Participants drawn from 12 Junior High Schools (JHS) in the Greater Accra Metropolis on Saturday underwent a day’s workshop on Information Communication Technology (ICT).
The participating schools included Kings and Queens Academy, S…
Mrs Salome Francois, Proprietress of New Horizon Special School, has called on the society to ensure that people with intellectual disability have the full range of human rights in civil, social, economic and cultural activities.
She…
Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, a Medical Practitioner and an Entrepreneur on Saturday observed that many job seekers in the country lacked work ethics despite their desire for big salaries.
He said some of them were also undisciplined, dish…
Two prominent personalities have donated a total of 22 packets of roofing sheets worth GH¢3,600 to support the Abodom-Edwenase community in the Bekwai Municipality, following a severe windstorm that hit the town recently.
Mr Joe Osei…
A Dutch Philanthropist, Brother Dick Vandergust, has provided three classroom blocks, each comprising three rooms and an office for Cardinal Peter Dery’s School at Gurumbelle in the Wa East District.
He has also built an eight room…
The Head of the Lincoln Community School, Dr. Dennis Larkin, has urged the Ghana Education Service (GES) to create an enabling for environment for studies in their schools.
This should be created through the adequate provision of edu…
The Greater Accra Regional Security Council (GARSC), on Friday set up a five-member committee to investigate the communal violence at Madina Faith Baptist Church School at an Accra suburb last Tuesday.
The committee expected to submi…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Thursday called on Ghanaians to bury their differences and unite to enable development to take place unhindered.
He made the call when addressing separate durbars at Asankragwa, Asawinso, Juabeso an…
President John Evans Atta Mills has given approval for the establishment of an Implementation Committee for the Anomabo Fisheries College, which would be a satellite campus of the University of Cape Coast (UCC).
A statement issued in…
The Newmont Akyem Project, a gold mining company has selected 53 apprentices, including two women, from its operating communities for a four-year skill training.
They would acquire skills in process mechanic, electrical, instrumentat…
Five children were among the 16 people killed when militants blew up an oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO troops in Khyber Agency in Pakistan, officials said.
Officials said a remotely operated device placed under the oil tanker about fiv…
The world did not come to an apocalyptic end Saturday as predicted by an 89-year-old California man who spent a lot of money to say so.
For weeks, Harold Camping of Oakland spread his doomsday warning throughout North America, saying "sup…
Government security forces fired on protesters after Friday prayers, killing at least 32 people, witnesses said.
Mass protests against President Bashar al-Assad and the violent response came a day after President Barack Obama, in a major …
Al-Qaida members discussed attacking oil tankers last year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Friday.
The information was sent in a note to federal and state law enforcement agencies, The Hill reported.
Matt Chandler said the…
An explosion at a factory in southwestern China where the iPad 2 is manufactured killed two people Friday and injured 16, local officials said.
The plant in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, is operated by Hongfujin Precision Electron…
U.S. President Barack Obama Saturday called on Congress to replace the federal No Child Left Behind law to promote education reform "from the bottom up."
In his weekly radio and Internet address, the president said public education reform…
There may be significant differences between new and old red blood cells used for transfusions, researchers in Britain suggest.
One of the lead study authors, Dr. Jay Mehrishi, a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and formerly of…
African-American women who ate a diet high in produce Quality of stored blood questioned gained fewer pounds than those who ate a diet high in red meat and fried food, U.S. researchers say.
Lead author Dr. Deborah Boggs of the Slone Epide…
The reported annual number of U.S. Lyme disease cases tripled from 1992 to 2009, with children most at risk for the disease, federal health officials say.
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say Lyme disease is tra…
U.S. researchers say they developed a reliable exercise test for concussion to help sports team physicians decide on a player's readiness to return to play.
Specialists at the University at Buffalo's concussion clinic say some team offici…
A TV ad attacking former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is intended to make sure Medicare is a major issue in 2012, a Democratic political operative says.
The commercial is airing in South Carolina in advance of a Romney trip to the state…
The UN has again highlighted the dangers of the fast disappearing forests and called for urgent action to halt the development.
In a message to mark International Day for Biodiversity, which falls on May 22, the UN Secretary-General,…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has designated May the “Regional Integration Month” and earmarked series of activities in the commemoration of the 48th African Union (AU) Day on Wednesday, May 25.
Economic C…
For seeing the dream of illuminating their streets and homes become a reality, the chiefs and people of Agyemankrom in Dormaa Municipality on Wednesday thronged the historic commissioning of a one–phase electricity project in the town.
…
Government has been asked to facilitate the writing of a covering letter so that the Tengzuk Hills in Upper East could be placed on the World Heritage Tourist site.
The appeal was made by Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB) and …
Ms Martha Abagna, a 37-year-old tomato trader and a native of Daporetindongo, a suburb of Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region, has been arrested for allegedly stealing a one month old baby.
Further investigations have indicated that a…
The late Mr George Addo Kufuor, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Keyed Map Limited, would be buried at the royal mausoleum at Dabaa, near Akropong, in the Atwima Nwabiagya District of the Ashanti Region on Thursday, May 26.
He died on…
As the 60th anniversary of the landmark global pact on the status of refugees approaches, the United Nations refugee agency is urging States to make new commitments to protecting the rights of asylum-seekers and refugees and find ways of a…
Family Link Foundation (FLF), an NGO, focusing on the rehabilitation and vocational skill training for the socially disadvantaged, has successfully rehabilitated 200 drug addicts and alcoholics and integrated them into the society.
M…
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on Thursday announced the appointment of Margaret Vogt of Nigeria, as his Special Representative and head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA).…
Scientists have discovered a Jupiter-sized exoplanet that is completely unbound from a host star, according the scientific journal "Nature" published Thursday.
The research was conducted by astrophysicists from Osaka University in Japan.
…
Ambassador Peng Keyu of the Chinese Consulate-general in New York, Tom Gallo of the U.S. State Department Office of Foreign Missions, and President of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Steve Orlins were among nearly 100 guests…
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s return to the big screen has been put on hold amid his recent scandals.
"At the request of Arnold Schwarzenegger, we asked Creative Artists Agency to inform all his motion picture projects currently underway or bei…
Election of officers to man the Apam branch of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) at Apam on Friday, May 20 ended in a stalemate.
This was after the Central Regional Chairman of GPRTU, Mr Kwame Kumah allegedly insulted Mr…
The leadership of the Dunkwa-on-Offin District of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has cautioned the Upper Denkyira East Municipal Assembly to stop with immediate effect the encroachment of its land.
They alleged that the impunity w…
About 80 per cent of children under two years in the Central Region are severely malnourished, a situation that is affecting their growth as well as intellectual development.
Mr Samuel Sosi, Regional Nutritionists disclosed this at a…
As part of its exams practice sanitisation crusade, two executives of Exams Ethics International on Friday took students of Ho Mawuli School through a 30-minute talk on the dos and don’ts of examinations.
Lead Speaker Kofi Ashiboe-…
Participants drawn from 12 Junior High Schools (JHS) in the Greater Accra Metropolis on Saturday underwent a day’s workshop on Information Communication Technology (ICT).
The participating schools included Kings and Queens Academy, S…
Mrs Salome Francois, Proprietress of New Horizon Special School, has called on the society to ensure that people with intellectual disability have the full range of human rights in civil, social, economic and cultural activities.
She…
Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, a Medical Practitioner and an Entrepreneur on Saturday observed that many job seekers in the country lacked work ethics despite their desire for big salaries.
He said some of them were also undisciplined, dish…
Two prominent personalities have donated a total of 22 packets of roofing sheets worth GH¢3,600 to support the Abodom-Edwenase community in the Bekwai Municipality, following a severe windstorm that hit the town recently.
Mr Joe Osei…
A Dutch Philanthropist, Brother Dick Vandergust, has provided three classroom blocks, each comprising three rooms and an office for Cardinal Peter Dery’s School at Gurumbelle in the Wa East District.
He has also built an eight room…
The Head of the Lincoln Community School, Dr. Dennis Larkin, has urged the Ghana Education Service (GES) to create an enabling for environment for studies in their schools.
This should be created through the adequate provision of edu…
The Greater Accra Regional Security Council (GARSC), on Friday set up a five-member committee to investigate the communal violence at Madina Faith Baptist Church School at an Accra suburb last Tuesday.
The committee expected to submi…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Thursday called on Ghanaians to bury their differences and unite to enable development to take place unhindered.
He made the call when addressing separate durbars at Asankragwa, Asawinso, Juabeso an…
President John Evans Atta Mills has given approval for the establishment of an Implementation Committee for the Anomabo Fisheries College, which would be a satellite campus of the University of Cape Coast (UCC).
A statement issued in…
The Newmont Akyem Project, a gold mining company has selected 53 apprentices, including two women, from its operating communities for a four-year skill training.
They would acquire skills in process mechanic, electrical, instrumentat…
Five children were among the 16 people killed when militants blew up an oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO troops in Khyber Agency in Pakistan, officials said.
Officials said a remotely operated device placed under the oil tanker about fiv…
The world did not come to an apocalyptic end Saturday as predicted by an 89-year-old California man who spent a lot of money to say so.
For weeks, Harold Camping of Oakland spread his doomsday warning throughout North America, saying "sup…
Government security forces fired on protesters after Friday prayers, killing at least 32 people, witnesses said.
Mass protests against President Bashar al-Assad and the violent response came a day after President Barack Obama, in a major …