Togbe Dzamesi II, Chief of Adaklu-Wuakpe who battled a lion in a 45-minute duel in the jungle at Wuakpe near Wumenu, is recovering from multiple wounds the beast inflicted on his left arm and left thigh.
This was contrary to rumours t…
Two members of the Agona West Constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have appeared before an Agona Swedru Magistrate Court for allegedly stealing the Nissan Pick up allocated to the Constituency Chairman by the party headquarters.
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The Ghana Scout Association (GSA), has donated materials for the production of soap, costing 6,000 Ghana Cedis, to inmates of the Central Prison in Kumasi.
The materials included caustic soda, perfume, palm
oil and palm kennel Oil, …
Seven people died, one on the spot and six others soon after admission at the Winneba Government Hospital from severe burns they sustained when a Gas Tanker and three other vehicles were involved in an accident near Gomoa Bewadze on Wednes…
The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ghana has expressed concern about the recent number of cyber fraud and business scams originating from West African countries.
A release issued by the Embassy stated that in cases of…
Dr. Koku Awoonor-Williams, Upper East Regional Director of Health Services, has expressed concern that only few people infected with Tuberculosis (TB) in the region report to health institutions for treatment.
He said 511 of all TB c…
The Crop Research Institute (CRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), is stepping up efforts to strengthen communication linkage with the private sector to enhance the adoption of CRI technologies.
Dr. Hans Adu-…
Ghanaian farmers have an opportunity to access a 25 million-dollar loan initiated by the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), an international non-governmental organization led by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan that advo…
The Eastern Regional Police on Wednesday arrested a taxi driver with eight bags of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp in black polythene bags at Amanhyia on the Suhum/Koforidua road.
The driver, Ebenezer K. Nartey, 40, was driv…
Mr. Simon Opoku, Sunyani Municipal Environmental Health Officer, on Wednesday said residents who would flout sanitation laws in the municipality would be prosecuted.
He said this when he briefed newsmen about the visit of a three-mem…
Ghanaians spend millions of cedis treating complications caused by usage of drugs from peddlers, the Ghana National Association of Chemical Sellers in the Western Region has noted.
"Drug peddling has had a very negative impact on ou…
Dr Nicholas Westcott, British High Commissioner to Ghana on Thursday urged Ghana government to encourage mobile phone companies to deliver additional value added services.
He said the use of mobile phones for financial transactions a…
UK-based Tullow Oil which is currently drilling oil wells in the Jubilee reserves has held stakeholder meetings with local fishermen in efforts to minimise risk around the project.
The meeting, which was attended by chief fishermen i…
HIV/AIDS claimed 54 lives, the highest cause of death recorded in health facilities in the Ketu South and Ketu North districts last year.
Malaria was second claiming 40 lives followed in third place by stroke which claimed 39 live…
The National Focal Person for HIV/AIDS at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Mr Godwin Monor, on Wednesday reiterated the need for all Ghanaians to regard HIV/AIDS as a public health issue.
He said the disease, was like malaria or …
The Eastern Region last year recorded 1,162 motor traffic accidents involving 1,642 vehicles, out of which 245 died.
Police Superintendent James Sarfo Peprah, the Eastern Regional Commander of the Motor Traffic and Transport Uni…
The family of Captain Hugo Benzin Huppenbauer (Rtd) has called on former President Jerry John Rawlings to formally inform him of his passing away.
The delegation, led by Fletcher-Dzoleto, brother of the deceased, included the widow, …
Authorities of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) are still battling with the identity of a young man who allegedly jumped from the seventh floor of Unity Hall of the University, resulting in his death on Tuesda…
Mr. Henk Visschers, Managing Director of Metro Mass Transit Company Limited, on Wednesday, expressed the determination of management to help build a sustainable public transport system in the country.
"We are in the business to assis…
The Right Rev. Dr. Yaw Frimpong-Manso, Chairman of the Christian Council of Ghana (CCG), on Wednesday appealed to the security agencies to be swift and professional in apprehending trouble makers in the northern part of the country to avoi…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Wednesday paid glowing tribute to the memory of the late Vice Admiral Emmanuel Osei Owusu- Ansah, former Chief of Naval Staff, as the nation honoured him with a state funeral.
He described the late …
A rally to sensitize the public on migration-related issues contained in the ECOWAS protocol was on Thursday held at Paga with a call on the security agencies and the media to help check drug peddling, prostitution and smuggling at the fro…
About 70 residents in the Tema metropolis on Thursday received free eye screening under a one week outreach programme to sensitize residents on eye diseases.
Most of those screened were diagnosed with glaucoma, cataract and refraction di…
Mr Gregory Amenuvegbe, Volta Regional HIV/AIDS Coordinator, on Wednesday commended police recruits at the Volta Regional Police Training School for their moral uprightness.
He noted that the personnel who tested HIV negative before r…
The Management of the Korle Bu Teaching, on Thursday appealed to the public to urgently donate blood to the hospital to enable it to save the lives of patients, especially accident victims.
The hospital cited that even though it had …
The Regent of Dagbon Kampakuya Na Abdulai Yakubu Andani has commended the chiefs and people of Dagbon for celebrating the Damba festival peaceful and incident free.
He expressed his appreciation for the way adequate security was put …
A witness in the fake Close-up case on Thursday denied at the Accra Circuit court that the product was a sample that was not for sale.
Mr Cherubim Awagbe, Director of Industry and Market Research System, the organisation that conduct…
The chiefs and people of Tengzug in the Talensi-Nabdam District on Wednesday celebrated their annual "Glob festival" with a call on Ghanaians to co-exit peacefully to help promote peace, unity, love and development.
The Chief of the …
Ms Ellen Alai, Volta Regional Director of the Department of Women of the Ministry of Women and Children, has called for a campaign to raise the level of awareness on offences under the Domestic Violence Law.
She said there was an urg…
Thousands of mourners from all walks of life on Thursday gathered at the forecourt of the State House to pay their last respect to Mr. Edward Salia, 57, MP for Jirapa Constituency who died last month.
Mr. John Evans Atta Mills, Pres…
The Most Reverend Paul Bemile, Bishop of the Wa Diocese, on Thursday urged politicians to conduct a peaceful campaign in the Jirapa constituency ahead of a by-election slated for next month to elect a
new Member of Parliament for the are…
Participants at a day's stakeholders meeting have called for the establishment of an apex body to oversee physical development planning systems.
They also called for review of laws establishing land and physical development agencies and …
Mr John Akologo Tia, Deputy Majority Leader has described the death of Mr Edward Salia as a big blow to Parliament and the country as a whole.
He said Parliament would miss his incisive and intelligent contributions as well as his im…
A Circuit Court in Accra on Wednesday sentenced a 24-year-old driver, Reuben Senyo Gidiglo to seven years imprisonment in hard labour after pleading guilty to a charge of defilement.
Gidiglo, pleaded with the court to forgive him for def…
A 27 year-old herbalist and spiritualist who allegedly collected GH¢13,000 and a car from a woman under the pretext of healing her mother of a spiritual problem but never attended to her appeared before a Circuit Court in Accra on Thursday…
The mortal remains of Vice-Admiral Emmanuel Osei Owusu-Ansah (Rtd), a former Chief of Naval Staff, were on Thursday interred at the Antoa cemetery in the Kwabre District.
A 15-gun salute heralded the burial of the deceased whose coffin w…
Members of the Ashanti Regional branch of Civil Servants Association (CSA) of Ghana on Thursday appealed to the government to order the Controller and Accountant General to pay the March salary with the six months arrears without any deduc…
A Bibiani magistrate court has granted GH¢1,000 bail to Yaw Yankey, a 27-year-old businessman from Sefwi Bekwai, for causing harm to Mr. Mike Yeboah a transport owner.
Yankey, who pleaded not guilty, was also charged for threatening to …
Francis Tei Agorh and Yao Amevor, who both failed to attend communal labour at Amenhyia near Suhum, were on Thursday convicted on their own plea of guilty to a total fine of GH C100 by the Suhum Magistrate Court.
Agorh and Amevor wou…
Five persons including the driver of a Benz bus with registration number ER 611 N died on the spot when their vehicle collided with an articulator truck with registration number GE 28823Z at Apedwa on Thursday morning.
The driver was…
Dr Samuel H. Donkor, Chairman, Conference of the Heads of Private Universities, Ghana, on Thursday, appealed to the government to support them by lessening the huge corporate tax on private universities.
He said currently more than …
Mr Dayo W. Obaweya, West Africa Regional Coordinator of LifeWind International, a Christian Non-Governmental Organization on Thursday advised church leaders to avoid large congregations and go back to "cell groups".
He said this way,…
Theresa Awurama, unemployed, who bit off her foe's nose during a scuffle was on Thursday found guilty and sentenced to two years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court.
Awurama, who pleaded guilty to charges of intentionally causing harm…
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) on Wednesday described as unacceptable the current form of the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) saying it was flawed and lacked scientific basis.
It said the SSSS, as it affected to doctors and…
Mr. Edward T. Kareweh, Deputy General Secretary of Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) of the Trades Union Congress of the TUC, has appealed the government to adopt measures to solve the food crisis in the country.
This, he said, would hel…
Small scale traders at Kwamoso who defaulted in the payment of women micro-credit loans from the Akuapem Rural Bank on Wednesday appealed to the bank to give them the opportunity to renegotiate the repayment schedule.
They pleaded…
Members of Parliament (MPs) would on Thursday pay their last respect to their colleague, Mr Edward Salia, NDC member for Jirapa, who passed away last month after a short illness.
A State funeral would be organised for Mr Salia at th…
Parliament on Tuesday, through a voice vote, approved the financial policy of government for the year ending December 31, 2009.
Dr Kwabena Duffuor, Finance Minister, in winding up on the debate on the budget, said the challenge facin…
President John Evans Atta Mills, in tough language, on Tuesday cautioned against acts of national detraction and pledged to allow the law to deal with such acts to the letter.
He remained resolute in his belief to be civil to one ano…
Most Palestinians representatives have left Cairo following a week-long intensive talks in a bid to reach an inter-Palestinian reconciliation, a Palestinian official said on Tuesday.
"The delegates, including independents and most me…
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