Judges and Magistrates have served notice to withdraw their services beginning November 21 if issues bordering on their 10 per cent adjustment of salaries are not addressed.
In a letter notifying the Chief Justice and copied to the Chi…
Ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor and four other prominent Ghanaians have been honoured with Membership into the University of Ghana Alumni Association.
At the 28th Alumni Lecture on Thursday, Professor Akilagpa Sawyerr, former Vice Chan…
Did President-elect Donald Trump really call Africans "lazy fools"? The BBC's Dickens Olewe looks at six comments he allegedly made about Africa which are doing the rounds on the internet.
'Africans are lazy fools only good at eating, lov…
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women, regardless of ethnicity or race. Previous research has suggested that vitamin D may have a positive effect in anticancer therapy, and a new study correlates breast cancer survival r…
The sensation of pain occurs when neural pathways conduct excitation generated by tissue damage to the spinal cord, where the nociceptive information is extensively pre-processed. From there, the information is transmitted to the human bra…
Chinese internet conglomerate Alibaba singlehandedly created the world's biggest online shopping event known as Singles Day. Now it's looking to change how people shop, but this is not without its challenges, reports the BBC's Tessa Wong.
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The BBC has confirmed it will launch a new virtual reality film, The Turning Forest, next week.
The fairy tale will be made available for free on Daydream, Google's mobile virtual reality product.
Daydream is a mobile headset which c…
The number of deaths from measles has fallen by 79 percent worldwide since 2000, thanks mainly to mass vaccination campaigns, but nearly 400 children still die from the disease every day, global health experts said on Thursday.
In a rep…
A person's chances of falling ill from a new strain of flu are at least partly determined by the first strain they ever encountered, a study suggests.
Research in Science journal looked at the 18 strains of influenza A and the hemagglut…
Mrs Margaret Akparibo, the Headmistress of the Gowrie Senior High/ Technical School in the Bongo District, has appealed to the the Ministry of Education to fast-track the completion of projects in the school. She said some of the ongoi…
Mr Prosper Bani, the Minister of the Interior, has reaffirmed government’s commitment to ensure peace, security and stability in the December 7 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.
“The state of the security of this country is very…
Officials of institutions responsible for processing personal information (data controllers) of the public have been given up to December 1, to register with the Data Protection Commission (DPC) or face prosecution.
According to Dr Her…
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the Volta Region, says it is positioned for more success stories for its consumers in 2017 as compared to the “turbulent” start of 2016.
Mr Joseph Mensah Forson, Regional Manager of the Company,…
Commander JSK Dzamefe, the Chairperson of the Board of Governors of the 37 Nursing and Midwifery Training College (NMTC), has charged parents to take interest in their children’s education.
He said parents needed not to only pay their c…
A two-day e-government workshop to deliberate on digital economy programmes has opened in Accra to foster government approach to e-government implementation in Ghana.
Organised by the National Information Technology Agency (NITA), the w…
Stakeholders in the media industry have held a forum on the new Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) code of ethics to identify any rough edges and fine-tune it to reflect current journalistic practice.
The forum brought together GJA mem…
Mr Oti Bless, a Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development and Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, a Deputy Minister of Education in-charge of Tertiary led the National Sanitation Day (NSD) exercise held in Juapong in the North Tong…
Media professionals have been urged to carry out their professional duty with diligence and circumspection in their reportage on environmental protection and the fight against climate change.
Delegates and experts at the ongoing Confere…
The 2016 edition of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Alumini homecoming, has been launched with a call on Ghanaians to go into the general election as one people and come out as one family.
Mr Norman Y…
Professor Emmanuel Asante, the Chairman of the National Peace Council, has launched a book titled; "Managing Election-Related Conflict and Violence for Democratic Stability in Ghana II".
The 196-page book was produced by the Kofi Annan …
An estimated 80 per cent of children in orphanages across the Brong-Ahafo Region has been found not to be orphans but there because of poverty. Mr. Patrick Acheampong, the Deputy Regional Director of the Department of Social Welfare (D…
More than three million Ghanaians are currently living with diabetes, the President of the National Diabetes Association of Ghana, Mrs Elizabeth Esi Denyoh, has said.
According to her, the number of diabetic patients continued to rise …
According to health experts, cervical, breast, liver, and prostate, are the leading types of cancer, recorded among the about 16,000 new cases of cancer that occur in the country annually.
At a three-day free screening services offered…
Ghana's high life artiste of the year, Bisa Kdei and VP record act, Patoranking are about to release their first ever High Life-Dancehall collaboration this month.
The party song titled Life will inspire, motivate and give one a million…
Cloud traffic is expected to rise 3.7-fold to 14.1 ZB per year by 2020 from 3.9 ZB per year in 2015, according to a study by Cisco. This rapid growth of cloud traffic is attributed to increased migration to cloud architectures due to their…
Adult Americans who regularly consumed sugar-sweetened beverages (roughly one can of soda per day) had a 46 percent higher risk of developing prediabetes compared to low- or non-consumers over a 14-year period, according to a new epidemiol…
It is official. Women have better memories than men. In a study published in the journal Menopause, women aged 45-55 years performed better in all memory measures, despite experiencing a decline around the menopause.
About 75 percent of…
An implant that beams instructions out of the brain has been used to restore movement in paralysed primates for the first time, say scientists.
Rhesus monkeys were paralysed in one leg due to a damaged spinal cord.
The team at the Sw…
Ivory Coast's government has banned the production, importation and sale of alcohol in sachets on health grounds.
The small plastic bags, containing rum, vodka or other spirits, are popular with those on a budget - costing between $0.35…
About 16,000 new cases of cancer occur in the country annually, with liver, breast, cervical and prostate, being the leading types, the Head of the Physiotherapy Department of the University of Ghana, Dr Ajediran I. Bello, has stated.
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African university curriculum must encouraged students to create their own entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial skills to be relevant in the field of work, Mr Austin Okere, Founder of Computer Warehouse Group, has said.
Mr Okere said int…
Nurses in some public health facilities in the Greater Accra Region have withdrawn services to patients who call at the Out-patients Departments (OPDs) as part of a road map to back their demand for better working conditions.
Yesterday,…
The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with ENI Ghana Exploration and Production Limited to explore opportunities in the renewable energy sector.
Under the agreement, a solar…
A medical team from the Boston Children’s Hospital in the USA has carried out free surgeries on 12 children at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi to correct heart defects.
Each of the beneficiaries would have paid at …
The US Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Robert P. Jackson, has stated that the US focus, will continue to be supporting a prosperous and democratic Ghana under President-Elect, Donald Trump.
He said the US and Ghana would continue to work togeth…
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced the third call for proposals of research into non-communicable diseases (NCD’s) in Ghana and the sub-Saharan Africa. The move which forms part of the Africa NCD Open Lab this week is to strengthen the co…
The Chinese Government has presented a cheque for an undisclosed amount of money to the Lordina Foundation to acquire start-up tools to support artisans in the rural areas of Ghana.
The cheque was presented by Ms Sun Boa Hong, the Chine…
The Kwame Nkrumah interchange would be opened to vehicular and pedestrian traffic on Monday, November 14, 2016. A statement issued from the Ministry of Roads and Highways copied to the Ghana News Agency, said the opening was necessary to r…
About 495,000 households in the Northern and Upper East Regions are expected to be enumerated in 2017 as part of the phase two process of the Ghana National Household Registry.
Mr Robert Austin, the National Coordinator of the Ghana …
The Northern Regional Health Directorate has made a giant stride in the fight against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence among pregnant women in the region.
According to the Board Chairman of the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH…
On the 29th October, 2016, SG Cancer Foundation organized an event in Osu, (Oxford Street) Ghana, distributing fliers and educating women on breast cancer.
Breast cancer is a malignant tumor that forms in the cells of the breast. Althou…
Global engineering and infrastructure advisory company Aurecon was recognised for its outstanding contributions to the civil engineering profession at the South African Institute of Civil Engineers-South African Forum of Civil Engineering …
Korea Food for the Hungry International (KFHI) has donated foot-wear to some school children and staff of Zoomlion Company Limited, a waste management company, in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region.
The items which were receive…
Mr Prosper Bani, Minister of the Interior has called for the prevention of global terrorism as a productive path way of combating campaign.He said globally organising resources for terrorism prevention was very difficult to come by, howe…
The 2016 World State Report has called for investment in girl’s education, health, and leadership skills to enable them to fully realise their potential to harness the nation’s demographic dividend.
The report shows how 10-year-old gir…
SEND-Ghana has entreated the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and the District Development Facility (DDF) to accelerate the disbursement of funds to district assemblies to ensure full implementation of the District Assemb…
The Ghana Society of Radiographers (GSR) has called on the Allied Health Professions Council to engage the law enforcement agencies to rid health facilities and imaging centres of unqualified individuals providing radiographic services.
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The Ashanti Regional Director of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mrs. Mercy Larbi, has called for concerted effort to give more protection to children – shield them from abuse and forced marriage.
She…
Students of the Bolgatanga Nurses Training College (BNTC) have been urged to eschew violence and act as peace ambassadors in the coming elections.
The students were at the launch of the College’s 19th Ghana Nurses and Midwives Trainees …
The Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai District Assembly has been selected to benefit from a funding support package from the European Union (EU) to grow the area’s agriculture, Mr. Jacob Ware, the District Chief Executive (DCE), has announced.
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