The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has charged refugees in the country to abide by the laws of the land and desist from engaging in any act of criminality.
“As far as they are living in the country, they are boun…
Right Reverend Professor Emmanuel Martey, Moderator of the General Assembly of Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) on Monday condemned activities of homosexuals in the country.
He said homosexuality spiritually affected perpetuators o…
Professor Kwamena Ahwoi, a Lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), on Monday stressed the need to differentiate the three forms of decentralisation to avoid creating problems with their implementati…
The Minister of the Interior has renewed the curfew imposed on Gushegu Township and Bawku Municipality and their immediate environs with effect from Monday, June 20, 2011.
The curfew hours for the Gushegu Township are 1200 midnight t…
China's top drug authority ordered the recall at the weekend of an antibiotic medicine that is laced with a banned plasticizer as public concern about plasticizer-tainted products builds.
Test results showed that amoxicillin and clavulana…
American Cancer Society discloses that higher education appears to be a game changer when it comes to cancer, according to foreign media reports on Sunday.
The research indicates that the gap is widening in cancer death rates between coll…
Celebrity Fashion Show To Be Staged In Kumasi.
Accra, June 20, 2011: Garden City based radio station Anigye 102.5 FM will on Friday, July 1 hit the streets of Kumasi with the first and largest Celebrity Fashion Show to be staged in the G…
The Effutu Municipal Chief Executive (MCE),Nii Ephraim, on Friday called for a tree planting exercise in the country to prevent desertification.
He said trees when planted either in communities or the forest, must be nurtured to grow…
A Research Scientist, has acknowledged the crucial role root and tuber crops played in enhancing the livelihood of the people and called for more to be done to increase production.
Dr Stella Ama Ennin, Deputy Director of the Crops Re…
The problem of waste management in the Accra metropolis, could be turned into a source of wealth and employment creation, through carefully planned projects.
This was stated by the Chairman of the Odododiodioo constituency of the Nat…
Mr Seth Alifui, Kadjebi District Chief Executive, has advised illegal chain-sawn lumber operators in the area to consider abandoning their illegal activities or face the law.
He warned truck owners of equal punitive action when such …
Kissi in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Municipality, came to a standstill at the weekend when jubilant residents gave President John Evans Atta Mills and his two brothers- Cadmen and Samuel, a tumultuous welcome to the town.
The ent…
The Central Region, recorded a drop in fire outbreaks in the first quarter of this year, witnessing 95 incidents as against the 152 during the same period last year.
The Regional Commander of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS,) A…
Mr Dramani Mahama, Central Regional Population Officer, has called on the youth to be at the forefront of curbing the menace of HIV and AIDS in the country by acting as change agents.
He made the call at a youth colloquium in Cape C…
A 24- year-old unemployed, Emmanuel Koomson has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment in hard labour by the Tarkwa Circuit Court for stealing GH¢28, a mobile phone and pen drive valued at GH¢65.00.
He pleaded guilty.
Prosecu…
The Food and Drugs Board (FDB) has warned the public about the sale of counterfeit Artesunate tablets on the market.
A statement issued by Dr Stephen Opuni, Chief Executive of the FDB at the weekend said laboratory analyses conducted…
The Yendi Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Issah Zakaria has commended members of the Municipal Security Committee (MUSEC) for the commitment in handling security issues.
He said Yendi in particular and Dagbon as a whole needed to devel…
Mr Alhassan Mumuni, East Gonja District Chief Executive (DCE) has said the nation’s decentralisation process mandated assembly members to deliberate and decide on what projects to be undertaken locally.
“According to the tenet of the…
Sheikh Ishaq Nuamah, Islamic Scholar and Author at the weekend expressed the need for a conceptual approach to reorient the Muslim youth to facilitate national development.
This, he said would help deepen the faith of Allah in the yo…
The Presbyterian Church Of Ghana, in Collaboration with the Presbyterian Relief Service and Development (PRS&D), has presented educational support to Church’s JSS and primary schools at Agona Swedru.
The items include, 180 dual desks…
Compassion International, Ghana, (CIG), a Non-
Governmental Organization (NGO), at the weekend, advocated for a comprehensive policy for child protection, which will spell out the responsibilities of all stakeholders in the country.
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The Executive Director of Young and Lonely Foundation, Ghana, a non-governmental organisation has urged parents to show commitment to the education of their children.
“As stakeholders, you have to help to redeem the falling standard …
Residents of Oboadaka in the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District of the Eastern Region spent a number of hours during the weekend to cleanup the town.
Led by Nene Tettey, Elder of the community, the group tidied up the boreholes in the tow…
The Principal of Kofi Annan School for Technical and Vocational Training at Ajumako-Afransi in the Central Region, Mr Emmanuel S. Bonney has appealed to the Government to provide the academic facility with boarding house to ensure effectiv…
The Nadwli Women Advocacy Group (NAWAG) and MTN Ghana Foundation have distributed Teaching and Learning Materials (TLM) to 124 basic schools in the Nadwli District.
The 13 page A1 size material covers phonics of English language comp…
Many drivers and members of the public in the Upper West Region says they feel cheated anytime they buy petroleum products at some filling stations in the Wa Municipality.
Mallam Karimu Yussifu, a driver at the Wa- Kumasi station all…
The Co-ordinator of the National Youth Authority (NYA), on Friday inaugurated a newly furnished Information Communication Technology (ICT) Centre, stocked with 20 computers and accessories at Takrowase Youth Training Institute in the Kwaeb…
The Young and Lonely Foundation,Ghana (YLF), a non-governmental organisation based at Agona Swedru,has held a day’s seminar on cholera prevention for about 40 traders at Akim Oda in the Birim Central Municipality.
The participants co…
The Universal United Youth Organisation (UUYO), an NGO has embarked on a campaign to help educate the youth in Akim Oda in the Eastern Region about the dangers of HIV and AIDS.
Some of the programmes initiated by the organisation are…
The elimination of onchocerciasis is feasible and achievable, a review of the Africa Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) has revealed.
Evidence of successful elimination in some endemic areas has been documented in countries …
Ghana is on the verge of interrupting the transmission of the guinea worm disease in the country.
The Northern Region, which is the most endemic guinea worm area in the country has, for the past 13 consecutive months from May last…
Nana Owusu Boatey, Head of Occupational, Health and Safety at the Trade Union Congress, has noted that 85 per cent of People Living With HIV/AIDS were infected through unsafe sex.
He said workers in the transport sector were very vul…
The Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Assembly in conjunction with Humanitarian Foundation, an NGO have organised a two-day workshop for 30 pupils as peer educators on HIV and AIDS.
The workshop, which was sponsored by the Ghana AIDS Co…
The Young and Lonely Foundation, Ghana (YLF), a non-governmental organisation based at Agona Swedru has organised HIV and AIDS awareness at Akim Anamase in the Eastern Region.
The HIV and AIDS awareness and safe-sex seminar was the F…
Ghana won 15 awards at this year’s model United Nations (UN) Conferences held at the UN headquarters in New York and US State Department in Washington DC.
Both conferences were attended by about 1,800 children from 30 UN member state…
Nii Armah Ashietey, Greater Accra Regional Minister, on Thursday assured members of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) that the Council would not allow any traditional authority to impose any fees or levies on the operations of…
The GHACEM Cement Foundation on Friday presented 20,000 bags of cement estimated at 230,000 Ghana cedis to 220 health and educational institutions and communities in the Southern Sector of the country.
Vouchers for the cement were pr…
A concerned citizen, Oheneba Martin, on Friday appealed to workers of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) to exercise restraint, to ensure that peace and tranquillity prevailed in the company for it to continue to achieve more successes.
In a…
Mr Frank Kwesi Nkansah, Assembly Member of the Birim Central Municipality, has single-handedly spent more than GHC 11,000.00 to finance development projects in the area.
The projects included rehabilitation of roads, provision of 35 …
Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, former First Lady, on Friday said irresponsible parents commit crime against humanity.
“We commit a crime against humanity if we fail to bring up our children to be responsible citizens in society,” she …
Mr Ebenezer Terlabi, the Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, has expressed worry about how some people condone and connive to rape the country of millions of Ghana Cedis.
He said those monies being siphoned into individual pockets cou…
Passion for Needy, a charitable organization, founded by Prophet T.B. Joshua of the Synagogue Church of all Nations, on Friday celebrated the founder’s birthday with the orphans and the inmates of the Accra Rehabilitation Centre in Accra.
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Five people arrested recently by the Police for allegedly re-bagging inferior rice into “Uncle Sam” rice bags for sale to the public at Teshie Tsui-bleoo on Friday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court.
They are; Jerry Offei, a busi…
A circuit court at Koforidua on Friday granted GH¢1,000 bail with one surety to Kwao Boakye, a 20-year-old student, for causing public nuisance and assaulting a teacher.
Boakye pleaded guilty with explanation but after his explanatio…
Heads of educational institutions and teachers have been urged to include creativity in their curricular activities to enable children to discover their potentials as a means to reduce poverty.
Mrs Naa Amerley Arthur Amoako, an Educa…
Mrs Georgina Woode, the Chief Justice, on Friday asked Ghanaians to desist from making unsubstantiated and wild allegations against judges as such acts could amount to attempts at perverting the course of justice.
“Also attacking jud…
Mrs Betty Mould-Iddrisu, the Minister of Education, has attributed challenges facing the education sector to system failures as a result of ineffective and unclear administrative management practices.
Speaking at the opening of the 4…
Most Catholics in Northern Ireland prefer to remain with Britain rather than unite with Ireland, results of a survey indicate.
Fifty-two percent of Catholics living in Northern Ireland told pollsters they preferred the union with Britain …
Seven French children fell ill with E. coli bacteria infections after eating hamburgers, health officials said Thursday.
The outbreak occurred in the northern French city of Lille. Six children were hospitalized Wednesday and a seventh on…
An apparent natural gas explosion ripped an apartment building in Netanya, Israel, early Friday, killing four people and injuring dozens more, officials said.
Many of the casualties were French tourists spending the summer in Israel, the …