The Anglican Diocesan Development and Relief Organisation (ADDRO), is training about 280 volunteers to take up the distribution of Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LLINS) in two
districts in the Upper East Region.
The trainin…
A plant protection expert said on Wednesday that
the introduction of legislation to ban the importation, sale, transfer and use of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) was in the right direction because it would help manage contaminated …
The Soil Research Institute (SRI) of the Council
for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), on Tuesday inaugurated washrooms built at the Institute at a cost of about GH¢30,000.
It was financed from its internally generated fu…
Government would build shelters in Accra and
Kumasi for trafficked and vulnerable children until their reintegration into society.
Mrs Juliana Azumah-Mensah, Minister of Women and Children's Affairs (MOWAC) announced this when addr…
Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire on Tuesday began a
two-day meeting on demarcation of the maritime border boundary between them to draw up a road map on the negotiating process.
The meeting attended by members of the Boundary Commission fro…
The Human Rights Court will on Tuesday, May 18,
rule on a bail application put in by nine persons allegedly connected to the death of the Dagbon King, Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II and some of his elders.
This was after the court presided ove…
Sheikh Nkansah Agyekum, National Imam of the
Ghana Muslim Mission, has called on Muslims to ensure that peace and unity prevailed among them.
He said Islam stood for peace and that anything short of peace would bring the religion i…
The flood situation in north-eastern Indian state Assam remained grim on Sunday with the waters of the Brahmaputra river and its tributaries still rising.
About two lakh people continued to be affected by the rising water of Brahmap…
Mr. Joe Gidisu, the Minister of Roads and Highways, has directed that all broken bridges and culverts in the Upper West Region be re-constructed immediately before the rainy season.
He has therefore urged contractors working on bridg…
The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr Mark Woyongo, has called on students from the region to be peace promoters by building bridges of peace wherever they find themselves.
He said this could be achieved if they have frequent interact…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Amansie West, Mrs Grace Addo, has presented items worth GH¢7,000.00 to 60 communities in the constituency.
These were made up of 240 street bulbs, 80 sets of football jerseys and 120 footballs.
Among t…
Mr John Tia Akologu, Minister of Information, on Tuesday urged Ghanaians living in and around Accra to visit the Ghana Policy Fair to interact with various Ministries, Department and Agencies about the policies, programmes and services tha…
Government would soon ban the importation, sale, transfer and use of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
POPs are chemical substances that persist in the environment, bio-accumulate through the food web, and pose a risk of causing …
A man hospitalised after radiation exposure in the national capital earlier this month died due to multi-organ failure on Monday, doctors said.
Rajender, 35, a worker at a shop in Mayapuri scrap market, died at the All India Institu…
Five hundred households in the Talensi Nabdam District in the Upper East Region, have received 1,000 long lasting insecticide nets for children under five years old and pregnant women.
Right to Play, an international humanitarian org…
The government is to build dormitories, classroom blocks, teachers quarters and bungalows to relocate the T.I Ahmadiyya Senior High School in Wa which is located in temporary structures.
Land has been acquired at Charia in the Wa M…
An educationist and counsellor has appealed to the youth to show strong inclination towards skills acquisition to rein in the growing unemployment in the country.
Opanin Kwadwo Kyere, a former tutor of the Prempeh College, said …
A 28-member committee has been formed to ensure the peaceful celebration of the Aboakyer festival of the chiefs and people of the Effutu Traditional Area.
The Committee is made up of members of Asafo companies, opinion leaders of the …
Two pupils of Pupuni Junior High School sustained minor injuries when the bus conveying them and their other colleagues to the Akwamuman Senior High School Examination Centre to write the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) was …
The Ghana Mines Workers Union (GMWU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has instituted two schemes which would improve the economic conditions of its 16,000 members and indirectly impact on their dependants.
These are the Ghana Mines W…
Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik has reportedly demanded a whopping Rs 35 million for the rights to cover his reception and 'walima' ceremony in his hometown Sialkot after his wedding to Indian tennis star Sania Mirza.
Shoaib asked h…
The Ghana High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Professor Kwaku Danso-Boafo has charged Ghanaians in the Diaspora to learn from the steadfastness of their forebears whose struggles and dedication to the motherland culminated in the attai…
A section of lawyers on Sunday turned violent, shouted slogans and waved black flags at Chief Minister of south Indian state Tamil Nadu M Karunanidhi in a function at the Madras High Court in protest against his visit.
The lawyers' …
The disruption in the SEA-ME-WE 4 undersea submarine cable system, which links South East Asia and Europe, is likely to affect the high-speed Internet services in India.
The South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) pr…
Two tourists -- an Indian and a French -- were killed when a hot air balloon carrying them crashed in Al Ain desert in the UAE due to bad weather.
The air balloon carrying a total of 14 passengers and crew crashed at 6.20 am (local ti…
South African President Jacob Zuma'a son Duduzane Zuma Sunday met Uttarakhand state Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank and congratulated him for successful conduct of the Mahakumbh mela, one of the world's largest religious congregat…
India's leading private air carrier Kingfisher Airlines has launched its first flight from Delhi to Kathmandu, and also plans to connect Mumbai to the Nepalese capital.
The Kingfisher, will now operate daily flights between Kathmand…
A US court on Tuesday sentenced an Indian to 81 months in prison on conspiracy and aggravated identity theft charges arising from an international fraud scheme to "hack" into online
brokerage accounts in America and use those accounts to…
Seeking to take an accurate count of elephant population in the state, Karnataka Wildlife Department is all set to conduct a two-day elephant census in the state forests.
Funded by 'Project Elephant', the census will be done on May …
Suspected criminals found innocent or those whose cases prosecutors drop after excessive long periods of detention should be compensated by the state, according to a law amendment discussed by lawmakers Monday.
An espionage racket involving passing of sensitive information to Pakistani intelligence agencies has been busted with the arrest here of a senior woman diplomat posted in the Indian High Commission in Islamabad.
Madhuri Gupta, an I…
Police have detained two men, including a village head, in connection with a probe into the death of a villager in a land compensation protest in central China.
To commemorate 2,600 years of Buddha Jayanthi, Sri Lanka will present India a sapling of the Maha Bodhi tree under which Gautama Buddha believed to have attained enlightenment.
The tree will be planted in the new Buddha Udyanaya being…
The United Nations General Assembly President, Ali Treki, will be in India from May 3 to 5. The official trip also includes visits to China and Pakistan.
"The President of the General Assembly will visit India from 3 to 5 May and P…
A Singaporean Indian, whose food outlet was linked to cases of food poisoning that left two women dead last year, will be charged in court for selling items unfit for human consumption.
Sheik Allaudin Mohideen, 70, who operated the …
Highlighting the threat posed by terrorism to economic stability of South Asia, India on Tuesday pressed the SAARC member countries to rally against the menace and sought early ratification of the regional instruments designed to fight it.…
The Textiles Department of the Takoradi Polytechnic has honoured three senior staff members and seven hard working students at an awards night held at the school.
The staff members who received the awards were Reverend Professor Dani…
Mr Ellis Ankomah, Western Regional Secretary of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC), on Tuesday said public institutions that would benefit from the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) are those created under article 190 of the 1992 con…
The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Ahmed Baba-Jamal has said chieftaincy related conflicts and land disputes were taking away the nobility and trust associated with chieftaincy.
He appealed to chiefs and their elders to use th…
The Seventh Day Sabbath Church of Christ Mission has distributed items worth over 80,000 Ghana cedis to widows, orphans, disabled and the needy.
The presentation was made at the 11th Charity Show which was organized to climax the fo…
The flood situation in north-eastern Indian state Assam remained grim on Sunday with the waters of the Brahmaputra river and its tributaries still rising.
About two lakh people continued to be affected by the rising water of Brahmap…
Mr. Joe Gidisu, the Minister of Roads and Highways, has directed that all broken bridges and culverts in the Upper West Region be re-constructed immediately before the rainy season.
He has therefore urged contractors working on bridg…
The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr Mark Woyongo, has called on students from the region to be peace promoters by building bridges of peace wherever they find themselves.
He said this could be achieved if they have frequent interact…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Amansie West, Mrs Grace Addo, has presented items worth GH¢7,000.00 to 60 communities in the constituency.
These were made up of 240 street bulbs, 80 sets of football jerseys and 120 footballs.
Among t…
Mr John Tia Akologu, Minister of Information, on Tuesday urged Ghanaians living in and around Accra to visit the Ghana Policy Fair to interact with various Ministries, Department and Agencies about the policies, programmes and services tha…
Government would soon ban the importation, sale, transfer and use of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
POPs are chemical substances that persist in the environment, bio-accumulate through the food web, and pose a risk of causing …
A man hospitalised after radiation exposure in the national capital earlier this month died due to multi-organ failure on Monday, doctors said.
Rajender, 35, a worker at a shop in Mayapuri scrap market, died at the All India Institu…
Five hundred households in the Talensi Nabdam District in the Upper East Region, have received 1,000 long lasting insecticide nets for children under five years old and pregnant women.
Right to Play, an international humanitarian org…
The government is to build dormitories, classroom blocks, teachers quarters and bungalows to relocate the T.I Ahmadiyya Senior High School in Wa which is located in temporary structures.
Land has been acquired at Charia in the Wa M…
An educationist and counsellor has appealed to the youth to show strong inclination towards skills acquisition to rein in the growing unemployment in the country.
Opanin Kwadwo Kyere, a former tutor of the Prempeh College, said …
info@businessghana.com
