The Government is to revamp science resource
centres in selected Senior High Schools throughout the country by training science teachers to man them.
It will also provide funds to replace and refurbish their equipment, chemicals, c…
The Ghana Aids Commission (GAC) with funding
from DANIDA, has presented seven flat screen computers and their accessories worth GH¢13,300 to the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council
to help to manage data of the Municipal and Dist…
Madam Betty Busumtwi-Sam, Deputy Western Regional Minister, has called on Queen mothers in the region to form an association to enable them to take their rightful place in the society.
She said an association would provide Queen moth…
A 400 year old tree, believed to be the oldest in the country, has become a tourist attraction in the Birim Municipality of the Eastern Region.
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, the Eastern Regional Minister, who disclosed this in Tamale said,…
Speakers at a forum at Gomoa Abrekum organized by International Needs Network, a non-governmental organization, have called for enforcement of the law on Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education to make parents liable for children who are…
A three-day Women's Leadership Conference of the Council of Anglican Province of Africa (CAPA) has been held at Dodowa in the Dangme West District.
It aimed at training women to become change agents at the grassroots towards the realiz…
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency says it has found a second drug-smuggling tunnel that stretches from Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego.
An entrance to the half-mile-long tunnel was discovered Thursday morning in a warehous…
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) is pursuing a public-private dialogue policy, aimed at bringing on board all stakeholders in the agriculture to address constraints hindering the development of the sector.
Mr Effah Baafi, …
The Volta River Authority (VRA) says the spillway gates of the Akosombo dam were closed on November 24, at 12.00 noon, to end the spillage of excess water from the reservoir.
A statement issued by Mrs Gertrude Koomson, Head of Public…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Friday appealed to Ghanaian medical professionals abroad to consider the sacrifices the nation made in training them and come back home to render their due to their countrymen.
He extended the natio…
Dr (Mrs) Angela El-Adas, Director-General of the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) has hinted that the Commission will from next year, set up Technical Support Units in all regions and districts in the country.
This, she said, would "facil…
The Chief of the Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Matthew Quarshie, on Friday said the Ghana Armed Forces High Command would soon establish a Forward Operational Base near Half Assini.
The Base will be in close proximity to the Jubilee Oil…
Sixty-six percent of U.S. voters think the country is headed in the wrong direction while 28 percent approve of its course, a national opinion poll indicated.
Forty-seven percent of black voters believe the country is headed in the right …
Although road safety remained a health and developmental challenge to most countries particularly Ghana, little attention is being paid to the sector, Alhaji Sumani Mbo, the Western Regional Director of the National Road Safety Commission,…
Marking the second anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks, Maharashtra Police Friday took out a parade in south Mumbai beginning from Oberoi Trident Hotel, one of the sites of the deadly strikes.
The parade, which was participated by…
The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) with funding
from the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) on Friday presented computers and their accessories to 18 assemblies in the Northern
Region to assist them in the HIV/AIDS data mana…
The Court trying two soldiers over the death of
former Chairman of Convention Peoples Party (CPP), has adjourned to enable the judge to rule on whether to hear the case with the old jury or not.
The Fast Track High Court presided o…
Fifteen people were killed in 67 road accidents that occurred in the Asante-Mampong Municipality within the first nine months of the year.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Benjamin Kwadwo Gyasi, Municipal Commander of the Motor …
Deputy General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Dr Anthony Yaw Baah, has urged labour associations to introduce pragmatic programmes that would improve the welfare of their members.
He gave the assurance that the leader…
Yao Flah, 23, a kente weaver, is to go prison for 12 months for having sex with a female sheep and killing it afterwards.
He pleaded guilty to the charges of an unnatural carnal knowledge and cruelty to an animal at a District Court …
Mrs Ruth Addison, National Coordinator of Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) of the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, has called for adequate budgetary allocation for effective implementation of the ECCD policy.
The EC…
Mr Kwadwo Nyamekye Marfo, Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, has appealed to the Judiciary to assist the Police Anti-Human Trafficking Unit by
disposing off with dispatch cases of human trafficking before the law courts.
He said if cas…
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) in
collaboration with the management of Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) and WIENCO Ghana Limited would organise a National Farmers Forum as part of
activities marking this year's National…
The University of Ghana's branch of the Teachers
and Educational Workers Union (TEWU), on Thursday elected new officers with Mr Augustine Karbo, Leader of the New United Front emerging as Chairman with 5,182 votes.
Mr Nantogmah Abd…
The State Insurance Company (SIC) in Bolgatanga has presented the Bolgatanga Tennis Club with 45 T-Shirts and polo caps valued at 1,700 Ghana Cedis and a cheque for 1,000 Ghana cedis.
Mr Edward Annor-Bekoe, Upper East Regional branch ma…
Mr Nii Armah Ashietey, Greater Accra Regional Minister has expressed worry about the craving for foreign cultures and has called for the reversal of the situation and rather to promote the local ones.
He said there was the need to pr…
As part of its ongoing crackdown against Pakistan-based terror groups, US has slapped sanctions against more key Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders and its affiliate.
The senior LeT members, who have been designated as global terrorists are Mi…
Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture(MOFA), on Thursday said 30 dams and dugouts located in various areas in the three northern regions have been earmarked for rehabilitation.
The World Bank is funding the rehabilitation …
Madam Alexandra Totoe, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Volta River Authority (VRA) in-charge of Finance, on Thursday appealed to workers to help reinforce safety to ensure harmony and institutional development at the workplace.
She…
Mr Francis Abotsi, Volta Regional Director of Environmental Health has called for stakeholders meeting to tackle "indiscriminate defecating", in the Ho Municipality in particular and other parts of the region.
He was speaking at the…
Dr Benjamin Kumbuor, Minister of Health, on Thursday performed the ceremony for the construction of a 13.66 million-dollar Blood and Sickle Cell Centre at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).
The three-storey building complex would…
Government is to launch the second phase of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) to provide meals to pupils in more than 2,000 rural basic schools across the country.
The second phase to be launched early next year is currently …
The Minister for Women and Children's Affairs, Mrs Juliana Azumah-Mensah, has launched the 16 days of Activism against Gender Based Violence in the country at Suhum.
The theme for the celebration is "Women speak peace, end gender b…
The National Media Commission (NMC) will on Tuesday celebrate the first anniversary of the Sixth Commission.
A statement issued in Accra by Mr George Sarpong, Executive Secretary of the NMC, said the theme for the celebration is, "A …
Sanitary facilities at the Volta Trade, Investment and Culture fair in Ho are over stretched, some Exhibitors told the Ghana News Agency.
They said the few toilets at the Jubilee Park where the fair is being held are overstretched, com…
Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture said on Thursday that government was subsidising the price of 100,000 metric tonnes of fertiliser at the cost of GH� 32 million for the 2010 farming season.
Mr Ahwoi who made this kn…
The chiefs and people of the Navrongo Traditional Area in the Kassena-Nankana East District have launched their annual Fao Festival aimed at bringing together the people to initiate development projects and activities for the ensuing years…
Three people were killed when a taxi cab on which they were travelling crashed into a Ford tractor at Yawbarimakrom on the Kumasi-Nyinahin highway.
The deceased were identified as Kwasi Adjei, 24, the driver, Kwame Tano and Kwabena T…
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday, began relief operations to Ghanaians affected by recent flooding.
WFP is initially providing food for 25,000 people in urgent need of assistance. The foods valued at about 3…
Ghana's attainment of the Millennium Development Goals four and five, requires a declaration of zero tolerance for infant and maternal mortality, Dr John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Upper East Regional Director of Health Services has said.
…
A three-member Committee of Inquiry set up by the Western Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) to investigate two shooting incidents at Sefwi Wiawso on December 11 last year, on Thursday presented its report to Mr Paul Evans Aidoo, the Reg…
A Koforidua Magistrate Court presided over by Ms Priscilla Yeboah, has sentenced Emmanuel Kofi Awotwe, an unemployed youngman from New Tafo, to 24 months imprisonment in hard labour.
Awotwe pleaded guilty to the two counts of conspir…
The Ministry of Education (MOE) sector Peace Corps Volunteers and a number of teachers have received training in nursery practices, gardening, tree planting skills and agro-forestry technologies at Kukurantumi in the Eastern Region.
…
Cabinet has approved the National Ageing Policy and Action Plan to be captured in the 2011 fiscal year.
Mr Enoch Teye Mensah, Minister of Employment and Social Welfare made this known on Thursday when he addressed the National Execut…
The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has reiterated the need for the Ministry of Education to make girls education a top priority and support the fight against gender violence in schools.
It called on government an…
The chief cocoa farmer for the Suhum-Kraboa Coaltar District has called for regulation and control of activities of cocoa purchasing companies.
"The desire of some of the companies to buy even 'Not Thoroughly Dried (NTD)' beans had c…
Personnel of the Forestry Commission on Wednesday began a two-day workshop in Accra, on capacity development on risk management, corporate governance and effective controls.
The workshop on the theme: "Risk Management, Corporate Gove…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday led the World Food Programme, the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) and other partners to distribute food to flood victims in the Northern Region.
The package, which inclu…
Mr Paul Evans Aidoo, Western Regional Minister, on Thursday inaugurated an 11-member reconstituted board of trustees of the Regional Education Fund with a call on members to do everything within their power to improve the standard of educ…
A federally sponsored report in Canada said fisherman could take greater control of the supply side of the lobster market.
The $400,000 report prepared by economists at Gardner Pinfold and presented to the Lobster Council of Canada said t…