A joint military and police patrol at Lamashegu, a suburb of the Tamale Metropolis has led to the interception of a private car that contained 33 cartridges.
The car, which was been driven by one Bombande Sulemana in the company of Z…
The Alliance For Accountable Governance (AFAG), a pressure group that acts as a check on various governments, said on Friday the President's state of the nation's address was insightful, wide ranging, well thought and promising.
A sta…
A Sekondi District Magistrate's Court on Thursday imposed a fine of GH¢120 on a commercial driver for failing to stop his vehicle at a zebra crossing, when asked to do so by a Metropolitan Guard.
The accused who pleaded guilty would …
Mr Nii Armah Fleischer-Brock, Eastern Regional Manager of Ghana Telecom, on Friday announced that the company was to provide community payphones for 30 rural communities in the region.
He said Ghana Telecom would provide 30 of such c…
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday reaffirmed her pledge to denuclearize North Korea through the six-party talks, dismissing concerns that the Barack Obama administration may take a softer line to focus on the spread of nuc…
The task force established to check defecating and other insanitary practices at the beach in Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Municipality (KEEA), has expressed dissatisfaction with the failure of the police to prosecute culprits.
Mr. Sa…
At least five soldiers aboard a Colombian Air Forces (FAC) plane were killed when it crashed on a training mission on Wednesday, official sources said.
The plane precipitated to ground near the First Air Command in Puerto Salgar, dep…
The Regional Advisory Information and Network Systems (RAINS), a Tamale-based NGO has assisted some 60 school girls in deprived communities with bicycles.
The beneficiaries, who walk long distances to school were drawn from the Yendi…
Beijing's improving energy efficiency and air quality were a priority for the 2008 Olympic Games organizers, according to a newly published post-Games assessment report on Wednesday.
The report, released in Nairobi by the United Nati…
Reverend Veronica Darko, Registrar, Nurses and Midwives Council of Ghana (NMC) on Wednesday urged nurses to give much concern to the ill treatment of patients at hospitals.
She raised this issue at the end of a two-day workshop on en…
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) owes small-scale waste collection contractors about GH¢60,645 being outstanding bills for July to December 2008.
Mr Anthony Mensah, Director in-charge of Waste Management Department of KMA, who …
Reacting to Damascus' goodwill for improving relations with the United States, the Obama administration said on Wednesday that Syria should play a positive role in the Middle East.
"Syria can play a role and a positive role in the re…
The UN Security Council on Wednesday expressed concern over the "fragile" situation in the Gaza Strip and reaffirmed its support for the Egyptian mediation effort aiming to help establish a durable cease-fire.
The 15-member body held…
Heavily armed Ethiopian troops have entered a district in south Somalia nearly a month after the troops left the war-torn country, witnesses said on Wednesday.
Villagers in the southern Bakool region say the troops have crossed the …
US Secretary of State Hillary Rhodam Clinton said on Wednesday that the United States must have strong relations with Southeast Asian countries as the region is one of key solutions for addressing problems such as global economic crisis an…
The African Union (AU) said on Wednesday evening it welcomed a peace deal reached between the Sudanese Government and the country's key rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).
A British court signed on Wednesday a deportation order for radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada to be sent back to Jordan.
Qatada, 48, was once dubbed Osama bin Laden's right-hand-man in Europe and was regarded by the Special Immigratio…
"Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way."
Originating from an American soldier's joke over 50 years ago, Murphy's Law has found yet another validation in the two recent collisio…
We reproduce below a rejoinder from Thomas K. Aubyn & Associates, solicitors of a traditional council in the Central Region, to the GNA story: "Chief Dies in Valentine Encounter with Concubine"
"We act for an on behalf of the ...Tradi…
Kwaku Bright and Yaa Dora, siblings, were on Tuesday, convicted by the Asamankese circuit court on charges of intended provocation and breach of the peace.
While Bright was found guilty of threatening to harm a brother in -law with a…
Mr. Frederic Noble Baada, Chairman of the Ghana Mobile Library Service Committee, complained that the group could not commence its work last year due to the lack of funds.
He said the expected funds would have been used to purchase g…
Workers excavating an underground garage in Los Angeles have uncovered the nearly intact skeleton of a mammoth and the largest known cache of fossils from the last ice age, it was announced on Wednesday.
The treasure trove included t…
The Beijing Olympics met its pledges on the environment, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in an assessment report on Wednesday.
The organizers made tremendous efforts to ensure that the 2008 Games marked a step fo…
Controversy is raging on in Goaso, capital of Asunafo North Municipality, over a demolition exercise being carried out by the Goaso traditional council.
The exercise has displaced traders and some workers who have threatened to go on…
The Northern Regional Security Committee (REGSEC) has appealed to the media to be circumspect in their
reportage to prevent any state of insecurity in the region, especially in the Tamale Metropolis.
The REGSEC has, therefore, calle…
The Pan African Writers' Association (PAWA), on Thursday said it had mounted a campaign to alert all African writers and publishers on the recent agreement reached with Google over the digitisation
and show of in-copyright books.
…
Seikwa Traditional Council in Tain District has proposed a national stakeholders' conference to brainstorm on how to reduce the cost of funerals in the country.
The council said the conference must be under the auspices of the Nation…
Dutch electronics giant, Philips, and a leading Ghanaian NGO, Kite, have teamed up to test and develop the introduction of a new generation low-cost sustainable lighting products in Ghana.
A statement issued by Philips in Accra on T…
Yaw Edward, a 26 year-old farmer, was on Thursday convicted on his own plea of guilt to six months imprisonment in hard labour by the Akyem Oda District Magistrate court, for felling a tree illegally in a forest reserve.
Police Chief…
Traditional authorities at Wenchi, Tain and Techiman in the Brong-Ahafo Region have suggested that part of the assembly's common fund be allocated to them so they could also initiate development programmes.
The chiefs made the sugges…
Agbeko Kwame, a farmer, has been put on trial at a Hohoe Circuit Court for cultivating and peddling Indian hemp.
Agbeko's plea was not taken and he was remanded into prison custody to re-appear on March 4.
Assistant Superintend…
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) owes the Tamale Teaching Hospital an amount of about GH¢1.7 million, a situation, which has affected the hospital's finances.
Dr Ken Sagoe, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Tamale Teach…
Mr Daren Schemmer, the Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana, says in order for businesses and organizations to thrive well in the communities they operate, they should complement best practices with Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) p…
The Upper West Regional office of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) undertook 177 educational programmes in some communities and institutions in the region last year.
Beneficiaries, which included basi…
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in collaboration with the Cardio Start International Compassionate Medical Assistance, a heart surgery team from the United States of America has performed a maiden heart surgery for six adults in …
Two students, formerly of the Saint Louis Senior High School (SHS), in Kumasi, have been adjudged the overall international and national best second best candidates in the May/June 2008 West African Senior High School Certificate Examinati…
Mr Mark H. Mensah, Headmaster of Bisease Senior High Secondary Commercial School, has commended the school's Parent/Teachers Association (PTA) for its support in the development of the school.
This was at the handing over of keys to…
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi on collaboration with the Cardio Start International Compassionate Medical Assistance, a heart surgery team from the US has performed a maiden heart surgery on six adults.
Afia Adowaah,…
Three Policemen were on Thursday put before an Accra Circuit Court for their involvement in the attack and stealing of monies and belongings of a Ghanaian businessman at a hotel at Dworwulu in Accra
They are Deputy Superintendent of Poli…
Madam Abravi Afeke, a 60-year-old trader, at the Kotokoraba Market, in Cape Coast, on Wednesday died instantly, when a VW saloon crushed her and another trader against a wall.
The other victim, Theresa Agbo, 18, was rushed to the Cen…
South Korea and the European Union (EU) agreed to delay their scheduled round of free trade negotiations by two to three weeks, Seoul's top trade official said on Wednesday.
Last month, both sides said they would hold an eighth round o…
Two organisations on Wednesday called for the right institutions and transparent policies to be put in place before the production of Ghana's oil begins.
The Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) and Oxfam America and Ghana, …
The "Buy American" provisions in the 787-billion-dollar economic stimulus bill that US President Barack Obama signed into law Tuesday, will deal a hard blow to world endeavours in saving the economy.
According to the legislation, the…
Zimbabwe's Unity Government has started to pay civil servants with foreign currency, new financial minister Tendai Biti said on Wednesday.
Biti said on Tuesday the government had paid all members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces and by…
The European Commission on Wednesday took disciplinary steps against six European Union (EU) members as economic stimulus spending pushed up their budget deficit beyond the EU limit.
"For the member states where the general governmen…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Wednesday, reiterated his message of modesty to appointees under his administration, reminding them to judiciously manage the nation's resources to meet the challenges of changing world economic and socia…
The European Union (EU) welcomed on Wednesday the agreement of good will and confidence building for the settlement of the issue in Darfur, western Sudan, reached Tuesday between the Sudanese government of unity and the Justice and Equalit…
A ranking North Korean official has admitted "there may be problems" in implementing the two inter-Korean summit accords but accused South Korea of completely opposing them, a British lawmaker said in a report on his recent Pyongyang visit…
US Secretary of State Hillary Rhodam Clinton said on Wednesday that she would be present at the annual ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Foreign Ministers meeting and ASEAN Regional Forum in Bangkok, Thailand in July.
Cl…
Russia and Georgia on Wednesday agreed on security mechanisms aimed to prevent and solve incidents in the regions that experienced a war between the two sides last August.
The agreement was reached following two days of talks in Gene…
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