The Upper East Branch of the Ghana Society of the Physically Disabled (GSPD) on Wednesday launched a Basket Weaving Project focused on providing entrepreneurship training and employment for the physically challenged in the Bolgatanga Munic…
Some 190 youth in the Effutu Municipality have benefitted from Ghana Youth Employment Entrepreneur Development Agency (GYEEDA) and Local Enterprise and Skills Development (LESDEP) programmes.
They are made up of 129 dressmakers who e…
The Effutu Municipal Directorate of the National Fire Service recorded 31 fire outbreaks between January and December 2012 as against 11 cases in 2011 in the municipality and its environs.
Mr Alfred A. Acheampong, Effutu Municipal Fi…
India expressed disappointment on Friday over the 35-year jail term handed to an American plotter of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, saying it wanted nothing less than the death penalty.
David Coleman Headley, 52, a US citizen of Pa…
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Gomoa West, Mr Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah has appealed to fishermen to insure their businesses against disasters.
"Chief fishermen and award winners at the National Farmers and Fishermen Day celebr…
Three illegal miners on Tuesday died in the Prestea/Huni Valley district when a pit in which they were searching for gold nuggets got flooded and collapsed on them.
The deceased have been identified as Akins, 38, Tawiah, 39, and Andr…
Greek riot police on Friday stormed the main depot of the Athens Metro, which had been occupied by workers on strike for a ninth straight day to protest planned salary cuts.
Police implemented an emergency order issued by the governmen…
The Kenyan government has called on the UN to reimburse it 98 million U.S. dollars for peacekeeping efforts in Somalia where its soldiers launched cross border incursion in October 2011.
The Cabinet which met in Nairobi late on Thurs…
The Australian High Commission has commended Ghana for upholding the tenets of democracy, good governance, commitment to peace and security.
The Commission also praised Ghana for ensuring the importance of free trade and investment b…
A Syrian intelligence officer died when rebels blew up a security headquarter near the Syrian-Israeli border, activists said Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said eight security personnel were also killed in the blast.
"Th…
A Syrian intelligence officer died when rebels blew up a security headquarter near the Syrian-Israeli border, activists said Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said eight security personnel were also killed in the blast.
"Th…
A Syrian intelligence officer died when rebels blew up a security headquarter near the Syrian-Israeli border, activists said Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said eight security personnel were also killed in the blast.
"Th…
A Syrian intelligence officer died when rebels blew up a security headquarter near the Syrian-Israeli border, activists said Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said eight security personnel were also killed in the blast.
"Th…
Starbow Airline has announced a second daily flight on its Accra-Tamale-Accra route starting from Monday, February 4, 2013.
The late afternoon flight will leave Accra at 16:15 and from Tamale at 17:45 on Mondays, Tuesdays Thursdays, Frida…
A regional Hindu fundamentalist party in India, Shiv Sena, has reportedly distributed small knives among its women supporters in the western state of Maharashtra for "self protection". This comes in the wake of the horrific gang-rape of a …
Much-delayed restoration work on Rome's Colosseum could start in February, provided that legal and bureaucratic wrangling holding up the project is resolved by then, Italy's outgoing culture minister, Lorenzo Ornaghi, said Friday.
The 1st…
The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, (GNPC) headline sponsors of the national team, the Black Stars, on Friday congratulated the players of the team on the critical 1-0 win over the Eagles of Mali at the AFCON 2013 soccer tournament.…
Airline passengers in Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, face another day of chaos Friday following a strike by security staff.
The state's two main airports in Dusseldorf and Cologne-Bonn said they had together cancel…
Federal religious authorities in Malaysia on Friday urged Muslims to preserve the sanctity of their faith by not allowing non-Muslims to use the word "Allah" in their scriptures.
The Malaysian Islamic Development Department warned that…
A German and an Austrian who joined in al-Qaeda operations in Afghanistan were given long jail terms for terrorism on Friday by a Berlin court.
Prosecutors said the German Islamist triggered a major terror alert in 2009 when he appeare…
A Kumasi Circuit Court has remanded two persons into prison custody for possessing and trading in human parts.
The plea of Alex Agyemang Duah, trader and Agooge Asana, farmer, was not taken and they will come back on February 8, 2013.…
Mr Johnson Ahiakpor, District Chief Executive for Asuogyaman, has deniedreports that about 800 final year students from various Senior High Schools (SHS) in the district may not write this year's West Africa Senior School Certificate Exami…
Some suspected armed robbers early Thursday morning shot and wounded a driver of a Hyundai Grace mini bus and two market women at Attah ne Attah village on the Hweehwee-Sempoa road on their way to market.
They also took away large su…
The Western Regional Manager of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), Alhaji Sumani Mbo, said on Friday that it was regrettable for the country's productive population to perish through preventable road crashes.
He said in dev…
At least 20 people were arrested when a row broke out between gay rights protesters and Orthodox Christians in Moscow on Friday, as a law that would ban "homosexual propoganda" was set to receive its first reading in parliament.
Gay an…
Boys born in 2015 will have almost three times the risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point during their lives than those born in 1990.
Latest figures from research findings of Cancer Research UK show that the lifetime r…
Dr William Darko, Acting Medical Officer in-charge of the Tema Polyclinic, has said the delay in the payment of the NHIS bills has made it difficult for the Polyclinic to purchase drugs to run the facility.
He said the National Healt…
The Christian Children's Fund of Canada (CCFC), a non-governmental organization has spent 17.5 million Canadian dollars in community development in areas to help improve the standard of living for rural poor.
Mrs. Gifty Akosua…
The out-going Central Regional Director of Education, Dr Sarfo Kantanka, has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to reconsider its decision and allow students to use computers and mobile phones in school.
He said for the ease …
Mr Justice Yaw Apau, Sole Commissioner of the Judgment Debt Commission, said poor record-keeping and inadequate coordination of activities of heads of public institutions handling state finances were causing duplications and impeding the c…
The Paramount Chief of Oguaa and President of the Oguaa Traditional Council, Osabarima Kwesi Atta II, on Wednesday donated Gh¢500.00 to the Amanful Catholic Boys Junior High School (JHS) which got burnt last Sunday dawn.
The money …
The Sunyani Police has arrested Onyina Gyawu, a hit-and-run driver for killing a 11-year-old pupil of Saint Joseph Catholic Primary School at Atronie village near Sunyani last Tuesday, January 22.
The incident occurred in the afterno…
Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III has signed a law that promotes the welfare of household workers, a senior official said on Wednesday.
Act No. 10361 or "An Act Instituting Policies for the Protection and Welfare of Domestic…
Mr Victor Emmanuel Smith, Eastern Regional Care-taker Minister, has admonished medical officers in the country to show interest in patients who patronized their services at their respective hospitals.
He said it was their responsibil…
Mr Richard Mascot, Head Teacher of Azule Loanu Local School in the Western Region, on Wednesday appealed to ATCWAR, a Takoradi based Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), to provide the school with hand-pump well to help improve sanitation …
The Bekwai Municipal Assembly and four district assemblies in the Ashanti Region have been selected for the phase two of the Town and Country Planning's Land Use and Management Project (LAP).
The districts are Bosomtwe, Atwima-Kwanwo…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday called for comprehensive treatment of tensions over the Korean Peninsula as he met Kim Moo-sung, special envoy of the Republic of Korea (ROK) president-elect Park Geun-hye.
Xi, general secretary…
The United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) says despite significant and encouraging declines in open defecation since 1990, 1.1 billion people (15 per cent of the world's population) s…
The Asante Akim South District Police Command is on the heels of a chainsaw operator, believed to be in his early 40s who is on the run after killing his girlfriend at Subinso near Kyempo.
The suspect, Kwabena Tenkorang is said to h…
Chancellor Angela Merkel has led her Christian Democrats to victory in two national elections, earned a doctorate in quantum chemistry and, as a teenager, won a Russian language competition.
One of those, it turns out, was a source of …
Rlg Telecommunication, a subsidiary of RLG Communications Limited in collaboration with the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA) has presented setup kits to beneficiaries of the Rlg youth in mobile phone r…
Metro workers on strike in Athens for eight days risked being fired, the Greek government said on Thursday. The strike to protest pay cuts caused traffic jams and hampered access to airports.
Workers stayed away from their jobs despite a…
A Maternity Block Project for the Ejisu Government Hospital funded by the MTN Foundation at the cost of 240,676 Ghana Cedis was inaugurated at Ejisu in the Ashanti Region on Wednesday amidst fanfare.
The project comprised the provisi…
Sampa Police has arrested a hunter, Kwabena Kuma for allegedly killing his friend and fellow hunter, Yaw Kusi, 35, at Gokka in the Jaman North District of Brong-Ahafo Region.
Speaking with the Ghana News Agency, Deputy Commissioner o…
Two weeks into France's intervention in Mali the scale of the challenge facing French troops as they take on thousands of jihadists in a new front in the fight against terrorism is
starting to sink in.
President Francois Hollande's de…
The Foreign Office on Thursday urged Britons in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi to leave, citing a "specific and imminent threat" to Westerners.
Britain has warned its citizens against travelling to most parts of Libya since Septem…
A team of Japanese archaeologists has found a bronze comma-shaped bead, which is believed to be the oldest of its kind in the country's history, in the western Japanese city of Tottori, local press reported on Thursday.
The metal curved b…
The Eastern Regional Fire Safety Officer, Mr Ato Korsah, has stated that the Koforidua Melcom shop is in good condition and poses no safety threat to the general public.
He was reacting to a news story reported by an Accra FM station …
Nine schools at Janton in Salaga North on Thursday received educational materials worth GHc4,600 from the Canada Christian Children's Fund (CCFC), an NGO, to ensure effective teaching and learning.
The beneficiary schools, namely Kpa…
The Ghana Shippers' Authority (GSA) on Thursday donated items worth GH₵3,000 to the Accra Psychiatric Hospital to enable the medical facility meet its daily food supply demands.
Accra Psychiatric Hospital currently is faced with logist…
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