Two armed robbers who mounted roadblocks and snatched mobile phones and money from people have been arrested and placed in police custody at Bibiani.
Assistant Superintendent of Police Felix Toya, Bibiani District Police Commande…
About 1,200 young men and women on Monday stormed the Ho Sports Stadium to be recruited into the Ghana Armed Forces.
As early as 0530 hours, the Stadium was full of expectant applicants short-listed for the Army, Navy and Air force …
The Police administration said it was too early to conclude that the recent spate of murders in the country were cases of 'contract killing' because motives of the killings had not yet been established.
"Investigation has also not …
Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Member of Parliament for Bantama and Minister-designate for Water Resources, Works and Housing has presented 300 bags of cement worth GH¢ 24,000 (24 million cedis) to some selected schools in the constituency on…
The Ashanti regional office of the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD Control Unit of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has identified the outbreak of the cocoa swollen shoot disease in some communities in the Amansie West District of…
Government has released GH¢ 5,500,000 million cedis for the provision of water in the guinea worm endemic communities to support the contribution from donor partners.
An additional GH¢ 50,000 (500 million cedis) has also been voted f…
The National Women's Committee of the Ghana Trades Union Congress has congratulated The Chief Justice Mrs Georgina Wood on her appointment as the Chief Justice.
A message signed by Nadia Ibrahimah, Head of the Women's Desk said, "O…
Some 495 private houses that were either destroyed or had their roofs ripped off in a recent rainstorm that hit the Tamale Metropolis, have been rehabilitated through the Tamale Disaster Relief Fund.
Alhaji Mohammed Baba, the Metrop…
Will Power Homowo Boxing Promotions, will hit the boxing circles with a boxing promotion fixed for August 12, at Mantse Agbona Park, James Town, Accra.
The championship forms part of activities marking the annual Homowo Festival to be…
Officials of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) are scheduled to arrive in Accra on Saturday, September 15, 2007 on a three-day inspection tour of the venues and facilities being put in place towards the hosting of the 26th MTN Gh…
Rural and community banks have been urged to ensure effective supervision of agencies, address poor credit management processes, high levels of outstanding reconciliation and huge investment in property, plant and equipment.
Mr Seth…
A Regional Tribunal in Accra on Tuesday remanded in custody a miner at Akwatia in the Eastern Region who colleted 3,000 GH Cedis (30 million cedis) from a salesman in Accra under the pretext of supplying him with gold but failed to deliver…
Over 600 children of Osaebo and Sakyi Agyakwah primary and JSS now find it difficult to attend school as the only wooden bridge over river Nar Tawiah is submerged in flood waters.
Nii Arday IV, Chief of Afutu, a suburb of Nsawam who…
Teachers have been advised not to meddle in the local politics and chieftaincy matters in the communities where they teach in order not to lose trust and the confidence reposed in them by the people.
The Fanteakwa District Director …
An African American family has instituted a 5,000 dollar-micro credit scheme for Liberty Specialist Institute, a private vocational school in Koforidua.
The fund is to grant small loans to graduates of the Institute after they have …
The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has received a Spanish grant of two million euros to purchase a digital border surveillance system to enhance security at the Aflao border.
The service has also installed a software for the process…
The Atebubu District Office of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice is investigating a case in which a 20 year-old student of Yeji Secondary School became blind in her attempt to abort a three-month old pregnancy she w…
The Ghana Education Project (GEP), an Nkwanta-based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) is to build an exclusive state-of-the-art girls' school from the basic to the university level at Nkwanta in the Volta region.
Ms Gill Norris, Ch…
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
was sworn into a second term of office for another seven years at
an extraordinary session of the People's Assembly (parliament) on
Tuesday morning.
Assad would then deliver a speech on Syria's ex…
Parliament Speaker of Portugal
Jaime Gama is to visit Angola soon at the invitation of his
Angolan counterpart Roberto de Almeida, a senior Portuguese
diplomat has said.
Portuguese Ambassador to Angola Francisco Ribeiro Teles tol…
Following is the medal
table after Monday's competitions at the 15th Pan Am Games
(tabulated under gold, silver, bronze and total medals):
1 United States 14 10 5 29
2 Cuba 5 3 …
Argentine dentist Juan
Carlos Dasque shot down the gold medal of men's trap event and
qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at the Pan American
Games on Monday.
Dasque's winning mark of 138 hits also broke the previous mee…
Ghana's All Africa Games long jump recorder holder, Ignatius Gaisah has asked the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) to
improve its annual awards to make it more attractive to national athletes.
Gaisah who has won the award …
Following are the
weightlifting results at the 15th Pan American Games here on
Monday:
Men's 77kg class:
1. Ivan Cambar, Cuba, 350kg (snatch 156; clean and jerk 194)
2. Jose Ocando, Venezuela, 337 (145; 192)
3. Octavio …
Following are the standings of
III World Cup of softball held in Oklahoma City of United States
on Saturday (tabulated under matches played, won, lost, points for,
against):
1. United States 4 4 0 30 2
2. Canada …
Following are the results Saturday
from the Fed Cup World Group semi-final between Italy and France on
clay at the Nova Yardinia outdoor sports complex in Castellaneta Marina of Italy:
Singles
Tatiana Golovin, France, bt Tathian…
The
29-year-old Li Fuyu is competing here at his fifth Tour of Qinghai
Lake. This time, the dazzling Discovery Channel team jersey not
only gave him a new look but also did a boost in standings.
In the first two stages at this yea…
Nigeria on Sunday smashed South
Africa 3-0 and came onto the top in badminton team event of the
ninth All-Africa Games, making revenge for a home defeat four
years ago in the Nigerian capital Abuja.
In the women's singles, Kubi G…
Following are Sunday's group
standings of women's soccer after three-round qualifications at
the ninth All-Africa Games (tabulated under matches played, won,
drawn, lost, goals for, against and points):
Group A
Nigeria …
Following is the medal table
after Sunday's competitions at the 15th Pan American Games
(tabulated under gold, silver, bronze and total medals):
1 United States 11 6 3 19
2 Mexico 3 1 4 8
…
Host Brazil won its first
gold medal at the 2007 Pan American Games on Sunday while the
United States continued impressive show to quickly increase its
medal total.
To the delight of a vibrant crowd at the Riocentro complex,
D…
As the rest of Africa wakes up to
the medal potentialities in special sports, Nigeria, which first
realized this area, is beginning to face the reality that its
rivals are increasing advantage by the day.
According to the News A…
Coach of Ghana's Black Starlets, Sellas Tetteh said the midfield of his team remains his biggest headache as he prepares the team for the next World Cup scheduled for Korea next month.
He told the GNA Sports that "my biggest headache…
A 10-member team of U.N.
inspectors arrived in Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), on Saturday to verify and
monitor the shutdown and sealing of the nuclear facilities in
Yongbyon.
Upon h…
Teachers in the Upper West Region who are customers of the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) have warned they would leave the bank en bloc if, what they termed the use of indecent language and mockery by bank officials on them, continued…
The Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma district of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) has taken delivery of 1,875 bags of fertilizer from the government to support the activities of the agricultural module of the programme.
The fer…
Four persons who allegedly murdered and secretly buried a 30 year old man have been remanded into prison custody by a circuit court at Techiman presided over by Mr. Justice Godwin Kwasi-Kumah.
The court ordered Alhaji Yusifu Mataba A…
Sanitation guards selected from eight districts in the Eastern Region on Monday ended a day's orientation workshop on the socio-economic implication of environmental sanitation on the nation.
The districts are Kwahu West, Kwahu South…
Most Reverend Dr Scott Earl Mclaughlin, Archbishop and Primate of the Orthodox Anglican Church in the United States, would inaugurate the first Orthodox Anglican Church in the West African sub-region in Ghana on July 28 this year at Sekon…
Malawi has imposed an immediate ban on importation of livestock products from Tanzania due to the outbreak of Rift Valley Fever, which affects cattle, goats, sheep and pigs.
Malawi's Department for Animal Health and Livestock Developme…
Six additional trucks of United Nations food aid have reached Gaza, a Palestinian spokesman said Sunday.
The trucks delivered 210 metric tons of flour from the U.N. World Food Program to the territory, which descended into violence l…
The South African Communist
Party (SACP) closed its congress on Sunday with its central
committee bloated with unionists and militant youth, while kicking
out government ministers and sympathizers of President Thabo Mbeki.
Pretori…
Felicitating Israeli
statesman and Nobel Laureate, Shimon Peres, on becoming the
ninth President of the country, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
hoped the growing bilateral relations between the two
countries will further strengthen.
…
he Libyan Secretary of the African Union Affairs, Dr. Ali Abdul- Salam Al- Teraiki, Sunday inaugurated in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, the Second International Conference on Darfur.
Sudan is participating with a big delegation led by t…
The Council of Ministers, in its meeting chaired by the President of the Republic Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir Sunday, declared its condemnation of any attempt that threatens the country's political and developmental stability, endangers t…
A 32-member revenue mobilization tasked force constituted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to collect taxes from defaulters was on Monday inaugurated in Accra.
The task force, which would be replicated in other regions, is manda…
Tomato farmers at Tuobodom in the Techiman municipality have appealed to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to intervene and save them from cheating middlemen and women.
Mr Baffour Afrifa, Chairman of Tuobodom Tomato Farmers Associ…
Ms Asha-Rose Migiro, United Nations (UN) Deputy Secretary General, arrived in Accra on Thursday evening for the annual Summit of the African Union (AU) during which, she will call for stronger partnership between the UN and the AU on Afri…
A group of researchers from the University of Nottingham said in a report that pills were better than injections for treating children infected with community-acquired pneumonia.
Child patients taking pills recovered as quickly as tho…
British researchers has confirmed a link between depression and low levels of folate, a vitamin which comes from vegetables.
The link emerged after a review of 11 previous studies involving 15,315 participants, researchers at the Univ…
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