Nii Tackie Tawiah III, Ga Mantse, on Wednesday
commended delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for successfully conducting their congress and electing a flagbearer for Election 2012.
He said the process was a strong indication…
President John Evans Atta Mills has, on behalf of
the Government and people of Ghana, sent a message of goodwill to Muslims who begin the fast of Ramadan on Wednesday.
A statement from the Information Ministry to the Ghana News Agen…
Some 477 households in nine communities in the
Bunkpurugu/Yanyoo District have received the fourth consignment of relief items from the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) in fulfilment of government�s promise of assisting…
Three institutions on Wednesday presented packages to the National Executive Committee of Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) towards the 15th GJA awards in Accra.
They are Barclays Bank, Trassacco Estates and Stanbic Bank.
Mr …
The youth in the country have been urged to plan
their lives strategically towards a brighter future and avoid negative lifestyles that could affect their progress in life.
Mr. Sam Nasamu Asibigi, Deputy Northern Regional Minister, sa…
Ms Sherry Ayittey, the Minister of Environment,
Science and Technology, has said there was the need for proper land use in the Western Region in view of the emerging oil and gas industry.
She said this at a day's forum organized by …
The Agbogbomefia, Togbe Afede XIV, is to lead the
chiefs of Asogli State on a three-day pilgrimage to their ancestral home at Notsie in Togo.
A statement signed by Mr John Kukah, Secretary to the Asogli State Council said the pilgr…
Five suspected stolen motorbikes have been
retrieved from an abandoned building at Denu as the Aflao police launch an operation to stem crimes and fatal accidents involving motorbikes begin.
Dozens of bikes, made up of foreign regis…
Chiefs of the Ave Traditional Area in the Akatsi District have cautioned their people to put a stop to the practice of writing anonymous letters in which falsehoods were spread about some
citizens of the area.
The evil practice, they …
Observers at a one-day workshop on the new Ghana
Customs Trade Lane (GCe-TRAK) system for Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) at Aflao have cautioned that the scheme's high service charge would make import-export business expens…
The Derby Hall Educational Trust (DHET) UK-Ghana on Tuesday presented honorary awards to the Omanhen of Oguaa Traditional Area, Osabarima Kwesi Atta II, and the Mayor of Cape Coast, Mr.
Anthony Egyir Aikins, for their contribution towards…
The Presbyterian Church of Ghana on Wednesday elected Rev Prof Emmanuel Martey, 69, as its Moderator at its 10th General Assembly held in Takoradi.
A Professor of Systematic Theology and chairperson of the Ga Presbytery, Rev Prof. M…
The Director of the Department of Children of
the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs (MOWAC), Ms Mariama Yayah, has stressed the need for all stakeholders in the protection of children's right to step up their mandates to ensure the…
The Upper Manya Krobo District Assembly has taken delivery of the first consignment of free school uniforms totalling 2,300 for distribution to schools in the area.
Mr Joseph Tetteh Angmor, the District Chief Executive, said this at…
Chief Kpaana M.B. Bawah, a Member of the Council of
State, said on Friday that spillage of water from the Bagre and the Kompienga dams in Burkina Faso had been suspended because water in the dams
had not reached their maximum level.
…
South Korea will host the largest ever world forestry congress later this month that aims to
find ways to cope with environmental degradation caused by climate change, local organizers said Wednesday.
The state-run Korea …
More than 100 sex offenders and murderers will be strapped with electronic anklets upon their parole
expected this week, the Justice Ministry said.
The prisoners, 90 murderers and 19 sex offenders, are set for parole marking the Aug.…
A Seoul court on Wednesday dismissed claims by plaintiffs that e-mail and file leaks from Daum
Communications Corp., the operator of South Korea's second most-visited Internet portal, had caused them damage.
A group of 70 Daum users …
South Korea will take time to decide whether to seek independent sanctions on Iran, a senior
government source said Wednesday amid a series of warnings from Iranian officials to refrain from joining the U.S. sanctions campaign against Te…
Civil Society Organisations working to promote the rights of the child should include parents in their educational campaigns to enable them to know and respect the rights of children.
Mrs. Annacleta Naab, Acting Regional Director of …
A Catholic priest who is the director of an HIV/AIDS care centre, the Rev Monsignor Bobby Benson, has appealed to the public to support state institutions especially the police to enable them perform well.
He said the police worked w…
The chiefs and people of Atsieve in the South Tongu District have appealed to the government and philanthropists to assist them with potable water to forestall an outbreak of water borne disease.
Torgbe Azalu II, Chief of Atsieve, sa…
Government would commemorate this year's International Youth Day with the launching of the National Youth Policy at Cape Coast on Thursday, August 12.
"This would nail home government's support to youth initiatives in Ghana and Afric…
The government will revise regulations to allow more immigrant women to work as translators and interpreters at state agencies and private firms, in a bid to make better use of their bilingual talent, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Fa…
Office of the Attorney-General said it has taken note of the ruling of the High Court, Accra, in the case of the Republic versus Charles Wereko Brobbey and Kwadwo Mpiani in which the charges were struck out and the two were accordingly dis…
The National Hilal committee, Ghana, on Tuesday announced that the new crescent to usher in the Ramadan month has been sighted at Afienya in the Greater Accra Region at 1820 hours.
A statement signed by Shiekh Mahmoud Gedel, Chairman…
An Accra Fast Track High Court on Tuesday discharged Dr Charles Wireko-Brobby and Kwadwo Okyere Mpiani, two former officials of the defunct Ghana@50 Secretariat of all charges of wilfully causing financial loss to the State.
Dr Wire…
A Kade District Magistrate�s Court on Tuesday ordered a 26-year-old farmer, Kwaku Isaac to see a psychiatrist for observation after he had attempted to commit suicide.
Police Inspector Francis Borkor, prosecuting, told the court,…
Nana Abena Apee III, Tufuhemaa of Himan Prestea Division of Wassa Fiase Traditional Area in the Western Region, has urged parents to cooperate with school authorities for effective and efficient training of their children.
She told p…
Fourteen public officials who were re-arrested for their alleged involvement in smuggling of cocoa on the Ghana/Cote d'Ivoire border appeared before an Accra Circuit Court on Wednesday.
They have been freshly charged with conspiracy …
A 19-year-old student, Samuel Kyei, on Tuesday, appeared before the Kade District Magistrate's Court charged with stealing a laptop belonging to a female teacher.
Kyei pleaded guilty to unlawful entry and stealing and was remanded in…
Madam Mariama Yayah, the Acting Director of the Department of Children, on Tuesday called for the consolidation of the rapidly improving state of children in the country.
"Now, the Ghanaian child is heard and not only seen and we c…
The Ho Diocese of the Catholic Church is to have a 2,000 capacity Cathedral by 2011.
The curtain-walled pinnacle edifice under construction on the premises of the Sacred Heart Church at Ho Bankoe would overlook the Ho municipality an…
Four high yielding seed maize varieties imported from the US have been introduced into the country for distribution to maize farmers throughout the country.
This is under the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) programme to increa…
The Hohoe Police have started investigations into the suspected murder of Herbert Akubia, 63, farmer of Gbi-Wegbe in the Hohoe Municipality.
The Municipal Crime Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Maama Arhin, who briefed the G…
Personnel of Ghana Police Service are competing for space with huge number of vehicles "abandoned" at police stations across the Accra Metropolis, the Ghana News Agency inspection team found out on Tuesday.
GNA was astonished at the …
South Korea's police said Tuesday its investigators raided the office of Google Korea in Seoul on suspicion that the local unit of Google Inc., operator of the world's largest Web search service, has illegally collected individuals' person…
The "Uigwe," set to be returned from Japan to mark the centenary of its annexation of Korea, is a unique form of Korean documentary heritage that both recorded and illustrated royal ceremonies and rites of the 500-year-long Joseon Dynasty.…
The government on Tuesday declared three regions hit hard by last month's torrential rains as special disaster zones, making them eligible for state relief funds, the anti-disaster office said.
The zones cover Hapcheon in South Gyeongs…
South Korea's civic community welcomed Japan's announcement on Tuesday to return "Uigwe," a collection of royal protocols from Korea's last monarchy, part of which was taken away during the 1910-45 Japanese colonial rule of the Korean Peni…
A teenage American boy says he is traveling to North Korea this week with a letter urging leader Kim Jong-il to allow the creation of a peace forest that would grow over the heavily armed border between the Koreas.
"You may be wonderin…
The DMZ Korean International Documentary Festival will be held in a border town next month, screening 74 documentaries from around the world with the themes of peace, family and the environment, organizers said Tuesday.
The nascent fes…
No South Koreans have been reported injured in an earthquake that struck the South Pacific island of Vanuatu Tuesday, the foreign ministry said.
A 7.5 magnitude quake occurred in waters some 46 kilometers off Vanuatu's capital of Port …
A number of ancient burial monuments including a dozen of cist graves, have been recovered at a rubber plantation in Vadakkencherry in south Indian state Kerala.
The remains are found buried in the undulating landscape of the planta…
Monder Ram, an Indian-origin professor of Small Business at the De Montfort University in Leicester, has been appointed to the new government advisory group to shape best practice for equality and diversity.
The Department for Busines…
Indian-American Noshir S Gowadia, a former B-52 stealth bomber engineer, faces life imprisonment after a US federal jury convicted him of selling sensitive cruise missile technology and other classified informations to China.
Th…
A Briton, who killed two Indian-origin businessmen in London in 2003 and figures in the most wanted list of Scotland Yard, has been arrested in Dhaka and efforts are being made to seek his extradition to Britain.
Ayab Khan (27), is co…
In the wake of growing elephant-human conflicts reported in the forest borders, the Kerala Wildlife Department has decided to erect solar fencing to protect people from elephant menace.
The fencing work is planned to be completed wi…
A US district court has issued a 'default order' against Indian Transport Minister Kamal Nath for his failure to respond to summons in connection with a civil suit filed here concerning his alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
…
Zain Ghana has thrown its weight behind yet another laudable educational initiative as it drives to improve the general standard of education in the country particularly in the area of information technology.
The latest project, a brain c…