Ms Akua Sena Dansua, Minister of Tourism on Friday launched the 2011 edition of the Paragliding Festival, pledging to give domestic tourism a further push for more Ghanaians to show interest in the attractions.
She noted that the fes…
The Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service is focusing on the involvement of the private sector to improve the quality of health delivery in the Region.
To achieve this, the Directorate would ensure tha…
Government has decided to evacuate the estimated 10,000 Ghanaian nationals in Libya by air and sea.
The action is in view of the serious deterioration in the security situation in Libya and the reports of violence.
A statement …
A fourth prosecution witness in the trial of an alleged mass bus rape, on Friday told an Accra Circuit Court that officials of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) influenced him with money to confirm the case.
He claimed that the money was…
Mr Joseph Yieleh Chireh, Minister of Health on Friday launched the African Healthy Lifestyle Day in Accra, with a call on the public to eat healthy food to live long.
He said exercises and eating the right and nutritious food could h…
Personnel of the Ghana Police Service have been advised to ensure effective implementation of laws and regulations pertaining to immigration and related criminal issues in the country.
Chief Superintendent of Police Mohammed Fuseini …
Media practitioners have been urged to promote and support regional integration to ensure economic development in West Africa.
This is because the media is the greatest custodians of information and enlightenment that could be employ…
Participants at a Regional Workshop on Agriculture and Pastoralist Conflicts in West
Africa have agreed that conflicts between farmers and herders should not be ethnicised.
In addition, none of the parties should be demonised agains…
A Kumasi Circuit on Friday granted a bail of GH¢10,000.00 to a 52-year old woman, who allegedly hit her landlady’s daughter with an ice block, causing her to lose a tooth and injuring her upper jaw.
Munuriatu Yussif pleaded not guil…
A Kumasi Circuit Court has ordered Nana Fe Bamoah, chief of Asokwa, a suburb of Kumasi, to pay a fine of Gh¢500.00 for offensive conduct.
Additionally, he would sign a two-year bond to be of good behavior.
Nana Bamoah, who denie…
The Vice President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, on Friday attributed the peace and unity the country has enjoyed over the years to divine intervention and good political leadership.
“Ghana has moved through all kinds of troubles and hard…
Mr Zakari Bukari Anaba, Tano South District Chief Executive (DCE), has called on district/municipal education directors in Brong-Ahafo Region to enforce the School Performance Appraisal Meetings (SPAM) to put teachers on their toes for eff…
Mr Alban S.K. Bagbin, Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing on Friday inaugurated a nine- member Board of the National Board of Control for Building Technicians and Draughtsmen to supervise activities relating to the sector.
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The Financial Court division of Fast Track High Court, on Friday asked a former minister and a banker to open their defence on two counts after acquitting them of six charges levelled against them by the state.
Mr Akwasi Osei-Adjei, …
The Accra Metropolitan Sanitation court on Thursday granted GH¢2,000 bail each with one surety to three store owners who refused to register with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly’s (AMA) accredited waste management company for their refuse …
A Human Rights Court in Accra will on April 8, rule on whether or not the Economic and Organised Crime Organisation (EOCO) violated the rights and privacy of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) when it invaded its office on December 8, la…
A Takoradi circuit court on Friday granted GHC 4,000 bail with four sureties to Emmanuel Dadzie and Isaac Kow for allegedly stealing items worth GHC1, 110.
The two pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit crime, causing unla…
The Akim Oda Magistrate Court in the Birim Central Municipality on Thursday remanded in prison custody, Kwadwo Darkwah, a farmer, for attempting to defile a three-year-old girl.
Darkwah, 24, pleaded not guilty to indecent assault and…
Kwasi Amoah, unemployed, described by the Police as a stubborn criminal, returns to jail for 36 months in hard labour for stealing, aftr having served a prison term previously on charges of stealing at Twifo Praso in the Central Region.
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Professor William Otoo Ellis, Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has counseled students to cherish hard work and discipline without which it would be difficult to achieve academic success.
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The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) and Befasa Agua of Spain, a water distribution company, have signed a 110 million-dollar deal to supply purified sea water to the inhabitants of Teshie, Nungua, La, Tema, Burma Camp and environs.
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The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has inaugurated storage tanks valued at GH¢42,684.60 at seven locations in Nima under a pro-poor water project to ease the perennial water shortages in the area.
The project, which is…
Participants at a two- day workshop on water and sanitation in Bongo District in the Upper East Region, has identified indiscriminate burial of corpses in residential areas as one of the major issues confronting health.
The worksho…
WaterAid Ghana, a British NGO supporting the Water and Sanitation sector on Friday appealed to the government to release the $350 million it pledged annually towards the Sanitation and Water for all Ghana Compact in 2010.
The Policy …
The 55th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) has opened in New York with a call on member states not to postpone action for the promotion of gender equality and women empowerment until better conditions prevailed.
…
Decentralization of Ghana’s educational system takes-off fully this year with the inauguration of three major structures under the new Education Act (Act 778), Mrs Betty Mould-Iddrisu, Education Minister, said on Friday.
She said the …
U.N. economic sanctions on North Korea have created an unintended public health crisis in the impoverished communist state, a scientist said Thursday, urging the international community to revive humanitarian aid to the North.
"Economi…
In season seven of Who Do You Think You Are, nine celebrities trace their family trees to explore the lives of their ancestors and uncover major themes in British social history.
Who Do You Think You Are? tells the story of Britain throug…
The Lands Court, a Division of the High Court, on Thursday dismissed an application filed by the Lands Commission (LC) against F.K.A. Company in connection with 95.2 acres of land situated at new Weija.
The court also dismissed an in…
The Accra Fast Track High Court hearing the Ya-Na murder case on Thursday had to adjourn sitting because the defence had not been served with the prosecution’s response to the defence “application for no case”.
The defence at an earl…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday announced that government would renegotiate with the Cuban government for the posting of the
country’s medical brigade to Ghana.
He said the programme which was truncated a few years ago …
Dr Akwasi Osei, Chief Psychiatrist, on Thursday called for the immediate passage of the Mental Health Bill into law to help ensure adequate funding for mental health care delivery.
According to him the three psychiatric hospitals cur…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday called on Gonja chiefs and traditional elders to desist from settling their scores in the law
courts, which he said was alien to the traditional practices of Gonjaland.
He said althoug…
Dr Iyabo Olusanmi, Country Representative of UNICEF, has called on health workers to ensure that they reached out to the vulnerable and deprived population in the poorest areas.
She urged them to design thorough research communicatio…
Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO scientists have discovered a giant underground chamber on the moon, which could be used as
a lunar base by astronauts for inter-planetary missions.
Scientists at the Space Applications Centr…
North Korea has reported to a global animal health agency that it had suffered a total of 48 outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) since Christmas last year.
The impoverished socialist state made the report to the Paris-based World…
Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik said Thursday that the government was to blame for the uncontrolled spread of foot-and-mouth disease across the country, citing poor quarantine measures in the early stages.
"As a result, the government sho…
South Korea's chief nuclear envoy left for Washington on Thursday for talks on the North Korean nuclear standoff after China blocked the U.N. Security Council from adopting a report denouncing Pyongyang's uranium enrichment program.
Wi…
A South Korea-chartered flight will bring hundreds of the country's nationals out of Libya on Thursday, an official said, as a growing number of people seek to flee escalating anti-government unrest in the African nation.
The Egypt Air…
Government Thursday decided to immediately commence evacuation of Indians from Libya by sea
and air in view of the "sharp and unprecedented deterioration" in the situation in the African nation which is witnessing anti-government protests…
A 114-year-old woman in Guri, currently the oldest living person in South Korea, has asked the national recordkeeping agency to help her seek the world's oldest living person title in the Guinness Book of World Records, a local government …
Rescuers on Thursday discovered the body of a female officer as well as the wreckage of a Coast Guard helicopter that went missing with five crew members on board Wednesday night near waters off the southern resort island of Jeju, official…
The culture ministry said Thursday that the government is planning to designate 2012 as the "National Year of Reading" in a bid to further promote the culture of reading among the public.
Unveiling its 2011 plans on the publishing indu…
Rescuers have discovered objects believed to be the wreckage of a Coast Guard helicopter that went missing with five crew members on board Wednesday night near waters off the southern resort island of Jeju, officials said Thursday.
The…
Four in 10 South Koreans think that Japan's claim to the easternmost South Korean islets of Dokdo is the most serious historical problem facing South Korea, a poll showed Thursday.
In the survey of 637 adults nationwide by job portal S…
The Bahraini government on Wednesday announced the release of 308 prisoners following the orders by the leadership.
Among those released are 23 terrorist suspects, who were charged to be a part of a cell aimed to jeopardize state security…
The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (PSC-AU) on Wednesday strongly deplored the unfortunate tragic loss of life in Libya.
The statement was made at a press briefing after the PSC meeting held on Libya at the AUC headquarte…
Israeli army carried out several strikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing a Palestinian militant and wounding several others, promoting rocket attacks on southern Israel.
The violence began around noon, when the Israeli forces ente…
German Defense Minister Karl- Theodor Zu Guttenberg cannot hold his doctoral degree any more in law, the University of Bayreuth announced late Wednesday, as the minister was suspected of plagiarizing large parts of his thesis.
"The Univer…
Thousands of people fleeing the violence and insecurity in neighboring Libya are crossing the Tunisian border at the Ras El Jedir cross point some 600 km south of the capital, Tunisian official press agency TAP reported Wednesday.
Around …