The March 11th Japan earthquake and tsunami are likely to have caused up to 34 billion US dollars in losses for the global insurance industry. That's according to catastrophe modeling company RMS.
The company's estimate includes 18 to 26 …
Dr Edward Nasigiri Mahama, Leader of the Peoples National Convention (PNC), on Thursday called for a national body spearheaded by the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, to review Ghana’s health delivery system.
He said the bod…
Mr Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Communication, on Wednesday said the level of radiation frequency emission from telecommunication masts fields and mobile phone sites have not proven to have any health hazards on human beings.
In a ke…
Dairy farmers near Japan's crippled nuclear power plant are struggling to cope with their own disaster.
Radiation fears and a government ban on unprocessed milk are forcing them to throw away thousands of liters of milk everyday.
These a…
Ukraine intends to raise 1.05 billion U.S. dollars for Chernobyl projects during a donor conference next week, Ukrainian Emergencies Minister Viktor Baloga said Wednesday.
"On April 19 an International donor conference of raising funds fo…
Dora Afenyo, a 20-year-old bread baker, has been remanded in prison custody by a Hohoe Circuit Court for possessing dried leaves suspected with Indian hemp.
Afenyo, who pleaded not guilty to the charge, would re-appear on May, 10, th…
A High Court in Accra on Thursday ordered the prosecution to produce five attachments accompanying a letter written to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning for the release of funds to Phlexifom Ventures and PHC Motors.
The le…
The Japanese Government has donated 100,000 bags of maize valued at GH¢3.2 million in support of flood victims in nine regions of the country.
This was in response to an appeal made to it by the Government in the aftermath of the dev…
Madam Charlotte Owusu, Founder of the Sickle Cell Condition Advocates (SICCA), has appealed to people intending to marry to know the sickle cell status of their partners before marriage.
She said the disease was assuming an alarming …
Following the directive of the Board of Directors of the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to the General Manager, Nana Appau Duah, to proceed on an indefinite leave from Friday, April 15 2011, the National Media Commission (NMC) has issued the foll…
Schools have vacated and many pupils have been compelled by circumstances to criss-cross streets dangerously and lorry stations selling items.
Some do it because they have to make some money to pay school fees when school reopens an…
Six illegal gold miners who went to mine in the Kweikaru Forest Reserve in the Birim North District had been sentenced to one year imprisonment each in hard labour by a District Magistrate Court at Nkawkaw.
The accused persons were …
Promasidor Ghana Limited, producers of Miksi Milk has decided to support the table tennis team event at the forth-coming Volta Regional Sports Festival.
The Regional Sports Festival which is scheduled to take place at the Anloga Seni…
The Minister of Youth and Sports Mr Clemet Kofi Humado has expressed his personal best wishes and that of the government and people to the Black Queens and Black Meteors ahead of their qualifier games on Saturday and Sunday.
The Blac…
President John Evans Atta Mills has rounded off his three-day working visit to the Ashanti Region with a call on students to focus on their studies to acquire the requisite skills for their own development.
They should stay away f…
If the dead who once lived in Ho in foregone decades should come back to life today they would marvel at the phenomenal private sector driven infrastructure development and growth of the township.
They would be lost in amazement.
…
An eight-member parliamentary delegation from Australia has paid a day’s working visit to the Adamus Resource Limited, operators of Nzema Gold in the Nzema East District.
The Adamus Gold Resource is managed by an Australian company.
…
Hundreds of Muslims under the banner Coalition Against Violence and Western Domination (CAVWED) on Thursday went on a demonstration through the main streets of Tamale to protest against NATO’s bombing of Libya.
They presented a petiti…
A total of 2,763 candidates of 1,474 boys and 1,289 girls are taking part in the six-day long Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) examination at various accredited centres in the Dormaa Municipality.
Mr Gordon Kyereh Ampon…
Disaster struck Calvary International Baptist Preparatory School in the Techiman Municipality on Wednesday when a five year old pupil was electrocuted on campus.
Chief Superintendent Joseph Antwi Gyau, Techiman Municipal Police Comm…
Cosmos Health Outfit (CHO), a water producing company based in Accra, on Thursday debunked media reports by the Food and Drugs Board (FDB) that their practices posed serious threat to public health safety.
The reports according to th…
An Electricity Fast-Track Court will soon commence operations to prosecute customers who indulged in fraudulent power deals.
Mr Anthony Gyampo, Acting Managing Director of Electricity Company of Ghana, who announced this, said the pr…
Hajia Balchisu Iddrisu, Principal of Martin Luther Health Training School, has appealed to Government for reduction in the exorbitant fees paid by students from private health institutions on clinical training in hospitals and polyclinics.…
Reverend Alphonse Kodzokuma, Acting Moderator of the General Assembly of the Evangelical Presbyterian (EP) Church, Ghana, on Thursday called on spouses of clergymen to be worthy examples in the Church and society.
“You will be failing…
Jose Graziano da Silva, the Brazilian candidate for director-general of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), submitted his program to the organization Wednesday,Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
As a s…
Thousands of dolphins blocked the suspected Somali pirate ships when they were trying to attack Chinese merchant ships passing the Gulf of Aden, the China Radio International reported on Monday.
The Chinese merchant ships escorted by …
China's Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and Motorola Solutions Inc. have agreed to settle a legal dispute over technology secrets, paving the way for Motorola to complete the sale of its unit to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN).
Huawei and Moto…
Belarusian President, Alexander Lukashenko, says two suspects have confessed to carrying out the deadly subway bombing in Minsk. His comments came as the country observed a day of mourning for the victims.
Monday's explosion in the nation…
The March 11th Japan earthquake and tsunami are likely to have caused up to 34 billion US dollars in losses for the global insurance industry. That's according to catastrophe modeling company RMS.
The company's estimate includes 18 to 26 …
Dr Edward Nasigiri Mahama, Leader of the Peoples National Convention (PNC), on Thursday called for a national body spearheaded by the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, to review Ghana’s health delivery system.
He said the bod…
Mr Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Communication, on Wednesday said the level of radiation frequency emission from telecommunication masts fields and mobile phone sites have not proven to have any health hazards on human beings.
In a ke…
Dairy farmers near Japan's crippled nuclear power plant are struggling to cope with their own disaster.
Radiation fears and a government ban on unprocessed milk are forcing them to throw away thousands of liters of milk everyday.
These a…
Ukraine intends to raise 1.05 billion U.S. dollars for Chernobyl projects during a donor conference next week, Ukrainian Emergencies Minister Viktor Baloga said Wednesday.
"On April 19 an International donor conference of raising funds fo…
Dora Afenyo, a 20-year-old bread baker, has been remanded in prison custody by a Hohoe Circuit Court for possessing dried leaves suspected with Indian hemp.
Afenyo, who pleaded not guilty to the charge, would re-appear on May, 10, th…
A High Court in Accra on Thursday ordered the prosecution to produce five attachments accompanying a letter written to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning for the release of funds to Phlexifom Ventures and PHC Motors.
The le…
The Japanese Government has donated 100,000 bags of maize valued at GH¢3.2 million in support of flood victims in nine regions of the country.
This was in response to an appeal made to it by the Government in the aftermath of the dev…
Madam Charlotte Owusu, Founder of the Sickle Cell Condition Advocates (SICCA), has appealed to people intending to marry to know the sickle cell status of their partners before marriage.
She said the disease was assuming an alarming …
Following the directive of the Board of Directors of the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to the General Manager, Nana Appau Duah, to proceed on an indefinite leave from Friday, April 15 2011, the National Media Commission (NMC) has issued the foll…
Schools have vacated and many pupils have been compelled by circumstances to criss-cross streets dangerously and lorry stations selling items.
Some do it because they have to make some money to pay school fees when school reopens an…
Six illegal gold miners who went to mine in the Kweikaru Forest Reserve in the Birim North District had been sentenced to one year imprisonment each in hard labour by a District Magistrate Court at Nkawkaw.
The accused persons were …
Promasidor Ghana Limited, producers of Miksi Milk has decided to support the table tennis team event at the forth-coming Volta Regional Sports Festival.
The Regional Sports Festival which is scheduled to take place at the Anloga Seni…
The Minister of Youth and Sports Mr Clemet Kofi Humado has expressed his personal best wishes and that of the government and people to the Black Queens and Black Meteors ahead of their qualifier games on Saturday and Sunday.
The Blac…
President John Evans Atta Mills has rounded off his three-day working visit to the Ashanti Region with a call on students to focus on their studies to acquire the requisite skills for their own development.
They should stay away f…
If the dead who once lived in Ho in foregone decades should come back to life today they would marvel at the phenomenal private sector driven infrastructure development and growth of the township.
They would be lost in amazement.
…
An eight-member parliamentary delegation from Australia has paid a day’s working visit to the Adamus Resource Limited, operators of Nzema Gold in the Nzema East District.
The Adamus Gold Resource is managed by an Australian company.
…
Hundreds of Muslims under the banner Coalition Against Violence and Western Domination (CAVWED) on Thursday went on a demonstration through the main streets of Tamale to protest against NATO’s bombing of Libya.
They presented a petiti…
A 34-year old fisherman who allegedly left his five-year-old daughter to drown in the sea, just to punish his ex-wife for refusing to reconcile with him, appeared before a Magistrate Court in Cape Coast on Wednesday.
Kwaku Akonu’s pl…
There are 275 boreholes fitted with hand pumps and four piped water systems serving 143 communities in the Nadowli District.
This gives the district rural water coverage of 80.04 per cent as at the end of 2010, higher than the 76 per…
The lukewarm attitude to agricultural development by successive governments is to blame for the near stagnant growth of the sector, Dr Emmanuel Bobobee, an Agricultural Engineer, has said.
“Most of our leaders in their election ca…
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHARJ) with support from the British High Commission on Wednesday awarded four individuals at its inaugural Human Rights Defender’s Awards night in Accra.
The Awardees includ…