Government has been urged to support individuals and organizations in the country to use cocoa husks to produce in commercial quantities potash salt.
This is because potassium carbonate produced from the husks of cocoa has large eco…
The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation was on Thursday officially signed on to
the principles of the Ghana Business Code.
The Ghana Business Code is a set of principles
that encourage organizations to respect human rights at workplac…
The management of Honda Place Ghana Limited, a subsidiary of Stallion Motors Ghana Limited has introduced Honda City 2009 model saloon car on the Ghanaian auto market.
The car has extra active and passive standard features, including…
The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation was on Thursday officially signed on to
the principles of the Ghana Business Code.
The Ghana Business Code is a set of principles
that encourage organizations to respect human rights at workpla…
The Greater Accra and Eastern Regional Zone Seed Co-ordinator, Mrs Lydia Kwesitsu, on Thursday, advised certified seed maize producers within the zone to reject any foundation maize seed sold to them without the white seed certification ta…
All textile imports are to be re-routed through one port, as was done previously, as the Ministry of Trade and Industry and stakeholders take measures to close the door to imported cheap textiles that are having a detrimental effect on the…
Bauxite is locked up at Awaso because of the deplorable state of the Western Railway line, Mr. Prince Ankrah, General Secretary of the Ghana Mines Workers' Union told the GNA in an interview.
He said because of the poor nature of the …
Members of Ho Municipal Assembly on Thursday overwhelmingly approved Mr Isaac Kwasi Kodobisah 42, as Municipal Chief Executive.
Mr Kodobisah, a teacher and assembly member for Klave-Hoe polled 53 out of the 55 votes cast with a vote …
Indonesia has ordered the
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to exit from
Papua region which has been hit by separatist movement for years,
the country's Foreign Ministry said here on Thursday.
The order w…
The chairman of the
United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, on
Thursday assured his Pakistani counterpart General Tariq Majeed
that the United States will address concerns of Pakistan in the new
U.S. r…
South Korean Foreign
Minister Yu Myung-hwan on Thursday urged Pyongyang to return
to the six-party talks on nuclear issues on the Korean Peninsula.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) should
stop raising re…
Meeting of the Golkar
Party on Thursday named Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla as
the presidential candidate of the party, according to Zainal Ma'arif,
co-chairman of the party.
Kalla, who is the chairman of the pa…
South Africa's
Congress of the People (COPE) leader was shot dead at his home in
Motherwell outside Nelson Mandela Bay on Wednesday night, a
party spokesman said on Thursday.
Gerlad Yona, 38, his wife and his children w…
A South African
election official in the Eastern Cape province has called on the
national Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to investigate a
shortage of ballot papers in the province, one day after the national
electio…
Lebanese Foreign Minister
Fawzi Salloukh affirmed on Thursday that relations between
Lebanon and Syria are back to "normal and brotherly excellent
relations."
In an interview to Kuwaiti Al-Anbaa daily, Salloukh praised…
More than 3
million votes had been counted in South Africa's national elections
by 8:30 a.m. on Thursday morning which showed that the ruling
party African National Congress (ANC) takes lead in the polls.
The results…
The National
Assembly of Tanzania has passed into law the Human DNA Bill
2009 to enable the country to collect, store, transport and test the
DNA specimen in the process of identification and other research
areas.
…
The finance ministers of
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus China, Japan and
the Republic of Korea (ASEAN+3) will discuss follow-up actions
on the Chiang Mai Initiative during the 42nd Asian Development
Bank (A…
The government on Thursday dismissed as "deliberate falsehood" claims by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) deleted some of its original promises from its manifesto.
It said the NDC manif…
The Government on Thursday handed over a one-storey residence to the Cuban Mission in fulfilment of a reciprocal agreement on accommodation between Ghana and the Cuban government.
Ghana and Cuba signed the agreement in 1982, with the…
Registration of candidates
for Afghanistan presidential elections would formally begin on
Saturday April 25, deputy to Independent Election Commission
(IEC) announced on Thursday.
"As planned, the candidate nomination p…
A senior Hamas leader on
Thursday hinted at extending the Islamic movement's term in the
Palestinian parliament if no agreement is reached with rival Fatah
movement.
If an agreement was reached before January 2010, the…
High-level talks between the
South Korean and U.S. forces were held on Thursday, ending
without reaching an agreement on a timeline and cost-sharing plans
for the relocation of American bases here, an official said.
Dur…
The Fanteakwa District Assembly on Wednesday confirmed the President's nominee, Mr Fuseini Abass Sbaabe, a 43 year- old bilingual secretary, as the District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area.
He polled 48 votes out of the 50 votes…
The chairman of the
United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, on
Thursday assured his Pakistani counterpart General Tariq Majeed
that the United States will address concerns of Pakistan in the new
U.S. re…
The ruling-controlled lower
house on Thursday approved a government-sponsored antipiracy
bill despite objections from the main opposition Democratic Party
of Japan (DPJ) and other smaller parties.
The bill, which aims t…
Cuban Parliament
President Ricardo Alarcon met with President of the Foreign Affairs
Committee of Russian Federation Council (Higher Chamber)
Mikhail V. Marguelov here on Wednesday, official daily Granma
reported.
A…
U.S. President Barack
Obama "misinterpreted" Cuban leader Raul Castro's statement,
former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro was quoted as saying by local
media on Wednesday.
Fidel, in an article entitled Obama and the Blockade…
Many top Bush
administration officials had approved the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA)'s use of harsh interrogation tactics as early as 2002,
according to a report from the U.S. Justice Department.
One of the tactics…
The United States
will soon establish a new military command for cyber operations,
the Washington Post's website reported on Wednesday.
The Obama administration is finalizing a plan for creating the
command, the report…
Former President Jerry John Rawlings on Friday commended the President Faure Gnassingbe of Togo for the successes chalked in democracy and governance.
He however appealed to the security apparatus of Togo to probe an alleged coup plo…
Mr Costers Nketia, Headmaster of Jema Senior High School has said at least five students of the school got infected with typhoid fever every week.
"I carry the sick students either to the Kintampo Municipal Hospital or the Dist…
Residents of Jema, capital of Kintampo South District of Brong Ahafo at the weekend undertook a massive clean up exercise to clear the town of filth.
The exercise, which lasted for five hours, was supervised by the district assembl…
The Kumasi Traditional Council (KTC) on Tuesday accepted the nomination of Barima Kwaku Duah, a 49-year-old business executive, as the successor to the Late Asantehene, Otumfuo Opoku Ware II.
At an emergency meeting of the Council at…
Asanteman on Thursday observed the 40th day rites of Otumfuo Opoku Ware II, the Late Asantehene.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene-elect sat in state at the Manhyia Palace to receive homage from sympathisers from all walks of life.
…
Mr Costers Nketia, Headmaster of Jema Senior High School has said at least five students of the school got infected with typhoid fever every week.
"I carry the sick students either to the Kintampo Municipal Hospital or the Dist…
Madam Ama Benyiwa-Doe, Central Regional Minister, on Thursday urged leadership of Churches in the Region to assist in the crusade against illiteracy with the establishment of educational fund to support needy but brilliant pupils and stude…
The government on Thursday expressed worry about recent reports of attacks on journalists and asked the police to investigate.
It said the police should regard these attacks "as criminal acts which infringe on the fundamental human r…
The National Communications Authority (NCA) has said it would soon license separate private companies to install telecom infrastructure purposely for co-location.
This, it said, was to create some sanity in the mounting of telecom mas…
Nii Armah Ashietey, the new Greater Accra Regional Minister, and three public officials on Thursday appeared before an Accra Fast Track High Court for contempt.
The three public officers are Mr F.T. Nartey, Chief Director of the Greater…
The Greater Accra, Eastern, Ashanti, Western and Central regions account for 89.4 per cent of pedestrian casualties in road accidents and 84.1 per cent of pedestrians fatalities, Mr Nobel Appiah, Chairman of the National Road Safety Commis…
Mr. Stephen Amoanor Kwao, the Minister of Employment and Social Welfare on Thursday assured workers of government's commitment to dialoguing with stakeholders to implement the Single-spine Salary Structure.
In a speech read for him a…
Okyenhene Osagyefuo Amotia Ofori Panin has sent a delegation of chiefs and individuals to Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to congratulate him on the occasion of his 10th anniversary on the Golden Stool.
Members of the delegation incl…
Abed Okunnor, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Prampram was on Thursday remanded into prison custody for allegedly defrauding a trader of GH¢ 15,500.
Okunnor charged with defrauding by false pretences pleaded not…
Four Nigerians who allegedly trafficked three girls to Ghana under the pretext of sending them to Europe but ended up engaging them in prostitution on Thursday appeared before a Circuit Court charged with conspiracy and human trafficking. …
The Lawra District Assembly, has confirmed Mr. Samson Abu, the President's nominee for the District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area.
All the 49 members of assembly voted for the nominee, an administrator at the Lawra District Hosp…
In order to allow the free flow of the Volta River at its estuary, the Volta River Authority (VRA) is undertaking a series of dredging activities at its Dredging Station at Ada Foah in the Dangme East of the Greater Accra Region, where the…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Thursday stressed international co-operation and transfer of expertise and technical assistance
to address the world food crisis.
He said nations should be able to combine good scientific human e…
Dr Yeboah Woode, Research Scientist and Lecturer at Department of Chemical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and technology (KNUST) in Kumasi on Thursday said potassium carbonate(potash salt) produced from cocoa husks had la…
A Circuit Court in Accra hearing the case of the three Chinese busted for transporting and trafficking 10 Chinese girls to engage in the sex trade in Ghana would deliver its verdict on June 2.
The date was fixed after the defence filed i…
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