Inesfly Africa, producers of insecticide paints, and Ahaban Foundation, a youth group, have undertaken a collaborative project to rid the Ridge Hospital in Accra of mosquitoes. In line with the project, the members of Ahaban Foundation pai…
The Eastern Regional Director of Health, Dr. Charity Sarpong, has promised to turn the region into a health model where quality health service will be accessed According to her, the primary motive was to make the region a place of assuranc…
Traditional rulers have been urged to prioritise child protection issues as politicians seek their mandate in the upcoming general elections.
They have also been asked to demand from political parties specific policies outlined in their…
The Ashaiman District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Seth Tay says the inability of the public to differentiate between “theft or stealing, armed robbery and burglary” is a major concern to the Police.
He said i…
President John Dramani Mahama has proposed an increased stakeholder engagement following the entry into force of the Ghana Compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).
Speaking to journalists in New York, after a courtesy ca…
The first flight from Jeddah touched down at the Tamale Airport at 11am on Thursday September 22, 2016. In all four flights are scheduled to touch down at the Tamale Airport from Thursday to Sunday, September 25, 2016.
The first batch o…
The District Fire Officer for the Devtraco Fire Station,Tema for the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Divisional Officer Grade II, Jennifer Naa Yarley Quaye, has reechoed the importance of switching off all electrical appliances and rem…
More than 600 aged persons in the Obuasi municipality are to benefit from free national health insurance registration to give them access to quality health care. This is being done by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection …
Mr. Kyeremeh presenting the package to Mr. Atefuah .To enhance the teaching of Maths and Science among teachers, the government has distributed 53,000 laptops to teachers in public schools across the country through the Ministry of Educati…
The Ghana Social Opportunities Project (GSOP) has rehabilitated 67 dams and dugouts in the Upper East Region to support poor rural farmers to undertake dry season farming to improve food security in the region.
The rehabilitation works …
(Reuters Health) - Having a vasectomy doesn't increase a man's risk of developing prostate cancer or dying from it, a U.S. study suggests.
Previous research has been mixed about the risk of prostate cancer associated with vasectomy…
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — As the deadly outbreak of Ebola has subsided, people in several West African countries are flocking to eat bushmeat again after restrictions were lifted on the consumption of wild animals like hedgehogs and cane rats…
Diabetes is a condition where there is too much sugar in the blood which causes a host of serious problems. If you suffer from diabetes, you need to eat something every few hours to ensure that the blood sugar is within healthy limits. I…
The Director of Academic Affairs at the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College (GAFCSC), Dr Vladimir Antwi-Danso, has advocated a law to give backing to the 40-year development plan being developed by the National Development Planni…
The National Council on Persons with Disability (NCPWD) has developed an initiative to address the concerns of persons with disability (PWDs), with regard to ensuring easy access to public facilities.
Known as the Ghana Standard on Acce…
Mr Fiifi Kwatey, Minister of Transport, says it is important for politicians to recognise that road crashes and injuries are major health problems for the society.
He said Road Traffic crashes and their resultant causalities pose a dev…
The Ghanaian society must demand more issue-based stories from the media instead of the flashy, sensational, click-bait kind of stories that are preferred today.Ms Sara Stealy, the Press Attaché at the US Embassy, said this was critical, …
The second edition of the Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah African Genius Awards has been launched in Accra, with a challenge thrown to Ghanaians to emulate the life of the late president.
The biennial award scheme, which seeks to celebrate disti…
In line with its vision to move quality eye care beyond the continents, Dr.Agarwal’s Eye Hospital was first Indian Eye Hospital to launch its first state-of-the-art eye hospital in Accra (Ghana). Honourable Minister of Health, Republic of …
The Vice President, Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur has said there is the need for Ghanaians to improve their proficiency in both domestic and international languages so they could communicate and integrate better with the rest of the world…
Some 150 judges in Ghana have threatened to strike next week over salary anomalies which they have been crying over for months. The judges who practice at the lower court level said they will not turn up for work from next week if their de…
Seth OsabukleThe Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) yesterday re-assured of its commitment to support government’s vision of making Ghana a net exporter of power by the year 2020.
Speaking at the seventh Annual General Meeting (AGM), C…
Annual leave for security personnel across the country, has been suspended until January.
The decision is to enable the personnel to prepare adequately ahead of the upcoming general elections, Christmas festivities, the inaugural and sw…
Ghana has for the past five successive years failed to meet its six per cent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) target in the agriculture sector, an Agro Policy Performance Barometer (APPB) report for 2014/15 has revealed.
‘The failure could …
Staff of the 37 colleges of education which have attained tertiary status will smile all the way to their banks effective October this year. This follows the approval by the Ministry of Finance for the migration of staff of the Colleges of…
An independent technical committee set-up by the government to review the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has recommended that the scheme should be redesigned and restructured to focus more on primary health care. The committee fur…
The Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Moses Asaga, has said the challenges consumers encounter with their vehicles is not as a result of the quality of diesel imported into the country but on consumers’ dec…
The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) in the Upper East Region, will soon embark on an intensive operation to mop up all unregistered vehicles and motor cycles in the region.
It has, accordingly, warned that owners o…
A 40-million dollar data management system on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) for the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service, was launched in Accra on Thursday.
The system, an electronic…
The Dome Pillar “2” branch of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Paradise Temple donated assorted items worth about GH¢9,400 to the Demonstration School for the Deaf, in Mampong-Akuapem in the Eastern Region over the weekend.…
Researchers from Switzerland have confirmed what most of us already know - drinking a single glass of beer can make people more sociable.
The team from University Hospital in Basel tested 60 healthy people, with an equal number of men a…
A fifty-eight-year-old post-menopausal woman on Wednesday delivered a set of twins (two girls) at the Trustcare Specialist Hospital and Fertility Centre in Kumasi after undergoing an Intro-Vitro Fertility and Embryo Transfer (IVF-ET) at th…
The Water Resources Commission (WRC) has indicated that the catchment area of the Barekese Dam in Kumasi will be declared a security zone. According to the commission, the move had become necessary following illegal artisanal fishing activ…
The Bosomtwe District Health Management Team (DHMT) has intensified efforts to enable it to win the fight against maternal mortality in the district.
According to the acting Director of Health Services for the Bosomtwe District, Mr Bern…
Dotis Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, has donated various items to the Assemblies of God Church at Chogu in Tamale for the upkeep of widows in the mission.
The items, which included bags of rice, soft drinks, learning mate…
Female student population in Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) grew 14 per cent more over the number of male students admitted to pursue various programmes for the 2016/2017 academic year, the Rector said on Saturday.
“Our total stude…
The National Council on Persons with Disability (NCPD) together with interested parties, have produced national standard accessibility designs to guide builders and service providers to remove barriers impeding universal accessibility of …
First Lady Lordina Mahama has called for intensified efforts at stopping the criminals involved in human trafficking, especially in Ghana, and within the sub-region.
She said some of the wicked actions against victims of trafficking we…
A two-day conference of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO) has opened in Accra, with a call on African states to increase collaboration and partnership to address concerns in the African aviation sector.
The two-day …
A coalition of 50 civil society organisations in the Northern Savanna Ecological Zone (NSEZ) has called on all political parties in this year’s general election to reaffirm their commitment to the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority …
The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Edward Doe Adjaho, has advised professionals, especially the clergy, to go about their core businesses without interfering with other people’s work.
He stated that God in his own wisdom assigned direct prof…
The Ghana Refugees Board (GRB) has initiated a process to naturalise 3,500 Liberian refugees who have expressed interest in integrating into the Ghanaian society.
The Executive Director of the GRB, Dr Kofi Anani, said the 3,500 opted no…
Researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland recently made a surprise discovery during a mouse trial: progesterone appears to reduce the symptoms of influenza infection and help lungs heal at a faster rate.
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Swiss firms have been criticised in a report for their links to the African trade in diesel with toxin levels that are illegal in Europe.
Campaign group Public Eye says retailers are exploiting weak regulatory standards.
Vitol, Trafi…
The National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan 2016-2020 which will fast-track the national HIV response towards the total elimination of HIV and AIDS in Ghana has been launched in Accra.
The plan focuses on high-impact HIV prevention, treatm…
Ipas Ghana, an international organisation working to promote women’s reproductive health, has held a one-day workshop on unsafe abortion for media practitioners.
The programme was to sensitise the media practitioners to the need to prom…
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's High Court disbarred deputy prosecutions chief Nomgcobo Jiba as an advocate on Thursday, leading to opposition calls for the immediate sacking of a senior legal figure widely seen as an ally of Presi…
A large item of debris found off the coast of Tanzania belongs to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Australian investigators say.
The fragment, said to be the inboard section of the right, outboard flap of the plane, was recov…
As people age, changes occur in all parts of the body, including the brain. While certain areas of the brain shrink with age, scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital have found that "super agers" - older adults whose memory and thin…
While a number of studies claim moderate alcohol consumption can benefit heart health, new research suggests consuming just one drink a day may raise the risk of atrial fibrillation - a major risk factor for stroke, heart failure, and othe…
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