Scientists have discovered a new bright reddish orange coloured frog with multiple glands and extremely short limbs from the highest mountain peak of the Western Ghats.
The newly-discovered species located in Eravikulam National Park …
Two children and a woman died on the spot when a vehicle they were travelling with,got involved in a motor accident on the Ho-Aflao Highway on Tuesday.
Dr William Gyau Dwamena Medical Superintendent at St. Anthony Hospital at Dzodze,…
A District Magistrate Court in Accra on Wednesday turned down a bail application put in by 10 suspects allegedly connected to the murder of late Dagbon King, Ya Na Yakubu Andani II and some of his elders in 2002.
The Court presided o…
A GHC 40,000 eye clinic was yesterday inaugurated at the Asamankese Government Hospital.
The project, the building and the equipment, were funded by the Standard Charted Bank.
It is one of four eye clinics, all fully equipped w…
Mr. Alban Bagbin, Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing has stated that Ghana would need between 200 dollars and 300 dollars million annually to fix her sanitation problems.
He said while Government was on the verge of achie…
Mrs. Dzifa Attivor, Deputy Minister of Transport, on Tuesday observed that the aviation industry was rapidly changing, thus giving rise to the need to constantly train staff to meet the challenges of the industry.
"The Aviation Indus…
Mr Charles Wereko, Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources, has bemoaned the rate at which the nation forest is being lost yearly.
He said Ghana looses about 65,000 hectors yearly and that if this tren…
Traditional authorities from Chiana in the Upper East Region on Wednesday formally informed former President Rawlings of the final funeral arrangements for the late Chiana Pio, Pe Roland Ayagitam who died in April 2006.
The delegatio…
The importance of the FIFA World Cup in delivering a lasting legacy in the fight against malaria was underlined by a high-level panel at the World Economic Forum in Tanzania.
The progress made by the United Against Malaria partnersh…
Mr. John Kwabena Ampah, a 73-year old retired Educationist, has been enstooled as Krontihene of Bowiri Amanfro, in the Biakoye District of the Volta Region, under the stool name Nana Tuaprem Amenfi Ampah II.
Nana Ampah, clad in white…
The Central Regional Minister, Madam Ama Benyiwa-Doe has donated items worth thousands of Ghana Cedis to six health institutions in the region to mark her birthday.
The items which included detergents, soap, plastic buckets, bags of r…
Mrs Evelyn Opare, Gomoa District Director of Agriculture has appealed to farmers to take advantage of the Export Marketing Quality Assurance Project (EMQAP) to boost their income.
The project, an intervention of the Ministry of Food …
The Mfantseman Municipal Co-ordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Mr Felix Quansah has appealed to the Management of Ghana Commercial Bank to relocate the Saltpond Branch, to save it from floods.
Speakin…
Naa Seidu Braimah, Member of the Council of State, has called on Northerners to put their house in order and allow peace to prevail in their localities to benefit from the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA).
He observe…
The Wa East District Assembly would this year replace all dilapidated and mud structures that are serving as classrooms in the area.
Mr. Ameen Salifu, District Chief Executive (DCE) who made this known during the Assembly's first ord…
Barely a week left for public basic schools to re-open, the fate of pupils at Mexico One and Two Junior High School, in Tema is hanging due to the deteriorating nature of the school building.
The school which was built in 1962 has develo…
Workers of the Ghana Dock Labour Company in Tema, on Wednesday demonstrated through some principal streets in Tema, to express their displeasure at the alleged illegal deduction of welfare monies from their wages.
The workers numbering…
The Knights and Ladies of Marshall of Council 28 and 37 of Bolgatanga Catholic Society marked its founder's day with a church service at the St. Paul's Catholic Church at Walewale in the Northern Region.
In a homily, Reverend Father …
A legal practitioner, Mr. Joseph Dindiok Kpemka has accused the Bolgatanga Police and Prisons authorities for deliberately causing the death of his client, Muniru Awudu, a 35- year- old mechanic.
Mr. Kpemka told a press conference in…
The Volta Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) David Nenyi Ampah-Bennin on Tuesday advised police personnel to cultivate the habit of reading widely, to develop
"professional confidence".
"It is only when…
US President Barack Obama has delegated some of his authority to Energy Secretary to report to the Congress about implementation of the US-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Non-proliferation Enhancement Act.
"I hereby delegate …
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Circuit Court presided over by Mr Justice Adjei Frimpong, has remanded two unemployed men, caught with firearm and other deadly weapons into police custody.
The plea of Kwasi Ofori, 23, and Abd…
Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, Okyehene, has called for stringent punishment for those who pollute water bodies and the environment.
He said this would serve as a deterrent for others who pollute water bodies, the environment and also…
Mr Joseph Amenowode, Volta Regional Minister, on Wednesday called for the involvement of traditional authorities in the afforestation programme to encourage and sustain local participation and commitment to environmental sustainability.
…
Some District Chief Executives (DCE) from the Western Region have called for an increase in their share of allocation of the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF), to enable them to undertake development projects in their areas.
They …
Mrs. Comfort Kumah, a UK-based citizen of Baanofour in the Nkoranza South District of the Brong-Ahafo Region has donated 13 hospital beds including three theatre beds with mattresses and some science books valued at about 30,000 Ghana Cedi…
Property worth GH¢360,000 was destroyed by a heavy downpour in three communities in the Twifo-Hemang-Lower-Denkyira District.
The affected communities are Wamaso, Gyankobo, Ankaako and its surrounding villages.
Mr Bossman Os…
The Right Reverend Dr Yaw Frimpong-Manso, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has expressed worry about the upsurge in immorality in society despite the proliferation of churches.
He said it was dis…
The National Assessment Centre for Children with Disabilities and Special Educational Needs is
in a dilapidated state and needs urgent rehabilitation.
The Centre, which was established to provide avenues for the identification and d…
Mr Martin Amidu, Minister for the Interior, on Wednesday said the national security apparatus will ensure that the five fugitives from the Sekondi prisons were apprehended.
He expressed worry about the weapons in their possession say…
Deputy Superintendent of Police Rebecca Nyamah, Tema Co-ordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), on Thursday appealed to parents not to extend their marital problems to their children.
She said parents must ta…
The Tema office of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) recorded 333 criminal cases in the first quarter of this year.
The office oversees the operations of the Tema Unit, Ashaiman Station, Tema Newtown, Sakumono, Dodow…
Executive Members of the Ghana Printers and Paper
Converters Association (GPPCA) on Wednesday appealed to government to ensure that 60 per cent quota of government textbooks were produced locally.
The Association is also calling fo…
Government has established an Inter-Ministerial
Coordinating Committee to oversee the implementation of the key component of
the decentralisation programme.
In addition, a Technical Committee/Task Force has commenced ministerial …
The World Youth Conference to be hosted in Mexico from August 23 to 27 2010 would be the main event on the United Nations (UN) declared 2010 International Year of Youth.
The five-day conference, on the analysis of progress of the Mil…
The Shama District Assembly is to set up a learning and trade institution for the disabled modeled after a similar institution in India, Miss Emelia Arthur, the District Chief Executive, announced on Wednesday.
In an address read for…
The government is striving to reduce Haj subsidy, Indian External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said on Wednesday.
While replying to a question in Lok Sabha (Lower House of Indian Parliament), Krishna said in 2009, government has taken…
The Juaso Circuit Court presided over by Mr S.K Sarpong Appiah, has remanded a businessman into prison custody for allegedly stealing a Mercedes Benz Salon Car.
Francis Kwadwo Yeboah, 32, whose plea was not taken would re-appear on May 1…
A 40-year-old unemployed, who posed as the Deputy Ashanti Regional Police Commander, seizing cars in the Kumasi metropolis he alleged were smuggled, has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment in hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court.
…
MTN Ghana on Wednesday launched its annual 21 days Yello Care programme to demonstrate commitment to Ghanaians and improved the lives of people in communities in which it operates.
The Yello Care programme is an initiative of MTN…
Mr. Alban Bagbin, Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, on Thursday said the average individual domestic water consumption is five gallons a day.
The difficulty, he said, was government's inability to provide this basic nee…
Apostle Dr Opoku Onyinah, Chairman of the General
Assembly of the Church of Pentecost, has called on Christians involved in politics to bring their faith to bear on their activities by being truthful and upright even if such actions were…
Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American arrested in connection with the failed Times Square car bomb attack, has admitted he had attended a terrorist training camp in Pakistan, the FBI said.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) …
The 26/11 court has accepted a major portion of the confession given by convicted terrorist Ajmal Kasab in which he talked about the involvement of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayeba and the security apparatus of the neighbouring country in t…
Pakistani-origin cab driver Raja Khan, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of providing material support and resources to al-Qaeda, is scheduled to appear in a court here Thursday
for a hearing in the case.
A "discovery hearing" h…
Parents of a Muslim girl (student) have alleged she has been given Transfer Certificate (TC) by authorities of a local Christian school here for insisting on wearing head scarf, prompting the district administration to order an inquiry int…
As Ajmal Kasab awaits punishment after being held guilty in the Mumbai attacks, the widow of an American killed in the terror strikes says she does not favour death penalty for the Pakistani
gunman and prefers him to be jailed for life.
…
A six-month-old baby with an abnormally big head was found abandoned at Tirupur inCoimbatore district in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Monday.
Local people found the baby, with its body swollen with fluid, near a government …
A South African Indian lady has lodged a complaint against a woman who allegedly made racist remarks against black people.
Katija Minty, wife of South African diplomat and atomic energy specialist Abdul Minty, has lodged a complaint i…
Citing the need to be better prepared for trial, Pakistani-Canadian terror suspect Tahawwur Rana has asked the US government to provide him "specific" details of the kind of "material
support" he provided to terror acts, saying so far th…
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