Mr Ebow Barton Oduro, a Deputy Ministry of Justice and Attorney General, on Thursday advocated that teachers in special educational institutions such as school for the deaf and blind, should be given special remunerations and allowances to…
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has donated building materials worth GH¢3,500.00 in support of the construction of a permanent classroom block for the Bahankra D/Assembly Primary School in the Sekyere-Afram Plains Distri…
The Guankobea Prayer Ministry at Teacher Mante in the Eastern Region has launched an Educational Trust Fund to support needy but brilliant children in school in the area.
Prophet Nana Mbeah, in-charge of the Ministry and also Mponuanohene…
Persistent poor performance of students presented for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Sekyere Central District has become a major discomfort – causing worry among parents and teachers.
The District scored 45.9 …
Mr Stephen Kobom, Project Officer of the Partnering for Inclusive Education in Northern Ghana (PIENG), has said school management is a joint responsibility of teachers, traditional rulers, parents and other stakeholders.
He said Assembly …
Wesley Girls' High School on Wednesday "rolled the red carpet" for Form One students as the little girls, escorted by their visibly excited parents and guardians, entered the walls of the magnificent Wey Gey Hey to begin a three-year acade…
Five persons who allegedly collected various sums of money totalling GH¢ 51,000 from11 people under the pretext of securing them visas and jobs in the United States of America, Canada and Australia, but failed, on Thursday appeared before…
Ghana’s entertainment hub, Silverbird Cinemas will join other international cinemas worldwide to premiere the next big movie to hit the world after Avengers.
Sky Fall 007 is a twenty third Spy film movie in the James Bond series due to …
TheTakoradi Circuit Court "A" on Wednesday sentenced Elizabeth Inaba Love, a 41-year- old Nigerian hairdresser based in La Cote d'Ivoire, to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour for human trafficking.
The accused pleaded guilty.
Prosecu…
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) in collaboration with some individuals, on Thursday donated four ventilators with anaesthesia to the Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burns Centre at the Korle-BuTeaching Hospital.
The ventila…
This year's Christ Cares Ministries International (CCMI) Convention designed to stir-up "life-force" of participants, is slated for 22nd to 28th October 2012.
The convention christened "Greater Heights (GH)" is a major programme on the ca…
Five children admitted at the Koforidua Regional Hospital with dog bites between April and this month had died of rabies infection.
The children whose ages ranges between five to seven years, died between nine hours to 48 hours on admiss…
The Upper East Regional Election Task Force, has begun putting up measures to provide security in all 1118 polling stations in the region to ensure peace during the 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.
Mr Bright Oduro, the Regio…
Zonta Ghana, an advocacy organisation opens for business professionals, has reaffirmed its commitment to initiate and support programmes to advance the status of girls and women in the country.
This was contained in a press release by Zon…
Mr Roland Adatuu, founder and leader of Youth Link Ghana, has warned the youth of Bawku not to allow themselves to be misused by politicians during their electioneering campaigns.
He said this when he interacted with the youth of the Muni…
Eyram Gbloenanoagbe, 6, a kindergarten pupil, was on Wednesday hit and killed by a speeding Accra-Aflao bound saloon car at Afife, near Abor.
An eye-witness told the Ghana News Agency that about 1600 hours, the victim closed from school a…
Togbe Edinam Ansah, the Volta Regional Secretary of the Copyright Taskforce, on Thursday called for the establishment of copyright courts in the country.
He said that was the only way to protect the creative industry in the country and re…
Mr. Justin Bayor, National Network Coordinator for the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP-Ghana), has warned Ghana to strengthen its security vigilance, given some incidents that have been occurring lately which have the propensi…
Voice-Ghana, a Disability-Interest Advocacy Group is seeking a pledge from aspiring parliamentarians that on becoming Members of Parliament, they would initiate disability-focused statutes in parliament.
A key demand put on the table at a…
It is a hot Monday afternoon, your day has been extremely busy and you started off on the wrong note; you missed breakfast in the morning. You have barely twenty minutes to finish lunch and join your colleagues in a meeting. You rush out o…
President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday stated that the NDC government would strengthen educational facilities at the basic level to make it free, compulsory and universally accepted.
He mentioned the augmentation of bursaries for the…
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) on Friday appealed to CARE International and World Vision, Ghana, non-governmental organizations, to assist over 4,000 victims of flood that hit Garu-Tempane District last September. …
MTN Ghana limited has presented 11 laptops together with modems to winners of the month-long campaign dubbed: "iFest" to create awareness about the use of MTN data in Accra on Thursday.
The campaign, launched by the company, was aimed at …
The Amansie West Small-Scale Mining Association has called for probe into the death of a teenage Chinese miner at Mpatasie.
The deceased was said to have been hit by bullets fired by security personnel during a swoop on Chinese miners in …
Ms Sherry Ayittey, the Minister of Environment Science and technology, on Thursday reminded Ministerial delegations at the on-going COP 11 that achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) depends on the ability of nations to preserv…
OLAM a licensed buying company (LBC) is supporting cocoa farmers in the Kakum area of Twifo Praso district in the Central Region for the production of sustainable cocoa.
There are 13 steps the farmers has to follow towards achieving susta…
In a unique move to bring quality television experience to its customers and drive access to quality programme for African viewers, Samsung has unveiled the first television set with an integrated satellite receiver, Samsung Free Satellite…
Ms Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, has called on members of the African Union to integrate biodiversity preservation into their national developmental programmes.
Such a system, she said, would be a medium…
About 200 stakeholders in the mining industry on Thursday attended a day’s sensitization workshop on the Minerals and Mining Health, Safety Regulations 2012 Legislative Instrument (LI 2182), in Koforidua, capital city of the Eastern Regi…
President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday announced that government would in the second term of the National Democratic Congress administration establish regional and district hospitals in all designated capitals which lack such facilities…
The Fanti Benevolent Society of Chicago, United States, in collaboration with the Mfantsiman Association of North America (MANA) on Thursday, presented pap-smear testing kits worth 10,000.00, dollars excluding shipment and duties, to the C…
A four-storey new administration block containing 70 rooms and a conference hall valued at 1.7 million Ghana Cedis for University of Education Winneba (UEW) at the North campus has been inaugurated.
Professor Akwasi Asabre-Ameyaw, Vi…
The Winneba Sister Cities Commission has presented GHc949.43 to a grandmother of two orphans as seed fund to enable her cater for them.
The orphans Emmanuel Tettey, 10, and Samuel Tettey, 7, years, are primaries 4 and 2 school pupils …
Mr Albert Kobina Koomson, Director for Distant Education Continuation, University College, Cape Coast, (UCCC) on Wednesday said a centre of the institution would soon be established in Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District.
He said the Centre wo…
The 38th annual national Conference of Managers of Educational Units (COMEU), is underway at Wa in the Upper West Region, with a call on educational units of religious organisations to follow Ghana Education Service (GES) procedures in the…
A total of 70,273 professional teachers have graduated from the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), since the university's establishment 20 years ago.
Professor Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw, Vice-Chancellor of the University, made this known…
The University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) in Sunyani, Brong-Ahafo has admitted 200 students to pursue four-year Bachelor of Science (BSc.) degree programmes in the 2012/2013 academic year.
Currently, 150 students have arrived …
Officials of the Minerals/Mining Commission have hailed government for reviewing the regulations of the minerals and mining act as it would go a long way to eliminate illegal activities in the sector.
The officials, Mr Evans Adadey, Princ…
Mr Braulio Dias, Executive Director of Convention on Biological Diversity, (CBD) on Wednesday cautioned developing countries especially Africa to be very careful with the use of agro chemical for farming.
"The unwise use of chemicals to …
The Centre for Environmental Protection and Natural Resources (CEPNR) a non-governmental organisation in the promotion of environmental and public issues is collaborating with Global Health Foundation to carry out fumigation and other envi…
An African, Caribbean, Pacific - European Union (ACP-EU) Energy Facility (II) Project designed to support communities in the West Mamprusi District of the Northern Region to access renewable energy services for lighting and cooking using J…
The Accra Diocese of the Anglican Church, on Wednesday cut the sod for the construction in Accra of the Anglican Bishop Towers at the cost of Forty million US dollars.
The ultra modern 11 storey building is located on the High street, wit…
A suspected member of a highway robbery gang has been remanded into prison custody by the Juaso Circuit Court.
Sian Kuusore and his colleagues were said to have blocked the Yawkwei-Juaso stretch of the Kumasi-Accra highway on October 5, a…
Abubakari Moro, a cocoa purchasing clerk, is now in trouble with the law for swindling the Produce Buying Company (PBC) of GH¢92,000.00.
He had taken the money to supply the company with cocoa beans but he failed to deliver.
Moro was re…
Nana Takyi Ababio, Krontihene of Fiapre, near Sunyani on
Tuesday denied as false, the accusation that he had been selling the Fiapre stool lands to enrich himself.
He said the allegation being leveled against him by Nana Opoku Ababio, ch…
Nana Atta Yaw Kwaakwah II, Mankrado and Nana Kwasi Kwaakwah I, Twafohene of Coaltar, have jointly offered 23-acre land for the construction of office accommodation for the newly created Ayensuano District Assembly at Coaltar.
In an interv…
The Fast Track High Court in Accra, on Wednesday acquitted Private Eric Modzaka, one of the three soldiers standing trial for the murder of Alhaji Issa Mobilla, former Northern Regional Chairman of Convention People’s Party, on charges …
The State says the two cases involving Justin Katinan, an ally of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, currently in custody would go on simultaneously.
Mrs Merley Wood, a Chief State Attorney, appearing before an Accra District Magist…
A Circuit Court at Fiapre near Sunyani, has remanded a businessman into prison custody for allegedly defrauding a trader of GH¢7,000.00 with the intention of supplying her with 140 bags of cement.
Fred Amaniampong pleaded not guilty to d…
The Ministry of Health (MOH) stated on Wednesday that the formal appointment of all health professionals takes effect from the day of assumption of duty at a facility.
"Depending on the requirements of the approved regulatory body, certai…
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