The Domestic Violence and Victims' Support Unit (DOVVSU) is part of the Ghana Police Service and not a Non-Governmental Organisation where people sort out their private issues which were not criminal.
Assistant Superintendent of Poli…
The European Union would not rule out the possiblity to send troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to help the UN to head off the worsened conflict between rebels and government forces, EU officials said here on Monday.
"W…
Apostle Kadmiel Agbelenyoh, General Overseer of the Seventh-Day Church of Theocracy, has urged Christians to be tolerant of all shades of opinion and views to help promote peace and unity in the society.
"As Christians, we have the o…
The Ghanaian Community in Dubai has called on the Government to open a Consulate in Dubai to cater for the needs of the large number of Ghanaians, both residents and travellers that frequent the Emirate.
An e-mail received from t…
A circuit court in Cape Coast on Tuesday granted GH¢ 2,000 bail to Aba Badu, a 28-year-old trader, who allegedly bit the nose of a neighbour.
Badu, who pleaded not guilty to the charge of causing harm, would re-appear at cour…
The Kade Magistrate's Court in the Eastern Region, has remanded a 28-year-old unemployed in police custody, for allegedly stealing a distribution van with registration number ER 1247 Z, property of a herbal medicine dealer.
Eric Af…
Students have been urged to refrain from acts that could lead them into contracting Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) including the deadly HIV/AIDS.
Dr Bortier Nignpense, Principal Medical Officer at the Ghana Health Service, who made…
As part of the National Road Safety Commission's annual week celebration, it has organized a quiz competition for five selected Junior High Schools (JHS) in the Kumasi metropolis.
The competition was to campaign against roads accid…
Mr Mike Senoo, a former Deputy General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has donated three building plots to the Hohoe Municipal branch of the Association towards the construction of its multi-purpose Secretari…
Nana Opare Amankwaah II, Chief of Ahodjo in the Akwapim South Municipal Council, has appealed to political party leaders and supporters to be law-abiding during and after their electioneering campaigns.
He said one way to do that was …
Israel has expressed gratitude to the Ghanaian security services for the prompt and professional manner in which they rescued an Israeli businessman kidnapped in Accra a few days ago in Accra.
Dror Weinstein, 60-year-old Israeli busi…
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, Professor Akwesi Asabere-Ameyaw has appealed to stakeholders in education, including government to attract the best brains into the teaching professor for the current educational…
Mr Yakubu Assani,
Tolon Kumbungu District Director of Education, has commended the
Christian Children's Fund of Canada (CCFC) for its immense
contribution to educational development in the district.
Mr Assani made the commendat…
The National Headquarters of Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church has declared Saturday November 1-8, a week of fasting and prayer in all its congregations nationwide.
A statement issued and signed by Pastor Samuel Adama Larmie, Nation…
Management of Ahafo Mine of Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL) is to spend 530,000 dollars on skills training for 28 youth within its operational area.
An average of 17,000 dollars would be spent on each apprentice during the four-yea…
The Upper East Regional World Breast Feeding Week was launched on Friday at Zebilla in Bawku West District with a call on nursing mothers to breast feed their children immediately after birth.
Dr John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Upper E…
Major roads in Kwaebibirem District are being rehabilitated as a face-lift programme.
Rehabilitation of four feeder roads have been completed, while work on three others are on-going.
Mr Yaw Yiadom-Boakye, Kwaebibirem Distri…
Activities of fishermen and crew of vessels operating on the Tema seas have led to the pollution of beaches along the Tema coast, especially the Bankuman beach in Tema Manhean.
The fishermen and vessel crew usually throw rubbish, clothin…
Mr Christopher Dapaah, Co-ordinating Director of Resource Link Foundation, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), has said that Free Trade Agreements under the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) was not the best option for developing coun…
One hundred and twenty-nine Master Craftsmen in tailoring and dressmaking have completed a three month orientation course in modern tailoring and dressmaking techniques, management practices and simple records keeping skills.
The cou…
Municipal and District Assemblies have been urged to mainstream road safety issues into their developmental agenda to assist in curbing the spate of road accidents in the country.
Members of the Upper East Regional Road Safety Commit…
The Christ Apostolic Church International (CACI) Women's Ministry on Saturday embarked on a Peace walk through some principal streets of Accra to draw the attention of Ghanaians on the need to ensure peace in the upcoming elections.
The …
The Odumasi Local Authority (L.A.) Primary School near Akim Oda in the Birim Central Municipality of the Eastern Region, on Friday made an urgent appeal to the assembly to
construct a new classroom block to replace the present deteriorat…
The Western Regional Office of the Department of Women has launched a Breast Cancer Fund to purchase a mammogram.
The mammogram would help to ensure early detection and treatment of breast cancer in the region, Miss Jane Edna Nyame, …
Rev. Alexander K. Nyantakyi, Birim Central Municipal Director of Education, Presbyterian Schools Unit at Akim Oda, has observed that the development of children could not be accomplished by mothers and teachers alone, but the concerted eff…
Mr. Frank Kwame Busumtwi, Birim Central Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), has said the effective elimination of the worst forms of child labour required immediate and comprehensive action.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Ag…
Abokobi Area Rural Bank, one of the earliest established rural banks, on Saturday cleaned the Frafraha Christ Foster Home and donated assorted items worth about GH¢500 to the inmates as part of this year's Rural Banking Week celebration.
…
Davascom Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has held a day's training workshop for 30 community health volunteers on effective prevention of malaria at Juaso in the Asante-Akim South District.
The workshop, which f…
Miss Felicia Dapaah, Ashanti Regional Co-ordinator of HIV/AIDS, has called on policy-makers and opinion leaders in Africa to be proactive in their efforts to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
She noted that the pandemic had the potential…
Two youngsters who broke into the rooms of three policemen and stole their belongings have been sentenced to three years imprisonment in hard labour by the Asamankese Circuit Court.
Enoch Aidoo, 18, who claimed to be a student and Es…
The Prestige Centre of the Tamale branch of the Barclays Bank on Saturday made a donation of assorted items worth over six hundred Ghana cedis to the Afaani Children's Home in Tamale.
The items were made up of: cartons of pampers, ba…
Four thousand, three hundred and fifty-six (4,356) fresh students were at the weekend admitted into the Sunyani Polytechnic to study various disciplines.
The students consist of 1, 437 females, and 3, 119 males, and were selected out…
Community members of La-Amanfro in the Adenta Municipality has initiated the construction of a 16-classroom school complex for the community to make education easily accessible to their children.
When completed, the school complex would…
MTN, one of the leading mobile telecommunication service providers on Saturday signed a sales partnership agreement with Grater Accra News Agents and Vendors Association (GANAVA) to enable vendor's sell MTN products.
"The partnership…
Mr Emmanuel Asamoah Owusu-Ansah, Ashanti Regional Minister, has advised University graduates to use knowledge and skills acquired to offer meaningful services to society.
He said education could only be significant if it brought peace, p…
Ghana Telecom's (GTs) dwindling fortunes have started to glitter 60 days after it struck a deal with Vodafone in August this year.
Speaking to the media in an interaction at Takoradi on Friday, Major Albert B. Don-Chebe, (Rtd) Head of…
Third World Network Africa in collaboration with the Review of African Political Economy will host a regional conference on mining to explore policy options beyond the need to attract direct investment into Africa's mining sector.
Th…
Students of the Central University College (CUC) would from this academic year undertake community service to help the less privileged.
The students under the programme would help academically less endowed pupils of communities to do…
A peace concert was held at the Takoradi Jubilee Park to encourage and elicit peace from all Ghanaians before, during and after the December general elections.
A large number of enthusiastic music lovers, especially the youth filled …
The Winneba Magistrate's Court has sentenced a 22- year old Plumber to nine months imprisonment with hard labour for destroying a kiosk and attempted to steal.
Kwame Bentum pleaded guilty.
Narrating the fact of the case to the …
Christians have been urged to be bold enough to stand up against anything which sought to drag the name and image of Christ and the religion into disrepute.
"Christians who form about 70 percent of the total population of the country m…
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Saturday announced that government has planned to tackle the residential accommodation problems in all the 38 Training Colleges of Education in the country.
He said this forms part of the New Educatio…
Mr. Affail Monney, Vice President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), has appealed to journalists and other media workers in the Western Region, to continually operate within the professional standards.
He said any deviation …
Ahmed al-Mirghani, former Sudanese president, died in Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria on Sunday, the Egyptian official MENA news agency reported.
Mirghani, who is also a vice-president of Sudan's Democratic Unionist Party, passed …
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit the Middle East later this week, in a new bid to push forward the staggering Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
U.S. State Department announced Thursday that Rice would travel to Is…
The Central Regional branch of Domestic Violence Victim Support Unit (DVVSU), has sensitized opinion leaders in five districts on the harmful effects of domestic and gender-based violence.
The participants were made up of traditional …
Mr Anthony K Ahiaba, Registrar of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs, has advised kingmakers in the country to follow laid down procedures in the selection and installation of chiefs to avoid conflicts.
He noted that non-observance o…
Armed men on Monday abducted one French aid worker from Afghan capital Kabul and killed an Afghan who tried to prevent the abduction on the spot, officials said.
"It occurred at around 9:10 a.m. local time (0440 GMT) when three gunme…
There have been 132,249 HIV-acquired cases reported in Vietnam nationwide, the Vietnam News Agency reported on Monday, citing the source with the Ministry of Health.
According to the official statistics released at the 16th Meeting o…
The Reverend Fr. Victor Sackey, Executive Secretary of the Cancer Society of Ghana this weekend advised Ghanaians, especially women to have periodic cancer check-ups since breast cancer was curable if detected early.
He said most peo…
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