Dr Kofi Asare, the Ashanti Regional Director of Health Services, has expressed concern about the increased cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the region.
He said between 2002 to date, a total of 6,978 cases of the disease had been detecte…
A team of Police Officers drawn from the National Headquarters,
CID Headquarters, Accra and Tema Regions have
been formed to deal with armed robberies within the Accra-Tema Metropolis and other parts of the country.
This is in re…
An attempt by a jilted husband to kill his ex-wife together with their three children by lacing their drinking water with a poisonous chemical at Agbozume failed because the woman scented the chemical while taking a sip.
Klutsey Dork…
Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, Minister of Education and Sports on Sunday announced that government had decided to institute a programme that will provide research grants and scholarships for teaching staff in the private tertiary institutions in pri…
Professor Kwesi Andam, Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), on Friday asked the Volta River Authority (VRA) to accelerate the procurement procedure to bring the second bulk of electricity for …
The Chairman of the Education sub-committee of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Friday, called on government to monitor the disbursement of the capitation grant to ensure that it was used for the intended purpose.
He said al…
Hit by the tragic loss of three urologists of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, who are being buried on Friday, the Teaching Hospital paid its last respects to its fallen colleagues by shutting their consultation rooms, except for emergenci…
The US Embassy in Accra explained that 24 Ghanaians who were deported from the US were convicted of various offences, including possession of drugs, domestic violence and other crimes.
"Under US law, both non-immigrants and immigran…
Edwin Eastman, the boyfriend of late Suzzy Malike Williams, an actress, on Friday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court charged with careless driving and driving under the influence of alcohol.
Eastman, a 25-year-old musician, who w…
Ghana's 2005 Beauty Queen, Miss Lamisi Mbillah, has made a passionate appeal to people from Northern Ghana to send their children to school and ensure that they are free from the guinea worm and other public health diseases to enable them…
Professor Kwesi Andam, Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), on Friday asked the Volta River Authority (VRA) to accelerate the procurement procedure to bring the second bulk of electricity for …
The Chairman of the Education sub-committee of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Friday, called on government to monitor the disbursement of the capitation grant to ensure that it was used for the intended purpose.
He said al…
Hit by the tragic loss of three urologists of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, who are being buried on Friday, the Teaching Hospital paid its last respects to its fallen colleagues by shutting their consultation rooms, except for emergenci…
The US Embassy in Accra explained that 24 Ghanaians who were deported from the US were convicted of various offences, including possession of drugs, domestic violence and other crimes.
"Under US law, both non-immigrants and immigran…
Edwin Eastman, the boyfriend of late Suzzy Malike Williams, an actress, on Friday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court charged with careless driving and driving under the influence of alcohol.
Eastman, a 25-year-old musician, who w…
Ghana's 2005 Beauty Queen, Miss Lamisi Mbillah, has made a passionate appeal to people from Northern Ghana to send their children to school and ensure that they are free from the guinea worm and other public health diseases to enable them…
Authorities in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland on Saturday warned outsiders without legitimate business there to leave immediately following the arrests of several alleged Al-Qaeda operatives.
In a crackdown ordered after th…
Egypt may be one of Washington's top Arab allies but US envoy Karen Hughes will have her work cut out Sunday when she arrives on a regional trip aimed at improving her country's image.
The new undersecretary of state for public diplo…
Authorities in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland on Saturday warned outsiders without legitimate business there to leave immediately following the arrests of several alleged Al-Qaeda operatives.
In a crackdown ordered after th…
Egypt may be one of Washington's top Arab allies but US envoy Karen Hughes will have her work cut out Sunday when she arrives on a regional trip aimed at improving her country's image.
The new undersecretary of state for public diplo…
Bulgaria manager Hristo Stoichkov has been hit with a four match ban for a "scandalous" attack on Lennart Johansson, president of European football's governing body UEFA.
FIFA acted after Stoichkov accused Swede Johansson of "being a…
Bulgaria manager Hristo Stoichkov has been hit with a four match ban for a "scandalous" attack on Lennart Johansson, president of European football's governing body UEFA.
FIFA acted after Stoichkov accused Swede Johansson of "being a…
Dr Sam Adjei, the Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, called on managers of the Mutual Health Organisations (MHOs) not to politicise their services but consider it a social service delivery to members of their communities…
Mr. Charles Bintim, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development on Friday asked metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies to move away from the traditional practice of engaging full-time revenue collectors as a way of lifting…
The Government is to pay between 200 billion cedis and 300 billion cedis as compensation for landed properties to be affected by execution of the proposed Outer Ring Road project.
Mr. Alex Twumasi Boakye, Director, Urban Roads, who a…
Dr Sam Adjei, the Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, called on managers of the Mutual Health Organisations (MHOs) not to politicise their services but consider it a social service delivery to members of their communities…
Mr. Charles Bintim, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development on Friday asked metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies to move away from the traditional practice of engaging full-time revenue collectors as a way of lifting…
The Government is to pay between 200 billion cedis and 300 billion cedis as compensation for landed properties to be affected by execution of the proposed Outer Ring Road project.
Mr. Alex Twumasi Boakye, Director, Urban Roads, who a…
Kumasi Asante Kotoko defied all odds to win away against Heart of Lions at Kpando in their 21-week premiership duel on Sunday.
Aziz Ansah scored the lone goal of the match on the 14th minute when he curled in a free kick from about 20…
Defending league champions, Accra Hearts of Oak has put up a superlative first performance to overcome Tema Real Sportive with a 3-1 win in the 21st week Premier League match at the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium in Accra.
Sportive who had…
Kumasi Asante Kotoko defied all odds to win away against Heart of Lions at Kpando in their 21-week premiership duel on Sunday.
Aziz Ansah scored the lone goal of the match on the 14th minute when he curled in a free kick from about 20…
Defending league champions, Accra Hearts of Oak has put up a superlative first performance to overcome Tema Real Sportive with a 3-1 win in the 21st week Premier League match at the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium in Accra.
Sportive who had…
Reigning Spanish champions Barcelona got off to an unimpressive start to the new season when they were held to a 0-0 draw by newly-promoted Alaves on Saturday.
To add the frustration of Barca coach Frank Rijkaard, the man responsible …
Reigning Spanish champions Barcelona got off to an unimpressive start to the new season when they were held to a 0-0 draw by newly-promoted Alaves on Saturday.
To add the frustration of Barca coach Frank Rijkaard, the man responsible …
French experts will evaluate Congo's disputed annual diamond production in the country's bid to rejoin the international group which controls sales of the gems, the government said Saturday.
Experts from the Office of Research Studies…
French experts will evaluate Congo's disputed annual diamond production in the country's bid to rejoin the international group which controls sales of the gems, the government said Saturday.
Experts from the Office of Research Studies…
Tension is gradually brewing between the Mpohor Small Scale Miners Association in the Mpohor Wassa East District and St. Jude Mineral Resources, over alleged attempts to stall the operations of the small scale miners.
The association h…
The EU and China held a second day of talks Friday on a dispute over textile exports that has left stranded in customs millions of items of Chinese-made clothes bound for the European market.
There was no public indication of progress…
Mr Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, on Friday launched the Ghana Living Standards Survey dubbed 'GLSS-5' in Kumasi.
The survey seeks to provide information on patterns of household consumption and expend…
Tension is gradually brewing between the Mpohor Small Scale Miners Association in the Mpohor Wassa East District and St. Jude Mineral Resources, over alleged attempts to stall the operations of the small scale miners.
The association h…
The EU and China held a second day of talks Friday on a dispute over textile exports that has left stranded in customs millions of items of Chinese-made clothes bound for the European market.
There was no public indication of progress…
Mr Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, on Friday launched the Ghana Living Standards Survey dubbed 'GLSS-5' in Kumasi.
The survey seeks to provide information on patterns of household consumption and expend…
Senior defence aides warned president John F. Kennedy in 1963 that any guarantee to defend India against Chinese attack would require a commitment to use nuclear weapons.
On a declassified tape recording, released Thursday, the then-…
The World Health Organisation has declared tuberculosis an emergency in Africa after cases of the killer disease tripled in countries with high rates of HIV and doubled on the continent as a whole since 1990.
The declaration was made…
The United States and the European Union have agreed not to seek an emergency meeting of the watchdog UN nuclear agency even if Iran fails to meet a September 3 UN deadline to suspend atomic fuel work that could be used to make nuclear we…
Acting in response to a series of civil aviation disasters this month, France will next week begin publishing a list of airlines banned in its airspace for safety reasons, officials said Thursday.
The country's civil aviation authori…
The alarming scope and size of the outbreak of cholera in the West Africa Sub-region has prompted the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to hold a regional meeting in Dakar, Senegal early next week to arrest…
The Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) on Thursday cautioned prospective vehicle buyers to desist from procuring fake documents to register uncustomed vehicles.
The CEPS said some devious Ghanaians still resort to import…
The Management of the Ghana Port and Harbours Authority (GPHA) on Friday donated a total of 8,400 bags of rice valued at 1.6 billion cedis to the people of Niger.
The donation is GPHA's "widow's mite" to help Nigerien victims of the food…
Senior defence aides warned president John F. Kennedy in 1963 that any guarantee to defend India against Chinese attack would require a commitment to use nuclear weapons.
On a declassified tape recording, released Thursday, the then-…
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