The Paramount Chief of the Bawku Traditional Area, Naba Asigri Abugrago II, on Thursday condemned the murder of Mr Moses Alando
Banaba, a pharmacist technician of the Nalerigu Hospital, which occurred on November 12.
He said in a st…
The Editors Forum, Ghana (EFG), on Thursday congratulated the new chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), Mr. Kabral Blay-Amihere, and other members and expressed the hope that they
would work to advance journalism in the countr…
Kwabena Agyei, a 45-year-old petty trader, was on Thursday arraigned before the Asamankese Circuit Court for allegedly inserting a stick into the sexual organ of an eight-year-old girl.
Agyei, who is charged with indecent assault and …
Accra will be developed into a Millennium City and nothing would stop that vision from coming into fruition, Mayor of Accra, Dr. Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije, declared on Thursday.
"A new day of responsibility and opportunities has dawned on u…
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) on Thursday condemned the stripping naked of two suspects at Bawku and said the offending military personnel must be brought to book.
It also advised the victims to consider civil action for this breac…
Kwaku Essien, a chainsaw operator, was on Thursday arraigned before the Asamankese Circuit Court charged with stealing two sheep valued at GHC 125.
Essien, who is facing three counts of conspiracy to steal, stealing and causing harm,…
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu will be awarded the Fetzer Institute's Prize for Love and Forgiveness on Friday, December 4, at a conference on the campus of the University of Cape Town.
Named a joint recipient with His Holiness the…
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) on Thursday appealed to the government and people of Ghana to take a hard and bold look at addressing the numerous problems bedevilling Ghanaian farmers and fishermen.
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The Most Reverend Charles Palmer Buckle, Catholic Archbishop of Accra on Thursday observed that obedience, discipline and perseverance are moral tools that must be mastered by mankind to ensure successful life.
He said through discip…
The Four-day International Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses kick started in Accra on Thursday, with a call on members to reject worldly fantasies and apathy used by the Devil as tools to lure people into spiritual slumber.
Various s…
Salt producers have appealed to the Ministry of Trade and Industry to help establish salt banks at localities where natural and solar salt are produced, to enhance the safe, efficient refinery and iodization of the product.
The produ…
A senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), on Thursday, noted that people with disabilities could be empowered to contribute positively to the development
of the nation.
Dr. Emmanuel Kofi Gy…
Another 46 more people died of the influenza A/H1N1 in Turkey, bringing the death toll to 241 in the whole country, announced the Turkish Health Ministry on its website Thursday.
The ministry said in a statement that 223 were hospita…
Egypt reported Thursday one more death case of A/H1N1 flu, bringing the country's death toll to 24, said Health Ministry in a statement.
A 56-year-old man died of A/H1N1 virus in Alexandria, 220 km northwest of Cairo, said the statem…
Measles deaths worldwide fell by 78 percent between 2000 and 2008, from an estimated 733,000 in 2000 to 164,000 in 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
All regions, with the exception of South-East Asia, have a…
Albanian health authorities reported the country's first A H1N1 flu death on Thursday.
The country's Heath Ministry said the victim was a 57-year-old man from Durres district, a seaside town about 35 kilometers west of the capital Ti…
A special Russian commission announced on Thursday the final list of the crew members for the 22nd mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
All three astronauts, including one Russian, one American and one Japanese, had pass…
China and Africa look forward to deepening cooperation in various fields, especially science and technology, industry, agriculture and environment, said Egyptian and Chinese officials
at a science and technology expo, which opened here o…
A latest study made by Nordic researchers found no apparent link between cell phones and brain cancer, according to the online edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on Thursday.
Researchers at the Institute of Cance…
The Bongo District in the Upper East Region recorded 50 per cent increase in crop production in 2009 as compared to 2008.
The District Director of Agriculture, Alhaji Musbahu Ahmed announced this during the District Farmers Day celeb…
The Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMA) said on Thursday that the country was gradually being ushered into the harmattan season and cautioned the public to avoid the setting of bush fires because strong winds in the presence of dry vegetatio…
Dr. Sylvia Anie, Director, Policy and Planning, Ghana AIDS Commission, on Thursday advised children, especially pupils to speak out whenever they sensed the danger of being defiled or abused.
"When someone, a teacher or a relation tri…
Zambia has seen a rise in new HIV infections, a situation that has raised concern in the country's efforts to fight the pandemic, the Zambia Daily Mail reported on Wednesday.
The country's National AIDS Council (NAC) said the rate o…
The Ho branch of the "United Cadres Foot Soldiers" of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have called on government to step up security against large scale smuggling in the Volta Region and other parts of the country.
"Looking at …
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has provided relief items worth GHC12,000 to victims of a flood disaster at Fante Akuraa at Yeji in the Pru District of Brong Ahafo.
The items are 50 bags of rice, 180 gallons of …
The Metro Mass Transit (MMT), a public mass transport system, is to fix a device, know as Vehicle Tracking System (VTS), in all its vehicles to improve and support the quest for road safety.
VTS is a wireless device linked to a compu…
The Tamale Ecclesiastical Province Pastoral Conference (TEPPCON) has urged political parties in the country to put an end to the politics of revenge and retaliation and embrace politics of
justice and the common good.
The political…
The Central Regional Minister, Mrs Ama Benyiwa Doe, has appealed to teachers to work hard to instil discipline in the youth and also help to improve education standards.
She said this at a durbar to climax the annual "Odwira" Festival…
A three-day seminar on human rights issues involved in the country's oil exploration has ended at Takoradi.
It was organized by the Centre for Public Interest Law, a Human Rights non-governmental organization (NGO) and the Wassa Commu…
The Adaklu-Anyigbe District Assembly has presented three digital cameras to the District Directorate of Education, to be used in taking passport pictures of Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) students.
The Kpetoe, Adaklu…
A Kumasi Circuit Court has sentenced a 29-year old Salesman to 24 years imprisonment, for stealing GH¢5,700.00 belonging to his employers.
Samuel Asamoah pleaded guilty to the offence.
The Court presided over by Mr Justice Emma…
Mr. Kingsley Obeng-Boateng, a government appointee of Nkoranza South District Assembly, has called on the National Media Commission to organise professional courses for presenters of FM radio stations to help update their knowledge and sk…
A retired Naval Officer, Captain Emmanuel Komeng, has proposed that the Ghana Navy be given legal backing to enforce the country's maritime law.
He said this at a one-day seminar on oil organized by Penuel Management Consultancy and …
The following is the full text of an unedited rejoinder to our story "Majority Leader chastises operators in hospitality industry" of Monday 23 November 2009:
"The Canadian Parliamentary Centre from 20th to 23rd November, 2009 organiz…
The Agona West Municipal Assembly and the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) have intensified public education on H1N1 influenza in the junior and senior high schools in the Municipality.
A 10- member committee under t…
Mr George Asante, Assistant Health Assistant of the Kasoa Health Centre, has appealed to the government to expand the facility to meet the demand of the increasing number of patients.
He said the centre built in 1983 to cater for the …
Plan Ghana, a non-governmental organization, has refurbished and equipped the Paediatric Ward of the Winneba Municipal Hospital and has handed it over to the hospital's authorities.
The NGO spent 12,970.00 Ghana cedis on the project, …
A 37-year old farmer from Bisease Kumase, John Kofi, was last Friday put in prison custody in connection with the death of one Kwasi Nyamekye, his fellow native, by an Ajumako District Magistrate's Court.
The plea of Kofi was not take…
The third human rights advocates and health professionals' dialogue, which will set the pace for combining the knowledge in health with the law and ethics, is set for December 11 in Accra.
The December dialogue on the theme: "Hippocr…
The Police have arrested five suspected armed robbers, including three Fulani herdsmen believed to be a gang that terrorise passengers in the Northern Region.
The herdsmen are; Osmanu Gariba, 30, Fuseini Bariwu, declined to give his…
The Acting Director General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, Dr Angela El-Adas, has urged eminent people in the society like lawyers, doctors, pastors, politicians and media practitioners who are on the Anti Retroviral Drugs treatment to acce…
The Juaso Circuit Court presided over by Mr S.K. Sarpong Appiah, has remanded a teacher into prison custody for defiling a 15-year-old Junior High School pupil at Komeso near Obogu in the Asante Akim South District.
Emmanuel Asare Be…
The government has sourced 17 million Euros from Agence Francaise Development of France, to provide 620 boreholes in the 22 municipal and district assemblies in the Brong Ahafo Region.
Madam Fati Mumuni, Regional Extension Services S…
The Seventh Day Adventist Church (SDA) at the weekend cleared filth at the Kaneshie Police Station with a call on Christians to undertake regular cleanup exercises, to avoid communicable
diseases.
Pastor Daniel Dei, Head of the Acc…
Mr. Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture has advised the youth to take up agriculture as a business to reverse the country's poverty level.
He said agriculture should not be left in the hands of aging farmers.
Mr. Kwes…
Damages caused by back to back typhoons Ketsana and Parma totaled 4.38 billion U.S. dollars or equivalent to 2.7 percent of the Philippine Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to a report issued by the World Bank (WB) on Wednesday.
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Feeling lonely may not seem as harmful as it feels, but U.S. researchers have discovered that loneliness can be as contagious as influenza.
Researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of California-San Diego and Harvar…
Ghana is winning the battle against the guinea worm disease recording zero infection rate in the month of November this year, Dr Andrew Seidu Korkor, Manager of the National Guinea Worm Eradication Programme (GWEP), told newsmen in Kumasi …
Dr Lawrence Tetteh, a Ghanaian International Evangelist, based in the UK on Wednesday admonished the traditional authorities in Ghana to seek fellowship with God to serve as agents of blessing to their communities.
"The Bible says th…
The National Coalition against Privatization of Water expressed concern on Wednesday about the irregular water supply situation Accra and its environs and called for the take over of supply by the state.
"AVRL has clearly demonstrated …