNA-President John Agyekum-Kufuor said the passage of the Representation of the People's Amendment Bill (ROPAB) would enhance the
country' s democratic development.
He assured Ghanaians that the act would not destroy the democratic visi…
Mr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) said the party would continue protesting against the Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill (ROPAB) until the government withdraws it.
He was s…
Professor Michael Oquaye, Energy Minister, said steps were being taken to improve the supply of kerosene.
He said, "... the kerosene situation will be brought back to normal within one week."
"Kerosene will be delivered to the m…
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