Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama described himself as a special magnet that could attract floating voters to ensure one-touch victory for the ruling New Patriotic Party in Election 2008.
The Vice President who is among 17 president…
Miss Naana Biney, Deputy Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), said the four-year Senior High School programme that has just commenced would require extra commitment from parents.
She said the commitment would be in…
The Ashanti-Denkyira branch of the Knights and Ladies of Marshall Council and Court, a Catholic Friendly Society, has donated items worth GH¢1,000 to the flood victims in the three Northern Regions in Kumasi.
The items included used sho…
Nii Amasah Namoale, Member of Parliament for Dadekotopon, on Sunday said the campaign to cultivate a healthy lifestyle through Regenerative Health must be embraced by all because it was important to building a productive work force.
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Mr Yaw Osei Lartey, Project Co-ordinator and Resource person in-charge of training of Abibiman Sankofa Cultural Movement (ASCUM) on Sunday called on members of the group to venture into serious cultivation of cash crops like yam, cassava …
The Commercial Court in Accra has granted an application brought before it by Yonny Kulendi, an Accra legal practitioner, praying it to place an injunction on an arbitration proceedings currently going on between Investcom Consortium Holdi…
A 54 year old farmer from Adadientem near Ejisu in the Ashanti region, has been remanded by the Ejisu Magistrates' court for allegedly beating her wife to death.
Iddrisu Musah, who was said to have attempted committing suicide after …
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice on Friday urged government to promote food security by removing all bottlenecks on farming and introduce subsidies where appropriate.
In a statement to mark farmers' day, the …
Ms. Aisha Sulley Futa, aspiring Greater Accra regional Women's Organiser of the Convention People's Party (CPP) on Friday urged women to develop their political potentials to meet the challenges of democratic development.
"In spite …
President John Agyekum Kufuor, who is the African Union Chairman, leaves Accra on Thursday night to attend the European Union-African Union (AU) summit in Lisbon, Portugal.
The AU Chairman would also lead Africa in the summit schedu…
The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), has installed a 1.3 million Dollar Vessel Tracking System (VTS) at the Tema Port to detect crime, monitor vessel movements within Ghana's territorial waters, ports and to assist in security s…
Ms Rosina Otchere, an Educationist, on Thursday urged students to learn hard to ensure that investments being made in them by their parents and the government did not become a waste.
She asked students to use their time judiciously, …
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Kwadwo Afram-Asiedu has inaugurated a six-classroom block for the Presbyterian Primary School at Ekoso, near Asamankese in the West Akyem District at the cost of 853 million cedis.
He said the gover…
The Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) has expressed appreciation to the support of the State Insurance Company (SIC), Primex Ghana Limited, Accra Hearts of Oak and Liberty Professionals for the successful organization of the 2007…
The German Government funded Forest Resource Use and Management (FORUM) Project in the Volta region has succeeded in fighting forest degradation and restoring large areas of the forests in the region.
The 15-year (1993-2008) project foc…
President John Agyekum Kufuor urged members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to forge ahead in unity when he addressed a rally to introduce 17 aspirants contesting to replace him.
President Kufuor said when he looked around the dai…
Osagyefo Agyeman Badu II, Paramount Chief of the Dormaa Traditional Area, on Sunday called on voters to critically evaluate presidential candidates of the various political parties for Election 2008 to make the right choice.
He said…
The Reverend Emmanuel Titi-Lartey, Senior Associate Pastor of Harvest International Ministry on Sunday postulated that the many calamities of the world were the direct products of indiscipline and called for purposeful effort for transfor…
At Cape Coast, a parade of 160 security men drawn from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNES) Ghana Prison Service (GPS) Police Service, Army from the 64 Infantry Regiment in Burma Camp, Cadets from Adisadel College and retired soldie…
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on Sunday presented 12 wheelchairs to 12 handicapped persons at a ceremony at Tepa in the Ahafo-Ano North District of Ashanti.
The beneficiaries were five females and seven males.
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President John Agyekum Kufuor on Sunday tasked the National Sports Council (NSC) to adopt the best management, economic and safety practices in the administration of the refurbished Ohene Djan Stadium.
He said this would enable the C…
Dr Kwame Addo-Kufuor, one of the aspirants of the News Patriotic Party (NPP) for the position of flag bearer for the 2008 general elections has denied media reports attributed to him for the other contestants to submit themselves for fore…
Security personnel has seized and detained a quantity of automobile accessories from Sadat Car Accessories Enterprise at Abbosey Okai in Accra for infringing on the trademark of the sole agent in Ghana.
The goods bore the trademark …
The Techiman Municipal Assembly has presented relief items to the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) for the upkeep of the flood victims in the Upper West region.
The items included 30 bags of maize, 30 bundles of use…
The Mwinikuubu Disabled Women's Association (MDWA), a Wa-based NGO, has called on the Government to make the position of the two per cent share of the District Assemblies' Common Fund reserved for physically challenged persons clear to th…
Four persons, including a 19-year-old Junior High School student (JHS) have been arrested during their illegal operations at 2,100 feet deep the Adansi Shaft mine of AngloGold Ashanti, (AGA)
They are Kwaku Boateng, the JHS student, …
For 12,000 Ghana cedis a 34-year-old farmer at Bechem in Brong Ahafo Region allegedly severed the head of an eight-year-old boy, Emmanuel Agyei for sale to a spiritualist at Enchi in the Western Region.
Assistant Superintendent of P…
A circuit court at Hohoe remanded Kwaku Ademekpor, farmer from Hohoe-Gboxome for possessing five parcels of dried leaves suspected to be Indian Hemp.
Ademekpor, who pleaded guilty to possessing the dried leaves, will re-appear on No…
Two hundred paramilitary personnel have surrendered to pro-Taliban militants in the troubled Swat valley, in a major embarrassment to Pakistan government which has been pushed on the backfoot in its operation to root out extremists from th…
The removal of aquatic weeds from the Lower Volta Basin is expected to begin by the middle of next year.
Mr. Kwadwo Adjei-Darko, Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Environment, told Parliament on Friday that procure…
The government's recent raising of 750 million dollar Eurobond has been described as a vital pulse of measuring investor appetite
for various levels of interest rates and maturities in Ghana.
Mr Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu said this in …
The annual rate of inflation dropped marginally by 0.1 percentage points from 10.2 per cent in September to 10.1 per cent in October, the Deputy Government Statistician, Professor Nicholas Nuamah-Nsowah, announced on Friday.
At a pr…
Members of the Ghana National Association of Farmers and Fishermen (GNAFF) are to benefit from a 60 million-dollar a year deal to export groundnuts to a major buyer in the European Union.
Mr Charles K. Annan, Executive Secretary of …
Mr Kafui Bekui, Central Regional Director of Fisheries, have expressed concern over reports of intimidation and assault of canoe fishermen by the crew of fishing trawlers, on the high seas.
He said reports reaching his office indica…
Most Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) and Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDA) are yet to adapt and implement structured measures to deter and prevent corporate fraud, abuse and waste, the Internal Audit Agency …
Mr Adjei Baffour, Central Regional Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has advised followers of the party not to joke with the National Democratic Congress's desire to regain power next year, because NDC is poised to match t…
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Thursday rolled out the red carpet for the newly sworn-in leader of Sierra Leone, President Ernest Bai Koroma, as he arrived in the country for a two-day official visit.
The visit is his first to Gh…
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi on Thursday organised an outreach programme to offer free medical care and counselling to mechanics and other traders at the Suame Magazine.
The aim was to reach out to the mechanics, …
The Dutch Parliament (Second Chamber) would this week, discuss the motion to support the media in developing countries to be independent and also to focus on developmental issues instead of the mainly political and commercial news.
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Joseph Kwabena Dawson, owner of the MV Benjamin, which was used to ship 77 parcels of cocaine into the country, denied knowledge of ever knowing that his vessel was going to be used to cart cocaine.
He was further answering question…
At least 30 percent of teachers in non-governmental educational institutions must be women, the
government has said in an order, local newspaper The Financial Express reported Wednesday.
The order dated Nov. 1 by the country's Minist…
Some clan heads and chiefs of Anlo on Wednesday called on the Government to, as a matter of urgency, withdraw the military and police deployed at Anlo to enable the people to go about their normal economic activities.
They said this…
Professor Daniel Buor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has instituted a GH¢200 incentive package for teachers and pupils of Atwima Manhyia Methodist Primary School.
Announcing this at the 80th anniversar…
Nobel Prize winning DNA pioneer, James Watson, who recently caused a furore, in an interview he granted Sunday Times, a British newspaper, in which he was quoted as saying Africans were less intelligent than Europeans, has apologised.
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Tema Circuit Court 'A' has fined Benjamin Aggrey 23 and unemployed 1,200 Ghana cedis or in default serve five years imprisonment for
making duplicates of keys to a room belonging to Ms Elizabeth Tawiah and stealing 1,500 Ghana cedis fro…
President John Agyekum Kufuor returned home Saturday evening from the United Kingdom where
he was the international guest speaker at the inauguration of the Black and Rhodes Scholars Union of Exeter College.
President Kufuor was a…
Dr. Kwaku Osafo, one of the six Convention Peoples Party (CPP) presidential aspirants, on Saturday launched his campaign at Nkroful in the Western Region, amid jubilation by supporters clad in party colours.
They danced to brass ban…
Chain saw machine operators battled with time on Saturday to retrieve the body of Foster Ablenyi, 40, a tailor and rescue two others from under a huge silk cotton tree that trapped them at the Messiah healing camp at Bumbula near Kwamikrom…
The Winneba Police in an early morning swoop on Saturday at an abandoned Boatyard near the beach arrested four persons and seized several wrappers of dried leaves suspected to be Indian Hemp.
A police spokesman who disclosed this to n…
Mr. Ralph Ameyaw, Executive Secretary of Council of Indigenous Businesses Association (CIBA) on Saturday called on the youth not to despise trades and vocations but rather embrace skills training to ensure a good and comfortable future.
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