Mr Mustapha Hamid, Minister for Information has stated the resolve of the Ministry of Information to re-brand the government. He said the initiative was to create a “brand portfolio…and harmonise the entire government look.”
The Minist…
The White House will host the entire Senate on Wednesday for an extraordinary briefing on North Korea amid rising tensions with Pyongyang and growing questions about how the Trump administration intends to halt the regime’s pursuit of nucl…
The Lebanese Community in Ghana, in collaboration with the Lebanese Embassy, has awarded 31 scholarships to children of personnel of the Police, Prisons and Immigration Services who died in the line of duty.
At the ceremony held at the …
The Ashanti Business Unit of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service established the first-ever ECG-Police unit to expeditiously deal with debt collection and people who engage in illegalit…
The Kokrokoo Charities Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, under its “Project 100” programme has presented an incubator to the Nsawam Government Hospital in the Eastern region to augment the provision of health care to neonatal ba…
More than 57 houses at Zabzugu in the Northern Region have been destroyed by a rainstorm which occurred on Friday, April 21, following which tens of people have been rendered homeless.
Many houses in the affected areas also had their ro…
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr John Peter Amewu has ordered a mining firm, Okobeng Mining Company, to halt any mining activities at Domenase in the Nzema East Municipality of the Western Region.
The mining firm, which w…
The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has started investigating the causes of the fire outbreak that gutted property forming part of Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom’s business conglomerate at North Ridge in Accra, at the weekend.
The fire, wh…
The St. Theresa’s Hospital in Nandom in the Nandom District of the Upper West Region is celebrating with pride 50 years of excellent quality health care delivery in the country.
The hospital which was opened to patients in 1966 passed …
The Ghana Alliance for Clean Cookstove and Fuel (GHACCO) has held its 4th Annual General Assembly and elected Mrs Sarah Naa Dedei Agbey as its national executive board Chairperson.
The others are; Mrs Adwoa Sey, Vice Chairperson, Mrs Li…
Mr Eric Duorinaah, a Team Leader of the Harnessing Youth Talents for Rural Development (HAYTAFORD) has urged the media to give more attention to the promotion of quality education in Ghana.
He said the media had a crucial role to play t…
The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources is to rebrand the scope of work of the Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) popularly known as “Samasama” to expande Sanitary Inspection and Compliance Enforcement (ESICOME).
Under the ESIC…
The Ghana UK Based Achievement (GUBA) Awards has become the main pillar of British-Ghanaian Diaspora in London, particularly for the younger generation involved in the arts and music, Mr Jon Benjamin, outgoing British High Commissioner, ha…
Queen Mothers in the Upper West Region have described the “Planting for food and jobs” policy of the government as laudable but somehow discriminatory against women.
The queen mothers were worried that at least five hectares or 12 acre…
The defending champions of the Ghana Hockey League (GHL) Police male team launched an impressive start to defeat Legon Knight 5-1 to register their first win of the season on match-day of the GHL at the Theodosia Okoh Hockey Stadium in Acc…
The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has given Mr Ibrahim Mahama, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Engineers & Planners, a private engineering firm, a two-week ultimatum to pay almost GH¢13 million, being import duties and in…
There is uneasy calm in the Alavanyo and Nkonya areas in the Volta Region following a shooting incident last week.
The recent upsurge in the conflict, believed to be linked to an age-old land conflict between the people of Nkonya-Tayi a…
Five students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have attended a four-day international education and business leadership enhancement programme at the Harvard University in the United States of America (USA).…
Mr. Akwasi Addae-Boahene, Programme Manager for Transforming Teacher Education and Learning, (T-TEL Programme) has noted that Ghana’s socio-economic development remained threatened unless the quality of education in the country was address…
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr John Peter Amewu, has given a 30-day ultimatum to operators, dealers in and owners of excavators and other mining equipment to remove them or have themselves to blame.
Those interested in …
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr David Asante-Apeatu, has been inducted into office, with a charge on him to lead a Police Service that will wage a relentless war on lawlessness by vigilante groups and other nagging security chall…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has pledged to make Accra the neatest and best city in Africa by the end of his first term of office. “The commitment we are making and which I want you all to make with me is that by the time we end o…
An Indian hospital treating an Egyptian woman, believed to have been the world's heaviest woman, says she has lost 250kg (550lbs) after surgery.
Eman Abd El Aty's family said she originally weighed 500kg - and was unable to leave her ho…
The hearing of the case by the Supreme Court in Russia in which the Government of Russia was planning to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses Thursday enters its sixth day.
On Wednesday, April 19, 2017, some 300 people gathered for the fifth day of …
Out of a total of 137,561 household’s registered by the Ghana National Household Registry (GNHR) in the Upper West Region, 63.83 per cent are categorized as extremely poor households.
The Registry further categorized 18.48 per cent as p…
Dr Steve Manteaw, Co-Chair of the multi-stakeholder committee of the Ghana Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (GHEITI), has said natural resources in a given society is a key component for enhanced development.
However, he said…
Agyewodin Professor Adu Gyamfi Ampem, the Paramount Chief of Acherensua in the Asutifi South District of Brong-Ahafo Region, has appealed to the President to help them to develop the Acherensua Senior High School (ACHESCO).
He said the …
The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has urged queenmothers and women groups to help tackle sexual and domestic abuse of women in the country.
Mrs Akufo-Addo made the call at the 23rd District 18 Conference of Zonta International in …
The Northern Region is to receive 120 new Agricultural Extension Agents (AEAs) to assist farmers in their farming activities to help boost agricultural production, Mr Yussif Ahmed, Regional Agric Officer in-charge of Crops, has said.
He…
The Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Mrs. Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, has unveiled plans to aggressively promote fish-farming to boost the nation’s fish production and create job opportunities. The youth, who showed interest,…
Government has begun discussions with officials of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to renegotiate the power compact agreement for a majority Ghanaian ownership for the concession of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
Thi…
The National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) has called for a multi-pronged approach to tackle the complex issue of unemployment in the country.
For instance, it said, there should be curriculum and policy reforms to prepare stude…
Parents in Zimbabwe who cannot afford school fees can offer livestock such as goats or sheep as payment, a government minister has said.
The country's education minister Lazarus Dokora told the pro-government Sunday Mail newspaper that …
Parts of the Coconut Groove Regency Hotel at North Ridge in Accra was Saturday destroyed when fire erupted in one of its buildings.
The Amansan Television (ATV) and four commercial offices of Groupe Nduom which were on the same block in…
A resident at Tema Community Three, have issued a Writ of Summons at the Accra High Court to restrain six corporate entities to construct a Container Terminal and Industrial Cold Warehouse in the Sakumo Ramsar Site B.
Mr Dennis Amfo-Sef…
The special characteristics of music, when well harnessed in schools at all levels, could aid the social and physical development of students, Professor Joshua Adebisi Omotosho of the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, has observed.
He had …
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Satina Aboagye, Brong Ahafo Regional coordinator of Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), has called on the public to support the fight against early and forced marriages in the society.…
The Tema Metropolitan Office of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) is yet to receive its allocated funds for the first quarter of 2017. A first quarter report on civic activities, administrative and financial matters from …
Cuba has faced more than 50 years of US sanctions. Now, for the first time, a unique drug developed on the communist island is being tested in New York state. But some American cancer patients are already taking it - by defying the embargo…
In addition, more than 70 bags of shark carcasses were found on one of the Chinese vessels
Four illegal fishing cases have been found during a joint surveillance mission conducted by Greenpeace (www.Greenpeace.org/Africa/en) and Sie…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) that have not registered with the Data Protection Commission (DPC) to do so as a matter of urgency.
He said the government's industrialisatio…
Health and Safety Ghana (HESAG), Ghana’s premiere health and safety think tank would be holding a stakeholders’ seminar to herald this year’s World Day for Safety and Health at Work at the University of Cape Coast (UCC).
It will bring …
The Volta Regional office of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has appealed to government to help address its human resource deficiency and logistical constraints to deliver on its mandate.
Mr Imoru Jamal…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that the first batch of 51 districts for the implementation of the one district, one factory policy has been identified. He said the ‘Asempa Budget’, as approved by Parliament, had earmarked…
The Attorney General’s Department has called for the docket on the case involving the alleged assault of the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator by 13 members of a group calling itself the “Delta Force”, and reported to be aligned with t…
Mr John Peter Amewu, Minister of Lands and Forestry, says government is not against small scale mining, but is rather against illegal mining that continues to destroy the environment.
“The New Patriotic Party government is not anti-mini…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo rounded off his two-day visit to the Brong Ahafo Region with mini-rallies and courtesy calls on traditional rulers, during which he called on them to embrace the current campaign against illegal mining…
A drug given to pregnant women for epilepsy and bipolar disorder caused "serious malformations" in up to 4,100 children, a French study suggests.
Mothers treated with valproate for epilepsy were up to four times likelier to give birth t…
A member of the Council of State, Mr Francis Seth Nyonyo, has advised students of the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana to embrace entrepreneurial skills as the best way to address the unemployment challenges in the c…
Saint Matthew Catholic Church has offered free medical screening for the aged and sick within Tarkwa and its environs as part of activities to mark this year’s Easter celebrations.
The Exercise, which was patronized by both church membe…
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