The Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG), on Friday said it has put on hold its strike action counting on the National Security Council's word to address its grievances.
CLOGSAG has been battling to earn a …
The Ghana Education Service (GES) on Friday released the 2010 Computerized School Selection and Placement (CSSP) for Senior High Schools(SHS).
Ms. Benedicta Naana Biney, Acting Director-General of GES, addressing a press conference i…
Nii Armah Ashietey, Greater Accra Regional
Minister has embarked on a two-day working visit to some government agencies and communities within the Ga South municipality.
In accompany of Mr. Sheriff Otto Doodoo, Ga South Municipal Ch…
The winner of 2009 Best Telecommunications
Reporter award, Mr Samuel Dowuona of the Ghana News Agency (GNA), would embark on an all expense-paid trip to South Africa to participate in a Highway Africa conference.
The trip, which wou…
China's chief nuclear envoy left for Japan on
Saturday as Beijing has been pushing to reopen the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs, officials here said.
Wu Dawei, Beijing's special representative for Korean Peninsula a…
The Iranian Red Crescent in conjunction with the
Ghana Red Cross on Saturday organized a free medical outreach for the people of Nima in Accra.
The exercise, which attracted over 300 people, was aimed at sick persons in the area who…
The Management of the Wa Islamic Hospital has
appealed to government to help the hospital to acquire a license to establish a Nursing Training School to help train more nurses.
Dr Hany Alhawary, a Plastic Surgeon Specialist and the …
The Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, His Excellency Gong Jianzhong, said on Thursday that China would continue to support the Ghana Government in its effort to produce human resources capable of meeting the challenges of Global technological a…
The Global Fund is to subside anti-malaria
medications that have been recommended by the Ministry of Health, Mr Kwame Dzudzarli Gakpey, Communication Officer of the National Malaria Control Programmed has said.
He was speaking at a …
Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings, First Vice
Chairperson of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), on Saturday, called on adults to serve as good role models, so that children and the youth would emulate.
She was speaking at the first…
Riis Memorial School, a private basic school at
Dansoman in Accra, has held a day's medical screening exercise for the people of its catchments area to improve on their health status.
The school brought together a team of 10 medical…
China will fund an Indian gallery at the Rabindra Bharati University campus here to highlight
Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's relations with that country, Chinese Consul-General Mao Sewei has said.
The gallery, to be named 'Ra…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il appears to be heading to a third destination in China, instead of returning home from a surprise trip to the neighboring ally believed to be linked to Pyongyang's father-to-son power transition process.
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China will fund an Indian gallery at the Rabindra Bharati University campus here to highlight Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's relations with that
country, Chinese Consul-General Mao Sewei has said.
The gallery, to be named 'Ra…
Seven hundred and eighty-three inmates made up of 611 convicts and 172 on remand occupy a space originally provided for 400 jailed people at the Sunyani Prisons.
As a result of the congestion and unhygienic conditions, inmates suffer…
An Accra Circuit Court on Friday found Abed Okunnor, 2008 New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary aspirant for Ningo Prampram Constituency, guilty for fraud.
He pleaded not guilty for defrauding by false pretences.
Okunnor, a C…
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has been asked to consider leadership qualities in appointing heads of educational institutions towards good quality education in the country.
This was contained in a paper presented by the New Juabe…
The death is reported of Mr K. M. Abadoo, former Editorial Administrator of the Ghana News Agency (GNA).
A letter signed by Mrs Cecilia Abadoo, the widow to GNA said the deceased died on August 11, at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital…
More than 17,000 people who were displaced by
floods in the Central Region received extra protection against malaria infection from the United States Agency for International Development
(USAID).
A release issued in Accra by Mr. H…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama has commended private universities and colleges for their complementary role in providing quality education in the country.
He said huge number of senior secondary school students that comes out eve…
Ghana on Thursday unveiled an architectural strategy for the construction of a 4.3 million Euro multi-facetted "Lands Village", to serve as a National and Greater Accra Regional Office of the Lands Commission.
The Lands Village to be…
A media consultant, Mrs Charity Binka, on Friday urged women journalists to be conversant with the use and techniques of ICT in their work.
"ICT is not only for men therefore, women should endeavour to explore the ICT world", she add…
Mr Samuel Okudjato Ablakwah, Deputy Minister of
Information, gave the assurance that Government would not criminalize free speech in the country.
He said that Ghanaians would not be prevented from expressing their concerns about Gov…
President John Evans Atta Mills has nominated
three persons for appointment as District Chief Executives in Yendi Municipal, Karaga and Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo Districts.
A statement issued in Accra on Friday and signed by Mr. Joseph Yiel…
Mr Alex Tetteh-Enyo, the Minister of Education, has assured private basic and second cycle schools of the government's support through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund).
Additionally, they would benefit from the supply of …
The Chinese Embassy in Ghana will host a Chinese
Movie Festival from 3rd to 5th September as part of activities marking the 50 years Diplomatic Relations between the People's Republic of China and Ghana.
A statement from the Chinese…
Queens have been urged to develop the inner strength to resist overtures by people who have no legitimate title to vacant stools to prevent tension and chaos during installation of new chiefs.
Nana Boakye Ansah Debrah, Asokore-Mampo…
The government is working towards extending electricity to about 400 rural communities in the Upper West Region by the end of this year, Mr. Rashid Pelpuo, Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, has said.
Mr. Pelpuo, who is also the M…
The management of Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) on
Friday said the interruption of electricity supply to parts of the Accra Metropolis on the night of Thursday, August 26, between 20.20 hours and
22:00 hours, was as a result of a fire outb…
Nene Asafoatse Odoi III, a member of the Great Ningo Traditional Council (GNTC), has underscored the need for people in the area to co-exist peacefully.
By so doing, he said, they would, in a collective manner, initiate development …
The Madina Divisional Police Commander, Chief
Superintendent of Police (CSP) Paul Ayitey, said on Thursday that the crime rate in the Madina area had reduced drastically during the first and second quarters of 2010.
He said during t…
The United Kingdom-based Derby-Hall Educational
Trust, on Friday presented large quantities of supplementary readers to the Ghana Education Service (GES) as its contribution towards education in Ghana.
The books were to be distribut…
Mr Antwi-Boasiako Sekyere, Deputy Minister of
Employment and Social Welfare (MESW) has commended the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) for bringing groups under the Public Service Joint Standing Negotiating Committee (PSJSNC) for …
India's Power Grid Corporation is among the three firms shortlisted by Nigeria to manage the African nation's electricity grid to be constructed at a cost of USD 3.5 billion.
Besides Power Grid Corporation of India, the other two …
In order to commemorate the upcoming Commonwealth Games in the Indian capital, New Delhi,a week-long 'low carbon fair' is being held here from Saturday.
Several activities promoting low carbon practices will be held during the initiat…
Indian government Friday said the nuclear liability bill and the pacts signed with various
countries in the atomic field represent the "fruits" of efforts being made aimed at high economic growth through external pre-requisites.
"O…
A leading mobile phone operator Vodafone Friday cautioned its subscribers of a disruption of
email and messenger services after August 31 in the face of a Government deadline to ban BlackBerry's encrypted services if security agencies are…
Mr Joseph William Osei, Forest Economist, at the
weekend called for improvement in forest management by integrating environmental protection, social responsibilities and economic efficiency to address climate change.
"Forest managem…
Mr George Smith-Graham Chief Executive Officer of
the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC), has assured workers that the Commission and its stakeholders would resolve all issues and concerns of the Civil and Local Government Staff As…
Reverend Dr Stephen Kwabena Asante, President of the Ghana Baptist Convention (GBC), has expressed the Church's strong opposition to same sex marriages and urged government to act boldly
to stop this from happening in the country.
…
A database system for monitoring and tracking
information on child labour issues in Ghana was launched in Accra on Friday with a call on various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies not to compromise on canker.
The Child …
Archbishop Dr George Slezer Ofori-Atta, Presiding
Archbishop of the International Council for Clergy (ICC), at the weekend asked journalists to focus on social issues and shun the use of politics to shape the national agenda.
"We (I…
Dr Benjamin Kunbour, Minister of Health, has invited stakeholders to be supportive of the government's programmes and interventions designed to bring down maternal and infant deaths.
This, he said, was necessary to help t…
The Northern Regional Programmes Manager of ActionAid, Mr Yakubu Mohammed Saani, had indicated that, the NGO had spent GH�301,000 to provide classroom infrastructural facilities for six communities, and are ready for use by students.
…
The Rev Dr Yaw Frimpong-Manso, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has appealed to the church�s Men�s Fellowship in the Western Region to explore avenues for investment in the emerging oil industr…
A pressure group at Obuasi has accused AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) of adopting new tactics that would render the Mining and Building Contractors (MBC), a subsidiary company, ineffective in their underground activities to warrant their intended…
Community Centre Court 'B' in Accra on Thursday imposed a fined of GH�180.00 on Joyce Osei, trader, for littering the road near the Tema Lorry Station, Accra, with ice water sachet.
The convict, who would go to jail for six months i…
A 23-year-old mechanic, charged with defilement on Thursday stunned the audience at a Circuit Court in Accra, when he told the court that the victim he allegedly defiled was 18 years and not 15 years as stated by the Police.
Bright A…
There was a scuffle on the precincts of Greater Accra Regional Office of National Service Secretariat (NSS) over the purchase of National Service Voluntary Forms.
The sale of the forms began on Thursday morning with about 300 Service…
A 27-year-old soldier who attempted to rob a student of 280 Ghana Cedis at Nima in Accra was on Thursday sentenced to 18 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for attempted robbery.
The court found Lance Corporal Imoro Ibrahim…