A circuit court at Asamankese, has remanded two persons for possession 65 wrappers of dried leaves suspected to be Indian Hemp.
The pleas of Kofi Atta, a 36-year-old trader and Kwaku Asabre, miner, 32, were not taken and they would reap…
The West Africa Network of Journalists for Security and Development (WANJSD) on Thursday called on the Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mrs Elizabeth Mills-Robertson to urgently reform the police, detach it from the colonial menta…
Dr. Yasmin Ali Haque, representative of the United Nation's Children Fund (UNICEF) in Ghana, on Thursday urged government to formulate a comprehensive national sanitation policy.
She said this would ensure effective sanitation delive…
Eight employees of Mining and Building Contractors (MBC), a mining and construction company at Obuasi have been honoured for their meritorious services to the company in 2008.
The eight, all junior workers, were each given a certific…
Professor Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw, Vice-Chancellor of University of Education, Winneba (UEW), on Thursday said efforts were being made to establish more study centres to reduce the burden on students who participate in distance education.
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The Awutu Magistrate court has remanded in prison custody, a 35 year -old hunter who mistook a human being for a monkey, shot and killed him instantly at Awutu Ahentia,.
Harrison Kwamevi Dzalogo pleaded guilt and will re-appear befor…
Twenty-eight suspected criminals were on Thursday arrested in a police swoop from their hideouts in the New Juaben Municipality.
A search conducted on the suspects revealed three locally manufactured guns, scissors, chainsaw machine…
The Effutu Municipal Office of Department of Social Welfare (DSW) in collaboration with International Labour Organisation (ILO) has withdrawn 200 children engaged in child labour in the fishing industry within the municipality between 2006…
The Police will close some roads near the Independence Square to traffic on Sunday for the National Thanksgiving Service.
A statement issued by the Information Services Department on Friday, said the roads would be closed from 0600 a…
Wulugu Naba Pugansoa, Naa Professor John S. Nabila, President of the National House of Chiefs, has called on members of the House to vigorously source for funding for research activities on the codification of more lines of succession.
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The American Biographical Institute has nominated Very Reverend Dr Livingstone Buama, immediate past Moderator of E.P. Church, Ghana as recipient of "The World Medal of Freedom" this year.
"I have personally selected the worthiest candid…
Peter Nana Agyemang, a 40-year old fetish Priest has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling a 13-year-old girl by the Juaso Circuit Court presided over by Justice Jacob Boon who sat as an additional circuit c…
Sweden's government decided Thursday to send naval vessels to join European Union's anti-piracy mission off Somali.
The Swedish contribution to the EU's mission, code-named Operation Atalanta would consist of two corvettes, one suppo…
Vice President, John Dramani Mahama on Thursday launched a multi-million Ghana cedi talent hunt project and a technical institute in Kumasi.
The project is to give Information Communication Technology (ICT) in artisanal training to S…
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), George Appiah-Sakyi, Ashanti Regional Co-ordinator of the Domestic Violence Victim's Support Unit (DOVVSU), has advised Ghanaians to cherish their marriage relationships.
This, he said, would ave…
The Juaso Circuit Court presided over by Justice Jacob Boon, sitting as an additional circuit court judge has sentenced a 32 year-old driver to three years imprisonment in hard labour for dangerous driving, leading to the death of one Gord…
Dunkwa-on-Offin Police are searching for seven suspected armed robbers who allegedly robbed a filling station at Dunkwa-on-Offin.
Police Superintendent Samuel Anderson Buabeng, Dunkwa-on-Offin Municipal Police Commander told GNA tha…
A Tarkwa Circuit court presided over by Mr Samuel Obeng Diawuo has sentenced two ex-convicts to 15 years imprisonment each for stealing on their own plea.
Alex Twum 48, served 10 out of 18 years imprisonment imposed on him by a Sek…
Twenty-eight suspected criminals were on Thursday arrested in a police swoop from their hideouts in the New Juaben Municipality.
A search conducted on them revealed three locally manufactured guns, scissors, a chainsaw machine, kniv…
A U.S. military judge has refused President Barack Obama's request to delay the trial of a detainee at the Guantanamo prison, the Pentagon confirmed on Thursday.
By refusing to delay the court proceedings of the case of Abu al-Nashir…
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) announced the acceleration of integration of militia groups in the restive eastern province of North Kivu on Thursday.
Defence Minister Charles Mwando Simba launched the process at the Ruma…
Los Angeles city officials on Thursday unveiled a set of new anti-gang initiatives designed to reduce gang-related crimes by 15 per cent this year, saying the proposals could serve as a blueprint for the entire country.
The proposals…
The European Union (EU) will give Myanmar humanitarian assistance of 40.5 million euros (52 million U.S. dollars) this year, the latest Weekly Eleven journal reported.
Of the total, 22 million euros will be spent for those who had su…
The French navy taking part in the international naval force patrolling the Somali waters on Thursday handed over nine suspected Somali pirates to the authorities in the northeastern semiautonomous Somali region of Puntland.
The Fren…
Climate change is a serious global challenge and the new U.S. administration is ready to play a leadership role in dealing with this challenge, a senior U.S. official said here on Thursday.
"If left unchecked, global (climate) change…
The police have arrested nine members of a network of the suicide bombers in the garrison city of Rawalpindi in Pakistan, the News Network International (NNI) news agency reported on Thursday.
The NNI quoted police sources as saying …
A Methodist priest has warned Professor Mills' administration over an imminent economic crisis in the country, if urgent measures were not put in place to halt the fast depreciation of the Ghana cedi.
The Right Reverend Benjamin K. A…
The Suame branch of the Intercontinental Bank, Ghana, in collaboration with a medical team from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi organised a five-hour medical screening for some traders and mechanics at the Suame Magazin…
Dr Anum Aryeh, Medical Director of Tema Port Centre has urged employers and parents to allow their workers and children to undertake medical examination against Hepatitis "B" to enable them know their status and seek early medical attentio…
Members of Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) are to undertake massive clean-up exercise in the metropolis on February 14 this year, in response to President John Evans Atta Mills' call for environmental cleanliness.
Mr Gl…
An Accra Fast Track Court on Friday adjourned to February 10, the hearing of an election petition brought before it by Mr Francis Kojo Smith, New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Ablekuma South, in the December 7 election.…
The Ghana Armed Forces on Thursday bade farewell to Lt. Gen. J.B. Danquah, its immediate past Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), at a ceremony at Burma Camp.
Lt. Gen. Danquah's honourable release from service was announced by Presiden…
Various speakers at a public forum organized by Amnesty International (AI)-Ghana on Friday called for the abolition of the death penalty because it is squalid in the context of human rights.
They said recent global trends had made th…
Four men suspected to have set a house ablaze in Bawku killing a four-month old pregnant woman, Fatima Majeed, have been remanded in prison custody by a Bolgatanga Circuit court, provisionally charged with arson.
They are to reappear…
An Accra Fast Track High Court has ordered the Ministry of Transportation to pay two million dollars or its cedi equivalent to Tabcon Limited, a firm whose services were engaged in the Accra-Kumasi road project.
The court, presided over …
Total Oil Ghana Limited on Friday donated fuel coupons worth GH¢6,075 to Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) in support of the assembly's clean-up exercise in the Accra Metropolis on Saturday.
The coupons would be used to fuel the tipp…
Prophet Peter Abednego Dartey Liberty, in-charge
of Kingdom of God Ministry at Otoase near Nsawam has called on church leaders to shun active politics and rather imbibe in their members the virtues of Christianity.
He said Christi…
Scholars in Transit (SIT-UP), a non-governmental organisation in partnership with the Bible Society of Ghana, is distributing 6,000 Bibles valued at about GH¢36,000 to students in public Junior High Schools in Nkoranza North and South dist…
Ban on corporal punishment in schools is still in force, Mr Kwabena Agyemang-Badu, Nkoranza District Director of Education has warned.
"Teachers who continue to use the cane on children do so at their own risk, he said.
Address…
A 20 year old Kwabena Adjei from Nkoranza died at St. Theresa's Hospital at Nkoranza last Tuesday after he involved in a motor accident on the Nkoranza-Ejura road.
Mr Peter Akwasi Denteh, Superintendent in-charge of Nkoranza District…
Mr Kwabena Agyemang-Badu, Nkoranza District Director of Education, has commended Miss Elizabeth Anokyewaa, a 28 year-old mother for returning to the classroom after 14 years out of school.
Anokeywaa, who hailed from Dandwa in Nkoranz…
South Korea on Wednesday welcomed a comment by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il that he wants to push forward with the six-party denuclearization talks.
In a meeting with a visiting Chinese official last week, Kim said he does not want …
Mr. Tsatsa Tsikata, former Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), on Wednesday said the law on "causing financial loss to the state" was not constitutional because it was not properly defined in the 1992 consti…
Rear Admiral Nuno, Chief of Naval Staff, who has been named as the Acting Chief of Defence Staff on Monday was commissioned into the Ghana Navy, Executive Branch on November 14, 1970.
Rear Admiral Nuno's military training and qualifi…
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), in collaboration with the Libyan Government, is providing free tractor services to farmers in the Northern Region to help boost agricultural production.
The project was initiated by Presid…
Two American Peace Corps Volunteers, Michael Simpson and Alex Peterson have financed the construction of a computer laboratory at the cost of GH¢24,000 for the Junior High School (JHS) of Foase in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of Ashanti.
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The Mankessim Programme Area of the Plan Ghana, a child-centred development international non-governmental organisation (NGO), has provided stationery worth about 15,000 Ghana cedis for schools under its sponsorship.
Sixteen schools …
Professor Fredrick K. Rodrigues, Dean, Faculty of Science of the University of Ghana, on Wednesday called for a new partnership to utilize and manage the natural resource base of the continent.
He said the partnership should offer op…
The Domestic Violence and Victims' Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service in the Ashanti Region, received 2,059 domestic violence cases in 2008 as against 1,911 in 2007.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) George Appiah-S…
Ms Agartha Osei, Nkoranza District Girls Education Officer on Wednesday called on parents to support teachers in their efforts to improve on the education of their children.
Ms Osei gave the advice in an interview with the Ghana Ne…
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