The weather will be mostly cloudy and highly humid in the morning with chances of light rain in places along the coasts.
Northern Ghana, hilly and forest areas of the South will also experience some rain showers and thunderstorms.
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The Western Regional office of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service, has recorded 1,208 cases between January and July this year as compared to 1,452 cases for the whole of 2007.
The seve…
One hundred and eighty-five thousand four hundred (185,400) persons, were registered in the just-ended voter registration exercise in the Western region.
Mr Steve Opoku-Mensah, Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC), who…
The Asset Protection Department (APD) of AngloGold Ashanti obuasi, scored 421.8 points to place first in the company's Fourth Inter-Departmental First Aid and Safety Competition, held at obuasi on Saturday.
This is the third consecut…
Raphael Kofi Agbozo, 36, a farmer at Hohoe, was shot dead by a fellow hunter during hunting expedition last Wenesday in the Abudome forest, behind the Akpatanu ranges in the Hohoe Municipality.
According to Mr Daniel Ablordey, Hohoe …
Police in Dormaa have arrested two suspected members of an armed robbery syndicate that has been terrorising residents along the Dormaa-Cote D' Ivoire boundary.
Dramani Djalo, alias Sergeant and Abubakar Siddique were arrested on Mon…
Mr Akita Abel Okoe, a National Youth Representative of the Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS) has urged government to invest in the youth to build upon their capacity.
He said the youth needed to be encouraged and motivated to unearth th…
A survey conducted in eight regions has revealed that food adulteration is common in big markets in urban communities and towns.
The survey conducted jointly by the Food Research Institute (FRI) and the Food and Drugs Board (FDB) fou…
A veteran musician and composer, Mr Isaac Kwesi Anin, has appealed to the Office of the Presidency to recognise the contributions of old musicians and honour them accordingly.
He said even though President John Agyekum Kufuor did well by…
A group calling itself "Concerned Serial Callers Association" in the Ashanti Region, has deplored the increasing use of abusive language on radio stations in Kumasi, especially during phone-in programmes.
The group has therefore, cal…
A circuit court at Dormaa Ahenkro has remanded a sand winner, Kwame Akanchaab, alias "Quataphy", for stealing from a drugs warehouse.
The court, presided by Mr Justice V. C. Senu, ordered Akanchaab who pleaded guilty to three courts …
Executives of Anyindamane (Ahantaman) Development Association (ADA), a Western Region-based organisation, on Tuesday said it was poised to assist the youth with relevant skills necessary to meet the demands of the emerging oil and tourism …
Health facilities under the Tema Metropolitan Health Directorate recorded a total of 43,733 malaria cases in the first half of the year.
The number of cases reported at the Out Patient Departments (OPDs) of the various health facilit…
Members of the Public Health Technical Officers/Nurses Group (PHTOG), has been advised to make agitations for salary increment a thing of the past, and rather make themselves relevant to quality health service delivery to build a healthy n…
Barack Obama has no intention to transform and challenge the one-China policy should he be elected as the U.S. president, his senior foreign policy advisors said Monday.
Gregory B. Craig, a long-term advisor of Obama on foreign affai…
A nine-member Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) Development Sub-Committee, has been inaugurated at Nkawie in the Atwima-Nwabiagya District of Ashanti.
The district is the first among the 66 beneficiary districts to be ina…
The Church of Light Mission at Bohyen-Asuogya in Kumasi on Sunday donated foodstuff worth GH¢400 and a cash of GH¢400 to the Kumasi Children's Home.
The items included bags of rice, sugar and gallons of cooking oil.
Reverend Sa…
At least about 150 households have been displaced in the Builsa District following three days of rainfall.
The people are putting up with relatives and friends and may have to be relocated to schools, churches and other public facili…
A Bolgatanga District Court on Tuesday remanded in prison custody Nyaaba Atubga, a driver, and his fiancée Asaah Mohammed for beating a woman and wounding her eleven-month old baby.
Atubga was charged for abetting crime while Mohamme…
The Hohoe Municipal Environmental Health Inspectorate is seeking the promulgation of more penal laws and byelaws to check environmental degradation and abuses in the municipality.
Mr Daniel Ayitey Otoo, the Director of the Inspectora…
The UK branch Women Fellowship of the Ghana Methodist Church on Wednesday presented items worth 3000 GHC to the Accra Psychiatric Hospital to help maintain patients there.
The items which were presented at a short ceremony in Accra i…
As UN climate talks enter their next round in Accra, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says it is encouraging governments to have the Olympic spirit in mind when meeting at the negotiation table.
It says in order to protect people and nat…
A one-month training programme on computer hardware maintenance and network equipment technology opened in Guiyang in the Republic of China on Thursday as part of the Chinese government's training programmes and seminars for staff of gover…
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Thursday reaffirmed that Dr Sam Ghartey Amoo was the substantive National Security Coordinator and he had no plans of replacing him.
President Kufuor said the Presidency was satisfied with Dr Amoo's p…
Members of Pordenone branch of Mfantsiman Korye Kuw in Italy on Thursday presented assorted medical items valued at 20,000 Euros to the Central Regional Health Directorate at Cape Coast.
The items comprised 52 mattresses, 26 iron bed…
Mr Michael Nsowah-Mensah, Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), on Thursday warned that government would not tolerate civil servants who were bent on sabotaging the programme.
"I want to send a warning to all dist…
Mr Felix Owusu-Agyapong, Minister of Energy, on Thursday called on the Chinese government to partner local banks to inject more capital into the Ghana's rural electrification projects.
He noted that south-south cooperation especially…
The President of the Universal United Youth Organisation (UUY), a non-governmental organisation, on Wednesday called on Ghanaians to be conscious of the reality that HIV/AIDS does not respect persons.
Mr. Eric Pinaman Asare, who was sp…
The UK branch Women Fellowship of the Ghana Methodist Church, has presented items worth 3000 GH cedis to the Accra Psychiatric Hospital for the upkeep of patients.
The items, which were presented to the hospital in Accra, included ba…
A team of surgeons at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) last Wednesday, retrieved 73 pellets of cocaine from the stomach of a patient during a surgery.
Sources close to KATH told Ghana News Agency (GNA) that Mohammed Joojo Mensah…
A 42-year old driver, Akwasi Bosomprah has been installed as the new Omanhene of the Goaso traditional council, under the stool name Nana Akwasi Baffour Bosomprah.
Nana Bosomprah has since sworn the oath of allegiance to the people a…
A circuit court at Goaso in Asunafo North Municipality has convicted two persons to serve two years jail term each
for stealing personal items of a neighbour.
Akwasi Falimbo, 32, a driver and Kwadjo Awuah, 20, a farmer pleaded gui…
The newly formed Gadangme association of Switzerland was formally launched in Zurich last Saturday by Mr Kwabena Baah-Duodu, Ghana's Ambassador to Switzerland and Austria and Permanent Representative to the UN Offices in Geneva and Vienna.…
A Kumasi Circuit court on Tuesday remanded Nana Osei Kwadwo 41,a trader into prison custody for allegedly duping a police officer and five others of several hundreds of Ghana Cedis between July 2007 and August, this year.
Nana Kwadwo…
Mr James Fosu, Bosomtwi District Chief Executive (DCE), on Wednesday presented 3,751 mathematical sets to the District Education Directorate.
Government donated the sets to be distributed to all schools in the district to enhance te…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional
Integration and NEPAD, said it was employing more stringent scrutiny of all applications for passport to stop the abuse of the Ghanaian passport.
It said due to a number of challenges, inc…
A Municipal Director of the Non-Formal Education Division (NFED) of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports, on Tuesday observed that the nation had achieved much through adult education.
He, however, noted that adult education…
The management of Chirano Gold Mines Limited has presented a cheque for 6,560 dollars towards the renovation of the Chirano Health Centre in the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai District.
Mr John Seaward, General Manager of the company wh…
The Adansi North District Mutual Health Insurance Scheme (MHIS) has paid 483,977 Ghana cedis as claims as at May ending.
Mr Peter Kwabena Ameyaw, the District Chief Executive who was speaking at an assembly meeting at Fomena, said…
The Statistical Service, in cooperation with Statistics and Research units of 10 selected Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDGs) have prepared a five-year strategy for the development of statistics in Ghana.
Dr Grace Bediako, G…
Mr Christopher Asante, Nkoranza District Education Coordinator in-charge of private schools has urged parents to support proprietors and proprietresses towards the development of schools, so that their children could benefit from quality …
A delegates' congress held in Kumasi by the Ghana Trades Union Congress has elected Mr. Kofi Asamoah as Secretary General for a four-year term.
Mr Asamoah succeeds Mr. Kwasi Adu-Amankwa, the immediate past Secretary General who is …
Mr. Sylvester Kyei-Gyamfi, Head of the Information Research and Advocacy Division (IRAD) of the Department of Children said child survival in Ghana remains a challenge.
He said 80,000 children in Ghana die before they are five years…
The people of Teleko Bokazo, Anwia and Nkroful in the Ellembenle District have been assured that the vegetation cover of the land in the area would not be destroyed by mining activities.
The chairman of the Parliamentary Select Commit…
The Civil Servants Association would co-operate with any political party that emerged the winner after the December election, Mr James Ekow Amissah, Acting Executive Secretary of the Association declared.
He said such co-operation ha…
Tuareg rebels in northern Mali released 26 Malian soldiers who were being held hostage, according to news reaching here from Bamako.
The Malian government said on Monday in a statement that Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ha…
Mr Philip Kwesi Nkrumah, Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Chief Executive said waste disposal was a major challenge confronting the assembly.
He said the only way out was for collaboration among the members to increase revenue generatio…
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Elias Sory, stressed the need to galvanize efforts to help curb a tobacco epidemic before the situation got out of hand.
In his view, "a stitch in time saves nine" and that …
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture through the Ministry's Regional Directorates, announced again that the floodgates of Burkina Faso's Bagre Dam would be opened on Thursday, 21st August, 2008.
Farmers and fishers whose activities …
The European Union (EU) Commission, has established a cultural initiative support program with a grant of 2.1 million euros, to support the Arts and Culture Industry in Ghana.
The Chairman for the National Commission on Culture (NCC…
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