The Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB) in collaboration with Ricerca e Cooperazione, an Italian NGO, have undertaken a cultural heritage campaign in the Cape Coast Municipality.
The campaign, which is being held on pilot basis i…
Students of Sunyani Polytechnic, on Tuesday joined their colleagues in a nationwide demonstration to register their protest about the intermittent strike actions by their lecturers over conditions of service.
Wearing red and black dre…
The Asante Presbytery, of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has inducted the Reverend Benson Osafo Kantankah, as its new Clerk, with a call on the leadership to work hard in deepening the spiritual renewal programmes of the church.
The R…
The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) has completed the construction of a three-storey girls' dormitory block for the Jachie Pramso Senior High School (SHS), in the Ashanti Region, to accommodate more than 600 first year students.
Eac…
Kwabena Adeanyamebeye, a labourer and his uncle, John Essumang on Tuesday appeared before a Sekondi District Magistrate's Court for allegedly conspiring to commit crime and attempted murder.
Their pleas were not taken and were remand…
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called for the immediate halt of the partisan politicization of health and educational issues in the country.
He said health and education are the cornerstones of development of every nation,…
Clients of mobile phone services have been warned against registering the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards of their dead relatives, because it is against the law.
Mr Abed A. Bandim, Customer and Co-operate Affairs Manager of th…
The Bawku Mutual Health Insurance Scheme (BMMHIS) has embarked on a special mass registration for people in the Bawku Municipality, Garu-Tempane and Bawku West Districts of the Upper East Region.
The exercise is an initiative of the …
Human and animal health researchers in Africa are meeting in Accra to build their research capacity for the betterment of human and animal health.
Under a consortium codenamed "Afrique One", made up of six African countries namely Gh…
North Korea could have developed nuclear warheads small enough to be mounted on ballistic missiles with the help of China or Pakistan, a U.S. expert on nuclear weapons said Tuesday.
"(It) could have transferred from Khan to North Korea…
North Korea should bring international inspectors back to its nuclear facilities and declare a moratorium on its nuclear activities before stalled multilateral denuclearization talks can resume, a senior South Korean foreign ministry offic…
Three police officers had been shot at Nakpanduri in the Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo District by Johnson Kombian alias 'Borger' killing one on the spot and two are in critical condition and are on admission at the Nalerigu Baptist Medical Centre.
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A notorious criminal, Johnson Kombian Kakum alias "Burger" on Sunday killed a Policeman and wounded two others on patrol duties between Nakpanduri and the Gambaga Scarp in the Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo District of the Northern Region.
Gener…
Major Rex Nuamah (rtd), the President of Western Regional Sachet Water Producers Association, has appealed to members of the association to co-operate with regulatory bodies to minimize indiscriminate disposal of used plastic sheets or sac…
Bahrain police are investigating the death of Indian national Satheesh Kumar Pettarveedu Unnikrishnan, who apparently stabbed himself to death after an argument with one of his roommates.
30-year-old Unnikrishnan, a resident of Cochin…
The Mankessim Programme Area of Plan Ghana has marked the Global Hand Washing Day with a call on Ghanaians to take their health into their own hands by observing good hygienic practices.
October 15 is observed as Global Hand Washing …
The Association of Private Security Organizations, Ghana, (APSOG) on Monday condemned the activities of a group of persons who were arrested at Adjiri Ganno, near East Legon, on Tuesday October 5, claiming to be members of the Association.…
The New York tri-state area's premier monthly magazine for black professionals, corporate executives and small business owners, The Network Journal (TNJ), is to hold its inaugural 40 Under Forty Achievement Awards Dinner in Accra to honour…
The Agona Swedru High Court, has imposed a fine of GH�5,000 on the Queen Mother of Mankessim, Nana Ama Amissah for contempt.
In default she would serve 18 months imprisonment.
Mr Clement Kwesi Adjei, Counsel for the Regent of…
Nana Agyewodin Adu-Gyamfi Ampem, Chairman, Ghana Education Service Council, has observed that the nation had the capacity to solve the current problem of finding classroom and dormitory space for first year students in the Senior High Scho…
Mr Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, the Mayor of Accra, on Monday called on beneficiaries of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) under health extension to take advantage of the opportunity given them to acquire productive skills.
H…
The weather will be cloudy on Monday morning with mist over sheltered areas, according to the weather forecast issued by the Ghana Meteorological Agency in Accra.
It said the afternoon would be warm and sunny with late afternoon sho…
Dr Agatha Bonney, Bosomtwe District Director of Health Services, has said the country should embark on a conscious effort to promote reproductive health to enhance safe motherhood at all levels.
She said it was unfortunate that the natio…
Mr. Ernest Caesar Asiedu, Communication Director of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, has advised Ghanaians to change their lackadaisical attitude towards the management of waste.
He stressed that if people changed their attitude towards sanit…
Madam Queronica Quarteley Quartey, Action Aid Ghana (AAG) Policy Advisor, on Saturday stated that the right to food was a common human right issue in Africa.
She said the type of food one chose and the time the food was needed were t…
The National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), has insisted that chloroquine has lost its efficacy for the treatment of malaria and urged the public to desist from using it for the treatment of malaria.
According to the NMCP, chloroq…
The Brong-Ahafo Regional Secretariat of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has since 2008 received GHC 72.4 million from the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) for the payment of claims to service providers in the region.
…
Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture, on Monday noted that the commercial cultivation of cassava as an alternative source of bio-energy, would not compromise Ghana's agricultural lands or threaten its food security.
The …
Pastor Patrick Kwadzo Agbevem, Pastor of Apostolic Church of Ghana, Odorkor Central Assembly in Accra, on Sunday urged Christian to let their beliefs reflect in their daily lives to help to reduce social vices that were gradually gaining r…
The University of Education, Winneba, is in collaboration with Chicago State University, University of Cape Coast and the Ghana Education Service to produce textbooks from pre-school up to basic level three.
The Vice-chancellor, Prof.…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama, on Monday, called on African leaders to exhibit a level of good governance, leadership and accountability that would pave way for integration and economic independence.
"We as Africans can never su…
A businessman, who concealed 9,612 grams of cannabis in his hand bag and attempted to export it to the United Kingdom, appeared before an Accra Fast Track High Court on Monday.
Benjamin Koomson, charged with attempted exportation of …
Three persons are in the grip of the Northern Regional Police Command for murdering a 22-year-old businessman, Dauda Adams, who went to a �galamsey� site near Bole to purchase some gold.
He was killed in the bush and the body l…
Florence Wireponwaa, a 61-year-old farmer who killed a goat she said strayed into her kitchen has been sentenced to a fine of GH�120 by the Kade District Magistrate�s court.
She pleaded guilty and would go to prison for six month…
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The weather will be cloudy with showers or slight
rain over a few coastal stations and misty over sheltered areas in the morning, according to the weather forecast issued by the Ghana Meteorological Agency in Accra.
It said the weat…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Tuesday
observed that sustainable water resources hold the key to socio-economic development of nations.
He said sustainability of the resource is therefore the key to long term success and this ca…
Polytechnic education is the engine of every
developing economy, Mr. Caesar Kale, the Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, has said.
Mr. Kale said this on Tuesday when students of the Wa Polytechnic embarked on a peaceful demonstrat…
GVolta River Authority (VRA) has reiterated its
commitment to fulfil its obligations to safeguard the environment and livelihoods in its operational areas.
In this respect, VRA in 2005 formulated a Corporate Environmental Policy Sta…
Most Reverend Charles Palmer-Buckle, Archbishop of Accra Catholic Diocese has deplored the lavish spending on funerals by Ghanaians, which he said deprive descendants of the deceased the badly needed resources they need.
He observed …
Pope Benedict XVI Sunday canonized six new saints, including the first from Canada and Australia, in an outdoor homily at Saint Peters Square in Rome.
Tens of thousands of Catholics, some waving Canadian and Australian flags, attended the…
Shaikh Ibrahim Basha, Chairman of the National Islamic Education Unit Council, has called for the setting up of more Islamic second cycle schools, to facilitate the establishment of an Islamic university in the country.
He said the …
An al-Qaida car bomb attack on a military patrol in Yemen was thwarted when soldiers fired on the car and blew it up prematurely, government officials said.
An unidentified government source told the national SABA news agency two of the c…
While flooding has eased in some areas, officials have declared new regions in southwest Australia as disaster areas.
State Emergency Service volunteers were monitoring towns and communities south of Wagga Wagga, bordering Billabong Creek…
A suit against U.S. television personality and model Tyra Banks says she featured a teenage girl on a show about sex addiction without parental permission.
In a lawsuit, Beverly McClendon, a licensed social worker, said her then 15-year-o…
The youth of Senya Beraku on Sunday held its second demonstration in two weeks to end the dispute thwarting the installation of a chief to champion the development of the town.
They said the protracted chieftaincy dispute was affecti…
Osofo Patrick Adingtingah Apullah, President of the West African Seed Companies Association, has appealed to university and polytechnic lecturers to call off their strike action for the sake of poor parents, who were mostly farmers.
He…
An Advisor to the Al Jezeera Network, an international TV network, headquartered in Qatar, has expressed concern about the distorted image and biased stories of Africa in foreign media reportage.
Ahmad Sheikh, was delivering a lec…
Prof William Otoo Ellis, the Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, has told fresh students of the Faculty of Forest Resources Technology to make acquiring a degree from the university their pre-occupati…
Wienco Ghana Limited, producers and exporters of agricultural products, has gone on a nationwide tree planting exercise to celebrate 30 years of doing business in Ghana.
The company, which assists farmers in various ways and sponsors p…