Dr George Amofa, Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), on Wednesday called for the establishment of Public Health Unit (PHU) within all health institutions across the country.
This, he said, would help in picking…
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has stepped up the campaign to reduce the malaria disease in the Asante-Mampong Municipality.
As part of this, a 10-day training workshop to expose health professionals to the new Malaria Drug Policy a…
Dr Alexander Kofi Egote, a Urologist, on Wednesday said lack of facilities and other challenges faced by the Urology Department of the Regional Hospital in Sunyani had made it difficult to cope with the increasing number of cases.
He…
Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minster of Transportation, on Wednesday announced that all private and commercial vehicles would be re-inspected and tested for their road worthiness from June 1, this year.
He said the exercise to involve inspe…
Mr. Kwadwo Nyamekye-Marfo, Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, has given the assurance that a new school block would be build for the Presbyterian Primary School at Aboabo Number Four, in the Dormaa Municipality.
He was responding to an a…
Mr Emmanuel Dei-Tumi, Executive Director, Future Leaders Group, has called on government and policy makers in education to include Home Economics in the core subjects at the Senior High School.
He explained that the subject offered a…
Reverend Mac Ralph Attih, Parish Pastor of the Banana-Inn branch, Global Evangelical Church, on Wednesday said crisis in most marital homes should be blamed on the noxious notions peddled by women emancipation movements.
In an interv…
The Volta Regional Secretariat of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) is liaising with the Tsito-Peki Peace Building Committee to collate data on victims of land dispute.
The move is to facilitate peace building eff…
The National Executive Council of the Association of Magistrates and Judges of Ghana (AMJG) has formally complained to the General Legal Council, the regulatory authority for the legal profession in Ghana.
Their complaint is on unsu…
The Volta Regional Secretariat of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), is liaising with the Tsito/Peki Peace Building Committee, to collate data on victims of their land dispute.
The move is to facilitate peace bui…
Mrs Elizabeth Amoah Tetteh, Deputy Minister of Education in-charge of Pre-tertiary Education, on Wednesday, launched a three-year Visual Impairment Teacher Training Project, for 23 selected special education teachers from the 10 Regions in…
The leadership of the Teachers and Educational Workers’ Union (TEWU) is working to resolve outstanding issues following teachers migration onto the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS), Deputy General Secretary of the Union, Mr Muhammadu S…
Anator Holding Company Limited has commissioned a new head office building in Accra, with the pledge to expand its strategic business units to create job opportunities for 100,000 professionals and contribute to the development of the coun…
The Traditional Chief Priest of the Ga Traditional area, Numo Tumo Yartey III, has given a three-day ultimatum to Mr Frederick Opoku, spokesman of the Market Women Association of Ghana (MAWAG), to appear before the traditional court to exp…
Dr Kwasi Akyem Apea-Kubi, the Eastern Regional Minister, has appealed to workers in the Birim Central Municipality to be disciplined at all times to ensure meaningful development of the area.
“I will expect that we have discipline as…
Mr Ebenezer Okletey Terlabi, the Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, on Thursday said whilst young people were willing and able to contribute to the development of the nation, there were huge challenges that prevented them from making maximu…
Twenty-seven districts in the Ashanti Region have been selected by the National Health Insurance Authority to pilot the “capitation programme”, which takes-off in July this year.
The programme is a payment system under which accredit…
Hollywood's A-listers have bid a star-studded farewell to Oprah Winfrey in a double-taping of her talk show at Chicago's United Center.
Winfrey's producers made good on their promise of the biggest stars of movies, music and television fo…
The death toll of Syrian army members and security forces killed in clashes with "armed terrorist gangs" in the towns of Tal Kalakh and Daraahas has risen to 15, the state-run al-Baath daily reported Wednesday.
According to official sourc…
The number of foreign travelers to South Korea grew in the first four months of this year as visitors from China and Southeast Asian countries increased, the nation's customs office said Thursday.
According to data offered by the Korea…
South Korea has amended a conscription law to allow retired female officers to serve in the Reserve Forces, in line with a move to give women more opportunities in the military, officials said Thursday.
Unlike men, retired women office…
Half of a damaged antique painting will soon start on a trip to Taiwan to be reunited with its other half, fulfilling a wish long held by Premier Wen Jiabao.
After being separated for as much as 359 years, the two halves of Dwelling in Fu…
Ten new "floating" planets, which drift through the galaxy rather than orbiting stars, have been discovered by an international team of astronomers led by New Zealand scientists.
The finding of the Jupiter-sized planets was announced Thur…
The Mexican government signed an agreement with the non-governmental group TRAFFIC on Tuesday to exchange information about illegal seizures of flora and fauna species in Mexico.
The agreement with the wildlife trade monitoring network al…
An antidepressant that modifies sleep-wake cycles proved effective for treating major depression, while also improving the sleep quality of patients, Australian scientists said on Wednesday.
Often people with depression go off their medic…
Coffee is linked to a reduced risk of developing prostate cancer among men, according to a U.S. study released in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on Thursday.
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health said men who dr…
China will launch some eight Beidou navigation satellites by 2012, a leading navigation satellite expert said here on Wednesday.
China has sent eight Beidou satellites into orbit, as the latest was launched in April this year, said Ran Ch…
An international research team using a new combination of approaches has found two genes that may prove of vital importance to the lives and livelihoods of millions of farmers in a tsetse fly-plagued swathe of Africa.
The research, aimed …
Novotel Market Traders Association at Odornaa, has appealed to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to re-allocate deserted stalls at the Odornaa Market at Nkrumah Circle in Accra, to members.
The group expressed worry that hawkers …
The Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) of the Ghana Police Service has so far recorded 712 deaths from road crashes within the first quarter of 2011 as against 488 deaths within the same period in 2010 nation-wide.
Assistant Sup…
President John Evans Atta Mill, on Wednesday paid a working visit to the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality in the Western Region, to inspect ongoing works at the new Tarkwa Government Hospital, which is almost complete.
He was accompanied b…
Nanahemaa Adjoa Awindor, Chief Executive Officer of Premier Productions, has advised queen mothers to make education their main focus.
She said the only asset that could not be taken from anyone was knowledge, beliefs and attitudes n…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday announced government's willingness to partner the United States of America to fight against the menace of narcotic drugs in the West African sub-region.
He said: "America is more resour…
Dr George Amofa, Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), on Wednesday called for the establishment of Public Health Unit (PHU) within all health institutions across the country.
This, he said, would help in picking…
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has stepped up the campaign to reduce the malaria disease in the Asante-Mampong Municipality.
As part of this, a 10-day training workshop to expose health professionals to the new Malaria Drug Policy a…
Dr Alexander Kofi Egote, a Urologist, on Wednesday said lack of facilities and other challenges faced by the Urology Department of the Regional Hospital in Sunyani had made it difficult to cope with the increasing number of cases.
He…
Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minster of Transportation, on Wednesday announced that all private and commercial vehicles would be re-inspected and tested for their road worthiness from June 1, this year.
He said the exercise to involve inspe…
Mr. Kwadwo Nyamekye-Marfo, Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, has given the assurance that a new school block would be build for the Presbyterian Primary School at Aboabo Number Four, in the Dormaa Municipality.
He was responding to an a…
Mr Emmanuel Dei-Tumi, Executive Director, Future Leaders Group, has called on government and policy makers in education to include Home Economics in the core subjects at the Senior High School.
He explained that the subject offered a…
Reverend Mac Ralph Attih, Parish Pastor of the Banana-Inn branch, Global Evangelical Church, on Wednesday said crisis in most marital homes should be blamed on the noxious notions peddled by women emancipation movements.
In an interv…
The Volta Regional Secretariat of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) is liaising with the Tsito-Peki Peace Building Committee to collate data on victims of land dispute.
The move is to facilitate peace building eff…
The National Executive Council of the Association of Magistrates and Judges of Ghana (AMJG) has formally complained to the General Legal Council, the regulatory authority for the legal profession in Ghana.
Their complaint is on unsu…
The Volta Regional Secretariat of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), is liaising with the Tsito/Peki Peace Building Committee, to collate data on victims of their land dispute.
The move is to facilitate peace bui…
Mrs Elizabeth Amoah Tetteh, Deputy Minister of Education in-charge of Pre-tertiary Education, on Wednesday, launched a three-year Visual Impairment Teacher Training Project, for 23 selected special education teachers from the 10 Regions in…
The leadership of the Teachers and Educational Workers’ Union (TEWU) is working to resolve outstanding issues following teachers migration onto the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS), Deputy General Secretary of the Union, Mr Muhammadu S…
Anator Holding Company Limited has commissioned a new head office building in Accra, with the pledge to expand its strategic business units to create job opportunities for 100,000 professionals and contribute to the development of the coun…
The Traditional Chief Priest of the Ga Traditional area, Numo Tumo Yartey III, has given a three-day ultimatum to Mr Frederick Opoku, spokesman of the Market Women Association of Ghana (MAWAG), to appear before the traditional court to exp…
Dr Kwasi Akyem Apea-Kubi, the Eastern Regional Minister, has appealed to workers in the Birim Central Municipality to be disciplined at all times to ensure meaningful development of the area.
“I will expect that we have discipline as…
Mr Ebenezer Okletey Terlabi, the Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, on Thursday said whilst young people were willing and able to contribute to the development of the nation, there were huge challenges that prevented them from making maximu…
Twenty-seven districts in the Ashanti Region have been selected by the National Health Insurance Authority to pilot the “capitation programme”, which takes-off in July this year.
The programme is a payment system under which accredit…