Mr. Rudi Daems, a Member of the Flemish Parliament in Belgium on Tuesday called on government to strengthen the inspection capability and processes at the harbour to avoid the dumping of electronic waste in the country.
"A lot of ele…
The Chiefs and Queenmothers of Ekumfi Traditional Area in the Central Region have congratulated President John Atta Mills on his election as President of the Republic of Ghana.
"Your election is indeed a fitting tribute to your st…
Mr. Lakhal Benkelai, the Algerian Ambassador in Ghana, has donated sporting and educational materials to the 1st November 1954 Junior High School in Tamale.
The Algerian government built the school in 1954 as part of activities marki…
Mr. Joseph Amoah, President of the Asanteman Senior High School Old Students' Association, has said that the group provided its alma mater with an internet facility worth over GH¢2,000 to enhance teaching and learning.
He said the asso…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Tuesday stressed the need for divine guidance and direction as the nation worked for peace and development.
He called on the citizenry to rekindle their belief in God, explaining that, the peaceful t…
The Tema Metropolis in 2008 recorded no incident of cholera outbreak among the Out- Patient Departments (OPDs) cases attended to at the various health facilities.
The Directorate recorded a total of 348,116 OPD attendances of which mala…
Mr Rudi Daems, a Member of the Flemish Parliament in Belgium, on Tuesday called on government to strengthen the inspection system and processes at Tema harbour to check the dumping of electronic waste in the country.
"A lot of electr…
The people of Asunafo North Municipality, have protested against plans by Keengan Company Limited, a mining group in Kumasi, to mine gold in the area.
The communities to be affected by such activity included Fianko Nfama, Subriso, G…
Sixteen electrical technicians are attending a five-day training workshop on electrical installations and maintenance in Tamale to equip them to work on state-of-the-art electrical systems.
The workshop was collaboration between Glob…
Pregnant women were on Tuesday advised to attend antenatal clinics to know their health condition rather than visiting prayer camps for intervention from pastors.
Dr (Mrs) Ernestina Mensah-Quainoo, Tema Metropolitan Health Director said …
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong has not been fired; he is proceeding on leave prior to retirement. He is due for retirement on March 1 2009.
All public officers in Ghana, except a select few, are ex…
The Ghana Pentecostal Council, Tarkwa, on Sunday held a post-election thanksgiving service at the Central Pentecost Church at Tarkwa.
It was under the theme: 'Pre and Post Elections in Ghana: Christian Perspective and the Plans of Go…
There is a looming crisis that could disrupt academic work at the Wa Campus of the University of Development Studies (UDS) following the suspension of two student leaders of the University from their positions in the Student's Representati…
The Freedom from Hunger, a non-governmental organisation based in Accra, is to train and support women groups in health related micro businesses in the Central, Eastern and Greater Accra regions.
The training aims at promoting the hea…
President John Evans Atta Mills in consultation with the leadership of the Ghanaian clergy has declared Sunday February 1 as a national day of prayer and thanksgiving for the recent peaceful and successful elections.
In view of this, t…
Mr. Emmanuel Boansi Darkwa, Kwahu West Municipal Chief Executive, has denied allegation that took 1,000 bags of cement belonging to the assembly to Kwahu Nsaba, his home town, and distributed the building materials to New Patriotic Party (…
Many fathers who neglected their biological children are now fulfilling their parental duties with the efforts of the Department of Social Welfare in the Effutu Municipality.
Mr Godwill Francis Acquah, Municipal Director of the De…
The people of Yeji in the Pru District of the Brong Ahafo Region, have been provided with a borehole fitted with pump at the cost of 7,000 dollars.
The project was financed by the Kharis Ministries International, a Church in Missouri in …
The Member of Parliament for Prestea Huni-Valley Constituency Mr Francis Adu-Blay Koffie has expressed profound gratitude to those who voted for him in Election 2008.
Mr Blay, who speaking at thanksgiving service at The Living Word …
The Old Tafo branch of the Gospel Centre Assemblies of God Church in Kumasi, at the weekend donated items worth GH¢400 to the Tafo Government Hospital in Kumasi.
The items included toilet rolls; assorted soap; plastic containers; cutlass…
Mr Joseph Kwabena Onyinah, Ashanti Regional Director of Education has advised Science and Creative Arts teachers to encourage children to use their imagination in the application of scientific principles to promote creativity and invention…
Dr. Kwame Amezah, Head, Directorate of Agric Extension Services has called on the government to put in place the appropriate measures to ensure that proper weather forecasting was provided for farmers to help boost food productivity and ac…
The Ghana Standards Board (GSB) on Wednesday launched the website of the Codex Alimentarius Commission to facilitate information exchange on food safety between its 44 member countries.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission was establ…
A total of 4,000 second-year students from some vocational and technical institutes throughout the country took part in the three-day examination dubbed: "Foundation Test" organized by the National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) on p…
The Chief Justice, Mrs Georgina Wood on Wednesday called for a new breed of law graduates with a high sense of purpose to lead civil society to uphold civic and moral obligations.
She therefore asked legal training institutions to re…
The United Cadres Front (UCF) of the Ashanti Region has expressed concern about some views and comments being made by a section of the public that they were not in favour of President Evans Atta Mills's nomination of Mr Opoku Manu as the …
An Accra Circuit Court on Wednesday granted
bail to a 40-year old trader Benedicta Gyamena who presented false cheque of GH¢7,500 cedis to Nestle Ghana Limited for payment of various items she
had bought.
He is to reappear on Feb…
The Greater Accra Regional Security Council (REGSEC) on Monday asked the feuding parties to the chieftaincy dispute in Gbese in Accra to observe the peace until all issues pending at the courts are determined.
A press statement issue…
A Winneba Magistrate's Court has sentenced three persons to 48 months imprisonment in hard labour for stealing 600 Ghana cedis belonging to a trader at Winneba Junction.
Nathaniel Nyarko 38, a trader from Volta Region, Akwesi Akwe Ek…
Dormaa Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service comprising the Dormaa Municipal and Dormaa-East district, has held its 2008 annual review meeting at Dormaa-Ahenkro.
The meeting reviewed the year's activities, recounted achievem…
Mrs Beatrice Prempeh, the Obuasi Municipal Director of Education, has observed that the collaboration between the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) would enhance learning abilities of pupils and students.
…
Six persons remanded at Nsawam Prisons, have complained to the circuit Court at Asamankese about the lack of medical care for them.
They alleged that the prison authorities often ignored the request of prisoners for medical attention.
…
A circuit court in Dormaa Ahenkro, has remanded Kwabena Yeboah, a Rastafarian coconut seller into prison custody for his alleged involvement in a theft case.
He pleaded not guilty to the alleged involvement in the theft of items from…
The Ghana Union Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church, has launched a healthy life promotion campaign to reduce preventable diseases on Ghanaians.
The campaign, which is part of activities marking the Church's 121 years ex…
Right Reverend Samuel Osei Tutu Achamfuo-Yeboah, Bishop of the Methodist Church Tema Diocese, has advised Christians to repent from their sins and believe in the gospel for eternal life.
"Failure to repent and believe in the gospel i…
Sixteen graduates from Senior High Schools (SHS) and training colleges at Adeiso, in the West Akim Municipal Assembly, are volunteering free tuition, to school drop outs and junior high school pupils who could not get admission to SHS.
…
The Trust Bank has donated GH¢63,000 to the Maternity Block of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, the Ghana Society for the Blind and twelve deprived Basic Schools in Accra and Kumasi as part of its corporate social responsibility.
The …
A cross section of Senior High School (SHS) teachers and students, on Monday expressed mixed feelings, about the intention of the ruling National Democratic Congress, to revert the four years duration of the SHS.
Some respondents who…
Fatima Issaka, a 28-year-old pregnant woman, was burnt to death at Daduri, a suburb of Bawku on the night of January 16 2009.
The room of Mohammed Majeed, her husband, in which she was when the tragedy occurred, was allegedly set abl…
Four persons believed to have murdered Yakubu Baba, a 60-year-old hunch-back and cripple, on Monday appeared before a district magistrate court in Sekondi.
The pleas of Alhaji Seidu Apana Nuhu, who claimed to be a businessman, operat…
Many men in the Effutu-Awutu-Senya area are refusing to cater for their children, the local office of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has reported.
The Municipal Director of the Commission, Mr Richm…
Maternal mortality has dropped from five cases in 2007 to four in 2008 in Dormaa district in Brong Ahafo whilst stillbirth cases have rather assumed an upward trend.
This was contained in a reproductive and child health service repor…
Forestry experts in the sub-region are meeting in Accra to dialogue on strategies to facilitate the implementation of the first ever ECOWAS forestry policy developed for sustainable resource management.
The Dialogue, which is part of…
Prisoners rioted at Qubbah jail in northern Lebanon's Tripoli, taking two officers hostage and setting fire on the jail, Voice of Lebanon radio reported Monday.
The prisoners pressured the Internal Security Forces (ISF) to meet their…
The African Union (AU) peacekeeping forces in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, said on Sunday that they have credible information of possible further suicide attacks against them.
The warning came a day after a suicide car bomb explo…
Indian capital Delhi was put under a massive ground-to-air security apparatus for the 60th Republic Day celebrations Monday.
Mobile hit teams, anti-aircraft guns and sharpshooters of the National Security Guards have been deployed at…
Ibrahim Jallow, a herdsman, was on Monday convicted on his own plea of guilty to 12 months imprisonment in hard labour by the Kade Magistrate Court for escaping from lawful custody.
Police Inspector Eric Tetteh Zorh, prosecuting, tol…
The Goil Filling station at Kade at the weekend got burnt when a petrol tanker discharging fuel caught fire.
Also burnt was the tanker with registration number GW 1396 Y.
The Kade Office of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) is inv…
Two armed robbers died in a shoot out with the Tema Police cum military patrol team at the Tema-Accra beach last night, after they had robbed four Russian sailors at the Tema beach.
Their bodies have been deposited at the Police Hosp…
The Committee for Joint Action (CJA), a pressure group on Tuesday called on the Mills administration to review the retirement package for ex-Presidents within the broad context of retiring benefits for all public officials, including Parli…
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