The University for Development Studies (UDS), is seriously grappling with infrastructure problems, which is hampering the academic progress of students in the School, the Upper East Chapter President of UDS Alumni, Mr Mike Zuri has stated.…
The Road Transport Operators of Ghana, has announced an 18 per cent adjustment in transport fares, effective January 4, 2011.
A statement, issued on Saturday, January 8 and signed by Mr Matthew Hayford, Chairman of the Ghana Road Coo…
WACAM, human rights and mining advocacy nongovernmental organisation (NGO), has called on the Government to investigate claims by residents of Dokyikrom-Tutuka that Newmont Gold Ghana Limited (NGGL) has spilled cyanide into their source of…
The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC), has released an amount of GHC171,000, to the 17 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the Western Region for HIV/AIDS activities.
The amount, which was released through the Regional Coord…
A British Member of Parliament toked ethnic issues, telling The Daily Telegraph Pakistani men
were capitalizing on white women as "easy meat" for sale.
Former Labor Party Home Secretary Jack Straw made the remarks in an interview about …
Smoking could become a thing of the past by 2050, a report in Britain says.
Just 20 percent of Britain's population now uses tobacco products, down from more than 50 per cent in the 1960s, The Guardian reported.
"The percentage of smoker…
Two smoking cessation drugs help change the way the brain reacts to smoking cues, U.S. researchers suggest.
Two studies, published online in advance of print in Archives of General Psychiatry, looked at brain images of smokers both before…
Three-quarters of Republicans favor repeal of healthcare reform, while 64 percent of Democrats oppose repeal, a U.S. survey indicates.
A Gallup poll indicates 46 percent of U.S. adults say they want their representative in Congress to vot…
Brain scans show children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder have difficulty switching off "mind-wandering," researchers in Britain say.
First author Elizabeth Liddle University of Nottingham, England, suggests this may explain…
Organically grown onions, carrots and potatoes generally do not have higher levels of healthful antioxidants than traditional produce, Danish researchers say.
Pia Knuthsen of the National Food Institute at the Technical University of Denm…
U.S. researchers have developed a model to help predict a drug's tendency to cause fetal malformations when taken by a pregnant woman.
Researchers in the Children's Hospital Boston Informatics Program developed a preclinical model for pre…
The Eastern Naval Command has arrested two tuna vessels- MV Rico Siete and MV Sea Plus at the Tema Fishing Harbour, for fishing illegally.
The Command has also seized a total of 24 generator sets and about 30 light bulbs, illegally u…
Miss Mary Boahemaa, an eight-year-old girl of Christ Lutheran Church at Bechem, capital of Tano South District of the Brong Ahafo Region, has appealed to the youth to shy away from smoking to prolong their lifespan.
Contributing to a…
Thirty five students in the Upper East Region have been presented with GH¢100 vouchers each to purchase products of their choice to support their educational pursuit.
The presentation which was done by Nestle Ghana and Radio Style, a…
Mr Kwame Amporfo-Twumasi, Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkoranza South, has urged members of Nkoranza Students Union to regard themselves as agents of change by leading lives worthy of emulation.
He was addressing members of the Unio…
Mr. James Edjei Biney, Techiman Municipal Secretary of Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has urged teachers to continue offering selfless and dedicated services.
He said the invaluable role played by teachers could not b…
Northern Ireland's water authority has apologized for its handling of a recent water shortage that saw more than a million customer complaints, officials said.
Northern Ireland Water director of customer service Liam Mulholland told a Par…
Syria, Iran's Arab ally, is driving to build a grandiose new energy alliance across the Middle East and beyond aimed at thrusting the economically troubled state back into a regional leadership role.
President Bashar Assad calls his visio…
A Libyan ship carried the first shipment of oil from an offshore processing plant at the Jubilee oil field off the coast of Ghana, the government announced.
The Ghana Maritime Authority said a Libyan vessel took more than 630,000 barrels …
The space shuttle enabled scientific discovery and expanded human access to space, but failed to make spaceflight routine and inexpensive, space experts say.
That combination of success and a failed, unrealistic promise was discussed by a…
A new network of telescopes in Europe will see further into space and peer further back in time, astronomers say.
A network of 77 radio telescopes will detect low-frequency radio signals coming from outer space, giving a view of events th…
Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom is a Soviet relic facing long-term problems because of declining European demand, U.S. diplomatic cables reveal.
Executives at Russian energy company Gazprom said they were keen to become the managers …
Oil prices are inching toward $100 per barrel, though OPEC leaders Kuwait and Iran said there isn't much need to increase supplies.
Delegates from the 12-member Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries at their regular December m…
Nearly 70,000 troops and hundreds of pieces of military equipment have been mobilized to help the government's extensive quarantine efforts to contain a fast-spreading outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), the defense ministry said Thu…
President John Evans Atta Mills has urged religious leaders to teach their adherents that decency and decorum in discourse was a requirement for order, stability and peaceful co-existence.
He made the call in an address read on his b…
Twenty five student pastors of the Valley View University, on Thursday completed evangelism in five towns in the Kade District of the East Ghana Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church.
The students, members of the Minis…
The Akuapem Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG), has recommended to Government to take critical look at the growing incidence of lawlessness and violent behaviours by a section of the populace, especially the youth.
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Four Junior High School students including a girl got drowned in the Volta Lake near Bowiri-Odumase on Monday.
They are as Maxwell Mienuye, 17, Justice Donkor Amenyo, 18, both of Fahiakombor JHS, John Womenor, 17 of Hohoe Holy Rosary…
Government has sourced an undisclosed amount of funds from the Australian Government to improve water supply of the Akuapem Ridge.
The terms of the project would be the procurement of huge pumping machines that could withstand the pr…
A ban placed on carting sand and stones from the stockpile at the Ghana Consolidated Diamonds (GCD) at Akwatia on December 20 last year, has been lifted on Thursday January 6, 2011.
Members of the Kwaebibirem Sand and Stone Suppliers…
Fishermen in the Central Region on Thursday expressed gratitude to President John Evans Atta Mills for exempting pre-mix fuel price from the recent fuel increase.
They said President Mills is indeed “Ofarinyi Kweegya” (a legendary fi…
The Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) on Thursday, presented scholarships to 50 brilliant but needy students in the Metropolis with a call on fathers to take keen interest in the affairs of the girl-child.
Mr Kwesi Hutchful, Tema Metropol…
The Tema Metropolitan Registry of Marriages and Divorces, recorded an increase in customary marriage dissolution in 2010.
Mr Stephen Nortey, Tema Metropolitan Registrar of Marriages and Divorces, told the GNA that the Registry recorded 6…
Accra Mayor Alfred Oko Vanderpuije on Thursday said although challenges of the Metropolis were enormous, they spurred him on to make Accra one of the finest cities in Africa.
He pledged the commitment of the Accra Metropolitan Assemb…
Indian Space Research Organisation on Wednesday said it plans to launch at least two large communication satellites within this calendar year to tide over the scarcity of transponders due to the failure of two consecutive GSLV missions.
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A Team of four Medical Doctors including three Nurses, three Pharmacists from the Bolgatanga, Nabdam, Bongo and Tongo(BONABOTO) Traditional Areas in the Upper East Region working in health institutions in southern Ghana returned home thi…
The Apam District magistrate’s court building, which is in a deplorable condition, would soon be renovated by the District Assembly, the District Chief Executive for the area, Mr. Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah, has said.
Mr Aidoo-Mensah…
some candidates who wrote the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in 2010 from the Upper East Region could not be placed into Senior High Schools and Technical Institutions.
This is because they were not given the opportun…
Mr. Mark Woyongo, the Upper East Regional Minister, has appealed to the leadership of the association of citizens from Bolgatanga, Nabdam Bongo and Tongo (BONABOTO) traditional areas to impress upon traditional rulers and land owners in th…
The Western Regional Chairman of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) Mr. Isaac Esau, on Friday advised drivers not to arbitrarily charge high fares.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Takoradi, he…
President John Atta Mills on Thursday affirmed the National Democratic Congress (NDC) commitment in enhancing the welfare of children.
He said this in a message Mr Mark Woyongo, the Upper East Regional Minister, read at the annual re…
A Takoradi Circuit court on Friday sentenced Isaac Sey, a driver, to a fine of GH72.00 for reckless driving and causing harm.
In default he would serve three months in prison with hard labour.
Sergeant Bernard Annor told the co…
Prosecution in a case involving four persons charged with the murder of Kwasi Yeboah, from Yamfo in Tano North District of the Brong Ahafo Region has completed its investigations.
The docket has therefore been sent to the Attorney-Ge…
The chiefs and people of Oboadaka near Suhum in the Eastern Region, on Wednesday spent several hours in massive cleanup exercise, which witnessed the desilting of choked gutters and clearing of weeds and garbage.
Nene Tettey, a commu…
Alhaji Ismaila Ibrahim, National Secretary of NASARA Club, an affiliate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party, has advised Ghanaians irrespective of their ethnic and political backgrounds to uphold the principle of peace and unity.
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MTN Ghana Foundation has sponsored 20 basic schools in the Volta Region to participate in the annual National Spelling Bee Competition.
The competition organised by Essence Communications, a non-governmental organisation is aimed at …
Some parents and guardians in the Ho Municipality, on Wednesday suggested to government to as a matter of policy delay the reopening of schools academic year every new year to coincide with the payment of January wages and salaries.
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Mr Robert Bennett Forkuoh, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Amansie Central, has appealed to Ghanaians to bury their political differences and work together towards national progress and prosperity.
He said all should accept to su…
Mr Andrew Badu Yeboah, Educationist and immediate past District Director of Education of Jaman District, has advised students to take their studies seriously for a better future.
“The main catalyst for improved and comfortable living…
Mrs Elizabeth Anima Appiah, Director of Pharmacy, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), has advised Ghanaians not to allow the daily stress of life to pre-occupy them for the improvement of their health.
She said people should be c…