The Food and Drugs Board (FDB), on Wednesday said
that some companies and individuals were importing and distributing medical devices, which it claimed were been used for the diagnosis and treatment of various ailments in the country.
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Alhaji Issahaque Salia, Upper West Regional
Minister, has suggested the formation of a committee to look into the problems of the Regional Hospital to help attract medical personnel and other paramedics to the hospital.
He said it w…
Twenty persons have been trained to help promote human rights issues in Akwatia in the Eastern Region.
The training programme was organized by Projects Abroad Human Rights, a Non Governmental Organization based in Accra.
The pa…
Mr Tom Budu, the Akyemansa District Chief Executive, has appealed to religious leaders to remind their members and encourage them to make themselves available during the national population and housing census.
He said the exercise …
A three-day Furniture and Decoration Fair to give local furniture producers a platform to showcase their products to the general public has opened in Accra.
The venue of the Fair is the National Theatre.
The event was organiz…
Describing as a "tremendous gesture" India's aid offer for Pakistani flood victims, the US has said it was "gratified" by Islamabad's decision to accept USD 5 million in assistance extended by its neighbour.
"It was a tremendous ges…
The Nigerian Police at the weekend busted one Godwin Akpobire, alias 'Gary Bire', who allegedly duped a number of churches in Ghana and the UK of various sum of money.
Gary whose modus operandi is to promise vulnerable missions of hi…
The Atwima District Commander of the Police Motor Traffic Transport Unit, (MTTU) has to appealed the Ghana Highways Authority to urgently fix the poor sections of the Kumasi-Bibiani road to check the increasing motor accidents.
Assis…
The Ghana Red Cross Society is to secure insurance policies for its committed field volunteers.
The initiative is to motivate members of the Society especially the youth to give their best in the service of humanity without any an…
The Akim Oda Government Hospital has received a donation of medical equipment worth thousands of Ghana cedis, to augment facilities in the Physiotherapy Department of the hospital.
They are 150 physiotherapy items and 25 crutches.
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Vice President John Dramani Mahama, on Monday said effective implementation of family planning programmes had the potential of enhancing Ghana's achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
"This is because Family Planning cuts ac…
The Ghana Highways Authority has been asked to as a matter of urgency repair the Kumasi-Bibiani road to prevent road accidents.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Minta Asare, Atwima District Commander of the Police Motor Traff…
At least seven of 15 Chinese nationals who were held captive in a tourist bus hijacked by a dismissed policeman Monday are still alive.
But four captives were confirmed dead, according to the report filed by ABS-CBN News Channel.
The hos…
A non governmental organisation, based in Denmark, 'M S Action Aid', has donated health and educational facilities, worth three thousand dollars to the Builsa south constituency, in the Builsa district of the Upper East Region.
The i…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Monday urged Ghanaians to concentrate on worthy issues, instead of speculations and hear-say.
"Let us concentrate on what is worthy and leave aside all these speculations," said President Mills.
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Available statistics show that there is generally a poor response to registration of marriages in the Ejura-Sekyedumase district, a predominantly maize and yam growing area.
Between May 2003 and the third week of August 2010, only 108…
Philippine hostage crisis ended here on Monday night with several hostages still alive, local TV footage showed.
The hostage-taker, former Police Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza, was killed after local police assaulted the bus to save th…
Secretary for Security Bureau of the Hong Kong government, Ambrose Lee, confirmed on Monday that 15 tourists from Hong Kong were still held hostage by a gunman in the Philippine capital Manila.
He said five tourists, including three chil…
Chinese nationals married to foreigners will have to settle any marital conflicts according to the law of the country where they live most of the time under proposals that went before Chinese lawmakers Monday.
The law of their main countr…
The Ashanti Regional branch of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), has called off its strike action over the recent attack on the Judiciary by the National Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Kwabena Adjei.
Thi…
Daasebre Osei Bonsu II, Omanhene of Asante-Mampong, has raised concern about the growing degradation of the area's environment, through illegal sand and stone winning and had tasked the Municipal Assembly to act firmly to tackle the situat…
The Minister for the Interior has on the advice of the Northern and Upper East Regional Security Councils and by Executive Instrument, renewed the curfews imposed on the Gushegu Township, Bawku Municipality and their immediate environs wit…
Mr Kweku Amankwah, a hunter in Asumura in the Brong Ahafo Region, on Monday expressed worry over the increasing cases of pregnancy and abortion among girls between 10 to 17 years in Asumura and its environs.
He said the teenagers, wh…
Church leaders have been urged to uphold the example of Jesus Christ by helping to ease the burdens of the helpless, who have lost their human dignity.
Reverend Dr. Setri Nyomi, General Secretary of the World Council of Re…
Globeserve Vocational School in the Volta Region, has recorded 100 per cent pass rate in this year's National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) examinations.
Majority of the 24 students presented passed with distinction, Ms Beatri…
Ethiopia’s Yacob found himself evicted from the Big Brother All Stars house during last night’s live Big Brother All Stars Eviction Show (22 August at 19:00 CAT on DStv Channel 198), joining Tatiana, Lerato and Hannington in The Barn.
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A circuit court in Cape Coast, last Wednesday sentenced kweku Alex, a 30-year old palm wine taper, to 13 years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling a six-year old Kindergarten girl
and causing harm to her.
He pleaded guilty to t…
Nana Ama Ayensua Saara III, Queen of Denkyira, has
said no individual or a chief could determine where a district capital should be placed because it was the prerogative of the government to decide
on a suitable town based on advice from…
The Hohoe Municipal Assembly has engaged 328 youth
under five modules of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP).
Mr Victor-Hermann Condobrey, Hohoe Municipal Chief Executive, said at the Assembly's meeting that additional yo…
Dr. Iyabode Olusanmi, Country Director of UNICEF,
has appealed to Alhaji Issahaku Salia, Upper West Regional Minister, to show complete political commitment towards issues affecting women and children.
She urged the Minister to make…
A bus carrying 22 South Korean tourists was hijacked Monday in the Philippines, a foreign news report said.
South Korea's foreign ministry said it is trying to confirm the report.
AFP, a French news agency, quoted local police as s…
Presbyterian Basic Schools in Koforidua have become the attraction for parents seeking admission in best performing basic schools for their children in the New Juaben Municipality.
This followed government policy a few yea…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Monday urged Ghanaians to concentrate on worthy issues, instead of speculations and hear-say.
"Let us concentrate on what is worthy and leave aside all these speculations," said President Mills.
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Nana Ama Ayensua Saara III, Queen Mother of
Denkyira, has said no individual or a chief could determine where a district capital should be located because it was the prerogative of the Government to decide on a suitable town based on the …
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) together with its health partners on Monday re-launched the New "Life Choices" Family Planning promotion campaign.
It seeks to enhance education on available contraceptive choices to help the public mak…
HIV/AIDS is on the increase in the Brong-Ahafo Region as "Sentinel Reports" indicated an increment from 2.6 per cent in 2008 to 2.9 per cent in 2009, Mr. Kwadwo Nyamekye-Marfo, the Regional Minister, has said.
He said out of 10,036 …
The Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Special Schools (COHESS) Mrs. Immaculate Atoriya, has said the government's policy that all state institutions use the pre-paid meter would not be feasible in some institutions.
She said, fo…
Mr Michael Komla Adzaho, Adaklu Anyigbe District Chief Executive (DCE), has appealed to teachers to refrain from acts that would tarnish the reputation of the profession.
Mr Adzaho said this at the opening of a five-day in…
The Western Region recorded 4,726 millimetres
of rainfall in June, Mr David Perry Osika, the Western Regional Director of the Ghana Metrological Agency, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview.
He said the figure was based …
Members of the Adaklu-Anyigbe District Youth Wing of National Democratic Congress have cultivated a-40 acre maize farm at Kpetoe.
The farm is expected to be doubled this minor season and planted with beans and vegetables.
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Mr. Mathias Akotia, Chief Executive Officer of
Brand Ghana, said on Tuesday there was the need to re-brand Ghana to stimulate national confidence, craft national identity and provide clear and positive communication about the country and …
Government on Tuesday initiated stakeholder consultation for the passage of Data Protection Bill (DPB) and Electronic Communications Regulations Bill (ECRB) to serve as legal instruments for the safeguarding of personal data and privacy.
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The Northern Development Forum (NDF), on Tuesday congratulated government, individuals and institutions for their contribution to the passage of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) Bill.
The Bill passed on Friday Ju…
Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGL) is supporting five-year research project in the Subim, Ayum, and Bosambepo Forests in the Brong Ahafo Region, aimed at conserving a rare kind of bird called "White-necked Rock fowl", found mainly in Afric…
Residents of Kwakuanya Electoral Area in the Dormaa Municipality have been urged to fully participate in the 2010 National Population and Housing Census and the National Identification Exercise.
Mr. Vincent Oppong Asamoah, Municipal …
Some 77 people were killed and 246 others were injured in road accidents in the Volta Region in the first half of 2010.
Mr Victor Tandoh, the Acting Volta Regional Road Safety Coordinator, said this at a meeting of Heads of Ministries,…
The Living Stone International School at Boadua near Akwatia has celebrated its 10th anniversary with advice to parents to take the education of their children seriously.
The Eastern Regional Deputy Minister, Mr Baba Jamal, said edu…
Mr Theophilus Tetteh Chaie, Ablekuma Central Member of Parliament (MP), at the weekend donated food items worth GH�9,700 to Moslems in the five wards of the Constituency as part of his programme to support their Ramadan fast.
The i…
The Akim Swedru Circuit Court has remanded Kwadwo Akpakah and John Kwadwo, both farmers, in prison custody for stealing a goat valued at GH�100.00, property of Nana Kwasi Nkrumah, a fetish priest.
The accused persons pleaded not gu…
Alhaji Issahaku Salia, the Upper West Regional Minister says government will adequately resource the Ghana Prisons Service to enable the service to play its role of reforming prisoners.
�Government is aware of some of the things th…