Prosper Sekyere, 24, a resident of New Ayoma in the Hohoe Municipality is being held by the Divisional Police for allegedly stealing a two- year old kindergarten pupil.
Mr Anthony Darkey, Divisional Crime Officer, who briefed the Gha…
Management of Students Bridging the Information Gap (SBIG), a US-based NGO, at the weekend inaugurated a computer laboratory and library estimated at 50,000 dollars for the inmates of Good Shepherd Orphanage at Kasoa in the Central Region.…
Road Engineers in-charge of districts in the Eastern Region on Tuesday started a training programme in Koforidua to master the use of the Routine and Recurrent Road Maintenance Manual for effective implementation.
The technical ma…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, has assured residents of Akosombo that the government would work to nib in the bud the activities of criminals, particularly domestic and highway armed robbers.
He said as part o…
Representatives of public sector unions and other organized labour will meet the government this week to negotiate for salary adjustments for public sector workers.
This has become necessary as a result of the recent increase in the…
Mr Daniel Agyarko, Nkoranza District Environmental Health Division Officer, has urged the management of Zoomlion Sanitation Project to review its mosquito control programme module to enhance its effectiveness.
He suggested that the e…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Constituency, Dr Joseph Samuel Annan hinted at the weekend that he is in contact with some foreign investors towards the establishment of a new sugar factory at Komenda.
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Producers, transporters and exporters of charcoal in commercial quantities would from next month require special permit to lawfully operate, Mr Alfred Ofosu Ahenkorah, Executive Secretary of Energy Commission, announced on Tuesday.
M…
Nana Yaa Dudaa Kani, queen mother of Nkoranza Traditional Area, has cautioned the youth, especially girls, to desist from calling the names of gods and water bodies to curse their neighbours.
She warned that she would not deal lenien…
Nana Kwaku Bonsam, a fetish priest of Akomadan Afrancho in the Ashanti Region, has appealed to his colleagues to use some of their earnings, to provide social amenities to deprived communities.
Kwaku Bonsam said the provision of e…
The management of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), parent company of the leading independent regional banking group Ecobank, on Tuesday said the future looked bright for shareholders after massive investment in infrastructure acro…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Tuesday re-echoed his call for national unity and underscored church and state partnership in nation building, stressing Godly values to ensure a better Ghana.
In a comment on the "That all may be…
Mr Baba Jamal, Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, has entreated Muslims at Nsawam in the Akuapem Municipality, to promote peace, unity and development in order to fix the development challenges facing them.
He made the appeal during t…
The Department of Chemical Engineering of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi would begin a programme in Petrochemical Engineering this year.
Professor Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwah, Vice-Chancellor of the uni…
Mr Seth Adjei-Baah, Member of Parliament for Nkawkaw has constructed a GHC 24,000 permanent office at Nkawkaw.
The office was jointly financed from his share of the MPs Common Fund and Kwahu West Municipal Assembly.
Mr Adjei-Ba…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, has urged Newmont Akyem Project, a mining company at New Abirem, to consider building the capacity of the local people as they awaited their mining license.
"You should look at the sk…
Mr Baba Jamal, Deputy Eastern Regional Minister has advised children not to allow elderly people to exploit them in the name of respect
He said most often, child abuse cases, including rape and defilement reported were through…
Professor Kwame Gyekye, an eminent African philosopher and scholar, was at the week-end honoured by the Philosophy Department of the University of Ghana for his meritorious service to the University for the past 40 years.
He was pr…
The Very Reverend Emmanuel Entsi Williams, Parish Priest of St. Peter and Paul Anglican Church has called on teachers to regard the teaching profession as noble and rewarding.
Rev Williams, who is also the Archdeacon of Saltpond, poi…
Omanhene of Gomoa Akyempim Traditional Area, Obrifo Ahunaku Ahor Ankobea II, has reiterated his call on the government to probe alleged killings of albinos in the country.
In May this year, media reports quoted the head of the Salawa…
Nurses form an essential component of the nation's health delivery system and their career development should be taken seriously.
Dr. Bona Yegbe, Director of the Premier Nurses Training College (NTC), who made the call, said the coun…
District Directors of the Ghana Health Service, at the weekend, entreated stakeholders in the fight against HIV/AIDS not to be complacent with the fight against the pandemic because of the drop in the prevalence rate.
They also enco…
The Ministry of Environment Science and Technology (MEST), has directed all communication network operators in the country, to obtain the necessary environmental permits for all proposed mast sites before installation.
A statement si…
The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr. Mark Woyongo has appeal to Ghanaians to patronise locally produce rice and other food items, due to their highly nutritional value.
"I eat locally produced rice, which is of high nutritional val…
The Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has directed management of Ghana Railway Company (GRC) to institute measures to prevent encroachment on its land by traders.
In addition, it should ensure all illegal squatters on its la…
The Management and Staff of Twifo Oil Palm Plantation (TOPP) and school children in the company's area of operations, have for the past three years planted more than 3,000 tree seedlings to protect the environment.
Mr Emmanuel Ahiabl…
Morgue equipment acquired for use at the psychiatric hospital in Accra six years ago continue wasting away in the sun and in the rain for lack of structure to put them into use.
Dr Akwasi Osei, Acting Chief Psychiatrist of the Ghan…
A lecturer at the Psychology Department of the University of Education, Winneba, Rev. Eldda Bonney, has said if youngsters are directed to understand life and the fear of God inculcated into them they would exercise restraint in the way th…
Dr Fred Mac Palm, Founder and Director of Help Our Children Foundation (HOCFound), has called on the government to formulate laws to criminalise the activities of spiritualists and prayer camp operators, who abuse the rights of mentally-ch…
A Hohoe Circuit Court has remanded Kudjo Togbevi, Depot Keeper of Trans Royal Cocoa Buying Company in Koforidua and Yaw Narh, a driver in prison custody by for allegedly smuggling 80 bags of dried cocoa beans valued at GH¢7,344 to Togo.
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The Ghana Meteorological Agency, on Monday cautioned the public that a moderate to severe rainstorm observed over Togo and moving steadily westward was expected to give rise to squally rain in the country.
This is expected to occur …
A 22 year-old mechanic who was found in possession of a quantity of cannabis sativa when he visited his friends at the Nima Police Station was on Monday sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment in hard labour by a Circuit Court in Accra.
Abub…
The circuit court in Dormaa Ahenkro in the Brong Ahafo Region has remanded Taah Manas, an unemployed youth, for allegedly defiling a second year Junior High School student.
Manas pleaded not guilty to the charge and the court presid…
Jacob Akakpo, a 23-year-old driver, has been sentenced to a fine of 120 Ghana cedis by a Hohoe circuit court for driving a bus without valid license.
Akakpo pleaded guilty and would serve six months in jail in default.
Assista…
The Old Students Association of the Abuakwa State College has inducted four members to the Council of Distinguished Alumni (CODA) of the association.
The induction was done on Saturday and it attracted scores of old students.
CODA is…
Alhaji Muhammad Mumuni, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, on Monday called on African countries to join the crusade to preserve the tenets that institutionalised democracy on the continent.
He said recent politica…
Members of staff of the University of Ghana Agricultural Research Centre at Nungua, embarked on a massive demonstration on the Legon campus, in protest against the encroachment of the centre's land by estate developers.
They later c…
The National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) has launched the Abiam Road Safety Campaign Project in Tema in the latest of its education drive to reduce road accidents.
Launching the campaign dubbed: "Drivers", Mr Nobel Appiah, Executiv…
Mr Ato Essuman, Member of the Council of State on Saturday observed that the provision of educational facilities is the responsibility of government, parents, corporate bodies and the community.
He called on people who are in positio…
Sanitation-related diseases accounted for
about eight point six ( 8.6) million Ghana cedis of money spent in
the treatment of diseases reported to health facilities in the Upper
West Region last year and thereby strained the fi…
Reverend Samuel Yao Kwami, former Director of Mission and Evangelism of the Global Evangelical Church, has added his voice to the call on political parties to bury their differences and rally behind the government to ensure national develo…
Police officials here Saturday warned local fans of the Los Angeles Lakers that security efforts will be in place if the team wins the NBA championship Sunday.
"We have the ability to put together resources very quickly if we go to a…
The Oguaa Traditional Council at the weekend launched the annual historic "Fetu Afahye", festival of the chiefs and people in Cape Coast.
Osabarimba Nana Kwesi Atta II, Omanhene of Oguaa Traditional Area, said this year's festival lo…
Mr Gershon Sena Sekley, Chief Executive Officer of G2 Medical Laboratory, at the weekend noted that prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death among Ghanaian men after lung cancer.
He said statistics indicate that five per …
Mr. Aquinas Tawiah Quansah, Member of Parliament (MP) for Mfantseman West, on Sunday expressed the need for the amendment of the fisheries Act (625), to outline clearly the punitive processes to deal with all illegal fishing related offenc…
Mr. Alex Tettey Enyo, Minister of Education at the weekend noted that the hostility children afflicted by mental illnesses suffer from their parents and other relatives is due to ignorance and superstition.
He said these unfortuna…
The Ashongman Estate branch of the Methodist Church of Ghana, on Sunday laid the foundation for the construction of a 227, 809 Ghana cedis church complex.
The 1,200 capacity building is intended to accommodate the increasing members…
Reverend Moses Simon Kwablah Lanyo, Parish Priest of the Kabakaba Hill branch of the Global Evangelical Church in Ho, has called on Christians to use music as an effective tool of communicating with God.
He said music played a very i…
Alhaji Haruna Bukari Dabre, Assembly Member for Mamobi East in the Greater Accra Metropolis, has called on women not to allow themselves to be used in indecent advertisements, which tend to demean their dignity.
He expressed regret t…
The Winneba Police on Saturday arrested five people suspected to be dealing in wee, during a dawn raid on their hide-outs in the Effutu Municipality.
The Municipal Police Commander, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Francis Y…