The Ekumfiman Rural Bank in the Mfantseman District has re-launched its existing products to make them more attractive and profitable to customers.
Mr Samuel Kwesi Barnes, General Manager of the bank, who said this at Essuehyia, on …
Ghana Cocoa Board will continue to support initiatives aimed at eliminating the worst forms of child labour and forced adult labour in cocoa, COCOBOD Chief Executive Mr Tony Fofie, said on Tuesday.
Speaking at a Cocoa Verification Boar…
Credit Unions offer the most competitive advances in the country today, Mr Paul Tsekumah, Chairman of the Ghana Water Company Limited Credit Union in Ho Said.
He said given credit union's low interest rate of about three percent per …
Alhaji Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, Minister for Youth and Sports, has urged members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to be tolerant to divergent political views.
He said multi-party democracy was about pursuing one's ideological a…
Mr Peter Owusu Baffoe, Chairman of Nkoranza South Constituency of National Democratic Congress (NDC) has advised members of the Party seeking for appointment in government to examine themselves as to whether they could perform to expectati…
Seoul's unification Minister reaffirmed on Monday his commitment to dialogue with North Korea as his ministry marked the 40th anniversary of its founding amid brittle relations with the North and mounting border tension.
Inter-Korean r…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Tuesday urgently appealed to all the sides in the Bawku conflict to lay down their arms immediately.
He has also ordered reinforcement of military and police personnel to the area to protect lives …
The Kumasi Women's Wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Zongo community has said it was not true that they were against the nomination of Mr Samuel Sarpong of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) as the Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Exe…
Top South Korean and Japanese diplomats agreed Monday to step up joint efforts to persuade North Korea not to fire a long-range missile, officials here.
In their telephone conversation, Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan and his counterpar…
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday dismissed a report saying he has offered a deal with Russia on Iran's weapon program, but stressed that Washington needs to reset and reboot the U.S.- Russia relationship.
"I think that the repo…
Dr. Irene Agyapong-Amarteyfio, Head of the Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has said the region needed to be more innovative with public health programmes since their performance was stagnating.
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Dr Ernest Kofi Awanta, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics Education of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) has been elected President of the Ghana Universities Sports Association (GUSA).
The election took place …
Sexual harassment in schools contributes to indiscipline and could lead to poor academic performance, a director of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has said.
Mr Richmond Mensah, Effutu Municipal Dir…
The government is to establish well equipped health facilities in every district, Dr George Sipa Yankey, Minister of Health, said in Accra on Monday.
He said these facilities would ensure a high degree of equity in
the provision of…
The Rev. Nii Teiko Dagadu, Chairperson for the Dangbe Tongu Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana has called on Ghanaians to eschew all behaviours that could retard the development of the country.
He said it was by so doing that…
Mrs. Justice Georgina Theodora Wood, the Chief Justice, has implored court users and other stakeholders in the administration of justice to avoid negative acts that tend to delay and undermine justice delivery and erode public confidence i…
Ghana Airports Company limited (GACL), has expressed regret over two incidence of power outage which occurred at the Kotoka International Airports (KIA), Accra, on Monday.
A release issued by GACL said engineers of the company were e…
The Member of Parliament for Effutu, Mr Mike Allen Hammah, has assured artisans of government's preparedness to equip them with resources as part of efforts to boost small scale businesses.
He said the District Assemblies would provi…
Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), on Monday met with National and Regional Directors, Project Coordinators and Heads of subvented units under the Ministry to have a first hand knowledge of the staff he would be worki…
The Akropong School for the Blind has appealed to First Lady, Mrs Naadu Mills to take over the mantle as its Chief Patron and help mobilize resources to support the school.
This is because by the statute of the school, every First L…
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), through a capacity building programme, has trained about 38 school representatives to be the ambassador of GNAT and to discharge its activities in all the districts in the Region.
Sp…
Government appointees at Dormaa-East District Assembly in Brong-Ahafo, have taken the oath of office at Wamfie administered by the District Magistrate, Mr Atta Owusu-Kaakyire.
Squadron leader Ben Anane-Asamoah, out-going District Chi…
The Military Command has cautioned that any military personnel who breach the laws of the Ghana Armed Forces or the land would not be shielded.
The Military Command has, therefore, urged the public to report military personnel who mi…
A forum to promote the development of Northern Ghana has ended with a call on the government to accelerate the implementation of the Northern Development Fund through the establishment of the Northern Development Authority.
The forum…
Mr. Jude Edochie, UNFPA Deputy Representative on Tuesday called on countries with high maternal mortality rate to enact relevant regulations to create the enabling environment for the practice of midwifery.
"The world needs midwives n…
A Dormaa Catholic Priest, Reverend Father Ernest Frimpong, has called on the youth of the Church to show empathy to people by sharing in their feelings.
He noted that the youth of today needed the ability to deeply imagine and share …
Police Superintendent Charles Domanban, Brong Ahafo Regional Crime Officer, on Tuesday appealed to the public to always report matters of crime to police including missing persons.
He explained that this would enable the police to ac…
Vice Chancellor, University of Cape Coast (UCC) Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, on Tuesday urged government to strengthen the various democratic institutions to facilitate the entrenchment of democracy.
She observed that a well…
The Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of Dormaa Senior High School, has held its annual general meeting and exhorted parents to take keen interest in the education of their children.
Several speakers including Mr Chou-En-Lai Paul Anko…
Residents of Dormaa-Ahenkro on Tuesday embarked on a massive clean-up exercise to rid the community of filth and prevent the outbreak and spread of diseases.
Led by staff of Dormaa Municipal office of Zoomlion Company, and the Munici…
The management of the Centre for National Culture in Sunyani has appealed to the Municipal Assembly to lift the ban on the development of the craft village at the Centre.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at the wee…
Mr Henry Saja, the Greater Accra Regional Manager of the Pharmacy Council, has appealed to chemical sellers to take advantage of the council's training workshops and those of other service providers to upgrade their knowledge.
He …
Teachers at Dordoekope in the South-Tongu District have begun an indefinite boycott of classes over the assault of a colleague by some youths in the community.
Mr Moses Osah Okine, the teacher was said to have been beaten by some you…
The Chiefs and people of Adaklu-Kodzobi near Ho Polytechnic have completed all projects initiated under their 10-year development plan from 1998 to 2008.
The projects included a three-classroom block for their Junior High School, ele…
Mrs. Beatrice Lenu Archer, Managing Consultant
of Hospitality Solutions-Consultants in Total Hospitality Management, at the weekend, underscored the need for religious leaders to pray for the enabling Spirit of God to fill them with humi…
The Winneba branch of Donewell Insurance Company limited on Sunday presented grocery items worth GH¢500 to the Methodist Rafiki Satellite orphanage Village at Gyahadze, near Winneba.
The items included rice, sugar, milk, fruit juice,…
Water and Sanitation Club (WATSAN), a United Nations (UN) Habitat and a Ghana Education Service (GES) sponsored programme, Water for Africa Cities II (WAC) have inaugurated a project under which students from schools and colleges are bein…
At least 11 people have died; 10 on the spot, and one later at the Winneba Government Hospital, when a Takoradi-Accra bound passenger Ford bus rammed into a broken-down articulated truck at Gomoa Okyereko, near Winneba on Monday morning.
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Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, has expressed worry at the high rate at which illegal structures were springing up in some parts of the Kumasi metropolis.
He cited the many illegal wooden structures at Akwatialine and its…
Mr Tsatsu Tsikata, former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has entreated Ghanaians to enforce the country's motto of freedom and justice.
Mr Tsikata said the motto inscribed in the country's…
An Islamic scholar has expressed worry about the behaviour of some residents of the Tamale Metropolis and other parts of the Northern Regions, who habitually engage in violence and destruction of property at the least provocation to settle…
Five people are confirmed dead when the simmering Kussasi-Mamprusi conflict in Bawku flared up on Monday.
Police Constable Peter Ayive was also shot in the leg at the hostel where security personnel on peacekeeping operations are lod…
A five-day training workshop for 50 teachers in the Fanteakwa District to improve the teaching of Science in upper primary schools, ended at Begoro at the Weekend.
The programme, which was organized by the District Directorate of Educ…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Monday pledged government's commitment to combating the HIV disease and other reproductive health problems by means of innovative programmes that would help promote responsible sexual life.
He said g…
The National Identification Authority on Monday said it shared the concerns of the Mobile Registration Workstation (MRW) operators saying it was rigorously working to have their allowances paid.
In reaction to a demonstration staged …
Mr. Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister, on Monday outlined his vision for the Region, saying that, the promotion of peace, unity and development would take centre stage.
He, therefore, called for punctuality, hard work an…
The Juaso Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region has remanded two farmers of Kyekyebiase into prison custody for allegedly threatening to kill Mr Kwaku Michael, a driver's mate.
Kwaku Ofori and Kwadwo Frimpong, (alias) Elijah), pleaded n…
A Hohoe Circuit Court has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Kotoka Gaana, a chain saw operator who jumped bail while on trial for robbery and defrauding by false pretence.
Gaana, whose plea was not taken, was granted bail in t…
The Adansi Traditional Council (ATC) has expressed concern about the appointment of government nominees to the three District and Municipal Assemblies in the area without any consultation with the Council.
The assemblies are Adansi N…
Mr Clever Nyathi, Head of Governance, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), on Monday said elections remained a major source of conflicts in Africa and called for sustainable efforts to explain good governance and democracy to the p…
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