Partners working with government to eliminate worst forms of child labour, have been cautioned against giving out false information that are detrimental to the country's image.
Mr Antwi Boasiako Sekyere, Deputy Minister for Employme…
Religious and traditional leaders at a workshop in Bolgatanga are looking at various ways to sustain peace to ensure stability and support rapid socio-economic development of the area.
Christian, Muslim, Security Service and Traditio…
A three-day workshop to strengthen the teaching of culture in schools opened at the Centre for National Culture in Kumasi on Friday.
Attending are about 60 district cultural officers and coordinators of the Ghana Education Servi…
Ghanaian women have been urged to be more assertive and demand respect for their sexual and reproductive rights.
The General Secretary of African Rural Evangelistic Association, a local NGO, Mr Israel Ghaffah, said this is necessary …
School vehicles in Koforidua are flouting road traffic regulations to the risk of the children who board them.
This was revealed after an operation by the Eastern Regional Police Command on Thursday to check the road worthiness of sch…
Mr Alando .A. Sidik, General Secretary of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), has appealed to government to assist local commercial drivers to acquire good vehicles to reduce the rate of road accidents.
He said due to the l…
Aqua Vitens Rand Limited (AVRL), operators for Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), would re-double efforts at bridging the gap between the increasing demand for water and supply in some parts of the Greater-Accra Region.
Mr Daniel Mu…
Members of the Akim Asiakwa Methodist Church-Ghana, have raised GH¢5,500 at a fund raising rally towards the expansion of their church building at Akim Asiakwa.
The Project Officer of the Church, Mr Kofi Larbi, told the Ghana News Ag…
The Ghana National Association of Teachers(GNAT), has asked teachers to go to school but not teach from Monday, December 14 until issues of negotiations on their Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) are concluded with the Ghana Education …
Mr Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), on Thursday renewed the commitment of the world body to defend the rights of all people particularly the most vulnerable.
In a statement read on his behalf at the Internat…
All men who are more than 40 years have been advised to once in a year test for prostate cancer since the disease mainly affects such category of men especially, those with family history.
"Early diagnosis is essential because the sp…
Cocoa farmers at Abomina Nketewa, a farming community near Suhum, has appealed to government to stop a timber contractor from indiscriminate felling of trees on their cocoa farms.
The farmers contended that the activities of Mr Stephe…
Available statistics by the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) indicates that about 2,200 fire outbreaks were recorded nation-wide between January to November this year.
A total of 3,249 fire outbreaks were recorded within the same p…
As part of activities commemorating this year's International Human Rights Day, officials of the Abibiman Foundation, a non-governmental organization and the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) toured some slums i…
The Ghana Tourist Board (GTB) is to hold a National Flower Festival in the Eastern Region.
The two-day festival to be organized in Koforidua and some other venues yet to be named would encourage people to converge at the venues to exc…
Mamaga Ngoyifiaga Akosua, a development queen in the SASA Traditional Area of the Volta Region, has expressed worry about tribal conflicts and
numerous chieftaincy disputes in the country.
She said those negative developments were h…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama has assured the media that the Broadcasting Bill would be passed into Law by March 2010 to make broadcasting more beneficial to society.
In a speech read for him by Mr Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of C…
Barima Akroma Acheampong, Chief of Akim Abakoase in the Atiwa District, has added his voice to the call to modify outmoded customs that tend to bring African culture into disrepute.
Speaking to the GNA at Abakoase he named some of th…
Bukari Zakari Anaba, the Tano South District Chief Executive, has presented plates, cups and spoons to Akobro L/A Primary School in support of the school feeding programme.
The items were 300 plates, 300 spoons and 288 cups to replac…
The Northern Network for Education Development (NNED), a civil society organisation, has urged the government to monitor the Capitation Grant to check the misappropriation of funds by head teachers and school authorities.
The Acting C…
Disaster management in Ghana could be enhanced through the adoption of a formalised "Incident Command System" (ICS) at all levels tailored to the Ghanaian situation.
Lieutenant Steve Kilde of the North Dakota National Guard of the USA…
All is set for construction work to begin on the 295-kilometre eastern corridor highway to link the southern sector of the country to the north through the Volta Region.
"We have reached a high level, finished all paper work and I can no…
A girls' club called the Nanumba Stop Violence Against Girls, has called for some interventions by government and stakeholders to overcome some of the challenges confronting girls in school.
This includes more female teachers in the…
Dr. Alexis Nang-Beifubah, the Upper West Regional Director of Health Service, has appealed to traditional rulers to investigate all maternal related deaths in their communities and punish husbands whose negligence resulted in the death of …
Eastern Region recorded 1,371 road accidents involving 1,813 vehicles with 317 people killed and 2,179 seriously wounded as at the end of November,.
Out of the number, 40 percent of them were young people and the figure recorded t…
The Indonesian Police Criminal Detective Squad and a task force of the West Nusa Tenggara Police have detained 47 illegal Afghan immigrants in East and West Lombok, the Jakartapost.com online news reported on Friday.
"Police are curr…
One in five Australians have been victims of identity theft, a new survey has found.
Christmas and New Year is a period of peak activity for fraudsters and identity thieves, survey sponsor Veda Advantage, an ID theft protection compa…
Recent cooler temperatures in the New South Wales (NSW) regions is a good news for firefighters in the next few days as they try to contain more than 100 fires burning across the state yet.
The Australian Associated Press reports on …
A bomb scare prompted the evacuation of the Wellington Court House on Friday morning, police said.
Police said emergency services were sent to the district and high courts after a phone call about 10:30 a.m. (21:30 GMT Thursday).
…
Twelve laureates -- including five women -- of the 2009 Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine and literature and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel received their prizes on Thursday at a cerem…
An international roster of football stars are scheduled to meet SL Benfica of Portugal in Lisbon next month in a United Nations "Match Against Poverty," with soccer greats Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima of Brazil and Zinedine Zidane of Franc…
Two girls were killed and five other people hurt in a house fire that happened Thursday in Canada's Quebec province, reports reaching here said.
Firefighters found the bodies of the two girls, 15 and nine years old respectively, in s…
The weather is expected to be dry, warm and hazy
over the entire country but with slightly improved visibility especially the over southern
sector on Friday.
The weather forecast issued by the Ghana Meteorological Agency said ear…
Students, faith organizations and people around
Accra would on Saturday gather at the St. Mary's Senior High School to light candles and share stories from the front lines of climate change as part of a worldwide day of action to avert
…
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Kofi poku-Manu, has pledged the Government's determination to tackle rural poverty head-on by creating opportunities to stimulate overall economic growth.
This, he said, would enable the poor …
An organization that coordinates activities in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sectors on Thursday officially inaugurated their new office in Accra.
The Office named "WASH House" is host to eight organizations all working in…
Fuseini Yahaya, a 49-year-old driver mechanic in Wa, died through an accident involving the official vehicle of the Sissala West District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr. Robert Bakah Wavei.
He died when he went to test the car after he ha…
Micro finance institutions in Ghana can help increase access to basic health care services to the poor, by subsidising the premiums they pay to subscribe to the National Health Insurance Scheme
(NHIS).
This was the outcome of the f…
Four Young men in the Bongo District in the Upper East Region have been arrested for allegedly smoking India Hemp.
They are, Sunday Azaba, 21, lorry station attendant, Mbabila Awanga 24 years, trader, Dabi Akembi, alias Kwafo Dedi, 2…
The weather is expected to be dry, warm and hazy over the entire country but with slightly improved visibility especially the over southern sector on Friday.
The weather forecast issued by the Ghana Meteorological Agency said early m…
Nene George Teye Amedallor 111, the Dangme East District Chief Fisherman, has expressed concern about illegal fishing ctivities going on along some coastal areas of the country.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency at Gorm-Ada, Nene…
The Centre for Sustainable Development Initiatives (CENSUDI) and Afrikids Ghana, non-governmental organizations operating in the Upper East Region, on Friday organized a one day breast cancer awareness creation forum.
It was part of …
The Central Regional office of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) says it is enforcing the use of the new warning triangles with reflective lights to help curb road accidents in the region.
As a result, it has made it …
Diesel-driven road users in other U.S. states on Wednesday hove their sighs of relief as California back-tracked its diesel emission rules by delaying implementation.
California, the only U.S. state having the right to adopt its own …
The Public Works Department (PWD) said on Friday that estimates for the renovation of seven ministerial bungalows were yet to be considered by the Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing.
A press release by Mr Rockson Yeboah, …
A veteran credit union practitioner has urged parents to use donations at the outdooring of their babies to open accounts for them.
Mr Albright Opoku-Kyeremeh, acting manager of Dormaa Chance Brothers Cooperative Credit Union, said t…
The Akuapem South Municipal Director of Agriculture, has called on agricultural officers to improve on food and product safety by enhancing their technical capabilities to face the emerging challenges of pest and agro-chemical management.
…
Mr Samuel Asare Koram, Engineer of UNIHYDRO Consultancy firm, has urged managers and heads of businesses to open up to subordinates and allow their views and opinions.
He said such cordial working relationship would encourage the wor…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Friday commended the Ghana Police Service for working hard to reduce crime in recent times.
He however urged them not to be complacent in combating crime and criminal activities.
He stressed t…
Apostle Dr. Kwadwo Safo, Founder of the Kristo Asafo Church, on Friday donated food items, home appliances and 2,000 Ghana cedis to the Ghana Air Force as part of his contribution towards their
annual end of year party of the Force.
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