Members of Alliance for Accountable Governance
(AFAG), a political pressure group, on Wednesday expressed concern about the inability of Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) to review
downwards the tariffs.
Mr Abu Ramadan, …
GNA
Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, Okyehene, on
Wednesday called for the re-location of Ministries of Forestry, Land and Natural Resources; Food and Agriculture; and Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) to the hinterland …
The Ashanti Regional Education Director, Mr Joseph Kwabena Onyinah, has urged teachers to stick to professional ethics and work hard to raise academic performance in the schools.
He said they needed to put in more efforts to prepa…
Stakeholders in tomato trade have been asked
to collaborate with researchers to produce varieties of tomato seeds to suit climatic conditions in the Northern part of Ghana so that it could be cultivated all year round.
Mr Mark Woyon…
South Korea will establish a comprehensive
greenhouse gas reduction plan by March so it can take positive steps to help stem global warming, the government said Tuesday.
The Ministry of Knowledge Economy said it will create a special …
GS Engineering & Construction Co., South
Korea's fourth-largest builder, said Tuesday it has resumed its stalled project to build an oil refinery facility in Egypt as a group of
international banks decided to provide funding for the proj…
The Indian government has summoned foreign experts to tackle the alarming situation on the Mumbai coast following the oil slick and has asked for a status report from the shipping ministry.
According to PMO sources, Prime Minister M…
Fears that ocean currents were spreading oil from the spill off Mumbai coast when two cargo
ships collided flared Monday after tar balls turned up in some coastal areas towards Raigarh, about 100 km from here.
Scientists at Bombay …
Foreign experts have been called in to limit the damage of the oil spill triggered by Saturday's collision between two cargo ships off Mumbai
harbour as the leakage spread to new areas posing a major ecological threat to the city coastlin…
Notwithstanding Japan's decision to cooperate with India in the civil nuclear sector, Prime
Minister Naoto Kan Monday said his government would step up efforts to rope in New Delhi to sign the NPT.
Speaking to the media in Nagasaki…
A satellite-based navigation system to aid air traffic from Southeast Asia to Africa,including over the high seas in the vast region, would be
launched on Tuesday, placing India into a select group of nations which possess such a sophisti…
In commemoration of the annual World Tuberculosis (TB) Day which falls on August 11, six sub metros within the Accra Metropolis collectively organised a free TB and HIV Sensitisation and testing for traders at the Kaneshie Market Complex.
…
The Acting Director General of the Ghana Education
Service (GES), Benedicta Naana Biney, on Wednesday, urged second cycle institutions to constitute a Food Safety Committees, to be responsible for matters regarding food safety in schools.…
Sissala Literacy and Development Programme (SILDEP), a local non-governmental organisation, has assisted more than 1,000 women in the Sissala East District of with micro credit facilities to expand their businesses.
The NGO also pro…
The Indian Navy and the Coast Guard carried out anti-pollution operations for the third consecutive day Monday to check and neutralise the oil spill due to a collision between two cargo ships off the Mumbai coast here in western part of th…
Prof Sitsofe E. Anku, President of Ghana Mathematics Society, has called on students to take the study of mathematics serious to ensure efficiency in their daily activities.
"Studying mathematics is not only geared towards examinatio…
An Accra High Court has ordered management of Magnum Force Security Company Limited, an Accra-based security company, to pay GH�1,000 to the management of Ghana News Agency (GNA) following consent judgment given in its favour.
It a…
The Good Women Fellowship of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) International has ended its annual convention with a call on Christian women to bring about changes that would make an impact in their communities.
Apostle Dr Stephen …
Mr Stephen S.B Seidu, the Nkoranza South District Coordinator of the National Service Scheme, has advised personnel of the scheme to lead decent lives to command respect in the communities.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on…
Afrikids Ghana, an NGO working for the welfare of children, has taken custody of 155 children out of 658, who were engaged in mining in the Talensi Nabdam District and sent them to school.
One hundred and twenty five of the children …
The Bishop of the Cape Coast Methodist Diocese, Right Reverend Nicholas K. Asane, on Saturday advised the youth to be patient and not to rush, in their quest to make it in life, because this could jeopardize their future.
He exhorted…
A five-member Audit Report Implementation Committee, set up by the Nkoranza South District Assembly to ensure that government's policies and programmes are efficiently and effectively carried out in the district, has been inaugurated at Nk…
Childreach International and Ibis, both non
governmental organisations, are sponsoring 250 volunteer teachers through the Untrained Teachers� Diploma in Basic Education (UTDBE) to augment the pupil-teacher ratio in three districts of th…
A research conducted by Adam Research Centre, an Accra-based Consultancy firm, has indicated that about 25 percent of break ups in love relationships in Ghana were caused by suspicious phone calls and text messages.
It said 33 percen…
Governments in Africa and Asia must embrace and plan for rapid urbanization or risk harming the future prospects of hundreds of millions of their citizens with knock-on effects worldwide, a study warns.
A research published by the In…
The Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the Ghana Environmental Resource Management Project on Monday began a five-day workshop at Wa to update the skills of agro-input dealers and extension officers in northern Ghana.
…
A Cape Coast Circuit court, on Monday, handed down an eight year jail sentence to Francis Teye, popularly called Ame Kwame, a 21-year old farmer, for defiling a five-year old girl.
The convict, a resident of Nyamebekyere near Twifo H…
The Tema Metropolis on Monday recorded a low turn-out on the first day of the Exhibition of the Voters� Register.
The nation-wide exhibition which aimed at giving voters the opportunity to correct errors on their particu…
Nene Professor Abanam Akpanglo II, Senior Divisional Chief of the Kabiaweyume ruling Clan of the Ada Traditional Area, has advised rural dwellers to make life time investments in Education.
This is because, education, apart from hav…
Rescuers have found eleven people dead and kept searching for dozens others who are missing after a wooden ship sunk in East Nusa Tenggara province in eastern parts of Indonesia on Monday, rescuer said.
Head of Rescue Office in the provin…
Amid escalating sanctions and even war threat against defiant Iran, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said engagement is still an option when dealing with the Iranian nuclear standoff.
"We remain open to engagement. But they do know…
Over 1,600 people have been killed in the floods that have hit Pakistan over the last couple of weeks, reported local media Express on Sunday.
This is the latest figure reported by the local media regarding the death toll of the floods th…
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Sunday the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief will soon set the date for the Vienna Group-Iran nuclear talks.
"IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano is preparing a letter to set a …
A Pakistani teenage boy, who crossed over inadvertently into Indian territory early Sunday was repatriated in the evening.
16-year-old Mohammad Haider from Gol Mandi in Lahore had crossed over to India at 4 am, a Border Security For…
The commander of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has released his counter-insurgency guideline and a revised tactical directives ordering troops to protect Afghan civilians, ISAF spokesman Brigadier-General Josef Bl…
Nepal police Sunday arrested 68 people, including four Indians, during raids at 17 massage parlours here.
Seventeen men, including four Indian nationals in the age group of 18 to 50 years were arrested from different massage parlours…
Two French nationals were killed in Friday's devastating cloudburst in Leh in north India while efforts were on to rescue 174 foreign tourists stranded at various places in the district.
The bodies of two French nationals ident…
A German tourist couple and two others were Sunday killed when their car was hit by a train at an unmanned level crossing in the district, police said in the south Indian city.
The mishap occurred when the car driver tried to cross …
Peter Nana Yaw Asamoah, 35, an operative of the Anti-Revenue Leakages Monitoring Team of the Ghana Revenue Authority, has been arrested by the police for alleged extortion and impersonation.
Asamoah was arrested following complains b…
Nii Armah Ashietey, Greater Accra Regional Minister, on Monday said there was no ban on vacation classes as rumoured in the past.
He said vacation classes could be organised within laid down guidelines by the Metropolitan Education …
Mr Stephen Opoku Brobbey, Manager of the Nkoranza District Health Insurance Scheme has commended the National Health Insurance Authority for its continued support in the payment of bills.
He told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Nkoran…
The Bishop of the Akyem Oda Diocese of the Methodist Church has advised office holders not to yield to excessive demands from relatives, friends and party supporters because it would drive them to embezzle State funds.
The Right Reve…
Sunyani Municipal Assembly is collaborating with a German energy company to generate electricity (Biogas) from the large tonnes of waste produced in the municipality.
To this end, the German company, Schafer in Rhinephas, has signed …
Air Commodore Kwame Mamphey (RTD), the Director General of the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), has said one key requirement for national development was good journalism.
"I have always seen the press as partners in development," …
The management of Food and Drugs Board (FDB) on Monday ordered Mr Nicholas Antwi, a 63-year-old self-styled herbalist, to stop producing concoction claimed to cure chronic diseases like HIV/AIDS, fibroid, syphilis and tuberculosis.
T…
Work on a community water project estimated at 117,000 euros (GH� 225,000.00) for the inhabitants of Dwomo in Tano South District of Brong-Ahafo started on Monday.
The facility is being provided by Aqua Vitens Rand Limited (AVRL),…
Professor Agnes Mwang�ombe, a Plant Pathologist, on Monday called on African Governments to apply science and technology innovations to utilise natural resources to create jobs for their people.
She noted that Africa was endowed wi…
Miss Mercy Needjan, Headmistress of the 31st December Early Childhood Development Centre, at the weekend said government's aim of protecting children's rights and development is irreversible.
She said implementation by schools of chi…
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has been urged to continue to create scientific oriented opportunities that would expose the youth to quality science and technology education.
Alhaji Issahaku Salia, Upper West Regional Minister, ma…
Work on a community water project estimated
at 117,000 euros (GH� 225,000.00) for the inhabitants of Dwomo in Tano South District of Brong-Ahafo started on Monday.
The facility is being provided by Aqua Vitens Rand Limited (AVRL)…