Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday said many nations including Ghana over the past decade were experiencing rapid decline in their natural resource base, attributable to both natural and anthropogenic origins.
He said th…
The Bank of Ghana (BOG) on Wednesday presented a cheque for GH�15,000 towards the National Farmers Day celebration on Friday, December 3, in the Eastern Region.
The presentation to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) is the…
The management of Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) says current high load-levels resulting from increased industry production and air conditioning, have substantially compromised the company's capacity to meet demand.
Mr Bernard Ny…
Alhaji Issahaque Salia, Upper West Regional Minister, has appealed to Ghanaians to be collectively committed to make the oil discovery a blessing for all.
He urged Ghanaians to put their minds to a task as a people, and eschew petty …
A supplementary immunization exercise organised in Berekum from November 3 to 6 this year, scoring 96.6 per cent coverage.
The Berekum Municipal Health Directorate in collaboration with the local Assembly conducted the highly subscri…
Mr Kofi Bansah, Acting Director General of Ghana Prisons Service, said 104 prisoners who are to face the death penalty are confined in a prison cell designed to contain only 24 inmates.
He said however that efforts were being made to…
Ghana Export Promotion Council (GEPC) is to establish a Ghana Trade Centre in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea to facilitate daily trade in Made-in-Ghana goods, Dr Kwadwo Owusu Agyemang, Chief Executive Officer of GEPC disclosed to journalists on…
A 36 year old driver, Amoh Blanksons, has been granted a 3000 Ghana cedi bail and a surety for assault and destruction of property.
He pleaded not guilty and will re-appear before the court on November 26.
Prosecuting Police In…
Prices of some commodities in the Sekondi/Takoradi and its environs have increased and this has left some consumers worried.
Many consumers suspect that the increase in prices is either due to the coming Christmas or the recent budge…
The Western Regional branch of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOSAG) on Wednesday elected new executives with Mr. Daniel Quayson, a worker with the Controller and Accountant-General, as the chairman.
The …
Mr Alex Tettey-Enyo, Minister of Education on Wednesday called for national efforts to tackle the intolerant behaviour of the youth which he said was becoming a social canker that must be dealt with.
"We have a collective duty to eng…
MTN Ghana Foundation announced on Wednesday that it was celebrating its third year of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Ghana with the implementation of eight projects in health and education valued at GH�487,000 in deprived commu…
South Korea, China and Japan will hold a third joint study meeting next week on the feasibility of a free trade agreement (FTA) among the three Northeast Asian countries, Seoul's trade
ministry said Wednesday.
The meeting will be hel…
South Korea's trade appeared to be little disturbed Wednesday by North Korea's surprise attack on a South Korean island this week as the country is moving to set new record volumes of exports and imports, the government said.
The asses…
Actress Jennifer Grey and her professional dance partner Derek Hough were declared the winners on "Dancing with the Stars" in Los Angeles Tuesday.
The "Dirty Dancing" icon and Hough beat out Bristol Palin and Kyle Massey and their partner…
New Zealand authorities say a second explosion at the Pike River coal mine ended all hope that any of 29 trapped miners were still alive.
The blast rumbled through the mine near Greymouth Tuesday and was larger than the one Friday that in…
Two civilians were found dead Wednesday on the South Korean island attacked by North Korea, the first civilian deaths noted in the bombing, officials said.
The South Korean coast guard said the bodies were found at the construction site o…
Pope Benedict XVI affirms in a newly released book homosexuality is something that can never be "morally just."
In "Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times," the pontiff tells German writer Peter Seewald homose…
Lotte Moolsan Co., the hotel chain unit of South Korea's Lotte Group, said Wednesday that it plans to spend 3 trillion won (US$2.6 billion) to complete a mammoth skyscraper in southeastern Seoul by 2015.
Lotte Group, the country's fift…
North Korea accused South Korea on Wednesday of "ruining" further chances of reuniting families separated by the Korean War six decades ago, a day after the divided countries traded artillery fire that killed at least four South Koreans.
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South Korea will inject more liquidity into the market to counter excessive herd behavior following a North Korean artillery attack on an island in the West Sea, the government and central bank said Wednesday.
In an emergency meeting o…
The government said Wednesday it will provide 1 billion won (US$868,000) in emergency funds for restoration at an island attacked by North Korea's shelling barrage that killed soldiers and wounded civilians.
Forests and homes at Yeonpy…
South Korea said Wednesday it has suspended shipping promised flood aid to North Korea after the communist state mounted a deadly artillery attack on a South Korean island a day earlier.
The aid, delivered in the name of the Red Cross …
North Korea's bombardment on a populated South Korean island was probably a politically calculated provocation in part to help secure the ongoing succession of the North's leader in-waiting, the youngest son of leader Kim Jong-il, South Ko…
China, North Korea's only remaining major ally, needs to put pressure on one of the world's most repressive regimes to stop its aggressive behavior, a U.S. scholar said Wednesday.
"Beijing needs to know that and find ways to convey the…
Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea's largest automaker, said Wednesday that it has signed an agreement to extend its sponsorship of the FIFA World Cup until 2022 when South Korea wishes to host the quadrennial event.
Hyundai Motor Group,…
Mr Laari Bimi, Chairman of National Commission on
Civic Education (NCCE), has called for national census and networking in rescuing women condemned into witchcraft camps in the Northern Region of
Ghana.
He admonished civil societ…
The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC), on Wednesday, presented 22 computers and accessories, worth GHC 41,000, to the Brong-Ahafo Regional Coordinating Council.
The computers would be distributed to all the 22 HIV/AIDS focal units of the M…
The number of newborn babies in South Korea
rose for the seventh consecutive month in September, despite general concerns about the country's low birthrate, a government report showed Wednesday.
The number of babies born in the month…
About 2,800,000 poultry in the Northern, Upper West and Upper East regions would be vaccinated against Newcastle and other animal diseases that have long been neglected.
Vaccination Against Neglected Animal Diseases (VACNADA) is a on…
Most Equato-Guineans love Kokonte and okro soup, a popular Ghanaian dish.
Mr K. Asare, a local chop bar operator at the Ghanaian community in Calacolas, a suburb of the country's capital Malabo, told the Ghana News
Agency (GNA) on …
Government is reviewing existing environmental sanitation legislations and programmes and formulate new policies to address sanitation problems in the country.
They are National Environmental Policy, Science, Technology and Innovatio…
Dr Ben Kunbuor, Minister of Health on Wednesday
said Government and other stakeholders would tackle malaria through a preventive care rather than curative approach to reduce the burden of the disease on the economy.
This he said co…
Stable weather conditions are expected over the
country with bright and sunny atmosphere over most places, with the north expected to have dry conditions, according to the weather forecast issued by the Ghana Meteorological Agency in Acc…
The National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP),
has with immediate effect dismissed Abdul Samad Mohammed, Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai District
Co-ordinator for alleged sexual misconduct.
A statement issued in Accra on Wednesday by Chi…
Only one out of 17 pipe water systems installed in the Upper West Region at Busa in the Wa Municipality, is functioning properly at present.
Mr Worlanyo K. Siabi, Upper West Regional Director of the Community Water and Sanitation Ag…
The Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) has held itself ready to negotiate with the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) for the spread of allowances approved by the Commission under the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) to its worke…
The Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) has set up a new unit called the Department of Minimal Access Therapy and Operative Endoscope for simple operations.
The unit, which begun in September, undertakes an extended form of general surgeo…
Books and laboratory equipment are at the mercy of termites at the Queen of Peace Senior High School in Nadowli due to the lack of a library and a science laboratory where they could be stored and put to good use.
The books and labor…
A minority opinion contradicting a Supreme Court ruling that defined a civic group as an anti-state organization for its pro-North Korea activities stirred controversy Tuesday.
The top court in July handed down a ruling that outlawed t…
The Harbour City's branch of the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) has been inaugurated with a call on members to hold steadfast to the ideals of the Association to ensure its growth and development.
Mr Charles Habiah, Greater-A…
Dr James Clayman, the Medical Superintendent at the Ga West Municipal Hospital, on Tuesday said domestic violence affected the fertility of women especially when they are stressed.
He explained that when a woman experiences stress d…
The Akim Oda Magistrate Court in the Birim Central Municipality, has fined Kwaku Braimah, a farmer, GH�200 and another GH�300 as compensation to Madam Esi Aladiwa for stealing her 25 fowls.
Braimah who pleaded guilty to stealing …
Drama unfolded at the Takoradi Market Circle on Tuesday morning when a strange crow was whipped and set ablaze by market women and a evangelist who claimed the bird was a medium of someone's witchcraft.
Evangelist Nyame-Akwan of the …
The United Kingdom Government has announced 10 million pounds to Ghana to support the fight against malaria in the country through UKAid of the Department for International Development.
The amount would be used for the procurement an…
Nana Fanyinama III, Chief of Wangara (Wangara Wura), on Tuesday urged government to help promote traditional festivals to ensure that certain values and morals were upheld especially among the youth.
She said festivals were also a wa…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, on Tuesday appealed to the media and the judiciary to help save the Birim River from pollution to provide potable water to communities in the Akyem Abuakwa area.
He expressed regret …
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) in collaboration with the Moms Health Club, a keep fit club, organized health fitness walk for the staff of COCOBOD in Kumasi at the weekend.
More than 100 COCOBOD workers took part in the exercise covering a …
Three young men in their twenties, on Sunday, November 21, who went on a drinking spree from Agona Swedru to Ajumako ended up at the Ajumako District Hospital with one dead.
The dead body of Paul Kwabena Adjei, 24, has since been dep…
Ghana's Judiciary has taken an ambitious step to improve the efficiency of the country's legal system by seeking to automate all legal processes to facilitate a faster, efficient and transparent administration of justice acceptable to Ghan…