The Adansi South District Assembly has set up a five-member committee to investigate circumstances that led to the inclusion of the 31st December Women's Movement Day-Care Centre at New Edubiase benefiting from the capitation grant.
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The Atwima-Nwabiagya district secretariat of the Non-Formal Education Division (NFED) of the Ministry of Education and Sports on Thursday presented incentive packages to 43 facilitators for their hard work and dedication at a ceremony at …
The Kwahu South District Director of Education, Mr James Nii Okaija Dinsey, has ordered the temporary closure of St. Peters' Secondary School and all the 1,262 students sent home with exception of some few prefects following students' dist…
Wayne Rooney says he has no regrets about joining Manchester United and believes the move to Old Trafford has improved him as a player.
Since his 27 million pound move from Everton the 20-year-old has had to watch Chelsea dominate in …
Professor George Gyan-Baffour, a Deputy Minister of Finance on Thursday said government realised 28.2 billion cedis from the last major petroleum price increase between February 18 and February 23 2005.
The amount, which has since be…
The Parliament has voted to push the Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill beyond the consideration stage, with one more legislative lap for it to be passed.
The Minority, who vehemently opposed the bill from its unset were ab…
Suspected outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu area spreading quickly through farms around the north Nigerian city of Kano, the head of a government clean-up team said on Tuesday.
Shehu Bawa, the leader of Kano State's bid …
Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama has tasked journalists to admit their professional weaknesses and rally social support for development initiatives and expansion of public knowledge through informed and rigorous analysis.
Journalis…
Hosts Egypt are just one win away from a record fifth African Nations Cup title after they beat Senegal 2-1 in a riveting semi-final here on Tuesday.
The 'Pharaohs' will meet fellow Group A outfit Ivory Coast - who they beat 3-1 in th…
A Hamas delegation led by the Islamist movement's supremo Khaled Meshaal was due to review candidates for the vacant job of Palestinian prime minister with Egyptian officials, some of its members said.
The Damascus-based chief of the…
Mr Philip Basoah, Sekyere East District Chief Executive, has called on chiefs in the district to create land banks in their areas of jurisdiction for development.
He said this could attract investors to the district that had been inc…
The Ministry of Tourism and Modernisation of the Capital City on Monday condemned the indiscriminate use of the Kente cloth by some institutions and persons in recent times.
A statement signed by Mr Ferdinand O. Ayim, Personal Ass…
Ghana would host a Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge to facilitate the identification and testing of potentially beneficial low-cost naturally derived medicinal products for the prevention and managem…
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Elections Committee announced on Tuesday that it was postponing the election for the position of Corporate Member until the GJA Corporate Membership was duly constituted.
A statement signed by…
A South African Airways flight on Monday night made an emergency landing at the Kotoka International Airport after developing a technical problem shortly after take-off.
Sources at the offices of South African Airways on Tuesday con…
The Black Stars of Ghana, on Monday lost by a lone goal to the Super Eagles of Nigeria at the on-going Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.
Even though the performance of the Stars was an improvement upon what the team exhibited in the pre…
Ryan Giggs may have won more medals than any other player in Manchester United history but as far as the Wales winger is concerned there are few feelings to touch beating Liverpool.
Giggs provided the free-kick from which England cen…
The Vice-President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, has advised Ghanaians to respect the country's authorities, especially the presidency, to ensure peace, stability and development.
He said since the President and the country's leadership were…
President John Agyekum Kufuor performed creditably to the admiration of his colleagues as he answered questions pertaining the outcome of the report on Ghana under the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).
The reveiew, which falls u…
The Chairman of the Communication Department of the Obuasi constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said it was unfortunate for Dr Obed Asamoah, the former NDC Chairman, to cite violence and other uncomplimentary reasons…
President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo, named chairman of the African Union at its summit meeting in Khartoum , is a career soldier who has never been afraid to use force to further his political ambitions.
Sassou-Nguesso returned to…
The Finance and Administration Sub-Committee of the Upper Denkyira District Assembly, in the Central Region, has been tasked to initiate strategies to assist the assembly to meet its internally generated revenue targets.
Mr Richar…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) sends a delegation to Zimbabwe this week to check its economic performance after narrowly escaping expulsion from the world lending body last year.
Economists however are sceptical over whether t…
Sudan's endeavour to win the Right to chair African Union (AU), the 53-member regional bloc,
has obtained support from AU chairman Olusegun Obasanjo, a Sudanese official said .
Al-Zahawi Ibrahim Malik, the country's minister of info…
Dr Hilla Limann ...Thanks Be To God!! Dr Hilla Limann...Thanks Be To God!!! Dr Hilla Limann... Thanks Be To God!!! These were the solemn words that echoed through the serene Accra Ridge Church on Sunday January 22, as members of the Form…
UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei wants to give Iran until March to comply with international inspections, despite an emergency meeting set for February that could bring Tehran before the UN Security Council for possible sanctio…
Madam Veronica Darko, Chief Executive of the Nurses and Midwives Council of Ghana, has reminded health professionals, especially nurse managers, that patients have the right to quality healthcare delivery at anytime.
Madam Darko sai…
Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club has announced its special Bank account number into which supporters and well wishers of the Club are to make their special contributions under the "Operation Fertilize the Oak Tree" scheme.
A stateme…
The Osu Mantse, Nii Nortey Owuo III declared that he had not authorised the Mankralo or any other person to seize any properties or make any public statements regarding Osu Stool affairs.
In a statement signed in Accra by Nii Okwei …
The government spent over 1.6 billion cedis on the cocoa spraying exercise in the Adansi South District between May and November last year.
It is therefore not true that the same government, having spent so much to improve the cocoa…
Yusif Yakubu, a science student at the University of Ghana (UG), Legon, who has won a scholarship to study medicine at the Lugansk State Medical University, Ukraine, on Sunday began a walk from Kumasi to Accra to raise funds to support hi…
The decentralization policy is to empower the people at the local and grassroots level to participate in governance and to ensure the sustenance of true democracy in the country, Mr James Kwabena Appiah-Awuah, Nkoranza District Chief Exec…
The Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of the Methodist Secondary School at Sekondi has presented a block of two classrooms and a 10-seater water closet toilet to the school.
The projects valued at 350 million cedis were meant to ease …
Twenty-six students in the Central Region will benefit from a scholarship to pursue their Senior Secondary School education as from this year.
The scheme instituted by Mr Ato Essuman, Member of the Council of State, would cover a boy…
Ghana on Thursday joined the world to launch the Global Status of commercialised Biotech and Genetically Modified (GM) Crops report for 2005.
The report released on January 11 by the US-based International Service for the Acquisitio…
Well established farmers have been urged to set up demonstration farms to train the youth interested in farming as a vocation in modern methods.
Nana Kwaku Nsiah of Kuma Farms and the 2004 National Best Farmer, when he visited Ambro…
The 29th ordinary Summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), approved the conversion of its Executive Secretariat into a Commission.
The Commission, to be headed by a President assisted by a Deputy and seven o…
The Member of Parliament for Bimbilla, Mr Mohammed Ibn Abass on Thursday appealed to the feuding factions in the chieftaincy conflict that has erupted in Bimbilla to exercise restraint and end hostilities.
In a statement issued in A…
The Central Regional Director of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB), Mr Nicholas Ivor, has as a matter of urgency, called on the Cape Coast and Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) district assemblies to enforce their byelaws, parti…
The Ministry of Energy has attributed the recent power outages to obsolete equipment being operated by the Volta River Authority (VRA) and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
The power outages on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 of Janua…
The Youth of Namolo, a suburb of Navrongo in the Kassena Nankana District of the Upper East Region have initiated a move, aimed at addressing the developmental problems in the community, through reducing poverty.
As a first step, th…
Security agencies at the country's frontiers have been reminded of the extra vigilance and coordination they were required to put up to secure national security and stability.
Mr Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong, Inspector-General of Poli…
Nim Furniture and Pest Control Company has donated 10 million cedis worth of airtime to the Ministry of Health on the Metro TV.
A statement signed by Mr Dan Osman, Public Relations Officer of the Ministry, said the airtime credit wo…
The Ashanti Regional Secretariat of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), has called for the collective efforts of stakeholders tackle the outbreak of bushfires and incidence of Cerebral Spinal Meningitis (CSM) that had b…
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BANGUI, Jan 9 (AFP/) - Thousands of people in the capital of the Central African Republic were forced to walk to work or school Monday after a strike in protest at rising fuel costs ke…
A 167-page book on the mysterious deadly disease Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), which according to medical experts affect one in a million people was at the week-end launched in Accra.
The book titled; "O Love...That Will Not Let Me…
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Tuesday called on the Muslim community to use the celebration of the Eid-Ul-Adha to pray for more peace, harmony and mutual understanding that would bond all Ghanaians together.
They should also ask f…
The Ministry of Education and Sports has expressed its condolence to the family of the late Mr Godfred Cobblah, an International Boxing Referee/Judge and a Senior Administrator of the Internal Revue Service (IRS).
Land guards at Achi…
The Commonwealth Boxing Council (CBC) has endorsed an elimination bout between Ghana's Joshua "Bukom Tsatsu" Okine and Ugandan Ali Nuumembe in a Welterweight Contest.
The fight is scheduled for the United Kingdom (UK) on February 12 …
Following last Sunday's pitch invasion by supporters of Accra Hearts of Oak in the Ga Mantse Cup Memorial Cup match against Division One side, Accra Great Olympics, concerns have been expressed from certain quarters as to which authority …
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