An Accra Circuit Court on Tuesday sentenced Seth
Mensah, a 24-year-old mechanic, to seven years imprisonment for defiling a 13-year-old girl.
Mensah pleaded guilty to defilement saying "I did defile the victim but I am praying the c…
The Brong-Ahafo Regional Secretariat of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) recorded more than 100 domestic fires and 30 cases of flood from January to June.
The disasters displaced more than 3,000 people, Mr. Josep…
Members of Internal Audit Agency (IAA) would hold
their two-day Fifth Annual Internal Audit Forum on August 10-11 in Accra.
A statement issued in Accra on Tuesday and signed by Mr Lawrence Kwarteng-Ashia, Head of Public Relations, s…
A magistrate court in Sunyani has remanded a
26-year-old pregnant woman into prison custody for killing her one-and-half-year old baby girl.
The plea of Ama Tusor was not taken and was ordered to re-appear on August 20.
The pres…
All Basic School structures under construction within the Ashiedu Keteke Sub-Metropolitan Area are to be completed before the next academic year to end the shift system.
This was stated by the Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan…
Mr Jerry Oku, a New York (NY)-based Ghanaian
lecturer, on Tuesday donated 1,000 books to Da Awatul Islamic School and Larterbiokorshie Primary �2� and �3� Schools at Sabon Zongo in Accra.
The books, mainly on social science,…
A couple of U.S. congressmen Monday called on President Barack Obama to engage North Korea more actively to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula after the North's torpedoed a South Korean warship.
"If North Korea presents some kind of…
A Korean-American organization Monday called on Japan to apologize and take responsibility for atrocities it committed to hundreds of thousands of sex slaves during World War II.
In a statement, the Korean American Voters Council (KAVC…
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday called on Americans to honor Korean War veterans on the occasion of the anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean conflict.
Proclaiming July 27, 2010, as National Ko…
A South Korean intelligence official was recently deported from Libya on charges of illicit espionage, leading to the arrests of other South Korean residents there and further deteriorating the countries' bilateral ties, a diplomatic sourc…
In the wake of India's assertion that ISI was involved in the Mumbai attacks, the Obama Administration has said it was investigating the matter to find out whether Pakistan's spy agency played a role in the 26/11 terror strikes.
"We…
Australia's former Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews remains defiant in the face of a lawsuit filed by Mohammad Haneef and defends the cancelling of the Indian doctor's visa in a
bungled terror probe, contending that he acted upon the a…
Ghana has achieved 99.99 per cent reduction of
the Guinea Worm disease since the inception of the Guinea worm eradication programme in 1989.
From a high of 4,136 cases recorded during the peak of its outbreak in 2006, only eight cas…
The Japanese Government on Wednesday provided a
grant of 103,388 dollars to the authorities of Dormaa Vocational Training Centre (DVTC) in the Brong Ahafo Region to construct a girls' hostel and ancillary facilities.
The grant is be…
A civil society organisation, has tasked government to establish emergency Military-Police operation centres at the major routes linking Upper West, Upper East and Northern Regions (three northern regions) to other parts of the country, to…
Before Parliament rises on August 3, the House will pass the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) Bill, to set the pace for the accelerated development of the North.
As soon as the bill is enacted, presidential accent is…
The Ghana Enslavement Reparation and Repatriation Foundation (GERRF), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) operating in the northern regions, has appealed to President John Atta Mills to stop using the Osu castle as his residence and offi…
A Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) task force, from Aflao, at the weekend intercepted an Aflao-Kumasi bound passenger Benz bus, with large a quantity of smuggled goods in secret apartments at Akatsi.
The goods are made up…
District Directors of Education and their human resource and development officers have been urged not to post lazy and non-performing teachers to kindergarten schools.
Ms Ellen Takyi-Mensah, Ashanti Regional Co-ordinator of Early Chi…
Health Institutions in the Dormaa Municipality of the Brong Ahafo Region recorded 558 fresh HIV positive cases in 2009, made up of 232 males and 326 females.
The disease was also identified as the top cause of deaths in the municipa…
The United Liberian Association in Ghana (ULAG), an association of Liberian residents in Ghana, on Monday donated assorted items to the inmates of Weija Leprosarium in the Ga South Municipality of Greater Accra Region.
It was to comm…
Mrs Betty Mould-Iddrisu, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, on Monday stated that good legislative drafting were critical to the country's democratic practice of good governance and rule of law.
She said legislative drafting w…
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mrs. Margaret Selenu Agbemabiese, Kpeshie Divisional Officer of DOVVSU, has appealed to the church to play leadership role in the fight against domestic violence.
She said it would be encour…
A South Korean consortium led by the state-run Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) will begin building Jordan's first nuclear research reactor next month, the government said Monday.
Construction of the five-megawatt Jordan…
First Lady, Ernestina Naadu Mills on Monday called for increased cervical cancer awareness and strategies to ensure early detection and combat the spread of the devastating disease peculiar to womanhood.
She said one of the ways to …
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Monday announced that Ghana was positioning herself to become a major exporter of electric power in the coming years.
He said "currently, the country has over 2,000 megawatts of power and we hav…
The Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Professor Mawutor Avoke, has appealed to the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service, to provide support for intensive research into Ghanaian Languages.
…
Professor Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa, outgoing Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has called on drivers to adopt defensive driving and obey traffic rules to help reduce road accidents in the country…
A five member delegation made up of three contestants and two officials would represent Ghana at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in Ontario, Canada from August 14-21.
The world computer programming contest seeks to pr…
An Accra Fast Track High Court (FTHC) on Monday ordered Nana Kofi Yirenkyi aka �Jesus One Touch� facing charges of defilement and incest to open his defence.
In its ruling, the court noted that prosecution had been able to prove …
The National Hajj Committee on Monday fixed the fee for November 2010 Pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia at 3,100 dollars per person or its equivalent in local currency to be paid by mid-October.
Alhaji Alhassan Bene, National Chairman of Ha…
The government said Monday it aims to inject 396.6 billion won (US$331.4 million) in the next five years to train expert personnel in the green energy sector to meet future demand.
The blueprint to train and educate engineers in nuclea…
Greenhouse gas emissions from the South Korean transportation sector dipped in 2008 from a year earlier due to higher oil prices and the global economic slowdown, a government report said Monday.
The transportation sector's emissions o…
India Monday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed interceptor missile, capable of destroying any in-coming hostile ballistic missile, from the Integrated Test Range at Wheeler Island off Orissa coast.
Aimed at developing…
SK Energy Co., South Korea's top refiner, said Monday it will build a plant on the country's west coast to produce batteries for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) by 2012.
The plant, to be built in Seosan, 151 kilometers southwest of …
A nurse at the Apam Catholic Hospital, Miss Grace Arthur, has said balanced diet and regular exercises were important prerequisites in the handling of diabetes.
She said a lot of people in the country were diabetic but were unaware o…
Nana Abena Akuamoa Boateng, a nutritionist, has appealed to parents to show more responsibility to children with special challenges to enable them to develop self-confidence and lead normal lives.
She said the stigmatization suffered…
Mr. Kofi Vinyo, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Kofi Vinyo Company Limited, on Monday presented 24-inch used 10 Television (TV) sets worth GHC 2,000 to the Sunyani Regional Hospital.
Making the presentation, Mr. Vinyo, said that whe…
Ghana has launched a plantations' development programme to regain its lost forest cover in line with global development objectives particularly, the Millennium Development Goals, Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minister of Lands and Natural Resource…
The Ghana Health Service in partnership with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday organised a day's seminar for Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) to promote good heal…
President Lee Myung-bak said Monday South Korea should step up efforts to embrace immigrants as the growing number of multicultural families here presents a test for the country aiming to become an "advanced, top-notch" nation.
Lee poi…
The Akwatia Traditional Council and the Parent/Teacher Association (PTA) of Akwatia Technical Institute have condemned the decision to permit a private mining group to mine for diamonds in the oil palm plantation of the institute.
Th…
The government is contracting a total loan of 59 million US dollars from the Indian Exim bank to procure vital logistics to equip the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) to enhance its performance.
The first part of the loan of 15 mil…
The Ghana Education Service has distributed 99,127 exercise books to basic school children in the Kwahu South District under the government's free exercise books programme.
Children in upper primary received five exercise books each …
The Anglican Diocese of Kumasi has ordained its first woman priest of the Church, the Rev Mrs Priscilla Lovia Owusu-Asiedu.
She joined the priesthood alongside Rev Father Gilbert Dua Otuo-Acheampong, Rev Father Joseph Adar…
Social Support Foundation (SSF), an Obuasi-based human rights non-governmental organization, has launched a project to address modern slavery, child and forced labour in the mining communities.
Known as Community Resistanc…
The Indonesian government has approved a minority tribe's adoption of the Korean alphabet as its official writing system to transcribe its fading spoken language, officials said Monday.
The Cia-Cia, a tribe of some 80,000 people living…
Seven out of 10 middle and high school students said they were physically punished by their teachers, according to survey results released Monday, adding to controversy over the issue of corporal punishment.
In a survey of 6,601 studen…
Identities and photos of sex offenders against minors were made public Monday through a government Web site to better protect children from sexual predators, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said.
Under the new law on child p…
Notwithstanding opposition by Wildlife enthusiasts to keeping dolphins in captivity, the
Delhi Zoo is exploring the feasibility of building a dolphinarium as envisaged by India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh.
The dolphin exhibi…