The Reverend Joshua William Acheampong, District Pastor of the Patasi Mount Olive Presbyterian Church, has implored Christians to abide by the tenets of the Bible in all their endeavours.
He said the basis of Christianity was to rema…
Defence Counsel for Isaac Abeiku Aidoo, alias Goodies, on Wednesday pleaded with the media to give his client some respite since their reportage on the trial increases the blood pressure of the accused.
"I want the court to use its discr…
Mr. Thomas Imoro Sayibu, Chairman of the Coalition
of NGOs In Water And Sanitation (CONIWAS), on Wednesday stressed the need for Ghanaians to have access to clean toilets.
At a press conference to mark the World Toilet Day, Mr. Say…
Professor Edwin Gyasi, Head of the Department of Geography and Resource Development at the University of Ghana has said there
was the need to place emphasis on brain development in our educational system
to help solve the developmental…
Mothers of three players of Ghana's Black Stars have donated 300 treated mosquito nets to pregnant women at Agogo in the Ashanti Region.
Madam Aba Gyanode, mother of midfielder Michael Essien, Madam Mary Donkoh, mother of central def…
The United States is confident that the Iraqi Parliament would approve a controversial military pact that allows American troops to remain in Iraq until the end of 2011, White House Spokeswoman Dana Perino said on Wednesday.
"We thin…
The Mfantseman Municipal Assembly has provided office accommodation, furniture and computers to the Municipal Mutual Health Insurance Scheme at Saltpond.
The items, costing about GHc5, 000 are to facilitate the work of the scheme and…
President John Agyekum Kufuor has said over 8,000 million dollars owed by the nation had been cancelled during his administration.
President Kufuor said apart from dept cancellation, the Dutch government alone had supported the natio…
Efforts at addressing the acute water shortfall in the north-eastern parts of Accra, has been given a big boost with the completion of the 32-million dollar East-West Interconnection and the Weija Water Treatment Plant Expansion Project. …
Teye Mensah, 36, a health service volunteer at Ningokrom in the Dormaa East district has been honoured by the Wamfie health center for his dedication to duty.
For his reward, the volunteer took home a phoenix bicycle worth GHC 50.
…
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has expressed concern about the manner in which some articulated and heavy duty truck drivers were flouting its directives on the nocturnal movements of their trucks.
This follows the recent review…
The Paramount Chief of Bongo Traditional Area, Bo-Naba Salifu Alemyarim, in collaboration with the Bongo Area Development Programme (ADP) of World Vision Ghana, has honoured six Swiss donors visiting the area in appreciation of their signi…
Squadron Leader Ben Anane Asamoah (rtd), Dormaa East District Chief Executive, has presented a computer and its accessories worth GHC 250 to Wamfie Magistrate's court.
The DCE said the gesture was in fulfilment of a request by the co…
The Energy Foundation has stressed the need for people to use low electricity consuming appliances to conserve energy and to reduce their energy cost.
Mr Ernest Asare, the Director of Communications at the Energy Foundation, who spo…
A South African police officer, accused of firing at a vehicle and injuring eight people of Indian origin, has been denied bail.
The police officer, Hlanganani Nxumalo, 28, attached to the VIP Protection Unit appeared in a local mag…
As India figures among leading countries having a significant number of malnourished children, top international aid agencies including World Bank, UNICEF and USAID came forward Wednesday to support the Government in improving child nutrit…
An Iranian official Thursday said that Tehran would continue comprehensive and constructive interaction with the UN nuclear watchdog, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"The new report released by Director-General of the Interna…
Togbega Gabusu VI, Paramount Chief of the Gbi Traditional Area, has commended the Volta Foundation, a non-governmental organization, for spearheading social development in the Volta Region.
He said this at the commissioning of two "Envir…
Mr Jaap De Hoop Scheffer, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), arrived in the country last night at the invitation of President John Agyekum Kufuor.
During his visit, Mr Scheffer would attend a dinner t…
A Botswana Member of Parliament has called for the banning of Zimbabwean shoppers, saying they are causing food shortages, according to reports by The Chronicle on Thursday.
Zimbabweans have been flocking to the neighbouring countr…
A Canada based journalist association has condemned the murder of a young trainee journalist, Konsam Rishikanta, employed with the Imphal Free Press.
"We condemn the killing, and support the strike announced by the local press in protest…
The United States Health and Human Services (HHS) has sought help of the Indian physicians in providing healthcare to people in the conflict ridden Afghanistan.
During a recent meeting with the American Association of Physicians of I…
Leading NRI industrialist and Chancellor of UK's Westminster University has said that his varsity is exploring a staff development scheme with the Universities in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
"We are already working with the…
Condemning the acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea wherever they occur, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has strongly supported efforts by member states to fight the scourge, including the Indian Navy sinking a suspected pirate ship.
In a statem…
With a Navy warship sinking a pirate vessel in the Gulf of Aden, India Wednesday said it wanted a larger arrangement among naval powers, preferably under the UN flag, to tackle the increasing threat from sea pirates.
"We are (already…
More people were removed from Britain between July and September this year than in any other third quarter since 2002, the Home Office announced Wednesday.
In the three months to September this year, 17,525 people were removed - a ni…
Mr George Mireku Duker, Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipal Chief Executive, has said that HIV/AIDS was devastating and it depended on every member of society to help stem the spread.
He said statistics indicated that the youth, which formed th…
A day's capacity building workshop for 25 stakeholders in health from five communities in Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa (AOB) has ended at Breman Asikuma.
The programme organised by Humanitarian Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation (N…
The Kumasi Metropolitan Directorate of Health Services immunized a total of 335,066 children less than 59 months against poliomyelitis in Kumasi metropolis in the Integrated Child Health Campaign recently held in Kumasi.
The figure repre…
Isaac Abeiku Aidoo, alias Goodies, a music producer who is being held for expelling 80 pellets of cocaine would on November 26 open his defence.
The court, presided over Mr Mahamadu Iddrisu fixed the date after prosecution, through Dete…
The National Pensioners Association on Thursday elected a new national executive to manage the affairs of the Association for the next four years.
Mr Tawiah Yomoson was elected National President, while Mr S.A. Sesi was elected Vice-…
Mrs Winifred Dy-Yakah, Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, at the weekend called on past students of senior high Schools to devise strategies that would encourage young graduates to teach in these schools.
She observed that many gra…
The European Union (EU) has threatened to withhold budgetary supports if the Kenyan government will not implement two post-election violence reports.
European Commission head of delegation to Kenya Eric van der Linden said the Kenyan…
Mr Ato Essuman, Chief Director of the Ministry of Education Science and Sports, has expressed worry about high rate of social vices in educational institutions in recent times.
He said rising levels of drug abuse, disrespect for auth…
Students have been urged to take advantage of the opportunities offered by ICT to enhance learning and improve their knowledge and not use it to destroy or stunt the development of the nation.
Mrs. Sofia Awotwi, the Director of the Sc…
A provisional approval has been granted by the Ghana and Switzerland governments for the commencement of Air Services Operations between the two countries.
This bilateral agreement came after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was s…
The Obuasi Municipal Assembly (OMA) is consulting a strategic investor in USA to build a citrus extracting plant in Obuasi to process oranges.
The construction of the plant would provide citrus farmers in the Municipality ready ma…
The next government of National Democratic Congress (NDC) would set up a Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF) to
support research activities in Universities, Research Institutions and for Graduate Research Projects as a first s…
The UNRWA Hosts and Donors Meeting kicked off on Tuesday in Jordan's capital of Amman, with the cash-strapped UN aid agency calling for more funds for millions of Palestinian refugees.
The UNRWA, known as United Nations Relief and Wo…
Naa Akweley Amui, Queen mother of Ashaiman, has appealed to residents of Ashaiman to observe good sanitation practices to avoid the outbreak of communicable diseases in the municipality.
She said the sanitation situation at Ashaiman was …
The Students Representative Council (SRC) of the College of Technology Education Kumasi, of the University of Education Winneba, has funded and inaugurated three projects estimated at 44,711.5 Ghana cedis on the University's campus in Kuma…
The Vice-President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, has stated that the country's desire to develop to attain a middle income status with per capita income of $1,000 by 2015 depended largely on the development of education and a sound knowledge founda…
Several people are feared burned to death when fire on Monday night gutted a warehouse containing firecrackers and plastic toys at NIC near Ablekuma in Accra.
An unknown number of persons are also feared to have been trapped under t…
The timetable for the U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq would depend on the security conditions in the country and other factors, said a top military officer on Monday.
"I do think it is important that this be conditions-based," said…
Actress Charlize Theron officially assumed her role on Monday as a United Nations Messenger of Peace and vowed to help galvanize world efforts to fight against violence against women and girls.
Theron, 33, was born and raised in Sou…
The Indonesian government sent another 1,136 personnel of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) to Lebanon to join the United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) there to help maintain security in the region, the national Antara news agenc…
The International Press Centre (IPC) based in Lagos has condemned the invasion and seizure of the computers of the newspaper Leadership by Nigeria's security agents. .
In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday, the IPC said it rece…
UN special envoy for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) crisis Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday held talks with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki during which the envoy briefed the Kenyan leader on the current crisis development in DR Cong…
British Minister of State for Africa, Lord Mark Malloch Brown, was in the clash-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on a three-day peace mission, amid reports of fresh fighting between the government and Tutsi rebels.
Brown told …
Mr. Ransford Tetteh, President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) on Tuesday called on the media to be guided by the manual on election reporting.
He said that was the only way the media could play its role and contribute to…
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