The S.T. Nankani Scholarship Fund has within the past nine years supported 100 academically brilliant but needy students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) with a total of about GH¢2.5 million.
Dr Ben …
Over 300 caterers drawn from the Western and Central regions have been educated on personal hygiene at a day’s workshop in Takoradi on Saturday.
The workshop was jointly organized by the US Rice and Olam Ghana Limited.
The Trad…
The Western Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Ransford Moses Ninson has charged the police personnel in the region to remain disciplined in the course of the enforcement of law and order.
He said discipl…
The Assembly woman for Kwamoso Electoral Area, Ms Elizabeth Afrey, has appealed for additional school blocks for the Kwamoso Presbyterian Junior High School (JHS) to help end the shift system.
She explained that, as a farming area, m…
Jayee University College (JUC) is to introduce a programme on Oil and Gas management to expose graduates to opportunities and strengths in the industry.
The Oil and Gas programme is part of new programmes the college proposed for the…
A total of 52 Ghanaians arrived at the Bosomtwi- Sam Fishing Harbour, at Sekondi, on Friday from San Pedro in Cote d’Ivoire.
Among the returnees, who arrived through canoes, included a 15-year old pregnant girl and an 80-year old man…
South African gospel singer and pastor, Benjamin Dube storms Accra on Wednesday April 20, to take part in ‘Harvest Praise 2011’, slated for Good Friday April 22.
A statement to the Ghana News Agency on Saturday confirmed that Rev Dub…
Boakye-Dankwa Boadi was born in Kumasi, Ghana on 2nd November 1951 to Opayin Kofi Boadi, a Cocoa Farmer, and Madam Akua Obiyaa. He was the third son of Akua Obiyaa and the eighth child of Kofi Boadi.
He had his basic education at Ase…
Fifty budget analysts from all the Municipal, Metropolitan and District Assemblies (MMDAs), across the country, has ended a 10-day training workshop on budget analysis in Accra, on Friday.
The training programme forms part of an orie…
The Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) would on Monday, April 18, arraign 30 residents before the courts for various sanitation offences.
The offences include opening of shops during a recent clean-up exercise, littering and heaping of…
Three suspected grave looters are in the custody of the Half Assini Police in the Jomoro District, for alleged grave looting activities.
They are Kweku Opoku, 57 from Ashanti Bekwai, Yaw Owusu Duku, 38 from Kumasi Asoamoa and Amoaka …
A task force made up of members of Nkoranza South District Security Committee (DISEC) and a team of armed policemen have mounted a search for some Fulani herdsmen who illegally settled on some farm lands in the area.
The action follo…
The National Communication Authority (NCA) says certain registration agents of telecommunication companies are selling pre-registered SIM cards to mobile phone subscribers and advised the public not to buy such cards.
According to the…
Nii Armah Ashittey, Minister of Greater Accra, on Thursday called on Ghanaians to be very careful about using candles during lights out.
He said fire was a necessity but a dangerous commodity that needed careful handling.
Nii A…
Nkoranza South District Assembly is liaising with the Department of Urban Roads to construct traffic lights at accident prone areas in the Nkoranza town to save lives.
Mr. Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum, Nkoranza South District Chief Execut…
The Nkoranza Queen-mothers Association appealed for financial and logistic support to embark on an educational campaign in the communities purposely to promote girls’ education.
The association said such support would also help membe…
Madam Philippa Banson, Nkoranza South District Drector of Education, has stated that the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) laid the foundation for the youth to pursue further education in the second cycle and tertiary institut…
The Board of Directors of Ghana News Agency has the power to ask Nana Appau Duah, the General Manager, to proceed on leave, the Acting Chairman of the Board, Mr Kodwo Ahligah has said.
Mr Ahligah, who signed the letter that asked Nan…
The Dormaa Municipal office of Environmental Health and the Police have facilitated the burial of three unclaimed corpses.
The bodies had been kept at the mortuary of Dormaa Presbyterian hospital for more than one year with no relat…
Ms Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Environment, Science and Technology (MEST), on Friday called for a collective effort to formulate and enforce the necessary legislation on noise pollution in the country.
She said “We have to respect th…
Mr Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Communications, on Friday called on the National Communications Authority (NCA) to ensure that all telecommunication networks provided quality services.
Mr Iddrisu made the call in Bolgatanga when he vi…
As part of activities to mark this year’s May Day, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Saturday embarked on health walk for over 300 workers.
Mr Francis Kofi Davoh chairman of the planning committee said, one of the pillars for working…
A total of 53 dressmakers in the Twifo-Hemang-Lower Denkyira District who have completed their training under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) were yesterday presented with sewing machines and its accessories at Twifo Praso.
…
Mr Divine Agboadah, a Programme Officer of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Friday called on the Ghana Cocoa Board to market spoilt cocoa in Ghana and West Africa where it forms an important ingredient in the preparation of deter…
Nii Kpobi Tettey-Tsuru III, La Mantse, has charged religious bodies, especially churches in the area to use their platforms to preach to parents and guardians not to neglect the education of their children.
He said Churches have a res…
The people of La are to benefit from an 18-unit three-storey classroom block through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) following an intervention led by the Member of Parliament for La Dadekotopon, Nii Amasah Namoale.
Nii Namoa…
The Dormaa Circuit Court presided by Mr Alexander Osei Tutu has sentenced two persons to 15 years imprisonment for their involvement in separate robbery cases at Dormaa-Ahenkro.
Samuel Kyeremeh, alias “Abeewa” and Abubakar Abu, denie…
Journalists in the Upper West Region have been educated on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS integration processes to empower them to promote issues related to sub-regional integration.
The capacity building works…
The Tema District Council of Labour (TDCL), in conjunction with the National Security Agencies in the Metropolis, would on April 30, embark on a Health Walk, to herald this year’s May Day celebration.
Mr Wilson Agana, TDCL Chairma…
More than 18 million people worldwide are xpected to congregate at the Kingdom Halls of Jehovah’s Witnesses to observe the memorial of Jesus Christ’s death, on Sunday, April 17, 2011, after sundown.
The event, which would be organis…
Hepatitis B, a type of communicable diseases, is said to have contributed to about 16% of ante-natal cases recorded at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital.
The women who tested positive are therefore undergoing counselling and treatm…
Dr Satyavathi Sackey, Executive Director of TeamCare, a women’s development and health oriented non-governmental organisation (NGO), has attributed the high rate of teenage pregnancy and bad lifestyles among the youth in the country to pov…
The Ministry of the Interior announced on Friday that April 22, Good Friday and April 25, Easter Monday, are statutory public holidays and should be observed as such throughout the country.
This is contained in a statement signed in …
The radiation level of the groundwater had increased 10 fold in one week at the troubled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Kyodo News reported Thursday, citing operator sources.
Earlier on Thursday, the country's nuclear safety agency …
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) would mercilessly wipe out the aggressors and surely achieve the historic cause of national reunification, a senior DPRK official said here Thursday.
Kim Yong Nam, member of the Presidium o…
The International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers Union (ICEM), begins its fourth regional conference in Accra on Friday under theme: Building Strong Unions for Sustainable Development.”
The sub regional confer…
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called on the Government of Ghana to take the necessary steps to create decent jobs for the people, particularly the youth.
It noted that democratic governance could not be sustained when large sec…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Friday announced that the World Bank has supported the National Youth Employment Programme with $65 Million to train more youth in employable skills.
Under the programme, he said 10,000 youth woul…
A carpenter, who slashed a lady with a cutlass several times in his bid to rob her of her handbag containing money and an ATM card, on Friday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court charged with robbery.
Quarshie Dornyeame pleaded gui…
The Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) would on Monday, April 18, arraign 30 residents before the courts for various sanitation offences.
The offences include opening of shops during a recent clean-up exercise, littering and heaping of…
Three suspected grave looters are in the custody of the Half Assini Police in the Jomoro District, for alleged grave looting activities.
They are Kweku Opoku, 57 from Ashanti Bekwai, Yaw Owusu Duku, 38 from Kumasi Asoamoa and Amoaka …
A task force made up of members of Nkoranza South District Security Committee (DISEC) and a team of armed policemen have mounted a search for some Fulani herdsmen who illegally settled on some farm lands in the area.
The action follo…
The National Communication Authority (NCA) says certain registration agents of telecommunication companies are selling pre-registered SIM cards to mobile phone subscribers and advised the public not to buy such cards.
According to the…
Nii Armah Ashittey, Minister of Greater Accra, on Thursday called on Ghanaians to be very careful about using candles during lights out.
He said fire was a necessity but a dangerous commodity that needed careful handling.
Nii A…
Nkoranza South District Assembly is liaising with the Department of Urban Roads to construct traffic lights at accident prone areas in the Nkoranza town to save lives.
Mr. Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum, Nkoranza South District Chief Execut…
The Nkoranza Queen-mothers Association appealed for financial and logistic support to embark on an educational campaign in the communities purposely to promote girls’ education.
The association said such support would also help membe…
Madam Philippa Banson, Nkoranza South District Drector of Education, has stated that the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) laid the foundation for the youth to pursue further education in the second cycle and tertiary institut…
The Board of Directors of Ghana News Agency has the power to ask Nana Appau Duah, the General Manager, to proceed on leave, the Acting Chairman of the Board, Mr Kodwo Ahligah has said.
Mr Ahligah, who signed the letter that asked Nan…
The Dormaa Municipal office of Environmental Health and the Police have facilitated the burial of three unclaimed corpses.
The bodies had been kept at the mortuary of Dormaa Presbyterian hospital for more than one year with no relat…
Ms Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Environment, Science and Technology (MEST), on Friday called for a collective effort to formulate and enforce the necessary legislation on noise pollution in the country.
She said “We have to respect th…