Filipino security forces has arrested a suspected Al-Qaeda militant in the southern Philippines, police said on Tuesday.
The suspect, Hazzer Zaidali, 40, a resident of Indanan township in Sulu and a known bailiwick of Abu Sayyaf mili…
A 28-year-old suspected car snatcher ran out of luck when he failed in a broad daylight attempt to seize an Opel Astra taxi cab at knife point and was set on by a mob.
The timely intervention by the police saved John Nyadzi from bei…
Action Aid Ghana (AAG), a non-governmental organization, in collaboration with the Upper East Regional Girls Education Unit of the Ghana Education Service, is organizing a five-day Regional Girls Camp for 120 girls from deprived schools in…
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, leaves for North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on August 25 to attend the 2nd Bonn Conference on International Development Policy.
The two-day conference under the theme "New impulses for development Co-ope…
Honduran radio station Radio Globo is broadcasting again after attackers pulled the plug on it Sunday, its director announced Monday.
David Romero said the station was "alive," and no one was to silence it.
Men in face masks en…
The Central Regional Health Directorate will now focus on discipline, supportive supervision and high impact service delivery in line with its commitment to improve health care delivery especially in the reduction of maternal and child mor…
The Central Regional Minister, Mrs Ama Benyiwa Doe, has appealed to Public Health Technical Officers to help keep surveillance on HINI especially along the country's borders, to help curb its spread.
She said it was alarming the nation h…
The Tema Circuit Court 'A' on Tuesday sentenced a 19-year-old sales boy, to eight years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling a girl, aged 15½ years.
Godsway Quashie, a resident of Ashaiman Night Market, pleaded guilty with explanatio…
The General Council of the Musama Disco Christo Church (MDCC), on Tuesday installed Prophet Mokna Jeeba Fiifi Jehu-Appiah, as the new General Head Prophet and Akaboha IV of the church, at a ceremony at Gomoa Mozano, in the Central Region.
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Participants at a two-day workshop on small arms have called on Ghana to ratify the ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons.
A recommendation, issued at the end of the workshop in Accra on Tuesday, asked Ghana to recruit st…
Participants at a stakeholder meeting on the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) have called for a closer collaboration between the programme and its functionaries to make it more efficient.
They said the Ministry of Food and Agri…
Oboaman Nana Bofotia Boa-Amponsem II, Krontihene of Sunyani has advised politicians to apply violent-free and dignified methods in their bid to win more members into their parties.
He asked politicians to take a cue from Christ's exa…
Vice President John Mahama has assured transport operators that government is resolved not to enforce any polices that would negatively affect the sector.
He said government, rather, intends to partner transport operators in introduc…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Sunday urged religious and civil society groups to be consistent defenders of ethical values in the country and by so doing maintain their credibility.
The Vice President said civil society mus…
The Asamankese Circuit court on Friday remanded in prison custody, one Kofi Djan, a farmer, charged with being in possession of 200 grams of Indian hemp.
Djan who pleaded not guilty will re-appear on August 24.
Presenting the f…
Pastor James Legge of the Gabrieno Ministry, on Sunday urged churches to use part of their resources to support the poor, under-privileged, needy children and other vulnerable people in society.
He expressed worry that some churches …
The Seventh National Cadet Corps Leadership Training Camp meeting for 2009 ended at the weekend at Chiraa in Brong- Ahafo with a call on the youth to be disciplined.
The camp was under the theme: "Discipline and Loyalty - The Role of…
Forty-seven per cent of teachers in the Sissala East District are pupil teachers with low academic qualifications.
The teacher pupil ratio in the district is also 1:80 as against the Ghana Education Service's standard of 1:40.
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The Reverend Samuel Afranie Amankwaa, Brong Ahafo Regional Director of Education, has urged teachers and workers in educational institutions to take advantage of the various courses to upgrade themselves.
This, he noted, would help t…
Dr Hanna Louisa Bisiw, Deputy Minister of Education, on Saturday said Education is the best option for a secured future of a country because it contributes meaningfully to its socio-economic development.
She said one of the important…
Mr Noah Asante Manu, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Amansie East has stated that the progress of the child in building a successful educational carrier depends on how effectively the formative years of the child is handled and managed.…
Two hundred and fifty Junior High School (JHS) students in the Ellembelle, Jomoro and Nzema-East Districts in the Western Region, have benefited from a month's free tuition and lodging pre-senior high school (SHS) vacation classes.
T…
The Ministry of Education has granted a special dispensation for the training of 80 teachers, in the six Teacher Training Colleges in Education, in the Eastern Region, to help solve the crippling shortage of teachers in the Kwahu North Dis…
Mrs Justice Georgina Theodora Wood, Chief Justice, has said that the country's educational policy must aim at training the youth to develop the right attitudes and skills to help in the development of the nation.
"A skilled youth,…
Nii Boye Okansha VI, Chief of Oyibi near Dodowa in the Greater Accra Region has called on the government to reintroduce the Workers Brigade to train the youth in skills that would facilitate their employment.
He said the Workers B…
Mr William Ampem Darko, Director General of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) has called on corporate bodies to support all peace related initiatives in the country.
"No one can do business in a dislocated environment or a war- t…
Two people were on Thursday night shot to death and two others were injured by unknown assailants in Bawku, Deputy Upper East Regional Police Commander Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) George Tuffour has said.
The injured are …
The Kumasi East Rotary Club in conjunction with is partners in Canada, has completed a number of development projects in three regions at a total cost of 209,000 dollars.
The projects, which begun four years ago in 14 communities in …
The Police Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) on Friday advised members of the Car Rentals Association of Ghana (CRAG) not to misuse trade number plates assigned to them by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority.
Assistant …
A US-based female students' organisation,
ROPP for Girls Incorporated has expended over 7,000 dollars to support schools and communities in Accra and Cape Coast.
The items include general reading and writing materials, shoes, sanda…
Prof Dr Dr Daniel Buor, Provost of the College of Art and Social Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has said there was the need for collaboration among nations for a holistic education development.
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Government has urged blacksmiths clandestinely moulding guns to come out into the open to be helped to streamline their businesses.
Dr Kwasi Apea-Kubi, Deputy Minister of the Interior said this at a forum organized in Ho on Wednesday…
The ambitions of Tema Youth of staying in the premiership died last Friday after the Review Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) dismissed their case regarding the eligibility of Emmanuel Clottey.
Clottey joined Tema You…
The precincts of the Ghana Football association (GFA) was last Friday almost turned into a "boxing arena" following a heated clash between officials of Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Obuasi Ashantigold.
The near fight emanated from dissati…
Officials drawn from Municipal and District Assemblies, Departments and government agencies in the Upper West Region, at a workshop at Wa, on Friday, appraised issues on Public Finance Management and how monetary inflows had impacted on th…
A two-day international art exhibition designed to give selected artists across the world the platform to share ideas to deepen their artistic knowledge and skills opened in Kumasi on Wednesday.
It is being organised by the African C…
Nii Tetteh Adjabeng I, Chief of Adabraka Atukpai on Wednesday called on the Ministry of Education, to scrutinize students who gain admissions into tertiary schools to help eliminate computer fraud and occultic practices that had bedevilled…
Vice President John Mahama on Wednesday called for added innovation and originality from Ghana's economic sector to rope in an estimated 70 per cent of the population, which neither keeps savings in banks nor possess monetary instrument in…
Maulvi Dr. Wahab A. Adam, Head and Missionary in-charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Ghana, has called on religious leaders and parents to focus more on preaching and counselling that would imbibe in the youth genuine belief in God a…
Mr Kwame Brefo-Boateng, Tema Metropolitan HIV/AIDS Focal Person, on Tuesday said that 22,541 new HIV/AIDS infections, comprising 9,996 males and 12,545 females were recorded nationwide last year.
He said that 18,082 AIDS related deat…
Alhaji Collins Dauda, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has appealed to the Lands Commission to ensure that reforms are well implemented to make land registration stress free.
This, he said, would reduce the bureaucracy, in…
Ms. Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, has urged mining companies to provide alternative sources of employment for the youth in areas where they are operating.
She said it was important they provided peo…
The Most Revered Thomas Kwaku Mensah, Metropolitan Catholic Archbishop of Kumasi, has condemned employers who demanded sex in return for employment, saying it was immoral, sinful and violated the human rights of job seekers.
He attribute…
An Opel Astra taxicab, on Wednesday afternoon, got gutted in front of Obonu FM in Tema.
The taxi, according to eye witnesses, caught fire when the driver who had parked under an electrical and telecommunication pole, attempted fixing a g…
Nene Nuer Keteku III, Konor of Agotime State, has appealed to the government to make the Kente festival of the chiefs and people of the Agotime Traditional Area a national event.
He said this is because the cloth was the "single mos…
The Judicial Service on Monday announced the extension of the implementation of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) programme to all courts by 2013.
In pursuit of this vision a new policy directive outlined in June this year, est…
An Accra Circuit Court on Monday sentenced an 18-year-old driver's mate, Kwame Malik, to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling an 11-year-old pupil.
Malik pleaded not guilty to the charge of defilement, but the court presided…
The Tema Circuit Court 'B' has remanded into police custody Evans Overtey Harrison, a taxi driver, for biting-off the lower lip of a private security officer.
Harrison, who pleaded not guilty to the charge of causing unlawful harm, was r…
The Ghana Muslim Students Association (GMSA) has cautioned the country's Movie industry against the production of films that depict Islam in bad light.
It said it was particularly not happy with movies like "Abodam Three and Four", "…
The U.S. Department of Justice Monday named a federal prosecutor to investigate if the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s interrogations of terrorist suspects were illegal.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced in a statement …
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