The Effutu Municipal Chief Executive, Nii Ephraim, has said the only road to success was hard work and self discipline.
He therefore has therefore urged the youth to work hard and to be disciplined so as to achieve success.
Nii Eph…
The Western Regional Minister, Mr. Paul Evans Aidoo, has appealed to religious groups to use dialogue to resolve their differences instead of violence.
He said the court was a legitimate avenue for settling disputes and appealed to t…
The Rev Osei Kwabena Nkrahene, Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church at Community Five in Tema, on Sunday reminded Ghanaians that the peace and stability the nation was enjoying was by God’s grace.
“God has been gracious and merc…
Togolese music icon, Agboti Yao, on Sunday night thrilled music lovers in Ho in a special Independence Day “Music Party”.
Smartly dressed in white suit with red long-sleeve to match, Agboti Yao who was said to have been killed for …
Nearly two out of five South Koreans are expected to be aged 65 or older in 2050, a report showed Monday, raising concerns that the nation's fast-aging population could raise the financial burden for younger people in taking care of senior…
Penalizing overweight employees for failing to lose weight is employment discrimination based on personal appearances, South Korea's rights watchdog said Monday.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) accepted an appeal by a 31-ye…
A group of lawyers on Monday joined judicial trainees' move against the Justice Ministry's controversial plan to employ the first-ever class of graduates from law schools next year, adding fuel to the ongoing debate about the two-track leg…
This year’s independence celebration at Bongo is said to have been an improvement over last year’s when 1,240 school children from 36 marched to mark the 54th Independence anniversary.
Though there were fears that teachers would not …
Medical and dental colleges were the most sought-after schools among South Korean high school seniors last year, with the competition to enter them remaining the toughest for a decade, industry data showed Monday.
According to the "201…
North Korea on Monday proposed arranging family reunions on Wednesday for its four nationals who have chosen to defect to South Korea after their fishing boat carrying 27 others strayed south across the western sea border last month, the S…
Mr. Bright Oduro, Upper East Regional Police Commander on Friday said the region recorded 2,355 criminal cases last year as against 3,157 in 2009.
He said the 25.4 per cent reduction in criminal cases was as a result of the Police Se…
The Betty Kings International Ministries based in the United Kingdom on Monday presented hospital equipment to the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Rospital.
The Founder of the Ministries, the Rev Betty King, said the items were donations from…
The Parents-Teachers-Association (PTA) of the Abuakwa State College Senior High School, has handed over a two unit teacher’s bungalow and a 100 Kilo-Volt Power electricity generating plant to the school at a short ceremony at Kyebi, on Sat…
A KIA Rhino truck with registration number GE 5070-10, on Thursday night, got involved in a fatal accident, killing three of its passengers instantly.
The truck, allegedly loaded with 154 wooden boards with 15 “loading boys” on board…
Public schools teachers were conspicuously absent at the Independence Anniversary parade at the Jubilee Park in Sunyani, which saw about 1,392 pupils and students participating.
The students were drawn from 58 basic and second cycle …
Mr Victor-Hermann Condobrey, Hohoe Municipal Chief Executive, has called on the youth to be guided by the selflessness and zeal by the forefathers in the independence struggle.
He said this would help renew their spirit of nation-bui…
Twenty two out of 42 selected basic and second cycle schools took part in the 54th Independence Anniversary Parade of school children at Nkawkaw in the Kwahu West Municipality.
This is attributed to the strike action by public school…
The Christchurch earthquake will cost up to 15 billion NZ dollars (11 billion U.S. dollars) and knock gross domestic product growth back by 1.5 percentage points, but New Zealand's Treasury predicts a silver lining in 2012 as rebuilding ge…
Palestinian truck drivers suspended work Sunday at the only operating commercial crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel, protesting Israeli closure of another crossing point that was more convenient for the drivers.
The drivers pitche…
They carry around jerry cans with water at high speed in their school gym. As an exercise, it is to empathize with their female counterparts in the developing world who do this every day. They give "high fives" -- donations of 5 U.S. dolla…
Law enforcement agencies are now using smart phones to track and arrest graffiti vandals in Los Angeles, a newspaper report said on Saturday.
The graffiti-tracking program, spearheaded by the Tracking and Automated Graffiti Removal System…
Thirty-nine schools, including two special schools, in the Wa Municipality of the Upper West region, participated in a parade to mark the 54th anniversary celebration of Ghana’s Independence, at Wa, on Sunday.
The two special schools…
Security personnel on Sunday prevented a group of placard bearing teachers protesting against the anomalies in their salaries due to migration onto the Single Spine Salary Structure from disrupting the 54th Independence Day Parade in Kofor…
Mr Omar Amadu-Babou, the Municipal Coordinating Director of Akuapem South, has called on parents and guardians to spend their resources on their children’s education to make them useful citizens to the country.
Mr Amadu-Babou gave th…
Teachers in Ho on Sunday honoured the 54th Independence Day Anniversary Parade despite earlier threats of boycott in protest against their placement on the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS).
The teachers, who turned up in their …
Teachers in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region, on Sunday, participated in the 54th Independence Day anniversary parade, held in the district, at Apowa.
This was contrary to an earlier threat issued by some aggrieved teac…
India successfully test-fired indigenously developed interceptor missile, capable of destroying any incoming hostile ballistic missile, on Sunday from Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Wheeler Island off Orissa coast.
"Aimed at developin…
Athletes and officials at Commonwealth Games village seemed to have enjoyed steamy sessions as an average of nearly 640 condoms were used everyday during the 11-day-long sporting extravaganza, statistics from the Delhi Government suggest.
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Lord Meghnad Desai, NRI Professor Emeritus at the LSE who has been dragged into a controversy linked to the PhD thesis of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son, has said the institute should return 1.8 million pounds it received from Tripoli…
In a first, women officers of Indian security forces are soon expected to impart training
lessons to their US counterparts in peacekeeping, marking recognition of their exceptional work in this field.
The officers, who commande…
A reproductive health validation team from Togo, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Niger conferred in Accra to develop integrated tools for maternal, neonatal and infant health.
The group would use the tools to facilitate the treatment of…
The Birim Central Municipal Health Management Team has recorded five suspected cases of cholera.
Ms Anastasia Atiogbe, Municipal Director of Health Services, told the Ghana News Agency in Akim Oda that a girl died of cholera when bei…
The Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs on Friday expressed appreciation to the government for the sod-cutting ceremony performed by President John Evans Atta Mills, to commence work on the University of Energy and Natural Resources in th…
The Brong Ahafo Regional Security Council (REGSEC), has appealed to teachers to restore their services and participate in the upcoming 54th independence anniversary celebration on Sunday for the sake of the national interest and cohesion.
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Madam Phillipa Banson, Nkoranza South District Director of Education, has appealed to teachers to rescind their industrial action over the distortions in the implementation of the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) and return to the clas…
The Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs (MOWAC), on Friday organised an excursion for about 60 kids of the Olive Quartey Early Childhood Development Centre at East Legon in Accra to the Tema Harbour.
MOWAC organised the excursio…
The palace of the chief of Tarkwa Nsuaem has been burnt down by irate Galamsey operators (small scale miners) in the early hours of Friday.
Mr Paul Evans Aidoo, Western Region Minister who made this known to journalists in Takoradi s…
Nkrankwanta Local Council of Churches and the town’s two Assembly Members-elect have jointly
donated equipment worth GHC1,550.00 to the local health centre.
The items included a fridge, office tables and chairs, mattresses and bed-s…
The Dormaa Municipal Fire Office has intensified public education on domestic and bushfires in
the two Dormaa Districts.
The campaign, which will last during the entire harmattan, has been in the form of radio talk shows and regular…
Teachers who are taking part in the 54th Independence Day celebrations were on Friday
praised for their enthusiasm despite earlier threats to boycott the anniversary activities because of irregularities associated with the implementation …
The foreign ministers of South Korea and New Zealand on Friday pledged mutual support in the island nation's recovery efforts following a
devastating earthquake that left two South Koreans missing, the foreign ministry said.
In a phon…
South Korean officials on Friday convened an emergency meeting to deal with the ongoing unrest in Africa and the Middle East, the foreign
ministry said.
Government officials from the new emergency response team launched last month gat…
Tunisian interim President Fouad Mebazaa said Thursday an election is expected on July 24 to form a constitutional council.
In an address broadcast on Tunisian television, the caretaker president said he would not resign on March 15 and w…
Mr Anthony Adjavor, Chief Technical Officer of the Ho Leprosarium, on Friday, reported an increase in leprosy cases, in the Volta Region, from 73 in 2009 to 120 in 2010.
He said the situation had presented a challenge to the Disease …
Dr.Paa Kwasi Nduom, the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Presidential candidate for the 2008 general elections, on Saturday said the Single Spine Pay Policy was his idea presented to the erstwhile New Patriotic Party administration when se…
The outgoing Eastern Regional Police Commander, DCOP Ransford Ninson, on Friday urged Police Personnel to work hard to reduce crime wave.
He indicated that it would be by their efforts, that the country could be peaceful, to attract …
Teachers in the Kwaebibirem District turned out in their numbers to demonstration at Kade, against the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS), for teachers, on Friday.
Calling themselves concerned teachers in the district, the placards…
Mr Jonas Amanu, Greater Accra Regional Environmental Health Officer, has appealed to communities in the metropolis to help fight the spread of cholera by changing their attitudes towards sanitation.
In an interview with the Ghana New…
Ghana’s 54th Independence Day anniversary must remind Ghanaians of the need to look at their
strengths and what areas of their lives needed updating, Mr nIssah Musah Adams, Founder of Support Life International, a ncomprehensive health th…
Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), a global biopharmaceutical company headquartered in New
York, has built the capacity of three local health non-profit organizations to enable them to better package HIV/AIDS campaigns to overcome the growing ch…