The National Executive Committee (NEC) of National
Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has called on students to remain calm as the structures of the union would continue to work towards safeguarding their educational and civil rights.
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The Assin North Municipal Assembly has said it is committed to the development of the manpower needs of the area and had taken steps to empower the youth with vocational skills.
To this end, the Assembly has initiated a programme to …
St Louis Senior High School on Thursday made its
Ashanti Region proud when the school won the 2010 Project Citizen Ghana National Showcase award in Accra.
Project Citizen is a portfolio-based interdisciplinary civic education progra…
Neurotic people have difficulty with relationships and marriage but U.S. researchers say if neurotic newlyweds have lots of sex, marital satisfaction is high.
Michelle Russell and James McNulty of the University of Tennessee say neurotici…
A two-day validation workshop on Ascertainment and Codification of Customary Law Project (ACLP) for members of the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs opened in Sunyani on Wednesday.
Barima Offe Akwasi Okogyeasuo II, Omanhene of Kok…
Mr Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General, has opened the High Level Segment of COP 16 with a call on governments to be flexible and negotiate in a spirit of compromise and common sense for the good of all peoples.
"Issues of climate …
The Effutu Municipal Director of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mr Richmond Mensah, has appealed to the Chief Justice to extend the Justice for All Programme to the Winneba Prison to help decongest it.
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The National Union of Ghana Students on Wednesday called on students of Cote D'Ivoire both home and abroad to preserve the sanctity of the country's democratic tenets in the wake of the crises in that country.
A statement in Accra ca…
U.S. automaker General Motors Co. on Wednesday signed an agreement with South Korea's Korea Development Bank (KDB) for the long-term development of its South Korean unit GM Daewoo Auto & Technology.
According to the agreement, GM pledg…
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg
is expected to visit Beijing as early as later this week to seek China's help in reining in North Korea, which has escalated tensions with a recent artillery attack and its ongoing nuclear p…
Members of the UK and Ireland Chapter of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), have expressed deep sadness and shock at the news of the death of Squadron Leader Clend Sowu (Rtd), founding member of the party.
A statement issued by …
Soaring tension has forced the cancellation of the installation of a new chief of Afari, a sprawling community in the Atwima-Nwabiagya District of the Ashanti Region.
The people insisted that Nana Kwadwo Asamoah had no legitimate titl…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Wednesday said Government would in no way sway from its commitment to bring development and ensure the better living standards it has promised Ghanaians.
The President also praised the development…
The Convention People's Party's (CPP) Shadow Minister for Employment, Mrs Susana Adu-Amankwah on Wednesday said a future CPP government would revive Ghana's local manufacturing industrial base.
She said this would help tackle the mas…
President John Evans Atta Mills has asked members of the Council of State to be candid with Government on its performance to enable it to address national issues thoroughly.
He reminded them that they had all sworn the Oath of Secrec…
The United Kingdom on Wednesday welcomed the "strong stance" of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on the political turmoil in Cote d'Ivoire.
The Foreign Secretary, Mr William Hague, said that ECOWAS had "sent a c…
A Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication Studies, University of Ghana, on Wednesday advised chiefs, assembly members and unit committees to engage the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in a dialogue on policy …
A total of 92 newly created electoral areas have
been added to the number of electoral areas in the Western Region, bringing the number to 544 against the previous figure of 452.
Mr Steve Opoku-Mensah, Regional Director of the Ele…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Thursday repeated his call on African leaders to respect the will of the people to forestall conflicts.
He said when leaders realised that the people had an undeniable right to choose, who should le…
The Food and Drugs Board (FDB) has cautioned the
public on the activities of Tasly Co Ltd, a Chinese company, and its distributors who are engaged in practices that pose serious threat to public health and safety.
A statement signed …
Ghana's private sector risks losing out on the benefits under the ECOWAS Common External Tariff (CET) regime in future because the players in the sector have not shown interest to make inputs towards the determination of the tariffs.
Mr …
South Korea's debt ratio is expected to fall to around 24 percent in 2015, a/GNA report showed Wednesday, indicating that the nation's fiscal status will improve faster than many other major economies.
According to the report by the In…
The Chinese economy will continue to expand at a brisk pace next year as the government will work on maintaining steady growth, a state-run think tank said Wednesday.
The country's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow about…
Seoul has confirmed records of 64,279 Korean forced laborers from the 1910-45 Japanese colonial era who have yet to be paid, a government panel said Wednesday, opening the way for the laborers and their relatives to receive compensation.
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South Korea reiterated its stance on Wednesday that it would not hold talks on scrapping age limits on U.S. beef imports.
Last week, South Korea and the U.S. reached a final agreement in their free trade accord, focusing on U.S. demand…
South Korea has been narrowing its gap with other advanced nations in terms of economic competitiveness, but it is still facing many challenges that could hamper its sustained growth, a report showed Wednesday.
"South Korea has been b…
Graduates who fail to pay back student loans for over three years after leaving school could face asset seizure, the education ministry said Wednesday.
According to a draft bill on the repayment of the "income contingent loan scheme (…
South Korea's crude steel output is expected to rise 11 percent next year on increased capacity, a trade association said Wednesday.
According to the Korea Iron & Steel Association, steelmakers, including POSCO and Hyundai Steel Co., a…
In a study of Australian men ages 75-95, if men are breathing, they consider sex important -- if medical conditions don't hold them back, researchers say.
Zoe Hyde of the University of Western Australia in Perth and colleagues said their …
The first automated clearing house files were processed on Wednesday, marking the beginning of another great feat within the financial sector.
The Automated Clearing House or ACH is primarily an electronic funds transfer system and i…
Madam Helen Kwawukume, Chief State Attorney on Wednesday said a defence witness testifying in the incest case against Nana Kofi Yirenkyi also known as "Jesus One Touch", Founder and General Overseer of Jesus Blood Ministry had been suborne…
Parliament on Thursday dropped the prohibition
cloak on the Revenue Management Bill that sought to taboo the use of oil as collateral for borrowing.
By this amendment, Government is free to use the oil revenue as security to borrow…
Global Haulage Company Limited, a cocoa processing company, on Thursday presented hospital equipment worth GHc5, 000 to the Cardiothoracic Centre of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
The equipment made up of 30 beds, 30 bedside cabinet…
The following are the average inter-bank exchange
rate of the dollar and derived rates for the major currencies against the cedi, as issued by the Ghana Association of Bankers on Thursday, December 9, 2010.
GHANA CEDI EQUIVAL…
I always assumed the above description applied only to certain concoctions being pedaled about as miracle potions until I had a rude awakening. Something that had been staring me in the face for years could do just that and this had scient…
The world seems to be growing “heavier” by the day – developed countries and developing ones all seem to have been hit by this canker and surprisingly though we talk a lot about how even children are putting on fat, there is very little th…
Mr Michael Kobla Adzaho, Adaklu Anyigbe District Chief Executive has inaugurated a GH¢43,037 three-unit classroom block fitted with ceiling fans for Adaklu Senior High School at Adaklu Waya.
The project initiated by Adaklu University St…
Russia's top commander Tuesday embarked on a three-day visit to India to discuss bilateral military cooperation and deepen services to-services interaction.
Chief of the Russian General Staff, Army General Nikolai Makarov Tuesday left…
Princess Debisi Sosan, Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Nigeria, on Tuesday led a three-member delegation to understudy the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP).
Addressing newsmen at the GSFP Secretariat, she said, although Nigeria …
Mr Gong Jianzhong, Chinese Ambassador to Ghana has presented construction equipment to the 48 Engineer Regiment of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF).
They included two motorised graders, two wheel loaders, two bulldozers, an excavator, fi…
Leading Ghanaian Waste Management Company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, has been awarded the "Leadership in Industry" prize at the Millennium Excellence Awards.
The company was among 29 institutions and personalities nominated for the awa…
An Accra Fast Track High Court on Tuesday ordered the Military to place in prison custody two soldiers accused of murdering Alhaji Issa Mobila, the former Northern Regional Chairman of the Convention People's Party.
The court preside…
Pig farmers in the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai District are being assisted with credit to expand their pigpens and increase the animal population under the Community Based Rural Development Project (CBRDP).
Mr Moses Kofi Armah, the Dist…
Only 15,286 out of 48,000 TB cases are reported in hospitals in Ghana in 2009, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report on Tuberculosis in Ghana has said.
This is due to the stigma associated with contraction of the disease and the p…
A Principal Rent Officer at the Rent Control Department in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, Mr. Twum Ampofo, has said the oil discovery in the Western Region had turn local landlords into shylocks.
He said complaints lodged at the de…
A stakeholder meeting of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) in Bolgatanga, has expressed concern about the inadequate number of teachers and school infrastructure in the Upper East Region.
The meeting attended by local actors …
The Vice President of Ghana Journalists Association(GJA), Mr Affail Money on Tuesday asked journalists to should ensure that the rough edges of news concerning children was trimmed before it was put into the public domain.
This, he …
Professor Sulemana Al-Hassan, Head of the Mining Department of the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), has observed that inability of the youth to secure jobs was due to their lack of employable skills.
He said there were a nu…
Mr. Alfred Baku, General Manager of Goldfields Ghana Limited (GGL) said the high local senior staff turnover will not discourage management in its desire to equip its human resource.
He said most of these senior local employees after…
People living around forest fringe communities, have been encouraged to be more alert and help to bring to justice those ruining the forests through illegal timber cutting.
Mr Obed Owusu Addai, a tropical Forest Researcher, said peo…
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