Mr John Tia Akolgo, the Minister of Information, has said the budget was to improve the livelihood of Ghanaians and to provide more developmental interventions.
Mr Akolgo said the budget had taken care of critical areas such as e…
The National Identification Authority (NIA) will soon start the production of the National Identification Cards, an official source in Accra said on Monday.
The source told the Ghana News Agency in an interview in Accra that it was r…
The District Chief Executive for Shama, Ms Emelia Arthur, has said 13 more communities in the Shama District would be connected to the national electricity grid next year.
She told the last meeting of the assembly that the communities t…
Mr Kwadwo Nyamekye-Marfo, Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, said contributions towards the socio-economic development of the region were always welcomed from members of the public.
He said it was an indisputable fact that government alon…
The International Olympic Committee is to investigate BBC claims of corruption against Fifa Vice-President Issa Hayatou, also an IOC member, it says.
It has asked the BBC to give any evidence of alleged bribery, following the screening of…
Participants at an international workshop on timber legality and local livelihoods, has called on the Government to review existing forestry laws and policies to ensure sanity in the industry.
According to them, the Forestry Commissio…
Mr. Ambrose Dery, the Member of Parliament for Lawra/Nandom, has said the hopes of people from the three northern regions about the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) promised them by the government were diminishing.
He…
The Executive Secretary of the African, Carribean and Pacific Group, has stressed the need for a balancing act to distribute Ghana oil benefits to meet the aspirations of the people in the Western Region.
Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas, said …
Ms Connie Hedegaard, the European Commissioner for Climate Action, has said the world has no choice but to complete the transition to low-carbon economy.
She noted that by 2050 there would be more than nine billion people on Earth and…
Mr Hayford Ababio, Chairman of the Brong-Ahafo Regional branch of the Ghana National Traditional Caterers Association has urged food vendors to prepare their meals under hygienic practices to avoid the outbreak of epidemics.
He said i…
University education can no longer be the sole responsibility of the government in these challenging times, Mr Alex Narah Tettey-Enyo, the Minister of Education, has said.
He said there was the need for collaboration and support of al…
Mr John Bosco Azigwe, Acting Rector of the Bolgatanga Polytechnic, has called for an integrated approach to reverse the trend of low enrolment of Science and Engineering students in the polytechnics.
This would ensure the proper dev…
The Convention Peoples Party (CPP) has called on the government to upgrade and convert the polytechnics into regional universities to award full technology and vocational bachelor and postgraduate degrees.
Professor Agyeman-Badu Akosa…
The Ghana Muslim Mission has inaugurated a number of projects built for the Islamic Basic School at New Suame and a senior high school at Ampabame, in Kumasi.
These include a six-classroom block, a borehole, mosque, washrooms and dorm…
The Government is sourcing a 4.7 million dollar World Bank loan to support engineering skills development relevant to the emerging oil and gas industry, Mr Alex Tettey Enyo, Education Minister, has said.
Two out of the three chosen i…
Madam Agnes Tawiah, a 55 year old trader, has been remanded in police custody by an Aflao Circuit Court for allegedly possessing substances suspected to be Indian Hemp.
Her plea was not taken and is to be brought before the Court agai…
The Ajumako District Magistrate Court presided over by Mr Kwesi Boakye Enimil, has sentenced a 32-year-old carpenter, Kwesi Abaka, to 15 months imprisonment in hard labour for stealing a pig valued at GH¢ 130.
He pleaded guilty to the …
Mr Joe Gidisu, Minister of Roads and Highways,
has cut the sod for work to begin on the 30-kilometres Ho-Nyive-Shia-Honuta road at the cost of the GHC22.1 million.
"The jinx on this road would be broken this time," he assured the c…
India's 20th nuclear power plant today became operational here taking the total installed atomic power capacity in the country to 4780 MW.
The indigenously-developed 220 MW capacity Unit 4 of the Kaiga Atomic Power Station attained …
Dennis Dzagbana, a 17-year-old Senior High
School student, is being held by the police for allegedly strangling his one-and-half year old daughter to death at Dzodze.
Dzagbana claimed he committed the crime to prevent his peers fro…
Mr Stephen Armah, Ashanti Regional Organiser of
the Ghana National Trust Fund (GNTF), has appealed to the public to support the Fund to enable it to fufil its mandate.
He said the Fund was established by the first President of Ghan…
The Government is to revamp science resource
centres in selected Senior High Schools throughout the country by training science teachers to man them.
It will also provide funds to replace and refurbish their equipment, chemicals, c…
The Ghana Aids Commission (GAC) with funding
from DANIDA, has presented seven flat screen computers and their accessories worth GH¢13,300 to the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council
to help to manage data of the Municipal and Dist…
Madam Betty Busumtwi-Sam, Deputy Western Regional Minister, has called on Queen mothers in the region to form an association to enable them to take their rightful place in the society.
She said an association would provide Queen moth…
A 400 year old tree, believed to be the oldest in the country, has become a tourist attraction in the Birim Municipality of the Eastern Region.
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, the Eastern Regional Minister, who disclosed this in Tamale said,…
Speakers at a forum at Gomoa Abrekum organized by International Needs Network, a non-governmental organization, have called for enforcement of the law on Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education to make parents liable for children who are…
A three-day Women's Leadership Conference of the Council of Anglican Province of Africa (CAPA) has been held at Dodowa in the Dangme West District.
It aimed at training women to become change agents at the grassroots towards the realiz…
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency says it has found a second drug-smuggling tunnel that stretches from Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego.
An entrance to the half-mile-long tunnel was discovered Thursday morning in a warehous…
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) is pursuing a public-private dialogue policy, aimed at bringing on board all stakeholders in the agriculture to address constraints hindering the development of the sector.
Mr Effah Baafi, …
The Volta River Authority (VRA) says the spillway gates of the Akosombo dam were closed on November 24, at 12.00 noon, to end the spillage of excess water from the reservoir.
A statement issued by Mrs Gertrude Koomson, Head of Public…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Friday appealed to Ghanaian medical professionals abroad to consider the sacrifices the nation made in training them and come back home to render their due to their countrymen.
He extended the natio…
Dr (Mrs) Angela El-Adas, Director-General of the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) has hinted that the Commission will from next year, set up Technical Support Units in all regions and districts in the country.
This, she said, would "facil…
The Chief of the Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Matthew Quarshie, on Friday said the Ghana Armed Forces High Command would soon establish a Forward Operational Base near Half Assini.
The Base will be in close proximity to the Jubilee Oil…
Sixty-six percent of U.S. voters think the country is headed in the wrong direction while 28 percent approve of its course, a national opinion poll indicated.
Forty-seven percent of black voters believe the country is headed in the right …
Although road safety remained a health and developmental challenge to most countries particularly Ghana, little attention is being paid to the sector, Alhaji Sumani Mbo, the Western Regional Director of the National Road Safety Commission,…
Marking the second anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks, Maharashtra Police Friday took out a parade in south Mumbai beginning from Oberoi Trident Hotel, one of the sites of the deadly strikes.
The parade, which was participated by…
The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) with funding
from the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) on Friday presented computers and their accessories to 18 assemblies in the Northern
Region to assist them in the HIV/AIDS data mana…
The Court trying two soldiers over the death of
former Chairman of Convention Peoples Party (CPP), has adjourned to enable the judge to rule on whether to hear the case with the old jury or not.
The Fast Track High Court presided o…
Fifteen people were killed in 67 road accidents that occurred in the Asante-Mampong Municipality within the first nine months of the year.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Benjamin Kwadwo Gyasi, Municipal Commander of the Motor …
Deputy General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Dr Anthony Yaw Baah, has urged labour associations to introduce pragmatic programmes that would improve the welfare of their members.
He gave the assurance that the leader…
Yao Flah, 23, a kente weaver, is to go prison for 12 months for having sex with a female sheep and killing it afterwards.
He pleaded guilty to the charges of an unnatural carnal knowledge and cruelty to an animal at a District Court …
Mrs Ruth Addison, National Coordinator of Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) of the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, has called for adequate budgetary allocation for effective implementation of the ECCD policy.
The EC…
Mr Kwadwo Nyamekye Marfo, Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister, has appealed to the Judiciary to assist the Police Anti-Human Trafficking Unit by
disposing off with dispatch cases of human trafficking before the law courts.
He said if cas…
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) in
collaboration with the management of Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) and WIENCO Ghana Limited would organise a National Farmers Forum as part of
activities marking this year's National…
The University of Ghana's branch of the Teachers
and Educational Workers Union (TEWU), on Thursday elected new officers with Mr Augustine Karbo, Leader of the New United Front emerging as Chairman with 5,182 votes.
Mr Nantogmah Abd…
The State Insurance Company (SIC) in Bolgatanga has presented the Bolgatanga Tennis Club with 45 T-Shirts and polo caps valued at 1,700 Ghana Cedis and a cheque for 1,000 Ghana cedis.
Mr Edward Annor-Bekoe, Upper East Regional branch ma…
Mr Nii Armah Ashietey, Greater Accra Regional Minister has expressed worry about the craving for foreign cultures and has called for the reversal of the situation and rather to promote the local ones.
He said there was the need to pr…
As part of its ongoing crackdown against Pakistan-based terror groups, US has slapped sanctions against more key Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders and its affiliate.
The senior LeT members, who have been designated as global terrorists are Mi…
Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture(MOFA), on Thursday said 30 dams and dugouts located in various areas in the three northern regions have been earmarked for rehabilitation.
The World Bank is funding the rehabilitation …
Madam Alexandra Totoe, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Volta River Authority (VRA) in-charge of Finance, on Thursday appealed to workers to help reinforce safety to ensure harmony and institutional development at the workplace.
She…