This year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) took off smoothly in the Accra Metropolis.
According to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC),
372,826 candidates have been registered for the examination.
The …
Mrs Edith Asare Mensah, Senior Nursing Officer (Public Health) of the Ghana AIDS Control Programme (GACP), has advised female porters to protect themselves against HIV and AIDS
and other diseases by using condoms.
She said contrary …
Chiefs in the Volta Region have been urged to lead their people to invest in the emerging fish farming industry which promises immeasurable financial gains and economic prosperity.
Mr Henry Gidi, President of the Global Agricultur…
A taxi driver, who is accused of murdering
a two-and-a-half-year-old school boy, Kwabena Agyei Henaku, at Madina appeared before a District Magistrate’s Court in Accra on Monday.
Emmanuel Amanor, 32, whose plea was not taken, is fac…
Nii Amasah Namoale, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, has charged agricultural institutions in the country to introduce entrepreneurship in their curriculum.
This he said would help inculcate entrepreneurial skills that will encourage …
Dr E. Addo-Yobo, Head of Child Health Directorate of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), in Kumasi, has urged heads of educational institutions to participate in voluntary blood
donation campaigns.
He said the support of head…
Motion on notice for an order for committal for
contempt order, has been filed against Dr Edward Mahama and six other leading members of the Peoples National Convention (PNC), at the Adjabeng
District Court in Accra.
The PNC member…
Residents in four communities in the Man-Momo Electoral Area in the Adenta Municipality will now
have access to water from boreholes on daily basis.
This followed the inauguration of four new boreholes in beneficiary communities, na…
Mr Tettey Nettey, President of Meridian Pre-University on Saturday commended the
Government and teachers for amicably resolving the operational hiccup encountered during the migration of teachers onto the Single Spine Salary Structure.
…
An explosion outside a synagogue in Santa Monica, Los Angeles earlier this week was caused by an intentionally placed homemade explosive instead of a mechanical failure, police announced
on Friday.
The announcement is a revision of an ea…
A new research has found that about nine million people in the United States identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).
About 1.8 percent of adults identify themselves as bisexual, 1. 7 percent as gay or lesbian,…
The National Police Agency said on Wednesday that the March 11 earthquake and tsunami have left 12,468 people dead and 15,091 others unaccounted for in Japan by 10:00 a.m. local time (0100 GMT).
A 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific …
A gunman entered an elementary school in Rio Thursday and shot dead 12 children and himself.
Among the dead are 10 girls and two boys, all between the ages of 12 and 15. At least 11 children were injured and taken to hospitals. Most of th…
Central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh government Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking its permission to intervene in the petition filed by CBI, India's premier investigating agency, for restoration of the stringent charge culpable hom…
Radioactive water leaks were found Friday at
Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi prefecture after the 7.4-magnitude aftershock shook northeastern Japan Thursday night, Kyodo News Agency
reported.
Radioactive water spilled from pools h…
An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale hit the sea near Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan at 23:32 p.m. (1432 GMT) local Time Thursday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Tsunami warnings have been lifted so far…
Two killed, more than 100 were injured in the
northeastern Japan's earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale Thursday night, Kyodo News reported.
Japan's weather agency considered the quake as the aftershock of the devastating March …
China on Friday expressed concern over Japan's move to discharge radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) released 11,500 tonne…
The Madina Divisional Police Command, Chief
Superintendent of Police (CSP) Paul Ayitey said at the weekend that the Division has apprehended a number of hardened criminals who are facing
prosecution.
This he said has created a sign…
Five Indian-American students have been named 2011 Truman Scholars by the Harry S Truman
Scholarship Foundation.
Ishan Nath from Georgia, Anjali Bipin Thakkar from California, Veena Irene Patel from Iowa, Niharika Sanjay Jain from Lo…
A delegation of Muslim leaders on Saturday met Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan at Raj
Bhavan here in the western Indian state of Maharashtra and condemned the burning of Quran in the US.
The delegation led by former MLA Suh…
Giving in to demands from anti-corruption activists, the Indian government on Saturday
issued a gazette notification on formation of a joint committee headed by senior minister Pranab Mukherjee to draft an effective Lokpal Bill.
Th…
South Korea is working to launch a committee
that will deal exclusively with disasters and accidents caused by disasters, such as the radiation leak from a nuclear power plant in Japan, a government official said Saturday.
The committ…
Anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Moqtada al- Sadr
threatened Saturday to resume activities of Mahdi Army militia against the American troops if they stay in the country after the end of 2011.
"If the occupiers will not get out (of Iraq) by the en…
Egypt's Ministry of Health confirmed Saturday
that one person was killed and 71 others were injured in the turmoil in central Cairo's Tahrir Square earlier in the day.
According to official MENA news agency, the injured people have been …
A teenager, who was part of the deadly
suicide bombing in a shrine which killed 50 people and injured 100 others in Pakistan's Punjab province this week, said Friday that 300 more boys have been trained for attacks.
Omar Fidai, 15, was i…
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday strongly condemned the "abhorrent violence" committed against protesters in Syria.
"I strongly condemn the abhorrent violence committed against peaceful protesters by the Syrian government today and o…
A special exercise embarked upon by personnel of
the Value Added Tax (VAT), Operations of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Police Service revealed that Tiantai, an Accra-based Chinese restaurant was operating without issuing VAT …
Vice President John Dramani Mahama at the weekend launched the services of Glo 1 submarine fibre-
optic cable linking Ghana to the rest of the world expressing the hope that it would help deepen service delivery.
He said: “It is our…
The Indian High Commission in Ghana has presented
solar cookers and a motorbike to the Ho Nurses Training School.
The cookers, which were made in India, are to replace the school’s gas cookers to cut the cost involved in using gas, …
Forty-five-year old Millicent Marfo met her
untimely death at Akim-Swedru when she was knocked down by a reversing car.
Police Superintendent James Sarfo Peprah, the Eastern Regional Commander of the Motor Traffic and Transport Uni…
The credit union concept is to encourage
the habit of savings and not purposely for granting loans to members, Mr Samuel Annor, Manager of the Central Region Chapter of the Credit Union Association (CUA) has stated.
He said it was u…
Hundreds of people attended on Friday the funerals of the 12 children killed in the massacre in a Rio public school on Thursday morning.
So far, six children were buried in three different cemeteries in Rio's western region. Other five ar…
A rare Amur tiger was born in Ukraine's Yalta Zoo at the start of April, local media reported on Tuesday.
"There are very few Amur tigers in the world, so every time a tiger is born it is a great success not only for the zoo but also for …
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO began pumping nitrogen gas into a stricken reactor at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Thursday to prevent the risk of a hydrogen explosion.
Workers injected nitrogen gas into the conta…
An Iranian lawmaker said Wednesday Iran's Majlis (Parliament) will set up a committee to investigate the delay in the launch of the country's first nuclear power plant, Mehr news agency reported.
Nuclear expert Mohammad Hassan Ghafourifar…
Mr Joseph Samuel Annan, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, on Thursday stressed the need to re-examine the Export Development and Investment Fund’s (EDIF) efficiency to ensure that the purpose of its establishment is met.
“There …
The Teachers and Educational Workers' Union (TEWU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), has assured its members that the union is making progress in its discussions with stakeholders on the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS).
It the…
A Community Health Nurse has said people who bleach their skin “buy cancer of the skin and other diseases’ since bleaching destroys the skin’s ability to fight off all manner of germs.
She added that doctors who perform surgical oper…
The Food and Drugs Board (FDB) on Thursday alerted the public to the clandestine production and distribution of some alcoholic beverages by Fire and Silver Enterprise.
The beverages are; Sankofa Super Quality Brandy, Sankofa Super Qu…
Mr Worlanyo Siabe, Upper West Regional Director of Community Water and Sanitation Agency, has appealed to the six beneficiary districts of the Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation Project to endeavour to pay their share of the five per c…
Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) pensioners in the Koforidua Zone of the National Pensioners Association have threatened to demonstrate against new pension indexation.
The pensioners expressed discontent about the …
The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) is marking this year’s World Health Day on the theme: “Antimicrobial resistance: No action today, no cure tomorrow.”
A statement issued by Dr Alex Dodoo, President of the PSGH and Mr Dennis …
The Accra Community Centre Magistrate’s Court Two n Thursday remanded in prison custody, Francis Adjiri, a 29-year-old hawker, for allegedly assaulting an Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) city guard.
Briefing the media, Mr Yaw Twum…
Swedish Minister for Health and Social Affairs Goran Hagglund and his delegation concluded their visit in Indonesia on April 5-7 after fortifying cooperation between the two countries in health sector.
Minister Hagglund and his delegation…
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and American actress Angelina Jolie expressed "deep shock" over reports of the drowning of 213 people off the southern coast of Italy, a UN spokespers…
The Accra Community Centre Magistrate’s Court Two on Thursday remanded into prison custody Francis Adjiri, a 29-year-old trader, for allegedly assaulting an Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Guard on Wednesday, April 6.
Adjiri pleade…
A Kumasi Circuit Court has sentenced a 26-year old unemployed man who stole two laptops and cellular phones from students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to 12 months imprisonment.
Theodore Essan Men…
Half Ton Man: This is the story of American Patrick Deuel, a morbidly obese man who is literally eating himself to death. Weighing in at 76 stone, Patrick was the world's largest man until he was forced to undergo a life saving gastric byp…
Half Ton Man: This is the story of American Patrick Deuel, a morbidly obese man who is literally eating himself to death. Weighing in at 76 stone, Patrick was the world's largest man until he was forced to undergo a life saving gastric byp…