Delegates at the just-ended Conference of ECOWAS Chief Justices and ECOWAS Court of Justice in Accra have suggested that courses on the ECOWAS Treaty and Protocols be part of the curricula of law schools in member-countries.
Furtherm…
HelpAge Ghana (HAG), a non-governmental organisation on ageing, urged the media to develop interest in issues concerning the old and to give it more coverage.
"If you highlight issues affecting the elderly in our society and it is r…
The refusal of some people to pay their property rates, coupled with lack of revenue collectors in the Jirapa/Lambussie district, was impeding revenue mobilization of the Assembly.
While some landlords constantly chased away revenue…
The Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) of the Ghana Police Service in the Western Region has embarked on a programme to inspect vehicles of companies before they are put on the road.
This would ensure that vehicles, especially cargo…
Mr Daniel Mensah of Gomoa Abonko, who started his education in a non-formal class in 1991, is now pursuing a higher national diploma (HND) course at the Cape Coast Polytechnic.
Mr P.K. Danson, Gomoa District Coordinator of the Non-F…
The Deputy District Officer In-charge of Department of Social Welfare in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar District, Miss Takyiwaa Opong, has expressed concern about the high rate of parental neglect of children in the district.
She said betw…
Members of Parliament (MPs) have deplored the irresponsible manner in which certain mining companies polluted and desecrated water bodies in their areas of operation.
They have, therefore, called for strict monitoring and enforcement …
The biggest international meeting on the bird flu crisis opens on Monday to likely calls for extra money and fresh efforts to bolster defences against the H5N1 virus, starting with the poultry flocks where the deadly foe holes up.
The…
The Osu Traditional Council on Wednesday came to the aid of the National Union of Ghana Students by offering them two buildings to choose from and use one as an office and thus ending the hunger strike threat.
NUGS on Wednesday emba…
A 13-member Country Advisory Group (CAG) on Bio-safety was on Wednesday inaugurated with the task of advising the implementation of the country Programme for Bio-safety Systems (PBS) associate award to promote the judicious use of modern a…
Callous thieves broke into the home of a teenage amputee and made off with the girl's artificial leg, her family said Wednesday.
California schoolgirl Melissa Huff, 16, was horrified to find that the heartless burglars had not only st…
The White House refused to confirm or deny Wednesday that the CIA operates secret prisons, known as "black sites," for Al-Qaeda suspects in eastern Europe and other countries around the world.
The Washington Post reported that the pri…
Dr Kwabena Godfred Ofosu-Budu, a Senior Research Officer of the University of Ghana, Legon, has called on the government, non-governmental organizations and individuals to establish an Agricultural Fund (AGRIFUND) to help develop the rice …
Dr Seth Yeboah Bimpong-Buta, former Director of the Ghana School of Law, on Tuesday described the position of Mr Kwaku Ansa-Asare, Director of the Ghana School of Law (GSL) as fraudulent.
Mr Bimpong-Buta said Mr Ansa-Asare was not a…
Health Minister Major Courage Quashigah (rtd) has launched the national campaign for the policy on new anti-malaria drug, Artesunate-Amodiaquine, with a call on Ghanaians to ensure a reduction in the incidence of malaria.
Artesunate…
Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, has expressed concern that Ghana was facing increasing numbers of new HIV/AIDS infections and a growing death toll.
He said the massive social and economic cost in dealing with the rate of infectio…
The Nigerian government has launched an independent investigation into a clash in the economic capital Lagos between soldiers and police that left at least two civilians dead.
The panel appointed by President Olusegun Obasanjo is task…
The UN food agency launched a rare appeal to oil-rich nations to fill a 157 million dollar gap in food supplies that is threatening nearly 10 million people southern Africa countries.
"No funds have yet been pledged by the oil-rich s…
The World Bank is to fund the construction of a Technology Park at the Ghana Free Zone area in Tema.
Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, Minister of Communications who announced this, however, did not mention the amount involved in the project but…
Nana Oduro Poku, Chief of Dromankese in Nkoranza District, has called on his people to take advantage of the capitation grant policy and enroll their children in school.
Speaking at the close of the area's "Munufie" yam festival at Dr…
Ghana needs a national policy on human settlement to guide its town planning process and settlement pattern, Mr John Gyetuah, Member for Amenfi West said on Wednesday.
The member, who was making a statement on "Planning of Cities and T…
Two main Pan-African trade unions on the continent, the African Regional Organization of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU/AFRO) and the Democratic Organization of African Workers' Trade Unions have met in Accra t…
Ghana would soon ratify the United Nations and African Union (AU) Conventions on Preventing and Combating Corruption and related offences following Parliament's receipt of Government's documents on the issue.
So far only 10 nations,…
Ghana is nearing the stage of being a polio-free nation if immunization programmes are taken seriously, Dr Kwadwo Antwi-Agyei, Programme Manager of Expanded Immunisation Programme of Ghana Health Service, said on Thursday in Accra.
H…
The Chief Justice, Mr Justice George Kingsley Acquah has inducted into office 18 persons as career Magistrates to fill vacant positions in 81 Magistrate's Courts.
The country needs about 800 Magistrate's Courts.
Thirty-two peop…
The Ghana Employers' Association (GEA) has warned that it would not countenance any action by workers, government and even employers that ran contrary to the dictates of the Labour Act.
The Association, therefore, affirmed its readin…
The Ghana Hoteliers Association (GHA) has appealed to the Ghana Tourist Board (GTB) to review the 400 per cent increase in the registration fees for new hotels.
They said the increase for all categories of hotels was arbitrary and a …
Madam Sophia Horner-Sam, Deputy Western Regional Minister, has said there was no need for rivalry between polytechnics and other tertiary institutions because they play complementary roles.
She made the call when addressing the opening …
The Most Reverend Emeritus Professor Kwesi A. Dickson, a former President o the Methodist Church of Ghana and the Immediate- Past President of the All African Council of Churches is dead. He was 76.
The Most Rev. Dickson, who was born…
Participants at a two-day workshop to promote democracy and good governance have suggested the institution of an anti-corruption day to create awareness about the effects and consequences of corruption.
They attributed the alarming …
The Ashanti Regional branch of the Zongo Caucus of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has commended the initiative of Professor Kwesi Andam, Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), for the c…
About 1,000 small-scale miners have been relocated at Japa, Adjumadium and Oguakrom from Prestea as part of the Ministry of Mine's measures to control and monitor the activities of small-sclae miners, Professor Dominic Fobih Minister of La…
A human influenza pandemic provoked by bird flu or another virus will surely hit Europe at some point and the EU needs to prepare for the ensuing public health crisis, a disease control expert said on Tuesday.
"Europe experienced thr…
Dr Lawson Ahadzie, Acting Director of Public Health, Ministry of Health, on Tuesday warned that the avian or bird flu that had engulfed Asian countries would have a devastating impact on the socio-economic development should it emerge in …
Professor Emmanuel Owusu-Bennoah, Director-General of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has tasked African scientists to ensure that research developed to enhance agricultural technologies, were appropriate to the …
Tiny dots produced by some laser printers are a secret code that can allow the government to track down counterfeiters, a new study concludes, raising the hackles of privacy advocates.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation said its resea…
Police have raided a recording studio in London where disgraced supermodel Kate Moss is alleged to have snorted cocaine and they plan to interview the 31-year-old next month, a newspaper said on Saturday.
The British beauty is current…
The Right Reverend Daniel Allotey, Anglican Bishop of Cape Coast, on Thursday called for a review of the quota and protocol systems for admissions into second cycle institutions to reduce problems associated with the computerised selection…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday denied curtailing the entire operations of Bogoso Gold Limited (BGL) saying, "only operations at the plant's north pit has been suspended".
Nana Andoh, Director of Mining at the EPA…
More than 100 teachers in Bolgatanga on Thursday embarked on a four-hour peaceful demonstration to register their displeasure over the undue delay of their 2005 salary negotiations between the Central Management Board (CMB) and the Consult…
The Centre for Information, Technologies, Research and Development (CITRED), a communication consultancy, has selected eight Senior Secondary Schools in the Northern Region for training in computer literacy.
The beneficiaries are the…
Mr Solomon Kwami Tetteh, the National President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), has said journalists were "gradually losing the strong constitutional power and respect they had during the 1990s due to acts of 'deviant' journalism being…
Pepsi-Cola Ghana Limited on Wednesday presented a cheque for 90 million cedis to nine winners of its Stars hunt raffle.
The wanted "Stars" are Michael Essien, Stephen Appiah, Henry Thiery, Becham David and Ronaldinho. The lucky winne…
Prof Gyan Baffour, a Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, has stressed the need for micro finance institutions to expand their outreach services efficiently and on a sustainable basis to low-income households.
He was add…
The Aburi Girls Secondary School has won the maiden Cocoa Quiz competition organised for some secondary schools in the Eastern Region at Koforidua on Thursday.
Aburi Girls won with 27 points, beating Pope John's Secondary School, Kof…
The Ghana Bar Association has returned all the seven-member national executives unopposed for another year's term during elections to climax the association's three-day annual general conference at Elmina.
They are Mr Solomon Kwami …
Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) personnel
at the Abutia-Check point on Wednesday intercepted
a tipper truck with 27 bundles of English wax prints embedded in sand.
CEPS personnel used spades and other tools to reach …
Thirteen people died when a bus carrying pilgrims from a Muslim shrine overturned in Pakistan Wednesday, raising the toll from the fifth such accident since the weekend to nearly 70, police said.
The overloaded vehicle toppled onto it…
The US Army has dropped an inquiry into whether US military personnel provided gruesome photographs of war dead in Iraq and Afghanistan to an Internet website in return for access to pornography, army spokesmen said Wednesday.
A preli…
As part of measures to combat the recent upsurge in armed robberies, Operation Calm Life was on Thursday re-launched to minimise the crime rate in Accra.
The operation, which would be carried out by personnel from the Ghana Armed Forces …
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