Ms Melisa Donkoh, the 13-year-old girl who was flown to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital following her involvement in a tragic accident at the Kwesimintsim Cemetery, is dead.
Melisa is a cousin to Francis Pius Donkoh, 8, who also died …
The Sekyere Central District Director of Health Service, Mr Cletus Opoku Amankwaah, has expressed concern about the growing number of still births in the area.
The area recorded 14 still births, last year, as against the previous …
Ms Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, on Thursday, expressed her concern about the haphazard development of human settlements, especially in the urban areas.
She said the situation has become even more w…
The Klefe Youth Development Association (KYDA), on Thursday, presented seven flat screen desk-top computers, with accessories, to the Klefe Atsatime and Klefe- Dome Junior High Schools.
The computers, which cost about GHC2,900 are to…
Most Reverend Charles Palmer-Buckle, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Accra, on Thursday, called on media practitioners to desist from politicization and polarization of issues in the media to promote development.
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Board members of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), on Thursday, inspected community water projects in the Garu- Tempane District of the Upper East Region.
The Board Members, led by Mr Francis Yaw Garko, Board Chairman…
The Tema Metropolitan Health Directorate on Wednesday started a series of sensitization programmes to educate the public on cholera outbreaks. The programme is aimed at informing the public on the causes, symptoms and prevention of the dis…
A forthcoming study in peer-reviewed journal “Environment and Urbanisation” has entreated policymakers to take a fresh look at the differences between greenhouse gas emissions from different cities to identify new opportunities to mitigate…
Mr Eric Opoku, Deputy Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, has underscored the Government’s commitment to providing requisite facilities for quality and relevant education at the basic, second cycle and tertiary education levels to adequately pr…
Mr Mark Owen Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister on Thursday declared 2011, a zero tolerance year for bush burning.
Mr Woyongo said the indiscriminate bush burning experienced over the years in the region was the cause of the many …
The Forestry Commission (FC) is embarking on a number of initiatives to cut down cost and increase its revenue mobilization, Mr Andy Osei Okrah, Director of Human Resource of the Commission, has said.
As part of this the 3…
Residents of the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality and its environs have been advised to avoid cyanide related galamsey operations in their communities.
These operations are being encouraged by foreigners who have no idea about the dangers …
Mr Paul Evans Aidoo, Western Regional Minister, on Wednesday inaugurated the Sekondi-Takoradi Biometric Passport Application Centre (PAC)on behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration at Sekondi.
In an address …
Dr Audrey Gadzekpo, a senior lecturer, School of Communications Studies, University of Ghana on Thursday noted that the absence of broadcasting law had contributed to the inundation of the media landscape with unprofessional conducts.
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Dr Kofi Amoah and the management of Citizen Kofi invite you to the maiden edition of a ground breaking and thought-provoking Citizen Kofi Media Dialogue Series which kicks off on Friday January 28, 2011.
Theme: Can the Ghanaian Media do …
Ms Ophelia Koomson, Birim Central Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), has challenged the newly elected assembly members in the area to forget about their party affiliations and work as a team to move the municipality forward.
She remind…
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Wednesday called on contractors working on the Mamponse drainage system to clear all structures on the way of the drain to enable them complete work on time.
“Clear whatever is in your way,” h…
The Reverend Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, Chairperson of the Asante Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has urged the clergy to protect cherished Christian values and repudiate strange doctrines.
He said many Christians in …
The Bibiani Circuit Court presided over by Mr Justice Emmanuel Ankoma has remanded three persons into prison custody for the alleged murder of one Stephen Owusu Ansah, a building materials dealer at Sefwi-Anhwiaso in the Western Region.
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Mr. Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister, has appealed to the Board of Directors (BoD) of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) to provide more water to the region to address the peculiar water problems in the region.
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Ghanaians have been urged to uphold the values of decency and to stop vilifying public officials.
Opanin Kwaku Owusu, a cocoa farmer, said unless this was done there could come a time when many otherwise respectable, knowledgeable a…
Nana Agyin Frimpong II, Tafohene, has expressed discomfort with the notoriety of the youth in the community for violence and other criminal acts.
He said this was creating image problems for the area.
Nana Agyin Frimpong ex…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday called on the Judiciary to review road traffic laws to empower the law enforcement agencies to mete out stiffer punishments to road offenders.
“The current carnage on our roads is unacceptab…
Nana Kwame Affum 11, Acting Chief of Ankwa Dobro near Nsawam has appealed to traditional authorities to put an end to chieftaincy disputes in the area.
He said the protracted chieftaincy conflicts in Ankwa Dobro were hampering develo…
Mr Abednego Aduffo Asani, an educationist has appealed to the chiefs and landlords of Akuapem South Municipality in the Eastern Region, to offer lands for educational projects to complement government efforts to promote teaching and learni…
Mr. George Blankson,Commissioner-General, Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), on Wednesday called on the country’s universities and learning institutions to develop specific programmes aimed at educating tax professionals to meet global tax nee…
The government has not hastily opted for military intervention as a solution to Cote d’Ivoire’s political impasse because of Ghana’s security and
economic stability, Mr. Eric Opoku, the Deputy Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, has said.
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The Youth in Bawku, mainly Kusasis and Mamprusis at a forum organized by Global Youth Network Foundation (GYNF) on Wednesday appealed to
President Mills to release their brothers who have been detained in prison due to their alleged part…
Assistant Superintendent of Police Mohammed Iddrisu, officer in-charge of the Motor Traffic
and Transport Unit in Techiman, is alleged to have committed suicide in his kitchen at Takofiano in Techiman on Tuesday.
Iddrisu, who was tr…
Mr. Paul Effah, former Executive Secretary of the National Council for Tertiary Education, has urged managements of Colleges of Education to infuse indigenous knowledge into modern methods of training teachers, particularly for basic schoo…
The Rev Sampson Kissih, General Overseer of Lighthouse Chapel International Church in the Brong–Ahafo Region, has attributed indiscipline, social vices and the many evils in the society to the liberalization of the air waves, adoption of W…
Out of 1,438 students who for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Lawra District, only 719 representing 50 per cent passed.
Mr. Samson Abu, the Lawra District Chief Executive, said this during the presentation o…
More than 2.2 million Tuberculosis Bacillus (TB) cases have been successfully cured in India in the last decade through the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme(RNTCP).
Since the beginning of the programme in 1997, 45 mil…
A coal mine explosion has killed at least 20 workers and wounded six others in the northeastern Colombian department of Norte de Santander, emergency agencies and the mine company said Wednesday.
"At the moment we have information of 2…
Another journalist was shot on Wednesday night in the Philippines, the second shooting on journalists in the country within a week.
The victim, Lemuel Fernandez, publisher and editor of the Western Visayas Daily Guardian, was attacked …
A 12-story building in a Cairo suburb collapsed early Thursday after a fire broke out in its chemical storage area, burying a group of firemen under debris.
According to state news agency MENA, the fire engine team that is made up of …
An assistant undertaker, involved in the 2,002 aborted fetuses discovered at a temple in Bangkok, was sentenced to 20 years in jail on Thursday.
The South Bangkok Criminal Court sentenced Suchart Phumee, 39, an assistant undertaker at …
A team of top-level specialists from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations (OHCHR) is assembling in Tunisia and will start its week-long assessment of human rights priorities there, a UN spokesperson sa…
U.S. Defense Department on Wednesday said Defense officials are closely watching protests that have flared up in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon, as Pentagon hosts senior Egyptian military leaders for talks this week.
The Defense Department…
At least four people were killed and six others wounded when a blast ripped through a cafe in Russia's volatile southern republic of Dagestan, RIA Novosti news agency reported early Thursday.
A car bomb exploded in front of a cafe in t…
A plan to automatically deport failed Afghanistan asylum seekers from Australia on Thursday has been condemned by a coalition of organizations and prominent experts.
Australian Immigration Minister Chris Bowen last week announced that …
The Chilean Interior Ministry said on Wednesday that health authorities had raised the death toll of the earthquake and tsunami of Feb. 27, 2010 to 523.
The death toll increased after the authorities were able to identify the bodies of…
Mexican President Felipe Calderon Wednesday signed the Law on Refugees and Complementary Protection which brought Mexico's handling of refugee and political asylum into line with international agreements.
Mexico contributes to the inte…
The color-coded terror alert system created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will be replaced by the end of April by "a new system that is built on a clear and simple premise," reports said Wednesday.
U.S. Homeland Sec…
The weather will be misty or foggy with fairly poor visibility values over southern Ghana early in the morning, according to the weather forecast for Thursday issued by the Ghana Meteorological Agency.
It will become hazy and windy a…
"Drop, cover and hold on!" That was the message given to about 442,000 participants in a province-wide quake drill in western Canada's British Columbia province Wednesday.
The drill, dubbed The Great British Columbia ShakeOut, was aime…
Afghan and NATO-led forces during a cleanup operation dismantled a Taliban stronghold in Imam Sahib district of Kunduz province, 250 km north of capital Kabul, district governor said Thursday.
"Afghan and international forces during a …
Protests over the country's economic woes entered the second day on Wednesday in many parts of Egypt despite a government ban.
In downtown Cairo, groups of protesters were seen, shouting slogans. Police tried to disperse them with tear…
A Sri Lankan gang responsible for a spate of violent incidents in the northern Jaffna peninsula has been arrested, military said Thursday.
The arrest of a person on Wednesday led to the arrest of eight more people, said Major General M…
Three people were killed and 14 others wounded in bomb attacks in Baghdad on Thursday, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.
A roadside bomb went off near a police patrol in Mu'askar al- Rasheed street in Baghdad's central district …