The Yendi Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Issah Zakaria has commended members of the Municipal Security Committee (MUSEC) for the commitment in handling security issues.
He said Yendi in particular and Dagbon as a whole needed to devel…
Mr Alhassan Mumuni, East Gonja District Chief Executive (DCE) has said the nation’s decentralisation process mandated assembly members to deliberate and decide on what projects to be undertaken locally.
“According to the tenet of the…
Sheikh Ishaq Nuamah, Islamic Scholar and Author at the weekend expressed the need for a conceptual approach to reorient the Muslim youth to facilitate national development.
This, he said would help deepen the faith of Allah in the yo…
The Presbyterian Church Of Ghana, in Collaboration with the Presbyterian Relief Service and Development (PRS&D), has presented educational support to Church’s JSS and primary schools at Agona Swedru.
The items include, 180 dual desks…
Compassion International, Ghana, (CIG), a Non-
Governmental Organization (NGO), at the weekend, advocated for a comprehensive policy for child protection, which will spell out the responsibilities of all stakeholders in the country.
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The Executive Director of Young and Lonely Foundation, Ghana, a non-governmental organisation has urged parents to show commitment to the education of their children.
“As stakeholders, you have to help to redeem the falling standard …
Residents of Oboadaka in the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District of the Eastern Region spent a number of hours during the weekend to cleanup the town.
Led by Nene Tettey, Elder of the community, the group tidied up the boreholes in the tow…
The Principal of Kofi Annan School for Technical and Vocational Training at Ajumako-Afransi in the Central Region, Mr Emmanuel S. Bonney has appealed to the Government to provide the academic facility with boarding house to ensure effectiv…
The Nadwli Women Advocacy Group (NAWAG) and MTN Ghana Foundation have distributed Teaching and Learning Materials (TLM) to 124 basic schools in the Nadwli District.
The 13 page A1 size material covers phonics of English language comp…
Many drivers and members of the public in the Upper West Region says they feel cheated anytime they buy petroleum products at some filling stations in the Wa Municipality.
Mallam Karimu Yussifu, a driver at the Wa- Kumasi station all…
The Co-ordinator of the National Youth Authority (NYA), on Friday inaugurated a newly furnished Information Communication Technology (ICT) Centre, stocked with 20 computers and accessories at Takrowase Youth Training Institute in the Kwaeb…
The Young and Lonely Foundation,Ghana (YLF), a non-governmental organisation based at Agona Swedru,has held a day’s seminar on cholera prevention for about 40 traders at Akim Oda in the Birim Central Municipality.
The participants co…
The Universal United Youth Organisation (UUYO), an NGO has embarked on a campaign to help educate the youth in Akim Oda in the Eastern Region about the dangers of HIV and AIDS.
Some of the programmes initiated by the organisation are…
The elimination of onchocerciasis is feasible and achievable, a review of the Africa Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) has revealed.
Evidence of successful elimination in some endemic areas has been documented in countries …
Ghana is on the verge of interrupting the transmission of the guinea worm disease in the country.
The Northern Region, which is the most endemic guinea worm area in the country has, for the past 13 consecutive months from May last…
Nana Owusu Boatey, Head of Occupational, Health and Safety at the Trade Union Congress, has noted that 85 per cent of People Living With HIV/AIDS were infected through unsafe sex.
He said workers in the transport sector were very vul…
The Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Assembly in conjunction with Humanitarian Foundation, an NGO have organised a two-day workshop for 30 pupils as peer educators on HIV and AIDS.
The workshop, which was sponsored by the Ghana AIDS Co…
The Young and Lonely Foundation, Ghana (YLF), a non-governmental organisation based at Agona Swedru has organised HIV and AIDS awareness at Akim Anamase in the Eastern Region.
The HIV and AIDS awareness and safe-sex seminar was the F…
Ghana won 15 awards at this year’s model United Nations (UN) Conferences held at the UN headquarters in New York and US State Department in Washington DC.
Both conferences were attended by about 1,800 children from 30 UN member state…
Nii Armah Ashietey, Greater Accra Regional Minister, on Thursday assured members of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) that the Council would not allow any traditional authority to impose any fees or levies on the operations of…
The GHACEM Cement Foundation on Friday presented 20,000 bags of cement estimated at 230,000 Ghana cedis to 220 health and educational institutions and communities in the Southern Sector of the country.
Vouchers for the cement were pr…
A concerned citizen, Oheneba Martin, on Friday appealed to workers of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) to exercise restraint, to ensure that peace and tranquillity prevailed in the company for it to continue to achieve more successes.
In a…
Mr Frank Kwesi Nkansah, Assembly Member of the Birim Central Municipality, has single-handedly spent more than GHC 11,000.00 to finance development projects in the area.
The projects included rehabilitation of roads, provision of 35 …
Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, former First Lady, on Friday said irresponsible parents commit crime against humanity.
“We commit a crime against humanity if we fail to bring up our children to be responsible citizens in society,” she …
Mr Ebenezer Terlabi, the Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, has expressed worry about how some people condone and connive to rape the country of millions of Ghana Cedis.
He said those monies being siphoned into individual pockets cou…
Passion for Needy, a charitable organization, founded by Prophet T.B. Joshua of the Synagogue Church of all Nations, on Friday celebrated the founder’s birthday with the orphans and the inmates of the Accra Rehabilitation Centre in Accra.
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Five people arrested recently by the Police for allegedly re-bagging inferior rice into “Uncle Sam” rice bags for sale to the public at Teshie Tsui-bleoo on Friday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court.
They are; Jerry Offei, a busi…
A circuit court at Koforidua on Friday granted GH¢1,000 bail with one surety to Kwao Boakye, a 20-year-old student, for causing public nuisance and assaulting a teacher.
Boakye pleaded guilty with explanation but after his explanatio…
Heads of educational institutions and teachers have been urged to include creativity in their curricular activities to enable children to discover their potentials as a means to reduce poverty.
Mrs Naa Amerley Arthur Amoako, an Educa…
Mrs Georgina Woode, the Chief Justice, on Friday asked Ghanaians to desist from making unsubstantiated and wild allegations against judges as such acts could amount to attempts at perverting the course of justice.
“Also attacking jud…
Mrs Betty Mould-Iddrisu, the Minister of Education, has attributed challenges facing the education sector to system failures as a result of ineffective and unclear administrative management practices.
Speaking at the opening of the 4…
Most Catholics in Northern Ireland prefer to remain with Britain rather than unite with Ireland, results of a survey indicate.
Fifty-two percent of Catholics living in Northern Ireland told pollsters they preferred the union with Britain …
Seven French children fell ill with E. coli bacteria infections after eating hamburgers, health officials said Thursday.
The outbreak occurred in the northern French city of Lille. Six children were hospitalized Wednesday and a seventh on…
An apparent natural gas explosion ripped an apartment building in Netanya, Israel, early Friday, killing four people and injuring dozens more, officials said.
Many of the casualties were French tourists spending the summer in Israel, the …
A Michigan man was charged Thursday with killing his girlfriend, stuffing her body in a suitcase and dumping it in a pond in Hobart, Ind., authorities said.
The victim was identified as Dawn Marie Fital, 45, of Pittsfield Township, Mich. …
A peanut-shaped, ice-spewing comet is in rare company compared with other comets visited by spacecraft, a University of Maryland study indicated.
Comet Hartley 2 was visited last fall by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft during a University o…
A chief engineer was sentenced in Maryland to six months in prison for obstructing a U.S. Coast Guard inspection of a Liberian-operated cargo ship in Baltimore.
Besides the prison term, Dimitrios Grifakis, of Kallithea, Greece, was senten…
Old trees must be protected to save the homes of more than 1,000 bird and mammal species living in them, a University of British Columbia study concluded.
The study found that, outside of North America, most animals nest in tree holes for…
Two different materials, both equally effective against E. coli, are being developed by a University of Houston team, a university polymer chemist said.
Rigoberto Advincula said a graphene material proved to be an effective anti-microbial…
The saving of the Arabian oryx from extinction offers hope for other threatened species, Switzerland's International Union for Conservation of Nature said.
The wild population of the Arabian oryx, nearly hunted out of existence, now stand…
The invasive and deadly emerald ash borer has been found in trees and traps in three spots of Howard County, Md., sooner than expected, officials said.
The discovery accelerated the insect's threat to hundreds of thousands of shade trees …
The remains of a child from about 108,000 years ago should shed light on a key period in human evolution, a University of Pennsylvania archaeologist said.
A team led by Harold Dibble, a curator at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of …
Swift Beef Co. will pay $1.3 million to settle violations of the federal Clean Water Act and state law at its processing plant in Nebraska, officials said.
The agreement to pay the penalty is in addition to the company having spent more t…
Treating insomniacs with cognitive-behavioral therapy can reduce thoughts of suicide, U.S. researchers suggest.
"This is the first investigation to show that a sleep-targeted intervention has a therapeutic impact on suicide risk specifica…
Some asthma sufferers try to "boost" their immunity to prevent colds via supplements and fortified foods, but U.S. researchers say this approach may be flawed.
Dr. Marc B. Hershenson of the University of Michigan said the researchers used…
Scientists from around the world plan to sequence genomes of 5,000 insects and arthropods during the next five years, the Entomological Society of America said.
The goal of the 5,000 Insect Genome Project is to improve lives through a bet…
Contrary to popular perception, youths in gangs do not use dogs primarily for protection and status, but for companionship, British researchers say.
Jennifer Maher and Harriet Pierpoint of the Centre for Criminology at the University of G…
Some say those who have their health have everything and a European survey indicates those who have their health are more likely to be happy.
The survey findings, aggregated from Gallup surveys conducted in 38 European countries from 2005…
A total of 129 Senor High School girls, from the three Northern Regions, are to benefit from a GHS 74,000 scholarship scheme to guard against school drop-out.
The World Food Programme and the Ghana Health Service Girls Project seek t…
African Screen goddess Genevieve Nnaji has mentioned that she represents the down trodden in society who cannot stand up for themselves and who due to either an under privileged upbringing are left behind. She was speaking exclusively to e…