A worker of a company working at the Obuasi mine for Anglogold Ashanti has died in an accident, the mining company announced on Wednesday.
It said in a statement in Accra that the accident involved an underground vehicle at the Obuas…
A Sekondi District Magistrate's Court on Monday convicted Abraham Lebi, a driver, for assaulting Mercy Tawiah, a bread seller at Anlokrom near Takoradi and damaging her dress made up of NPP colours.
Lebi, who is also a galamsey opera…
The Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana (EPC) is to intensify efforts at establishing more Activity Centres to train teenage mothers and street girls for a better living standard.
To this end the Church would explore avenues to es…
Nii Nortey Dua, National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for Ledzokuku Constituency has reminded the youth to see themselves as agents of change in society.
For this reason, he said, the youth should educate the peo…
Mrs Akosua Frema Opare, Deputy Minister of Manpower, Youth and Employment, on Monday said despite the numerous measures put in place to address the problem of child labour, some socio-cultural issues still served as impediments.
She …
The National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) on Monday braced itself up for the election euphoria as it launched this year's Road Safety Week purposely to ensure a crash free election.
The safety week would, on Saturday be climaxed wit…
The legal tussle between the National Hajj Council (NHC) and four members of the Interim Hajj Management Committee (IHMC) over who has
the right to handle this year's Hajj operations was on Monday adjourned by an Accra Fast Track High Co…
Mr. Emmanuel Siako, chairman of Techiman Keep Fit Club, at the weekend advised Ghanaians to undertake regular body exercises such as swimming, jogging, dancing, walking and hopping to keep them fit.
He cited that "It is very importan…
The 7th African Association of Remote Sensing and the Environment (AARSE) conference, is underway in Accra, to map out strategies of using satellite sensing as a source of managing Regional environmental resources.
The four-day conferen…
The Reverend Dr. Fred Deegbe, General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana on Monday urged Ghanaians to ensure that the December polls went peacefully in order "to live and experience the fruits of stable and peaceful mother Ghana".…
The Guidance and Counselling units in schools have been implored to help create liberal environments on their campuses to enable students air their grievances freely.
Mrs Angelina Baiden Amissah, Deputy Minister of Education, Science…
A bill that would provide a legal framework to ensure the professional integrity, independence and responsibility of 3,000 professional engineers is expected before Parliament soon.
The bill would also affect some 500,000 engineering…
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) is embarking on a comprehensive strategy to streamline the production of statistics known as GhanaInfo and Information Management System databases with effect from January 2009.
The streamlining wo…
The Government has instituted measures to forestall the diversion of premix fuel from Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), to unknown destination by some unscrupulous fuel tanker drivers.
Consequently, a new official embossment form has been is…
President John Agyekum Kufuor has asked African scientists and researchers to help improve the quality of cocoa beans and products in order to increase its consumption.
He said it was through research that medicinal and nutritional b…
Mr. Edward Nti Berko, Western Regional Director of National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), on Tuesday said stories published in some newspapers and comments on some radio stations could cause conflict.
He appealed to the media…
The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has released four new varieties of cowpea that have the potential to increase significantly the level of production from 50 to 1…
The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) has prayed the Commercial Court in Accra to dismiss an application for an order of interim injunction against the Authority and the Meridian Ports Services (MPS).
The application for an order…
The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has appealed to the government to hook personnel to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to enable them access free medical care.
The Service also called for the introduction of life insuranc…
Kassam Citizens Association in the United Kingdom has built a two-unit classroom block, office and store at the cost of GH¢5,300 for Kassam Methodist Primary School in the Kwabre East District of Ashanti Region.
The association has also …
The Ministry of Health is to ban tobacco smoking at public places in November.
Mr Abraham Dwumah-Odoom, Deputy Minister of Health, announced this in Accra in a speech read on his behalf at stakeholder sensitisation seminar on the ban…
Dr Edward Nasigrie Mahama, Presidential Candidate of People's National Convention (PNC), on Saturday begun a five-day campaign tour of Ashanti Region towards Election 2008.
Addressing separate rallies at Obuasi, Adansi Asokwa, Konong…
Professor Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, an Educationist, has stressed the need to combine effectively spiritual education and academic endeavours to help raise a generation of youth who were God-fearing, disciplined and patriotic to the country's…
The Rev. Daniel Opong Wereko, Akyem Oda District Minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has urged the Essam Presbyterian Congregation in the Eastern Region, to co-operate with each other for an improvement in their socio-economic ac…
Education is the backbone of the survival and development of any community, Nana Obutu Frimpong, Chief of Essaso in the West Akim Municipality, has stated.
He made the statement when he met elders of Essaso and a cross-section of the p…
The Gomoa East District Assembly has formed a taskforce to check illegal sand winning in the area to avoid land degradation, Mr M.C. Jewell Joseph Annan, District Chief Executive(DCE) said on Friday.
He said the formation of the task…
Dozens of journalists, sponsors and politicians who honoured the 13th Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Awards night at the Banquet Hall on Saturday went home disappointed as the top award, Journalist of the Year, was not awarded because…
Syria summoned on Sunday the US and Iraqi envoys to Damascus to protest against a US military helicopters attack on its civilians and demand Iraq to prevent the use of its territory to attack Syria, the official SANA news agency reported.
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Syria on Sunday summoned the US Charge d'affaires to Damascus and protested against a US helicopters attack on its civilians earlier in the day.
Eight Syrian civilians were killed in a US helicopters attack in a Syrian farm near its …
Women from both Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities gathered in central Nicosia on Sunday, calling for a speedy solution of the Cyprus problem and the reunification of their island country.
Greek Cypriot leader and President Demetr…
Okatakyie Kusi Amoyaw, chief of Aseseeso in the Eastern Region, launched a "Big Goat" research centre, aimed at improving goat and sheep breeding in the town, to expand the economic base of the people.
The event took place during th…
Five suspected militants have been reportedly killed by Nigeria's naval unit of the military force at Cawthorn Channel in Degema Local Council of Nigeria's south-eastern Rivers State as the State Government became tougher on militancy in t…
At least 58 people have been killed by floods which hit south-eastern Yemen following two days of heavy rainfall, the official SABA news agency reported on Saturday, citing the Interior Ministry.
Up to Saturday morning, at least 58 p…
Okatakyie Kusi Amoyaw, Chief of Aseseeso in the Eastern Region, at on Saturday advocated the establishment of an Upper House of Parliament, which should comprise chiefs and eminent citizens of the country.
He said this would give tra…
The Police District and Divisional headquarters project, being executed at in the Kumasi Metropolis is progressing steadily.
The project including the provision of offices and barracks, which was commenced five months ago, was being fund…
Members of the Ashanti Regional Branch of the Ghana Haulage Transport Drivers' Association has expressed concern about the re-introduction of the Legislative Instrument (L.I.) that banned the movement of all vehicles above three tones betw…
Right Reverend Dr Robert Aboagye-Mensah, Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, has pledged the commitment of his Church to the education of disabled children.
He said the Methodist Church, which is one of the pioneer churches tha…
Mr Adams Imoro, General Director of Mums Love Rural Orphanage Foundation at Duayaw-Nkwanta in Brong-Ahafo Region has appealed to the general public to assist it in the proper upbringing and development of the children.
Mr Imoro told …
Kosmos Energy, one of the companies involved in the exploration of Ghana's oil resources, on Thursday presented a cheque for GH¢2,500 to the Ghana Journalists' Association (GJA) in support of the 13th GJA Awards Night scheduled for October…
Shekeena Needy Trust, a non- governmental organisation in Kumasi, in collaboration with Ghana AIDS Commission under the M-sharp programme (a multi-sector AIDS programme) have donated education materials valued at 1, 500 Ghana cedis to orph…
The national road network portfolio has increased from 37,321 kilometres in 2000, to 68,114 kilometres in 2007, while the percentage of good roads has been expanded from 29 per cent in 2000,
to 39 per cent in 2006.
Vice President A…
Madam Grace Obeng-Donkor, Nkoranza North District Chief Executive, has urged the youth in the area to exercise tolerance during the electioneering campaign.
She said this at a durbar of chiefs and people of Dromankese to climax their…
A 14-member delegation from the Vanguard Newspapers of Nigeria on Thursday paid a visit to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to acquaint itself with the operations of the Agency.
Nana Appau Duah, General Manager, GNA, who briefed the dele…
A new prosecutor from the Attorney-General's Department has taken over the case of Isaac Abeiku Aidoo, aka Goodies, a popular music producer who is being held for drug related offences.
When the case was called before the court, pres…
Rev Dr. Alfred Ofosu Asante, Director of Solid Rock Baptist Mission, has said the only way the youth could receive blessings from God "is when they are disciplined, law abiding and honour the elderly in society."
He appealed to the y…
A group of South Korean officials would leave for Somali waters next week to determine whether the country should dispatch naval forces to help to thwart attempts by Somali pirates to abduct South Korean ships, the Defence Minister said on…
The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr. Alhassan Samari, on Wednesday called for a practical and achievable approach to the country's sanitation problems to fully check and prevent the occurrence of controllable diseases in the country.
…
French Marines patrolling the pirate-infested coast of Somalia have handed over nine Somali pirates they have captured to the authorities of the north-eastern Somali region, senior Somali official said on Thursday.
Ports and fisherie…
Mr Kwadwo Osei Owusu, Fanteakwa District Director of Education has urged Circuit Supervisors of Education to intensify supervision of schools to improve academic standards in the district.
He said laxity in supervision by head teache…
The Food and Drugs Board (FDB) in collaboration with the Public Health Department of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), have put in place stringent measures to ensure proper hygiene and sanitation at all the markets in Accra.
The…
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