The Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwabre West, Mr Emmanuel Asamoa Owusu-Ansah, has donated building materials and cash to a number of communities in the constituency in support of self-help development projects.
Ntiribuoho, Kodie, Brofoy…
A three-day revival rally by the Ghana Evangelical Society is underway in Accra with the theme, ”The Garment of Praise and Power”.
The rally whose venue is at the open square of the Accra Community Centre, adjacent the Kwame Nkrumah…
A call has been made to education policy makers to restore the “prime of place” to Physical Education (PE) and training in the curricula of schools to bolster the national preventive health policies.
Mr Samuel Acheampong, Secretary-G…
Two women and a boy lost their lives when a mini bus on which they were travelling from Accra to Aflao collided at Akatsi on Monday.
Fedina Klutse Dumashie, 33, of Dzodze and another woman yet to be identified died on the spot while …
The Upper West Region recorded 91 fire outbreaks from January to December last year with damage to property estimated at GH¢46,330.
Domestic fires were high on the list with 51 fire outbreaks, bush fires recorded 19, incident nine, c…
Residents from seven communities in the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District, have appealed to the Department of Feeder Roads to rehabilitate the Suhum–Dokrochewa feeder road linking the main Suhum– Asamankese highway.
The communities inclu…
The National Society of Ghanaian Music Producers (NASGAMP) has appealed to the outgoing Attorney General and Minister of Justice, to make sure that processes leading to the formation of the Collection Management Organization (CMO) are comp…
A total of 225 health extension workers under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) in Ho have begun a six-month training workshop prior to their postings later in the year.
The mostly young ladies would be taken through tw…
The Ghana National Tailors and Dressmakers Association has honoured Ms Diana Yeboah, a physically challenged apprentice, for qualifying as a dressmaker.
Ms Yeboah, 34 years, a cripple who moves with the aid of two crutches, took thre…
Jordan's King Abdullah, speaking by telephone with Israel's prime minister, called for Mideast peace talks to resume immediately, officials said.
Abdullah, in a conversation with Binyamin Netanyahu Wednesday, advised against "wasting more…
The Reverend Father Edward Baah Baafi, Parish Priest of Asante-Juaben Saint Stephen Catholic Church, has urged leaders of the nation to purge themselves of egocentrism and all traits of arrogance.
He challenged them to put the welfar…
The Kumasi Metropolitan Authority (KMA) has cautioned traders and hawkers, who took advantage of the Yuletide to do business on the pavements of the Central Business District, to vacate in their own interest.
A statement issued by Cl…
A convicted Houston gun trafficker is providing U.S. agents information about a Mexican drug cartel for which he admitted supplying arms, court documents show.
As part of his plea agreement, Christian Garza was sentenced to three years in…
Houston parents Clista and Jay Graff say police aren't filing charges against a man who crashed his truck into their sons' bedroom.
The boys, ages 9 and 11, were not injured.
The Graffs said witnesses to the recent accident told of the F…
A district councilman in the Philippines accidentally snapped a picture of the man who fatally shot him early New Year's Day, police said.
Reynaldo Dagsa of Barangay 35 in Caloocan City was taking a picture of his family just after midnig…
Heavy rain was forecast to fall again Wednesday in Australia's flooded Queensland state, and forecasters said wet weather is expected to last for three months.
Flooding has killed at least 10 people, emergency officials said.
The Royal A…
Violence flared in Pakistan Tuesday, with the assassination of a regional governor in Islamabad and bombing of a school bus in Turbat, police said.
Early indications were that Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer was shot while riding in his motorca…
An Arizona nursing home has found that allowing Alzheimer's patients freedom to eat and sleep when they want makes them happier and easier to care for.
Beatitudes has also done away with restraints, The New York Times reports. They try to…
A study involving thousands of British volunteers showed twice as many women as men say they are ashamed about their bodies when it comes to weight.
The poll of 2,200 people taken by British diet company Slimming World provided an insight…
A hospital in Wales is not accepting new patients and is closed to most visitors following an outbreak of a virus that causes gastroenteritis, officials said.
Seven wards in the 750-bed Morriston Hospital in Swansea have been shut to new …
U.S. researchers say there is yet another reason to exercise -- a lower risk of dying from colon cancer.
Kathleen Wolin of the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis says …
Using a pedometer can increase physical activity by about 2,000 steps daily that can make all the difference in weight loss, a U.S. pedometer maker says.
Jill Person, product manager at Omron Healthcare Inc., says the company's pocket ped…
Sleep apnea patients given continuous positive airway pressure therapy report less fatigue and increased energy, U.S. researchers say.
The researchers at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego, found therap…
Many people say they are "angry at God" -- even some who don't believe in God, a U.S. researcher says.
Julie Exline, a psychologist at Case Western Reserve University, says anger toward God often coincides with deaths, illnesses, accident…
Women veterans are being asked to participate in an online survey for the American Legion about the VA healthcare system, Legion officials say.
Jimmie Foster, national commander of the American Legion, says the two-month, worldwide online…
Johnson & Johnson and Massachusetts General Hospital say they are developing and marketing a blood test that could find a single cancer cell in blood.
Dr. Mehmet Toner, director of the BioMicroElectroMechanical Systems Resource Center in …
Mr Jonathan Bloom, Deputy Vice President for West Africa at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), has expressed satisfaction on the progress of work on Millennium Development Account (MIDA) road projects in the country.
He note…
Some members of the Ghana Private Road and Transport Union (GPRTU) at the Tema Station in Accra, on Tuesday said the 18 per cent increase in fares comprised eight per cent insurance, road worthy certificates and other documents, while 10 p…
Passengers in Wa, who boarded vehicles to their destinations on Tuesday, complained bitterly about a twenty (20) per cent in lorry fares by the Upper West Regional branch of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU.
The passenge…
The Road Transport Operators of Ghana on Tuesday announced an 18 per cent adjustment in transport fares with immediate effect following increases in petroleum prices by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA).
A statement issued in Ac…
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The Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital is constructing a new edifice to house patients with immune-compromised diseases to prevent them from further infections.
Dr Paul Ntodi, Regional Medical Director of the hospital, told the GNA in a…
A 13-member Interim Executive Committee of the Koforidua Freeman Methodist Junior High School 2006-2010 year group has been inaugurated in Koforidua.
The executive has Mr Israel Agyekum, as its President, Ms Ruth Antwi, the Secretar…
Forty-four people lost their lives in 75 road accidents that were recorded in 2010 in the Wa Municipality, Assistant Superintendent of Police Joseph Oppong, the Upper West Regional Police Commander of the MTTU, said on Wednesday.
He…
Osuodumgya Otutu Ababio, Chief of Adukrom-Akuapem, said on Wednesday that the constitution did not stop the government helping find solution to chieftaincy problems
The chief, an Appeal Court judge, said the constitution only prevent…
The Most Reverend Philip Naameh, Catholic Archbishop of Tamale, has stated that the events in La Cote d’Ivoire should make it clear that worldly ambitions of absolute power, wealth, and the exclusion of others from the common good can neve…
Miss Agnes Odoom, a Senior Staff Midwife at the Tema Polyclinic, has appealed to the government to reconsider the policy of free delivery so that monies paid by expectant mothers could be used for development.
Speaking to the Ghana …
Mrs Margaret Doku-Ampomah, out-going assembly member at Akim Osino in the Fanteakwa District, on Wednesday challenged in-coming assembly members to tackle the problem of sanitation with all seriousness.
She noted that since a clean e…
Hours after the Israeli air force hit terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip, Palestinians fired a Qassam rocket at southern Israel Wednesday, the army said.
A Qassam rocket exploded in southern Israel near the Eshkol Regional Council. No on…
A firm that manages eight Chicago apartment buildings says it is turning one of its properties into a smoke-free structure, forcing tenants to kick the habit.
The Habitat Co. has told renters at Kingsbury Plaza in the city's River North a…
The Incheon Metropolitan Government will send a team of experts to Russia to catalog Korean historic relics scattered across the Eurasian country and work toward having them exhibited in their home country, city officials said Wednesday.
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The education ministry has issued guidelines on negotiating with teachers' unions to omit issues that are not strictly related to working conditions, officials said Wednesday, a move critics say is intended to keep liberal provincial educa…
Banning young students from using cell phones during non-class hours, like lunch break, infringes upon their human rights, the state rights watchdog said Wednesday, disapproving moves by local schools and teachers' organizations to closely…
An Iranian scientist claiming he was snatched by the CIA may have been imprisoned and tortured since returning to Iran to a hero's welcome, the opposition says.
One opposition Web site says Shahram Amiri has been imprisoned and tortured s…
Police say they hope releasing film of a royal convoy being attacked during a tuition fee protest in London will lead to arrests.
The vehicle carrying British Prince Charles and Camilla, duchess of Cornwall, was doused with paint and sust…
A number of parents and guardians in the Ho municipality on Wednesday have suggested that the government re-adjust school re-opening dates to coincide with the payment of salaries every year.
Some also suggested that the early re-ope…
Some 2,533 women have gained admission to pursue programmes in education and business through the University of Cape Coast’s (UCC) Centre for Continuing Education (CCE).
The figure is the highest female intake since the establishment …
Ghanaian politicians have been advised to draw useful lessons from the Ivorian political crisis to avoid similar mistakes in the 2012 polls.
It is important for all the key actors to accept to play by the rules and resist any temptat…
A Ghana News Agency (GNA) survey at the Akyem Anyinam market during the Christmas and New Year festivities indicated that even though goods were abundant, people were unable to patronize as a result of low purchasing power.
The survey…
The Yendi Municipal Prison Officer, Chief Superintendent Victor Douchebe, has appealed to the Municipal Assembly to facilitate efforts to rehabilitate the more than 70-year-old prison structure.
He said the prison was presently accom…