Mr Babal Jamal, the Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, joined hundreds of Muslims to celebrate this year's Eid-Ul-Fitr festival at the Koforidua Central Mosque.
The mosque was filled to capacity as Muslims from all walks of life appea…
A Circuit Court in Asamankese, on Thursday remanded Nathan Ayittey, 25-year-old driver's mate, into prison custody for allegedly killing her girl friend through an abortion.
He is believed to have inserted concoction into the private…
The Kwahu-West Municipal Assembly, on Friday presented a quantity of items to Muslims in the area towards the celebration of the Eid-Ul-Fitr festival.
The items include 30 bags of rice, 15 cartons of cooking oil, 10 cartons of tomato…
Assembly Members and other opinion leaders in the Kwahu-West Municipal have been asked to support the 2010 Population and Housing Census, which commences on September 26.
Mr John Tetteh, Kwahu-West Municipal Officer of the Statistic…
Passion for Needy, a charitable organization, set up by Prophet T.B Joshua, Head Pastor, Synagogue Church of All Nations, on Thursday donated food items worth GHc10,500 to Muslims in Accra.
The items, which would be distributed to th…
The government said Friday that it will give women the right to ask for fewer work hours so they can better raise their children as part of South Korea's ongoing efforts to bolster the low
birthrate.
The 2011-2015 plan to encourage ha…
South Korea's Red Cross said it handed over the body of a North Korean woman on Friday to the North's authorities after it was found earlier this week in a border river swollen by rains.
The woman was believed to be in her late 40s, th…
Muslims in south Indian state Kerala celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr on Friday, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramzan.
People congregated in large numbers in the mosques and Eidgahs across the state, where special prayers for Eid we…
In a goodwill gesture on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr, India on Friday announced the release of 85 Pakistani prisoners, most of them fishermen lodged in various jails in the country.
"On Sep 9, orders have been issued releasing 58 fishermen…
Mr. Paul Evans Aidoo, the Western Regional Minister, on Friday, advised Muslims to adopt lifestyles acceptable to Islam.
He gave the advice at the celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr by orthodox Muslims at Takoradi.
Mr. Aidoo said Musli…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Cape Coast, Mr. Ebo Barton-Odro, on Friday, joined hundreds of orthodox Muslims in the Cape Coast Metropolis, to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr, the Feast of Ramadan, in Cape Coast.
Addressing them later at …
An NGO in the health sector, Health Promotion
Watch, Ghana, on Thursday called for the repeal of the law criminalising attempted suicide and the promotion of public awareness that suicide is a public health problem while many suicides are…
Mrs Ruchi Ghanashyam, Indian High Commissioner
to Ghana, has observed that India and Ghana's 50 years bilateral ties had been tremendous but still needed to be spiced-up for mutual benefit.
"We still have a lot more to do in the eco…
A total of 50 Community Education Teaching
Assistants (CETA), recruited under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) in the Keta Municipal Area, have ended a three week training
programme and ready for postings.
The recruit…
The Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), would from 2011 standardize all qualification and training of Technical and Vocational Education Training
(TVET) in the country.
This would enable people unde…
Two Ghanaian workers of China Jiangxi International Company (CJIC), the Chinese firm constructing the Akatsi-Tadzewu-Dzodze highway, have been run over and killed by the company's tipper truck at a pit at Metsrikasa near Dzodze.
They a…
South Korea will begin mass production of electric vehicles next year, ahead of its earlier schedule, and provide financial support for government use to promote sales of emission-less vehicles, the government said Thursday.
The move c…
Staffan de Mistura, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative to Afghanistan on Thursday, condemned the threat by a religious group in the United States to burn copies of the Koran, warning that it could endanger the lives of peac…
A circuit court at Akim Swedru in the Birim South District presided over by Mr Kofi Akrowiah, on Thursday sentenced a 27-year-old unemployed to three years imprisonment for biting the right thumb of his brother and nearly damaging his head…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Thursday congratulated Muslims for successfully going through the month of prayer and fasting and wished them a happy Eid-Ul-Fitr celebration.
In an official statement issued in Accra, the ND…
The National Church Choirs Union of the Global Evangelical Church, has begun its triennial rally for the year 2010 on the theme: �A Choir after God�s Own Heart - A Tool for Church Growth�.
Reverend Samuel Dumevi, Inter-Church R…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Thursday presented 30 bags of rice and three cartons of cooking oil to three Muslim organisations separately in Accra.
The items were sent to the residence of the National Chief Imam at New Fadama a…
Two women and a man on Thursday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly performing an illegal abortion at a hotel at Anyaa an Accra suburb.
Clement Fameye Akesseh, a nursing assistant, Rebecca Adu and Cecilia Adu, sister…
Mr Abukari Amadu, an employee of First Allied Savings and Loans Company and former Chief Attendant at the Gbewaa Palace at Yendi, on Thursday testified in the Ya Na murder trial at an Accra Fast Track High Court.
Fourteen persons are…
The National Labour Commission (NLC) has directed
the Polytechnic Teachers� Association of Ghana (POTAG) to call off its strike action immediately and return to normal duties.
In addition, the parties in dispute � National POTAG…
Thomas Boateng, a building contractor, who posed as a Warrant Officer Class One (WO1), in the Ghana Army, has defrauded three people of GH�1,350.00, under the pretext of securing them job at TV3 in Accra, has been remanded in prison cust…
Mr Stephen Bekoe, Assembly member for Anum Apapam North electoral area, has appealed to the Department of Feeder Roads (DFR) and the Suhum Kraboa-Coaltar District Assembly (SKCDA), to urgently rehabilitate the poor sections of the Anum Apa…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional
Integration, has requested relatives of Mr Ibrahim Yakubu, a Ghanaian resident in Conakry, Guinea to urgently contact the Legal and Consular
Bureau of the Ministry for an important message.
…
It would be "premature" to resume the stalled six-party denuclearization talks before North Korea admits its responsibility for its belligerent behavior and is made to pay a penalty, a former U.S. defense secretary said Thursday.
"I th…
South Korea has ample "experiences" in green growth strategies and should take the initiative in global efforts toward promoting economic growth with low pollution and increases in uses of renewable energies, a U.N. official said Thursday.…
South Korean health authorities said Thursday that they have confirmed the first case of potentially deadly Japanese encephalitis in the country this year.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said a 71-year-old …
The Keta Municipal Assembly has donated food items, sugar and cooking oil and poly mats to Moslems in the area in support of the oncoming Eid-ul-Fitr festival.
Three bags each of maize, rice and beans, a bag of sugar, two gallons of v…
The Agona Swedru high court has fixed September 15 to rule on the motion filed by Supi Abeka Kuntu and two others to pray the court to restrain the Paramount Chief and Queen Mother of
Mankessim from taking part in the celebration of the …
The Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central, Mr Opam Brown Akolbire, has appealed to the Food and Agriculture and Energy ministries to consider building g a dam that would serve as a reservoir in the Upper East Region to harvest spille…
The Adjabeng Court '1' on Wednesday issued a bench
warrant for the arrest of Pastor Victor Annan of the Faith Demonstration Ministry International at Darkuman for failing to appear in court to answer
charges of excessive noise making by …
The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, has appealed to District, Municipal and Metropolitan Chief Executives to supervise the financial administration of their assemblies to avoid embarrassment.
…
Mr Robert Amoako Nkrumah, a 57 year-old
electrical contractor and an aspiring Assembly Member for Ahenboboano Electoral Area, on Thursday appealed to the electorate to vote for him in the up-coming district assembly elections.
He sa…
The Director of the German National Office of Plan International, a child-centred community development organisation, Ms Andrea Paffgen, is on a four-day visit to Ghana.
Ms Paffgen who took up that appointment about a week ago (1st S…
South Korea's population increase rate was one of the lowest among Asian countries in 2009, mainly due to a decrease in newborn babies, a report by the Asia Development Bank said Thursday.
The report cited by the finance ministry said …
About 30 per cent of taxis in Ho are off the road in view of the shortage of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) for the past few weeks, Mr Wisdom Adraku, Chairman of Ho Taxi Drivers Union, told the GNA in Ho on Thursday.
He said the situ…
Health providers have been urged to strive to provide quality health care service to patients, to redeem the image of the medical profession.
Mrs. Grace Mary Adzaklo, Deputy Director, Nursing Services of the Brong-Ahafo Regional Dire…
The Ghana Media Advocacy Programme (G-MAP), a child rights non-governmental organization (NGO), has called on individuals, organisations and Government to consider children as the country's most valuable asset, and take concrete steps to e…
Total Ghana on Thursday launched activities to
mark 50 years of the company's operations in the country.
The golden jubilee celebrations, which will run over the next three months to December, include planned activities such as a corp…
Mr Bismark Doku-Nettey, a former acting chairman of the Premix Committee, has expressed his dissatisfaction with the frequent allusion to mismanagement and embezzlement of revenue from premix fuel by past managers of the produce.
…
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP), South Korea's state-run electric power resources developer, said Friday it has raised US$500 million by selling global bonds to fund its overseas resources development projects.
The five-year bo…
A one-year-old girl died instantly when, due to excessive downpour, the wall of a room collapsed on a family at Satinde, a farming community in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region.
The mother of the child, Felicia Awini,…
Sheikh Mohammed Amin, Ashanti Regional Deputy
Imam of the Al-suna Wal Jamaa, a Muslim religious sect, has expressed concern about the increasing conflicts among Muslims and said this has
impeded the socio-economic development of the nati…
The National Spiritual Assembly (NSA) of Baha'is of Ghana, on Friday appealed to the Iranian Government to rescind the unfair prison sentence on seven members in Iran in June this year.
In addition, the Assembly called for the immed…
Mrs Theresa Adomako Tawiah, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Atwima-Mponua in the Ashanti Region, has donated 550 mats, worth GH�3,000, to be distributed to all muslim communities in the district, for prayers during the Euid-Il-Fitr fe…
The Women�s Home and Overseas Missionary Society of the A.M.E Zion Church (West Ghana Conference), on Thursday, donated food items and detergents, worth GH�700.00, to AIDS patients at the Central Regional Hospital.
The items, inc…