Mr Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister, at the weekend commended the management of the White Volta Basin Project, which is aimed at improving water governance in the White Volta Basin.
The Regional Minister made the commendati…
Representatives of Farmer-Based Organizations (FBO) from Anglophone West Africa are attending a five-day capacity-building workshop in Accra to strengthen farmers’ capacity to respond to changing agriculture markets.
The European Com…
Mamaga Amega Kofi Bra, President of the Volta Regional Queens Association, at the weekend called on churches to institute mass weddings to reduce financial costs in celebrating marriages.
She said many young men and women were coha…
The Evangelical Presbyterian University College (EPUC) Ho took delivery of a bus from the government on Saturday.
Mr Walter Blege, the President of the University, said “Like the public ones, private universities are also in the busi…
Newmont Ghana Gold Limited expects a boost in annual gold production at its Ahafo mine if new explorations activities the company is undertaking yield positive results.
Currently, the yearly production at the mine is pegged at betwee…
The Akim Oda Magistrate Court has sentenced Yaw Att h, a farmer to a 24-month prison term with hard
labour for stealing sack-full of cocoyam valued GH¢25.
He pleaded guilty to stealing.
The prosecutor, Chief Inspector Adelaide…
A Kumasi Circuit Court had ordered a 46-year old driver to be kept in jail for six years for inflicting multiple deep cutlass wounds on his brother.
Ali Bukari, alias Ali Mohammed, pleaded guilty to charges of using offensive weap…
The Volta River Authority (VRA) on Sunday climaxed its 50th anniversary celebrations with a call on all to support the company as it seeks to become a pacesetter in electricity provision in the West African sub region.
Mr Kweku Awotw…
The Central Regional Minister, Madam Ama Benyiwa-Doe has called on the people in Winneba to bury their differences and embrace peace towards the development of the area.
She said it is only when there is peace that investors and othe…
Rev James Noble Tulasi, Head Pastor of Jubilee Christian Centre, Ho, has urged mothers in the country to preach peace as the 2012 general elections approaches.
He said this has become necessary in view of how tension was building up …
Rev Mrs Stella Bentsil Enchill, Assistant Minister of the Ridge International Church, on Sunday said that women are created uniquely with a purpose to ensure that their children are instilled with the fear of God.
Rev Bentsil Enchill…
The Centre for National Culture in collaboration with Nubuke Foundation on Saturday opened a three-day exhibition in Tamale to showcase various aspects of Ghana’s oil finding and its effects for the country’s socio-economic development.
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An office has been opened for the Volta Regional Secretariat of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA).
The one-room office is within Ghana News Agency (GNA) block in Ho.
Mr Wilhelm Gaitu, Volta Regional Manager of the GNA, who…
Luck was on the side of 13 National Service Personnel whose transit quarters was hit by a kapok tree during a rainstorm that hit the Wa Municipality on Friday night.
The tree was uprooted by the storm and some of its branches fell on…
Mr Alex Nartey, National Coordinator of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), has said that between 2007 and 2010, a total of 9,572 cases were mediated by the institution.
Speaking at the official opening of ADR week celebration …
Hypersoft Ghana Limited, a private ICT and project management professional service company, has won the World Bank’s infoDev Top 50 competition and would represent Ghana at the infoDev Fourth Global Forum in Helsinki, Finland.
The com…
The Half Assini District Magistrate’s court has remanded Yaw Sarpong in custody for alleged conspiracy and murder of six-year-old Kazia Boasi Blay-Kyie.
His plea was not taken and would re-appear in court on May 27.
Giving the …
Mr Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister, at the weekend commended the management of the White Volta Basin Project, which is aimed at improving water governance in the White Volta Basin.
The Regional Minister made the commendati…
Representatives of Farmer-Based Organizations (FBO) from Anglophone West Africa are attending a five-day capacity-building workshop in Accra to strengthen farmers’ capacity to respond to changing agriculture markets.
The European Com…
Mamaga Amega Kofi Bra, President of the Volta Regional Queens Association, at the weekend called on churches to institute mass weddings to reduce financial costs in celebrating marriages.
She said many young men and women were coha…
The Evangelical Presbyterian University College (EPUC) Ho took delivery of a bus from the government on Saturday.
Mr Walter Blege, the President of the University, said “Like the public ones, private universities are also in the busi…
Brigadier General Daniel Kweku Mishio, Director General (Joint Operation) of the Ghana Armed Forces at the weekend reminded security personnel of their mandate under Chapter 17 of the Constitution to defend the nation.
“In the light …
The Eastern Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Dwamena Yeboah, has said that his outfit was putting a lot of measures in place to reduce crime rate in the region.
He has therefore appealed to the citizen…
Kwaku Obeng, a driver, who threatened to kill his father-in-law and also end his life, has appeared before an Akim Oda Magistrate Court presided over by Mr Albert Owusu Annor.
He pleaded not guilty to threat of death and was initiall…
The Minister in-charge of the Akim Oda Trinity Presbyterian Church, Reverend Alexander K. Nyantakyi, has called on heads of educational institutions to forge healthy working relationships with district assemblies to facilitate infrastructu…
The Birim South District Assembly, Zoomlion Ghana Limited and the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), have jointly organized a day’s clean-up exercise at Akim Achiase.
The participants weeded along the streets, cleared…
Brigadier General Daniel Kweku Mishio, Director General (Joint Operation) of the Ghana Armed Forces at the weekend reminded security personnel of their mandate under Chapter 17 of the Constitution to defend the nation.
“In the light …
The Eastern Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Dwamena Yeboah, has said that his outfit was putting a lot of measures in place to reduce crime rate in the region.
He has therefore appealed to the citizen…
Kwaku Obeng, a driver, who threatened to kill his father-in-law and also end his life, has appeared before an Akim Oda Magistrate Court presided over by Mr Albert Owusu Annor.
He pleaded not guilty to threat of death and was initiall…
The Minister in-charge of the Akim Oda Trinity Presbyterian Church, Reverend Alexander K. Nyantakyi, has called on heads of educational institutions to forge healthy working relationships with district assemblies to facilitate infrastructu…
The Birim South District Assembly, Zoomlion Ghana Limited and the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), have jointly organized a day’s clean-up exercise at Akim Achiase.
The participants weeded along the streets, cleared…
The World Economic Forum on Africa (WEF Africa), The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF), Diageo Plc, WaterHealth International (WHI), and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, have announced a stra…
The management of Street Academy, a Non-Governmental Organisation has organised a party for its members to raise funds in support of a new school building complex in Accra.
Mr Atta Lartey, Executive Director of Academy, said the Acad…
Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has outlined a roadmap to help resolve the current impasse between the All-Africa Students’ Union (AASU) and the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS).
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Vice-President John Dramani Mahama has called on religious leaders to exhibit high sense of neutrality in the national political discourse.
He said their neutrality would provide them the moral courage to call politicians to order w…
Mr John Kwabena Kyereboa, an administrator of the Assin Fosu College of Education was on Wednesday installed as the new Paramount Chief of Agona Nsaba Traditional Area under the stool name Okatakyie Aseidu Boabea II.
Okatakyie Boabea…
Grave looters over the weekend invaded the main Otoase Presbyterian Church Cemetery and looted 11 graves.
Briefing the GNA at Otoase, Nana Kwesi Nyare II, Chief of Otoase said some of the looted graves included that of Kwame Taye the…
The 14th Synod of the Tema Diocese of the Methodist Church opened at St Peter’s Methodist in Ashaiman with a call on pastors to teach doctrines that would make members hold on to their faith.
Right Reverend Winfred Habel Yao Ametefe,…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama has called on both public and private institutions to develop efficient ways of documenting and keeping records to facilitate future research programmes.
Proper documentation, he added, was also rel…
Major Emmanuel Owusu-Adansi (Rtd) of the National Communications Authority (NCA), has reminded mobile phone users that the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards registration period, which ends on June 30 this year, will not be extended.
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The National Service Personnel Association (NASPA), has appealed to organisations to treat its members with respect to enable them to efficiently contribute to national development.
Mr. Abdul-Kabiru Tiah Mahama National President of …
About 2,060 women were diagnosed with breast cancer nationwide in 2010 and about 70 per cent of them reported at the hospitals late when the disease had reached an advanced stage to be salvaged.
Dr Beatrice Wiafe-Addai, President of …
Hundreds of people are evacuated from Libya's third largest city Misrata, UN spokesman Farhan Haq said here on Thursday.
Some "800 third-country nationals and 50 wounded were evacuated from the port city," Haq said at a daily news briefin…
Wife of Osama bin Laden has told investigators that the al-Qaida leader had been living in Abbotabad, for five years, senior Pakistani army officials told a group of reporters on Thursday.
The wife of Osama bin Laden told the investigator…
U.S. President Barack Obama laid a wreath at Ground Zero on Thursday in memory of the 9/11 victims, four days after U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
The visit marked the first time Obama visited Ground Zero …
The hijacked 24 Chinese sailors on a Panama registered bulk cargo ship have been rescued, the Ministry of Transport said in a report on its website Friday.
The vessel, Full City, was rescued at 23:25 on Thursday by the U.S. marine and Tur…
Foreign Secretary of Pakistan Thursday said that Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI) has the potential to combat terrorism and insisted that ISI is mindful of its international obligations.
Holding a press conference in capital city …
Indian Navy and Coast Guard have thwarted an attack by Somali pirates on a foreign merchant vessel with Chinese crew members in the Arabian Sea, a senior official said on Friday.
"In a major operation, a foreign merchant vessel with…
As the discovery of al Qaeda chief in Pakistan raises fresh questions about US-Pakistan relations, newly released declassified documents have showed as early as 1998 American officials concluded that Islamabad "is not disposed to be especi…
US has refrained from drawing a parallel between 9/11 and the dastardly Mumbai attacks and appeared to be unwilling to support any similar "hot pursuit" Indian effort as done by the US Special Forces in Pakistan to kill al Qaeda chief Osam…