The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has adjudged the Ho Mutual Health Insurance Scheme the best in the Volta Region.
The Scheme was also declared the 10th best out of 145 schemes nationwide at an …
The Akim Oda Magistrate Court has ordered a private lotto operator, Joseph Adamu, to pay a sum of GH¢1,370, for pirating on National Lotteries Authority (NLA) drawn numbers for his illegal operations without authorisation.
Adamu plea…
Nii Nortey Dua, Member of Parliament for the Ledzokuku Constituency, has said the improvement of road networks to ease traffic congestion in the constituency is on course.
A segment of the Accra-Tema Beach Road passes through the con…
The Rev Ama Afo Blay, Board Chairman of the Junior Achievers Trust International (JATI), on
Tuesday appealed to the youth to acquire entrepreneurial skills and set up their own businesses.
This would make them creative and productiv…
Mr Joseph Bukari Nikpe, Member of Parliament (MP) for Saboba constituency in the Northern Region, has initiated moves in collaboration with World
Vision, an international NGO, to address the perennial mass failures in examinations, especi…
The Western Regional Coordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit(DOVVSU), Assistant Superintendent of PoliceLawrence Gbele, on Tuesday expressed worry over frequent abandonment of domestic violence cases reported to the d…
About 203 people are to benefit from the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly’s (STMA) Social Inclusion Transfer project (STI).
Mr. Kobina Annan Prah, Metropolitan Chief Executive, said at a press conference that the STI project was…
The government has awarded on contract the tarring of the Apam junction/Gomoa Nkran/Gomoa Afransi road and work would begin by the end of January, Mr Francis Kojo Arthur, Member of Parliament for Gomoa West, has said.
He was addressi…
The Koforidua Magistrate Court on Tuesday remanded in police custody 27 criminals including two women who were arrested by the police at Pentua Wala, a crime-prone area in Koforidua.
Their pleas were not taken and would re…
Health clinics are not an exclusive preserve of humans but of plants too in south Indian state of Karnataka.
The State Department of Agriculture and Bio-Control Research Laboratories (BCRL) are running a string of 'plant clinics' ac…
South Korea has confirmed two more foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks in the country despite concerted quarantine efforts and wholesale vaccination of livestock, the government said Tuesday.
The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Fore…
Civil aviation authorities of Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) and Chinese mainland signed here Monday a cooperation agreement for civil aviation safety, in an effort to share resources, acquire mutual support and achieve cooperat…
Technology of code division multiple access (CDMA) for data access in Indonesia is expected to grow significantly, leaving a big opportunity for gadget producers to develop smart phone, an executive said here on Monday.
Zhao Guang, vic…
The Midwifery/Health Assistant Training school at Kwahu Atibie has admitted 199 students this academic year.
The students are made up of 37 students to begin courses in three-year diploma in registered midwifery programmes, 53 studen…
Fire on Monday night razed through the boys’ dormitory of the Amaniampong Senior High School at Asante-Mampong causing extensive damage to property.
Mattresses, clothing, chop boxes, trunks and books of 138 students got burnt.
…
The Eastern Regional Police Command arrested 49 drivers and motor bike riders for violating road traffic regulations since the beginning of the year.
Out of those arrested 45 were prosecuted and 24 of them were convicted and fined var…
The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Ghana, Miss Ruby Sandhu-Rajon has commended the Regent of Dagbon, Kapankuya-Na Yukubu Abdulai Andani, and the chiefs and people of Dagbon for the peace prevailing in Yendi and the entire Dagbon Tr…
Prof. Kofi Awoonor, Chairman of the Council of State, on Tuesday called on heads of senior high schools to establish good library systems in their schools to promote effective learning.
He said the library served as a convenient plac…
The Red Colobus monkey is almost extinct in the country due to destruction of their natural habitat and hunting.
Mrs Exorm Ametorelo Erskine, an Assistant Wildlife Officer at the Western Regional Office of the WildLife Division, told…
The Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) says it will stage a demonstration in Accra on Wednesday against the rising cost of living.
It said in a statement in Accra that the demonstration dubbed “Ahokyere” is being held togethe…
Mrs Catherine Haizel, Chief Executive Officer of I- TEXON Ghana, a management solution firm on
Tuesday called on parents and guardians to be more concerned about the quality of education offered to their children and wards.
She said…
The General Agricultural Workers’Union (GAWU)has organised a workshop to mobilise and organise small scale farmers and agricultural workers to campaign for the right to food and food security in the country.
GAWU organised the worksh…
The Ghana Institute of Languages (GIL), has embarked on an electronic information management capacity building training programme for its staff to facilitate its admission, registration and administrative procedures.
The training pro…
The Energy Commission (EC) with support from Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) has developed a toolkit that would support renewable energy resources to analysis, planning and a policy formulation instrument.
…
Out of a total 6,480 think tanks from 169 countries, IMANI was the only African think tank ranked among the top 25 think tanks with the most
innovative policy ideas around the world. Again IMANI is one of only four African think tanks na…
The Acting President of the National Council of Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs), Torgbui Duklui Attipoe V, has called on stakeholders of education to work towards a successful academic term for Senior High Students, given the infrastruc…
The Akim Oda Magistrate Court has sentenced Kwabena Aniagyei, a farmer, to a fine of GH¢100 for stealing 10 bags of charcoal, in default he would serve a 12 month prison term in hard labour.
The court has ordered Aniagyei who pleaded…
Kofi Amo, an unemployed who stole palm fruits worth GH¢12.00 belonging to Madam Afua Emkuma, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment in hard labour, by the Akim Oda Magistrate Court.
Amo pleaded guilty to stealing.
Briefin…
A Folk-lift operator at the Akim Oda Coppon Sawmills has been sentenced to a fine of GH¢300 by a Magistrate Court at Akim Oda.
Bright Ahenkorah sneaked into a carpentry shop and made away with two stuffing chairs valued at GH¢300, pr…
Isaac Obeng, a driver, whose careless driving resulted in the amputation of a bread seller, has been fined GH¢400, by a Magistrate Court at Akim Oda in the Birim Central Municipality.
Obeng would go to prison for 24 months in hard la…
The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has expressed concern about the growing rate of immoral lifestyles among the youth.
He blamed the situation on the failure of the adult population to lea…
The Pro-Vice Chancellor (Pro-VC) of the University of Education, Winneba, Prof. Mawutor Avoke, has observed that though Parliament has passed the disability bill, there is lack of official will at the district and national levels to implem…
The Deputy Western Regional Minister, Ms Betty Bosomtwi-Sam, has charged nurses and midwives in the country to remain committed to the oath they swear before being enrolled into the profession.
She noted that some people entered the …
Alhaji Haruna Abdul-Salam, Nkoranza South District Coordinating Director, has urged heads of departments to open up to their subordinates and acknowledge their talents, skills and knowledge in order to improve upon work place conditions.
…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Gomoa West, Mr Francis Kojo Arthur, has donated bags of cement to some communities in his constituency to support self-help projects.
Making the donation to the people of Gomoa Nkoransa near Apam, Mr …
Mr Emmanuel Sagoe, Gomoa West District Best Farmer for 2010, has expressed concern about the high rent charge by land owners for farming in the area.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency at Gomoa Dunkwa in the Central Region on Saturday…
The leadership of Apam Secondary School Old Students Association (ASSOSA), has decided to provide career guidance counseling to students of their alma mater.
The Association has, therefore, chosen Saturday January 29, as home-coming …
The Volta Regional House of Chiefs and the Volta Region Development Agency (VODA), on Saturday held a special durbar in honour of Mr Gong Jianzhong, Chinese Ambassador in Ghana.
The durbar, characterised by cultural displays, was to …
Mr Robert Kempes Papa Nii Ofosuware, Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), has advised residents in the Metropolis, to ensure that programmes aimed at tidying up their environments were sustained.
He said, such programmes, if sust…
The United States on Thursday launched Delta IV Heavy, the largest rocket ever, carrying a spy satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The three-engine rocket, carrying the 1-billion-dollar top- secret spy satellite NRO…
A Chinese participant has performed well in the Mars-500 project, a simulated space flight to Mars, the project's chief said Friday here.
Boris Morukov, who is also deputy director of the Medical and Biological Studies Institute of the…
Two Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) finished the fist spacewalk this year on Friday, the Russian Mission Control center said.
Oleg Skripochka and Dmitry Kondratyev, both 41, opened the exit hatch of the Russ…
A Japanese rocket carrying an unmanned cargo transporter to the International Space Station (ISS) blasted off Saturday, said reports from Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAEA) has ann…
One of the villages in a remote province in Fiji have expressed delight when the government provided them sewing machines through a donation from China, according to Fiji's Social Welfare Minister Dr. Jiko Luveni Sunday.
Luveni who vis…
Ten suspected drug traffickers were killed in a shootout with Mexican soldiers in a northeastern border state, Mexican authorities said Saturday.
Soldiers on patrol Friday found a camp of armed men, who opened fire on them in the state…
Unemployment insurance payments soared in Italy in 2010, according to figures released Saturday by the trade union CGIL, with more than 1.2 billion man-hours compensated for by the unemployment fund, a rise of nearly a third compared to 20…
Heavy rain over much of New Zealand's North Island has caused slips and flooded roads, and forced the evacuation of a camping ground.
Roads and houses across Auckland have been flooded, and farmers in Northland, Bay of Plenty and Waika…
Singapore leaders have recently flagged the issue of widening income gap as a main concern for the country, and they have been calling for inclusive growth through measures like workers' skill upgrades.
The issue has been making headli…
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said Sunday afternoon that it has found a missing sailboat with five United States citizens on board.
The "The Pineapple," which left Guam on Jan. 6 and was supposed to arrive in Cebu, the Philippines o…
At least 10,000 Dutch students and other university staff gathered in The Hague, the government city of the Netherlands to protest against the planned budget cuts for higher education. A few riots and clashes happened which were quickly su…