The government has since January 2009 awarded a total of 257 projects, covering all developmental sector of the Upper West Region, on contract at an estimated cost of GH¢55,239,600.51.
The nine Municipal and district Assemblies has a…
The German Federal Minister for Economic Co-operation and Development, Mr Dirk Niebel, has inaugurated a Community Health Planning and Services (CHPS) with accommodation for a nurse at Gomoa Assin near Apam.
CHPS is a community-base…
The immediate past Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG), the Rt Rev Dr Yaw Frimpong-Manso, has appealed to African leaders to step up diplomatic efforts at helping to calm the growing political tensio…
An unemployed woman, Yaa Adomaa, on Wednesday appeared before the Kade District Magistrate Court charged with conspiracy to commit crime and defrauding by false pretences.
Adomaa had been remanded into prison custody to reappear on D…
The government was not behind Tuesday's raid of the offices of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), the Minister of Youth and Sports, Ms Akua Sena Dansua, said on Wednesday.
"The act…
Samsung Group promoted Chairman Lee Kun-hee's younger daughter on Wednesday in its latest management overhaul to tighten the founding family's grip over South Korea's largest business conglomerate.
Lee Seo-hyun, 37, also a granddaughte…
Mr Kwame Osei-Prempeh, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Subsidiary Legislation, on Monday observed that the lack of legislation on succession to stools/skins accounts for most chieftaincy disputes in the country.
He said as…
The Ministry of Foreign Affaires and Regional
Integration in collaboration with stakeholders would organise a State-assisted funeral for the Ghanaian victims of the July 2005 killings in
the Gambia on Friday, December 10 in Accra.
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The Eastern Regional Branch of the Ghana
Pensioners Association has donated 10 wheelchairs at a cost of GH¢ 2,000 to the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua.
The Regional chairman, Mr Emmanuel Berkyi Darkwah, said the donation w…
The Birim Central Municipal Long Lasting Insecticide Nets Project has been launched at Akyem Batabi with a caution to people not to sell the nets or to use them as pillows.
Ms Ophelia Koomson, Birim Central Municipal Chief Executive (…
Mr Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah, MP for Ho West, on Wednesday called on Parliament to support the efforts of Patricia Mawuli Nyekodzi, the 22 year old ROTAX Aircraft Engineer who had built an
operational aircraft.
Speaking on the floor o…
Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited (MKCL), an Indian Information Technology organisation, in collaboration with INGA Group (Ghana), a project investment company, is set to extend its services to the underprivileged in Ghana.
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Mr Ralph Nyadu-Addo, a lecturer and Business Development Officer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has been appointed the President of the newly
established African Small Enterprise Promotion Network (ASE…
Virginia State Police say they have surveillance video from a Walmart in Salem of missing 12-year-old Brittany Mae Smith with 32-year-old Jeffrey Scott Easley.
The Roanoke County girl has been missing since her mother, Tina Smith, was fou…
Six people accused of the murder of a Police Constable in Kumasi, were denied bail when they appeared before a Kumasi Circuit Court on Wednesday, presided over by Mr Justice Emmanuel Amoh-Yartey.
The pleas of Mohammed Muftau, 27, Al…
Gilbert Ray Agbenyegah, 63, a retired teacher and his fiancée, Rejoice Donkor, 44, have been convicted by an Aflao Circuit Court for stealing 13,500 Ghana Cedis being Social Security benefits of his late wife Ophelia Ametefe.
The cou…
Cracks have developed among the developing countries including the BASIC group on accepting
legally binding emission cut at the climate change conference here, with India saying there is concerted pressue on it and China to accept such cu…
The Management of Aqua Vitens Rand Ltd (AVRL) on
Thursday said the current erratic water supply to customers in the western parts of Accra served by the Weija Treatment Plant had been caused primarily by disruptions to power supply.
…
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture has introduced three new varieties of cassava that yielded between 43-49 tons per hectare as compared to the local varieties that yield between 10-15 tones per hectare.
They are Bankehema, Akabon,…
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of National
Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has called on students to remain calm as the structures of the union would continue to work towards safeguarding their educational and civil rights.
…
The Assin North Municipal Assembly has said it is committed to the development of the manpower needs of the area and had taken steps to empower the youth with vocational skills.
To this end, the Assembly has initiated a programme to …
St Louis Senior High School on Thursday made its
Ashanti Region proud when the school won the 2010 Project Citizen Ghana National Showcase award in Accra.
Project Citizen is a portfolio-based interdisciplinary civic education progra…
Neurotic people have difficulty with relationships and marriage but U.S. researchers say if neurotic newlyweds have lots of sex, marital satisfaction is high.
Michelle Russell and James McNulty of the University of Tennessee say neurotici…
Mr Michael Kobla Adzaho, Adaklu Anyigbe District Chief Executive has inaugurated a GH¢43,037 three-unit classroom block fitted with ceiling fans for Adaklu Senior High School at Adaklu Waya.
The project initiated by Adaklu University St…
Russia's top commander Tuesday embarked on a three-day visit to India to discuss bilateral military cooperation and deepen services to-services interaction.
Chief of the Russian General Staff, Army General Nikolai Makarov Tuesday left…
Princess Debisi Sosan, Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Nigeria, on Tuesday led a three-member delegation to understudy the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP).
Addressing newsmen at the GSFP Secretariat, she said, although Nigeria …
Mr Gong Jianzhong, Chinese Ambassador to Ghana has presented construction equipment to the 48 Engineer Regiment of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF).
They included two motorised graders, two wheel loaders, two bulldozers, an excavator, fi…
Leading Ghanaian Waste Management Company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, has been awarded the "Leadership in Industry" prize at the Millennium Excellence Awards.
The company was among 29 institutions and personalities nominated for the awa…
An Accra Fast Track High Court on Tuesday ordered the Military to place in prison custody two soldiers accused of murdering Alhaji Issa Mobila, the former Northern Regional Chairman of the Convention People's Party.
The court preside…
Pig farmers in the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai District are being assisted with credit to expand their pigpens and increase the animal population under the Community Based Rural Development Project (CBRDP).
Mr Moses Kofi Armah, the Dist…
Only 15,286 out of 48,000 TB cases are reported in hospitals in Ghana in 2009, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report on Tuberculosis in Ghana has said.
This is due to the stigma associated with contraction of the disease and the p…
A Principal Rent Officer at the Rent Control Department in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, Mr. Twum Ampofo, has said the oil discovery in the Western Region had turn local landlords into shylocks.
He said complaints lodged at the de…
A stakeholder meeting of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) in Bolgatanga, has expressed concern about the inadequate number of teachers and school infrastructure in the Upper East Region.
The meeting attended by local actors …
The Vice President of Ghana Journalists Association(GJA), Mr Affail Money on Tuesday asked journalists to should ensure that the rough edges of news concerning children was trimmed before it was put into the public domain.
This, he …
Professor Sulemana Al-Hassan, Head of the Mining Department of the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), has observed that inability of the youth to secure jobs was due to their lack of employable skills.
He said there were a nu…
Mr. Alfred Baku, General Manager of Goldfields Ghana Limited (GGL) said the high local senior staff turnover will not discourage management in its desire to equip its human resource.
He said most of these senior local employees after…
People living around forest fringe communities, have been encouraged to be more alert and help to bring to justice those ruining the forests through illegal timber cutting.
Mr Obed Owusu Addai, a tropical Forest Researcher, said peo…
A non-governmental organisation on Tuesday criticised the government for the quit order given to people occupying land near the railway lines.
Women in Slums Economic Empowerment Ghana (WISEP) said although the government's railway e…
Mr Patrick Timbillah, Ashanti Regional Police Commander, has renewed his appeal to the public tovolunteer information that will lead to the arrest of criminals in the society.
He said it was important for people to accept responsibil…
More than 80 blind and partially sighted women through out the country have been trained in employable skills to help them lead economically independent lives.
Madam Cecelia Bartholomew, National President of the women's wing of the …
Although the laws of the country allows freedom of worship and association, there is the need for spiritual leaders to use time tested principles in their healing processes to protect human life, says Eastern Regional Minister.
Mr Sa…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkawkaw, Mr Seth Adjei-Baah, has presented 5,000 exercise books worth GH¢300 for distribution to the 1,700 students of Nkawkaw Senior High School to enhance teaching and learning.
He said it was his …
Members of the Christian Women Intercessors Fellowship (CWIF), at the weekend held an intercessory prayer session as part of activities marking its 10th Anniversary celebrations.
It on the theme: "Christian Women in Development-Enf…
The International Energy Agency (IEA) an inter-governmental organisation has called on countries worldwide to step up efforts to implement clean energy solutions.
IEA acts as energy policy advisor to some 28- member countries in thei…
Eighteen pupils of the Presbyterian Primary School at Asuboa South near Akim Oda have been given bags for their brilliant academic performance.
Making the presentation Madam Comfort Nkansah, a citizen of the town, said she gave the …
A Principal Rent Officer at the Rent Control
Department, Mr. Twum Ampofo, has said the Department had received several complaints from tenants that they were being ejected from their rooms by landlords and landladies following the oil di…
The Wa Satellite Peace Center (SPC) has inaugurated its second Peace Club at the Nandom Senior High School with a call on the youth to avoid violence and conflicts but promote peace to
foster development.
Mr Cezar Kale, Deputy Uppe…
An Accra Fast Track High Court on Tuesday granted
an application for directions filed by 84 former National Security personnel under the former NPP administration whose appointments were terminated by the NDC Government.
The court,…
The Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC)
has vowed to crack down on under-aged commercial drivers in the region.
A statement signed by the Regional Coordinating Director, Mr S. O. Kusi-Appiah, said it was an offence under Se…
Kumasi Polytechnic has added Bachelor of Technology degree in civil engineering and building technology to its academic courses,
the Rector, Prof Nicholas Nicodemus Nana Nsowah-Nuamah, has said.
He said by the end of next year, most o…