Mr Kwaku Kwarteng, Government Spokesperson on Finance and Economy said the government was comfortable with the Sister-Cities idea being pursued by metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies to open up investments in their areas.
He …
Golkal Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical and veterinary drug dispensing company with its headquarters in Accra, has donated 800 boxes of Ciplox D eye and ear drops to the St Michael Hospital at Pramso in the Bosomtwe District.
The drugs,…
A Chapter House for the Ashanti Credit Union Association (CUA) has been inaugurated at Afrancho, near Kumasi.
It was financed through contributions from 26 out of the 70 chapters of the association in the region.
Right Reverend Monsign…
Mr Kwasi Attah-Antwi, Project Coordinator for Rural Enterprises Project (REP) has announced that over 1200 graduate apprentice across the country would by the end of this year benefit from 300,000 Ghana cedis equipment and start-up kits to…
Chief Executives of public sector organisations and agencies have been urged to develop risk management framework, which clearly provides guidelines to enhance corporate governance in the various institutions.
Mr Kwadwo Mpiani, Chief…
Nana Ato Arthur, Central Regional Minister on Tuesday urged Kindergarten and Primary one pupils who began school this academic year, to be regular, punctual and disciplined to grow into responsible adults.
He said their first day at …
Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama and some Ministers of State, on Tuesday spent more than seven hours touring a number of basic schools in the Accra Metropolis, to welcome the pupils who were on their first day in School.
The day mar…
Baffour Asaare Owusu Amankwatia V, Bantamahene, has added his voice to the call on Ghanaians to use this year's elections as a test case to demonstrate their political maturity for other countries to emulate.
He expressed regret that …
The aggressive campaign the New Patriotic Party was engaged in was a clear sign of unfulfilled promises to the electorate.
Mr. John Dramani Mahama, running mate to Professor John Evans Atta Mills, flag bearer of the NDC said on Tuesd…
Mr. Opoku Afriyie, a member of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), on Tuesday advised Ghanaians to desist from igniting conflicts with the hope of being protected by the police.
He explained that even though the secur…
Kwame Tweneboa, believed to be a madman at Asuotiano in the Dormaa-East of the Brong-Ahafo Region, is being held by the Wamfie Police for allegedly inflicting deep machete wounds on the head of Yaw Gyaabeng, a farmer.
Gyaabeng's woun…
For hoisting the Dutch national flag to commemorate her long-standing friendship with the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Holland, the Dormaa Presbyterian Hospital in the Brong-Ahafo Region is being linked by some minority political parties …
Nana Adua Asempa, a 55-year-old farmer and his 40-year-old wife, Nana Adjoa Sam, a trader, who allegedly raised the alarm, resulting in the beating and subsequent death of a suspected thief, was on Tuesday arraigned before a circuit court …
The Pension Reform Implementation Committee (PRIC) and the Pension Section of the Controller and Accountant General's Department (CAGD) have agreed on specific measures to ensure implementation of the remaining approved recommendations reg…
Very Reverend Samuel Fred Ansuh, Superintendent Minister of the Kumasi Circuit of the Methodist Church has advised Christians to pray unceasingly for peaceful presidential and parliamentary elections in December.
He said the peace the na…
Four justices who were recently appointed to the Supreme Court of Ghana and one High Court judge in-charge of the newly established Human Rights Court leave Accra on September 18 for the Leitner Centre for International Law and Justice, Fo…
Mr Samuel Bannerman-Mensah, Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), on Tuesday said although access to education had improved, enhancing its quality was now the challenge.
He therefore expressed the commitment of GES t…
The police in Ho has, within the past three weeks, foiled two attempts by fraudsters to dupe their targets of thousands of Ghana cedis.
Mr Benard Dery, Volta Regional Police Commander, said the police in the two cases went undercove…
Mr Isaac Odenteh, Headmaster of Pope John Senior High School (POJOSS) in Koforidua, has appealed to past students to assist the authorities improve infrastructure in the school to increase intake.
He said the school begun with infras…
Reverend Samuel A. Amankwa, Volta Regional Director of Education, on Tuesday urged lower primary school teachers to "sow the seed of goodness and hard work" in their pupils.
He urged them to "teach the children the way they must go…
Mr Kwame Amoanteng, Administrator of the Saint Michael's Hospital at Pramso in the Bosomtwe District of Ashanti, has called on Ghanaians to adopt regenerative health practice, which involves eating a balanced diet, exercising the body, dri…
Residents of Ashaiman Municipality have been cautioned against obstructing National Fire Service personnel from discharging their duty during fire outbreaks.
Some residents at Ashaiman had on a number of occasions vandalized fire eq…
"I hated Kingdergarten because I was too old for the class. I am happy to be in Class One," Regina Kakraba, a nine year-old pupil of the Apenkwa Presbyterian Primary School, said on Tuesday.
Her joy and happiness were also shared by m…
A total of 78 new pupils registered to begin school at the Anaji Estate Key Primary School on Tuesday.
This came to light when the Ghana News Agency (GNA) visited some schools in the metropolis on my first day at school, which falls…
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Kwadwo Afram-Asiedu, on Tuesday joined pupils in the West Akyem and Akuapem South Districts to celebrate 'my first day at school".
Accompanied by the Regional Director of Education, Mrs Renee Boakye-…
Reverend Joseph Dzandu, Volta Regional Director of Victory Bible School International on Tuesday, exhorted Christians to stop murmuring about their fears of the December 7, elections and rather seek God's "cover for the nation" through con…
The Nzema East Municipal Police Command is looking for a hit-and-run driver, who knocked down a motor rider and his pillion rider at Bobrama near Kikim, killing one instantly and the other dying later at a hospital.
The police comm…
Dr Audrey Gadzekpo, Acting Director of the School of Communication Studies (SCS) of the University of Ghana, Legon, has appealed to media practitioners to become voices to the marginalized in society.
She said they should use their …
Mr Charles Benjamin Mensah, Principal of St. Joseph's College of Education at Bechem in the Brong Ahafo Region has advised teachers to constantly upgrade their knowledge and teaching methods to enhance their work.
Mr Mensah was addre…
Communities in the Twifo Ati Morkwa constituency were on Wednesday urged to undertake regular clean-up exercises to support the government's sanitation policy, which seeks to prevent epidemics in the country.
Mr Agyeman, NPP chairman…
Midwives have been urged to change their perceived negative attitude towards pregnant women during ante natal care sessions to make health facilities more receptive to clients.
The National President of the Government Registered Midwi…
Aqua Vitens Rand Limited (AVRL) on Monday said the source of the stinky dirty tap water problem that faced residents of parts of La and Osu in Accra had been discovered and resolved.
Communications Director of AVRL, Mr Stanley Martey,…
Mr. Francis Eghan, former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Western Regional chairman, on Monday appealed to government to revamp the Ghana Railways Company (GRC), to enable it to contribute effectively to national development.
He said that …
Some Ghanaian scientists have said the persistent inadequate funds for research and excessive delay in the release of research funding by the government could stall Ghana's moves to attain a middle-income status by 2015.
They describ…
Vice President Aliu Mahama on Monday urged African governments to increase spending in the health sector, especially in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, to enable the continent to achieve universal access and the Mille…
The Bolgatanga Municipal Health Insurance Scheme (BMHIS) has registered 116,762 subscribers since it started operations in November 2005.
It registered 14,601 as of August 2008 for the formal sector mainly civil and public servants a…
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, (PCG), Right Reverend Dr.Yaw Frimpong-Manso, has called on Ghanaians to forgive and forget all wrong committed against each other to promote peace, unity and reconc…
The head of the Bosnian Muslim forces during the Balkan wars of the 1990s was sentenced by a U.N. court to three years' imprisonment on the charge that his troops meted out cruel treatment to Bosnian Serb soldiers captured during the confl…
The U.N. members States have endorsed India's viewpoint that the General Assembly should begin the inter-governmental negotiations on expansion of the Security Council, with consensus emerging in favour of starting parleys by February next…
The phenomenon of climate change is turning out to be "worse than most projections", U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has said, pointing out the need for cooperation among all sectors, including the faith community, to tackle the crisis.
Globa…
Mr Alhassan Samari, Upper East Regional Minister, on Wednesday, appealed to donor partners to contribute to the Northern Development Fund (NDF), established by the Government to enable the three Northern Regions, which are the most poorest…
A Nigerian rebel group embattled with military forces on early Monday when they attack Alakiri oil flow station complex.
The group killed an unknown number of people working for the station belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development…
Israeli army on Monday shut down commercial crossing points into Gaza in response to a rocket attack that targeted southern Israel territories a day earlier.
Palestinian security sources said that the work at Karni and Sofa crossings…
Colombian police seized 150 guns and 700kg of drug in a hiding place of a Colombian paramilitary chief in the northwest Antioquia province, authorities said Sunday.
Police found on Saturday the hiding place during an operation codena…
The Catholic Bishop of Yendi, Bishop Vincent Sowah Boi-Nai has added his voice to the condemnation of the recent violence that erupted at Tamale and Gushiegu in the Northern Region.
He said violence should not be the means of handlin…
The militant group in fight with Nigerian government forces said on Saturday that 27 hostages, including five foreign oil workers, have been trapped in a fighting zone in Eleme-Tombia, a riverside community in the Degema council area of Ri…
The people of Oboadaka near Suhum in the Eastern Region, on Friday spent several hours in a clean-up exercise in the town.
Led by Mr. Nene Tettey, Elder of the community, the group tidied up their boreholes, weeded alongside the feeder…
Aidnaction International, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in United States has presented
Butterfly Sewing Machine each to each of the seven graduands of Christian Vocational Centre at a ceremony at Breman Asikuma.
Mr. …
The death toll of Los Angeles train collision rose to 18 overnight and more bodies are expected to be found as rescue workers pick through the wreckage of Friday's accident, officials said Saturday.
A Metrolink commuter train collide…
An engineer's error was blamed for Friday's deadly train collision in Los Angeles that killed at least 18 people and injured 135 others, a railway spokeswoman said Saturday.
A contract engineer who was driving the Metrolink train was…
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