The Construction and Building Materials Workers Union (CBMWU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has entered into bilateral agreement with the national unions of Nigeria to fashion out strategies and proposals towards speedy economic devel…
The mortal remains of the late Apostle Joseph Anim, 60, immediate past President of The Apostolic Church, Ghana, was laid to rest at the Osu Cemetery on Saturday.
He was also the former Vice President of the Ghana Pentecostal Council…
The Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra, Most Reverend Bishop Palmer-Buckle on Friday described the appointment of Peter Cardinal Appiah Turkson to preside over the "Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace" as the step in the right direction…
A Civil Society Organization Platform, an advocacy group comprising state, private and development partners, had adopted a communiqué on the School Feeding Programme on the way forward for programme, in Tamale.
The statement, which w…
Nana Ofori Amanfo Diatuo, Kyidomhene of Asankare
Traditional Area, has appealed to the National Road Safety Commission to provide a towing
vehicle on the Nkawkaw/ Konongo section of the Accra/Kumasi highway to reduce accidents.
He …
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has expressed sadness at the attack on a United Nations Guest House in Kabul, Afghanistan, which killed 12 people, including a Ghanaian Field Officer.
A statement from the Office of the Former Pre…
The deplorable conditions at the Ghana Labour College is affecting teaching and learning, Mr Isaac K Yanney, Principal of the College said on Friday.
The problems include irregular water supply, inadequate and poor state of computer …
Faith healers have condemned people, including pastors, who have turned radio and television stations into healing camps and were confusing innocent clients with their so called curative powers.
Mr Maxwell Amedewonu, the Administrato…
Mr David Newton, Rector of the Ghana Institute of
Journalism (GIJ), on Saturday said the residential Charter granting the Institute as a fully-fledged university, had important opportunities to create new faculties and adopt a wider cros…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Saturday said the Government was committed to providing better social services and creating employment opportunities with decent working condition for all.
President Mills said the Government acknow…
Some selected Ghanaian youth have been listed to
participate in a Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) Youth Summit in Ethiopia, aimed at insulating them against crime.
The week-long conference on the theme: "From Subject to Citiz…
The farming community of Appolonia in the Kpone-Katamanso Constituency, on Friday received two water storage tanks and medical supplies.
Connect International, a non-governmental organization on social development based in San Diego, Uni…
Participants at a forum on the interim Economic Partnership Agreement (iEPA) have called on the government to demonstrate practical commitment towards the promotion of modernized agriculture to
ensure food security and reduce poverty.
…
The Project for improving Water Governance in the White Volta Basin shared by Ghana and Burkina Faso which was started by the two neighbouring ountries in 2004 is steadily making positive progress, according to a Validation Report.
T…
Madam Esther Appaw-Agbola, Head of the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management of Ho Polytechnic, on Saturday called for the establishment of Hotel Schools in the polytechnics to prepare students adequately for the hospitality ind…
The Government of Ondo State of Nigeria has paid outstanding pensions and gratuities to more than 1,500 retired primary school teachers and local government workers amounting to 1.4 billion naira.
The Governor of the State, Dr Oluse…
Two boys and a woman were killed when a truck loaded with sheanuts crashed into a parked urvan bus at Makumah in the Upper West Region on Friday, a market day of the town.
The dead were Nuhu Adams, four; Matiliba Manu, one, and his …
U.S. scientists have found evidence that oxygen production began in Earth's oceans at least 100 million years before the Great Oxidation Event (GOE) around 2.4 billion years ago.
Evidence further demonstrates that even very low conce…
The Venezuelan government reinforced its military forces Friday in its northwestern border state of Tachira to strengthen the security in border areas.
A total of 515 border guards have been deployed in this region, bordering Colombi…
The Coalition of Muslim Organisations, Ghana (COMOG) on Friday called on the public to take the 2010 census seriously by ensuring transparency.
In a statement signed by Mr. Mohammed Frempong, Acting Communications Director, the organ…
Twenty-four people died from 27 motor bike accidents in the Upper West Region as at September this year as against 23 deaths recorded from 43 car and bus accidents during the same period last year.
Mr. John Ferguson Dzineku, Upper We…
Turkey will launch a mass vaccination program against the global epidemic A/H1N1 influenza on Monday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday.
Around 350,000 people, including health care workers and Turkish pilgrim…
Five out of 79 schools that registered for this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), in the Kwahu South and East Districts scored zero percent.
They are made up of 116 candidates including 48 girls.
However, 1…
Apostle Dr. Opoku Onyinah, Chairman of the Pentecost Church, Ghana, on Sunday asked Christians to avoid occultism and adhere to the true teachings of Christ.
He condemned advertisements by some pastors inviting people to come for del…
Valley View University (VVU) on Sunday made history by becoming the first institution to conduct any major general free health screening and hygiene education at Adamrobe near Aburi in the Akuapem South Municipality of the Eastern Region.
…
Mr. Joseph Kwaku Adjei, President of Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), has commended Nkoranza Traditional Council for its
contribution to the promotion of education in the area.
He appealed to the people to support the …
Two banks at Nkoranza have presented 12 dustbins to Nkoranza District Directorate of Education for distribution to selected basic schools to promote sanitation.
The Nkoranza-Fiagya Rural Bank presented seven of them whilst First Alli…
A peace advocate in the Northern Region has said the Northern,Upper East and Upper West regions would continued to lag behind in development if the people fail to pay heed to the tenets and practices of peace.
Mr. Alhassan Abdulai…
A factory to process Sunflower into bio-diesel was inaugurated at Tema with the call on the overnment and financial institutions to help expand the facility.
The 217,000 US dollar facility could process four metric tonnes of sunflower…
Bishop Agyin Asare, Presiding Bishop of the World Miracle Church (WMC), has appealed to Christians not to bluff when called to duty.
He said their talents and ability to serve were freely given to them by God and that if they had fre…
The Noble Order of the Knights and Ladies of Marshall, a friendly society within the Catholic Church, has sent message congratulations to Peter Cardinal Kodwo Appiah-Turkson, on his appointment
as the President Pontifical Council for Jus…
The Civil Society Coalition on Land (CICOL) has organized a three-day workshop on Land Administration and Rights Issues in Ghana for its member organizations, partners and the Media drawn
from the three Northern Regions at Pusu-Namongo i…
Traditional authorities have been urged to play leading roles in bringing quality education to their communities and to champion the education of the deprived child.
This would fall in line with a new ducational programme under the C…
GNA-President John Evans Atta Mills on Saturday
said government is committed to providing better social services including educational facilities to create decent employment opportunities and good
standard of living for all.
He …
A circuit court in Kumasi, on Friday sentenced a 19-year-old unemployed to two years imprisonment for stealing an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card and Ecobank Visa card belonging to a teacher.
Vincent Afriyie, the convict, pleaded…
The chiefs and elders of Gomoa Akyempim Traditional Area in the Central Region, have amicably resolved an eight-year old chieftaincy dispute.
This has paved the way for Obrifo Ahinaku Ahor Ankobea II, Paramount Chief of the Traditional…
Mr Justice Jones Victor Mawulom Dotse, a past President of Rotary Club of Ho, on Saturday urged Rotarians to work towards uniting people of all ethnic and tribal backgrounds.
He asked them to preach unity while they moved about to of…
President Professor John Evans Atta Mills on Saturday urged tertiary institutions to stimulate research activities in order to become more relevant and competitive within the international
academic community.
He said as government …
Reverend Prince Yao Tefe, Synod Clerk of the Accra Presbytery of the Global Evangelical Church has called on people in leadership positions to show compassion as they make and implement policies
to transform the lives of ordinary men and…
Afghan forces backed by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have eliminated a dozen Taliban insurgents and established government control over 17 villages in Darzab district of Jauzjan province north of Afghanistan,…
Three Afghan police sustained injuries as a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in Taliban birthplace Kandahar in south Afghanistan, provincial police chief Sardar Mohammad Zazi said Saturday.
"The gruesome incident took place Friday …
Typhoon Mirinae, the fourth in a month to hit the Philippines, barreled through the main island of Luzon in just a few hours early Saturday morning, the country's weather forecast bureau said. There is not yet report of casualties.
T…
International aid agency Oxfam has cautioned that a new wave of rain from Typhoon Mirinae is expected to reach Cambodia on Nov. 2.
In a statement received Saturday, Oxfam said situations in communities already affected by Typhoon Ket…
The Aviation Social Centre (ASC) Limited, a wellness and recreational facility in Accra, will in the next two years be fitted with state of the art equipment and undergo expansion to accommodate
the needs of clients.
The move to up…
Zain Communications Network, has donated large quantities of educational material to the Savelugu school for the Deaf in the Savelugu/Nanton District of the Northern Region.
The items donated included readers, school bags, sign writi…
Egypt reported on Saturday the fifth A/H1N1 flu death case, the health ministry said in a statement.
A nine-year-old child from Helwan governorate, to the south of the capital, died of A/H1N1 virus in an unnamed hospital in Cairo on …
A shallow earthquake measuring 5.6 Richter scale rocked Central Sulawesi, in eastern parts of Indonesia, on Saturday morning, but no initial report of damage or casualty, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said here.
The quake str…
A fuel line on a tanker loading bunker oil from a barge ruptured early Friday morning, spilling a mile-long sheen of oil into the San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California, local media reported.
The accident occurred when the…
The 31st Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was held in Indonesia's Bali concluded Thursday with results to be brought to the upcoming 15th United Nations Framework
Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) scheduled for Dec…
At least 50 people were feared dead on Sunday in Bukoro village in central north Nigeria's Kwara State while crossing a border river between Nigeria and Republic of Benin.
The incident occurred when to canoes conveying people from Ya…