German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her nervousness about the current situation of Copenhagen meeting on Tuesday when she met visiting Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
"I can not conceal the fact that I've become…
The district magistrates' court at Assin-Foso has sentenced an unemployed man, Alex Dagarti, to a fine of GH¢ 200.00 for stealing a goat valued at GH¢ 60 belonging to one Madam Victoria Ofori.
The convict pleaded guilty to stealing …
Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner jet took to the skies for the first time Tuesday, a relief to the U.S. aerospace giant that pins high hope on the new model in its competition with European rival Airbus.
The Dreamliner took off at around …
The government has increased the modules under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) from the initial eight to 19, Mr Rashid Pelpuo, Minister of Youth and Sports said.
He said the new modules include; Youth in Eco-Brigade, Y…
An international non-governmental organisation (NGO), has constructed over 30 hand dug wells in 65 Communities in the Savelugu/Nanton District to improve upon water and sanitation.
The Christian Children's Fund of Canada (CCFC) also …
Government on Wednesday took up another responsibility of parents by distributing free exercise books to pupils in all public basic schools throughout the country.
The distribution is in fulfillment of the National Democratic Congres…
Media personnel have been asked to support the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) to prevent the misuse of agro-chemicals by farmers, which could result in deaths, cancer, miscarriage, jaundice, fibrosis and infertility.
Mrs Mat…
Government has been asked to immediately address the shortage of anti-retroviral drugs in some health facilities in the country.
Mrs Diana Bebere, President of Ghana NAP+ Women's Wing, an association of People Living with HIV-AIDS (P…
A 23-year-old man, Numeglo Alavanyo has been arrested by the Police at Nsawam for allegedly killing his 80 year-old father at Agbada near Nsawam in the Akwapim South Municipality.
Briefing the Ghana News Agency at Nsawam, District Su…
Nana Obutu Frempong11, chief of Essaso Amanfrom in the West Akim District, has appealed to the district assembly and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to assign more trained teachers to the two schools in the community.
Speaking to t…
Ghana has the potential of competing with the world's leading palm oil producing countries if her palm plantation sector is well exploited and backed with relevant technology, Mr. Vanish Bandar, Head of Consumer Products, Pacific Inter Lin…
Britain's Department for International Development(DFID) signed an agreement with the International Organization for Migration (IOM),supporting the East African Community (EAC) in its efforts to harmonize migration management in the region…
Leaders of four major economies -- the United States,France, Germany and Britain -- held a video teleconference discussing climate change on Tuesday afternoon, the French president's office announced in a statement.
French President …
World Leaders should embrace sub-national leadership as an effective approach in fighting climate change, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday.
"Climate change is a global problem that demands global solutions, b…
Current climate change negotiations on agriculture are failing the majority of the world's farmers and threatening food security in many developing countries, experts warned on Tuesday.
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy …
Authorities on Tuesday launched an investigation into the slaying of four people in an upscale gated community in Orange County near Los Angeles.
All the victims were females, Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino…
UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday called for a "fair, ambitious and comprehensive" deal on combating global warming and expected a legally binding treaty to be in place "as early as possible
in 2010."
"Our goal is to lay…
UN Secretary General Ban Ki- Moon said on Tuesday that China, a developing country, has taken important measures in reducing its emission of greenhouse gas.
"China has also taken quite important measures by cutting forty to forty-fiv…
The Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said Tuesday member countries have agreed to bring in a rapid intervention force to combat foreign aggression.
Abdul Rahman Al-Attiya said at a press conference after the 30…
The Ugandan government and the United Nations on Tuesday signed a new five-year 865 million U.S. dollar framework that will see the UN aligns its development activities with the country's new National Development Plan (NDP).
A joint …
The United Nations emits 1. 7 million tons of carbon dioxide annually and will work to cut their emissions as part of their ongoing effort to make the UN environmentally greener, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said here Tuesday.
Nesirky…
The Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) on Friday expressed disappointment with the alleged intention of government to use GH¢5.6 million to renovate ministerial bungalows.
"It's disheartening to note that when the staff of th…
The Ghana School Feeding Programme, has terminated the contract of seven National Service Personnel who were asked to stay on after completing their assignments in 2008.
A letter signed by the National Co-ordinator of the Programme,…
Risk of poverty is still higher in former Eastern German states than in western German states after Germany united for 20 years, shown by official figures released on Tuesday.
The risk of poverty rate in Germany differs significantly…
Prophet David Kwabena Mbeah, Founder and Leader of Guankobea Prayer centre in the Eastern Region, on Sunday urged Churches to encourage Ghanaians to hold firmly onto their rich culture and communal lifestyle as the new year approaches.
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Health experts are investigating an outbreak of a
strange disease in northern Uganda which makes children nod their heads, a senior health official said here on Tuesday.
Issa Makumbi, the head of disease surveillance in the Health M…
The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) would hold a national meeting in Accra on Thursday, to discuss the banning of 22 anti malarial drugs by the
Food and Drugs Board (FDB) and the Kinapharma Cocaine hoax.
A letter signed by A…
Participants at the end of a two-day capacity-building workshop on climate change and food security in Tamale, have appealed to government to take adequate measures to tackle environmental problems to ensure food security.
They have …
The Republic of Korea has presented two ambulances, a Pick-up and some medical equipment valued at two million US dollars to the Eastern Regional Coordinating Council (RCC).
The presentation is to support efforts at reducing maternal…
A total of 3,309 out of 75,508 people who tested for HIV in the Volta Region between January and October 2009 were positive.
This represented a 4.38 percent increase on the 2,980 positive cases out of 71,270 people who undertook the …
The Southern Zone Co-ordinator of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Mr Collins Akuamoah Danso, on Wednesday said the law governing the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) would be reviewed next year to ensure efficiency o…
Pakistan's Supreme Court verdict to revive corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari will not affect the president, presidential spokesman said Wednesday.
Supreme Court Wednesday revoked a controversial law which had grante…
The 75-year-old Palestinian woman Ghalia Dawood used to spend several hours in her eldest son Ibrahim's room, looking at his pictures and recalling the days when he was at home.
She is all the time tracking the news on the radio and …
More German children and teenagers suffered dangerously drunk in 2008 than any time in the past decade, leading to a surge in hospitalizations, the federal government's drug commissioner said on Tuesday.
Some 25,700 people aged betwe…
Labor and immigration organizations in Southern California are supporting a reform bill that would legalize 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
U.S. Representative Luis Gutierrez on Tuesday unveiled the reform me…
Jugumani Chaudhary, a Nepali Dalit woman aged 30 has decided to go to India leaving motherland forever because she was accused of witch in her village.
Jugumani, from a remote village of Ramshikhar Jhala in Kailali district, some 470…
The Myanmar authorities exposed 188 drug-related cases, punishing 296 people including 51 women, in November this year, according to a report of the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control on Wednesday.
During the month, the authori…
Kwabena Gariba, a farmer at Assin- Fosu who stole two bunches of plantain valued at GH¢ 30.00 and threatened to harm its owner was on Monday fined GH¢ 60.00 by the district magistrate's court at Assin-Fosu.
The convict, who pleaded …
The Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet) is threatening to withdraw its services, if half of the amount Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and the Ghana Airport Company (GACL) owed the
company is not paid on or before December 18.
…
Mr Kobina Pra-Annan, Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Chief Executive, has inaugurated the Western Regional branch of the Ghana Oil and Gas Service Providers Association (GOGSPA) at Takoradi.
He appealed to the members to sustain the as…
Peter Cardinal Kodwo Appiah Turkson, the Archbishop of Cape Coast, assumes office as the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in January 10, 2010 in Rome.
Cardinal Turkson who announced the date in Accra on Wedne…
Kofi Gani, a driver from Assin Foso, who pleaded guilty to picking up passengers at an unauthorized place, was on Monday December 14, 2009 convicted and sentenced to a fine of GH¢120.00 on each count to run concurrently by the Assin Foso M…
A Kumasi Circuit Court has remanded a 23-year-old farmer, Augustine Kwame Sarkodie, into prison custody for dealing in cocaine.
His plea was not taken and would re-appear on January 6, next year.
Police Inspector Philip Yao Bebli told …
Yaw Poku, 20, a driver's mate, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by a Kumasi Circuit Court for defiling an eight-year-old school pupil.
He pleaded guilty.
Police Chief Inspector James Amekah told the Court presided …
Adwoa Amoah, a trader from Assin Nyankomase in the Central Region, who poured urine on one Rebecca Agyekumwaa and assaulted her was on Monday December 14, 2009, bonded by the Assin Foso District Magistrate's Court to be of good behaviour f…
The Ghana Federation of the Disabled (GFD) has
appealed to the government to ensure that issues affecting persons with disabilities are considered in the implementation of projects and programmes towards the achievement of the
Millennium…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama has in a Christmas message to Ghanaians urged persons living in conflict areas to use the occasion of the season to change their circumstances by fostering reconciliation to create a new
beginning.
…
The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) would be extended to Junior High School (JHS) within the next two years, a government official said on Wednesday.
Mr. Joseph Yieleh Chireh, Minister of Local and Rural Development, said it ha…
The Chairman of the Odododiodioo constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Daniel Nii Okai, was the only person who had filed for the position at the close of nomination for the election of executives on Wednesday.
M…
Despite fears of a clash between the two main rival camps within the Asante Akim South branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the party has held a peaceful delegates' conference to elect new officers.
The party, which has been pola…