The National President of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Dr. Samuel Asiedu-Addo, has won the 2009 best lecturer in the Sciences award of the University of Education, Winneba.
This follows his outstanding contrib…
The country could have attained the millennium development goals by 2015 if development in the three Northern regions had kept pace with the rest of the country, according to a development expert Mr. Ubald Sabogu, Education Programme Offic…
Mr Emmanuel Appiah, Dean of the School of Applied Arts of the Takoradi Polytechnic, on Monday said the tertiary school would soon add leatherwork and beauty culture department's to its academic portfolio.
It is also very likely that me…
Mr. Pierre Ankomah, National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary candidate for Jaman South in the 2008 elections, has called on the government to broaden the scope of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) in terms of personnel, equipm…
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, has presented 350 jungle motorcycles estimated at 500,000 US dollars to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the region.
The presentation was in fulfillment of government's promise to s…
At least 6,071 people worldwide have been killed by the A/H1N1 influenza as infections continue to increase quickly in the northern hemisphere, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a latest update on Friday.
Of all the deaths,…
Save Your Liver Foundation (SYLiF), a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), in collaboration with Lord Health Care, a Herbal Clinic, has offered free screening for 1000 people in Accra on Hepatitis B. Mr Isaac Agyemang, Herbalist In-Charge …
Alhaji Mohammed Haroun Cambodia, District Director of Education for West Mamprusi, has described as worrying the shabby manner some male teachers in the Northern Region were dressing to school.
He said "These days the male teachers i…
Management of the Customs Excise and Preventive
Services (CEPS), has been asked to build the capacity of its staff for the proper running of the Service.
Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, who made the call, also ur…
Police in Techiman are looking for an employee of Ghana Nuts Limited in Techiman who allegedly set fire that razed a six-bedroom house at Blue Cross area near Sansama in Techiman Municipality.
Properties destroyed included furniture…
Austria is carrying out a nationwide universal vaccination against A/H1N1 flu from Monday, in view of the growing trend of virus infections in the country.
In the first stage, the vaccination is to focus on the high- risk groups, inc…
The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) on Tuesday said with the mandate given to it to eradicate stigma and discrimination of persons affected by the virus, it would not tolerate any contrary performance from its stakeholders.
The Acting D…
The World Health Organization (WHO)called for girls' and women's healthcare reform on Monday in Geneva.
A WHO report titled "Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda" used current data to track the disparities in female h…
Russia launched a vaccination campaign against the A/H1N1 flu across the country on Monday, said a statement issued by the Ministry of Public Health and Social Development.
The first phase of the massive inoculation will start in Alt…
Mrs Irene Kurankyi, 2009 National Best Teacher, has urged the youth to adopt the teaching profession to make a meaningful leaving out of it. She said there were numerous opportunities in the teaching field and urged the youth to offer them…
SIDSEC, a non-governmental organization operating in the Nadowli district of the Upper West Region, in partnership with the Canadian Feed the Children organisation, has constructed a three classroom-block with 120 dual desks for the Nator-…
India and Russia have called for the consolidation of global action against terrorism, including the terror threat emanating from Afghanistan and Pakistan, reported local daily The Asian Age on Tuesday.
During their talks in the Indi…
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, has urged students in the country to study hard to enable them to acquire knowledge and skills needed for national development.
He reminded them that they were responsible for their future and th…
Afghan police shot dead two would-be suicide bombers in Afghanistan's southern Ghazni province on Monday, a press release of Interior Ministry said.
"Two suicide bombers driving an explosive-laden car heading from Andar district to the pr…
A 17-year-old boy was successfully rescued from an ice floe Monday after two technicians parachuted onto the ice in northern Canada's Nunavut Territories, reports reaching here said.
The two rescuers landed on a huge chunk of driftin…
The European Union (EU) supports Indonesia in leading combat against climate change despite the country's status as the third largest polluters, an official said here on Tuesday.
"I welcome and encourage the development of a leadersh…
More than 130 Taliban insurgents including 10 foreign fighters have been killed during a joint Afghan-NATO operation in Kunduz province north of Afghanistan, a local military officer Abdul Wakil Ahsas said Tuesday.
"The operation involvin…
Increasingly expensive United States housing is leaving many more people homeless at a time when the financial crisis is hitting hard, an independent United Nations expert said.
"Millions of people in the U.S. are spending high perce…
The government of Japan on Tuesday announced that it would send a maximum of around 450 billion yen (5 billion dollars) in aid to Afghanistan over the next five years.
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) a…
Envelopes containing white powder were delivered Monday to three missions to the United Nations in midtown Manhattan, touching off the security scare in the central New York City, officials said here on Monday night.
There was no imm…
Three hundred youth in the Kwaebibirem District would gain employment when the National Afforestation Project takes off in the area.
Announcing this at a meeting of the assembly at Kade, Mr George Agyemang Duah, the District Chief Ex…
The Upper West Regional Branch of the Ghana
Journalists Association (GJA) has called on the Regional Police Command to as a matter of urgency
investigate the alleged manhandling of its member by the Police in Wa.
Mr. James Donkor, …
The Reverend Dr Kojo Osei-Wusuh, Senior Pastor of the Grace Baptist Church (GBC) at Amakom in Kumasi, has filed a suit at a Kumasi High Court against the editor and publishers of Kumasi Mail, a weekly
newspaper in Kumasi.
The paper is …
The Tepa District Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old cobbler, who has been raping women at knife point in the area.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Emmanuel Adu Boahen, District Crime Officer, told the Ghana News Agency …
A United Nations-backed gathering of experts kicked off on Monday in Panama to initiate for the first time an assessment of the effect climate change has on the future threat of natural disasters and how nations can better manage an expect…
The Ministry of Tourism is currently working to hit one-million dollar target as annual foreign exchange earnings for the tourism, Mr Kwabena Acheampong, Deputy Minister of Tourism, said on Tuesday.
He said Ghana was targeting the ex…
A National Data Centre is to be established to
support the development of the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry in the country.
It would be the nation's information hub as well as data for Ministries Departments and Agenc…
Girls taking two or more sweetened drinks daily may have more body fat later, a new study suggests.
Researchers at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park came to the conclusion after analyzing what 166 non-Hispanic white gir…
Ms Esther Cobbah, Board Chairperson of the National Youth Council (NYC) on Tuesday called for the active involvement of the youth in decision-making to tap their experience for national development.
She said: "I do not believe that t…
The management of Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) on Tuesday announced planned outages on its Akosombo-Tafo lines in order to raise the height of its transmission lines running at a road
crossing at Oyoko, near Koforidua on Friday, N…
Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday unveiled the next stage of reforms of the National Health Service in an effort to create patient-centered services.
The plan will guarantee that everyone between the ages of 40 and 74 will have the l…
Government under its agricultural mechanisation
programme would establish a mechanisation centre in each at the 170 metropolis, municipalities and districts.
In addition, 500 boreholes for irrigation would be constructed in all the…
Manufacturers, distributors as well as various
health institutions violate the Breastfeeding Promotion Regulations in the country.
This was revealed in a monitoring assessment conducted by the management of Food and Drugs Board (FD…
The Visiting Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt,
whose country currently holds the European Union (EU) rotary presidency, said on Tuesday that EU would support the new Afghan government to fight corruption and helps bring stability in th…
Strong rains brought over by hurricane Ida have killed 175 people in El Salvador, the Civil Protection office said on Tuesday.
Apart from the confirmed 175 deaths, 60 others remain missing, said Civil Protection
director Jorge Melen…
Somali government security officials on Tuesday denied media reports that an abducted commercial ship off the coast of the war-torn country was carrying weapons for government forces.
Somali pirates this week hijacked a ship heading …
Mrs Zita Okaikoi, Minister of Information, on Tuesday condemned the screening of movies containing pornographic material on television during the day and urged television stations to desist from the act.
She was speaking at the inaug…
The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) is being impeded by lack of information about the roles and responsibilities of its key stakeholders and how they are expected to collaborate with each other.
This came out when officials from…
The Volta Region Chapter of the Coalition of the Right to Information Ghana, has urged Parliament to scrutinize and expedite action on the passage of the Right to Information Bill when it comes before it.
The Coalition made the call …
Kudjo Ansah, a farmer, who defiled a 14-year-old Junior High School (JHS) girl, was on Tuesday remanded by a circuit court at Asamankese.
The plea of Ansah was not taken and he would to re-appear on November 18.
Police Chief In…
The Northern Accelerated Intervention for Development Children, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) staged a show in Tamale to sensitise children in the Metropolis about the need to wash their hands with soap before and after meals.
…
Members of the Northern Patriots in Research and Advocacy (NORPRA), a civil society organisation, have expressed shock about the alleged government's withdrawal of feeding grants to second cycle schools in the Northern, Upper East and Uppe…
The Fountain Gate Church at the weekend, inaugurated an ultra modern Junior High School in Bolgatanga, at the cost of 443,238.98 Ghana cedis.
The school complex called Fountain Gate International School, has 27 classrooms, administra…
Contractors who were engaged by the Ministry of Education to reconstruct schools that were affected by the 2007 Northern floods, have given ultimatum for the payment of their contract certificate money.
They have therefore given the …
Pastor Emmanuel Denteh, President of the Central Ghana Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church has commended the media for its immense contribution towards the political and socio-economic development of the country.
He note…