Mr Mohammed Ahmed Baba Jamal, Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, has noted that, for any developing Nation like Ghana to attain a middle income status, there is the need to give attention to the growth and development of the youth.
He…
Mr Philip Aheng-Mensah, Ashanti Regional Fire Officer, has underlined the need for intensification of fire safety education to bring down the incidence of fire outbreaks.
He said it was important to assist people to adopt fire prev…
The third Regional Ministers conference would be held in Ho, the Volta Regional capital from Tuesday, 7th to Sunday 12th September 2010.
The event would be opened with a durbar at the forecourt of the Residency of the Regional Minist…
The Kwaebibirem District Assembly with support from Government had initiated development projects to improve the standards of living of the people in the area.
The projects are being financed with the District Assembly Common Fund, G…
The Anglican Church has condemned human trafficking in the country and commended the security agencies for their alertness and commitment towards the eradication of such degrading practice.
The Church has called for a closer collabor…
Farmers in the country have been advised to abandon obsolete farming methods and adopt modern agricultural practices to boost food and livestock production for local consumption and export.
The Project Manager of the Adventist Develo…
Mr Emmanuel Simpson, the Volta Regional Auditor, on Thursday appealed to personnel of the Service to make their reports and general conduct inspire confidence and bring respect to the Service.
He said they could do this by adhering to…
The government has presented 26 outboard motors to fishermen in Winneba as part of its promise to help promote the fishing industry in the country.
The Effutu Municipal Chief Executive, Nii Ephraim, made the presentation at a durbar …
The activities of illegal gold miners in the Neung Forest Reserve and in the River Bonsa in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality dominated discussions at the assembly's sitting at Tarkwa on Wednesday.
Members said the illegal miners usual…
A resident of Wa has appealed to the government to consider reorganizing the "Kayayie" porters business properly and make it a profitable venture for national development.
Mr. Trenchard D. Youri said migration of labour was not an is…
A day's validation workshop to provide a platform for stakeholders to make valuable inputs into the draft national urban policy ended in Koforidua on Wednesday.
The workshop, which was organized by the Ministry of Local Government an…
Ignorance is the primary cause of poverty says Dr Adelina Effie Arkhurst, a Lecturer in Home Economic at the University of Education, Winneba, has said.
She said to reduce poverty a premium must be paid on education.
Delivering…
The World Vision Ghana, an international non-governmental organisation (NGO), has donated relief items worth about GH�1,200 to flood victims at Agona Kwanyaku in the Central Region.
Thirty families who were worse affected benefite…
A former District chief Executive forJomoro and Executive Director of the Centre for Social and Community Advancement, a non-governmental organisation, Mr Ketiboa Blay, has said that
by law the people of Jomoro District are not the exclus…
Mr Victor-Hermann Condobrey, the Hohoe Municipal
Chief Executive, has urged public sector auditors to rise above reproach in the discharge of their duties to safeguard the national purse from financial leakages.
He therefore called …
The Hohoe Municipal Assembly has handed over the
site for works to start on the paving of its main lorry park.
The project, being funded from the District Development Facility (DDF), is to be completed in nine months.
Mr Jame…
President John Evans Atta Mills has noted that
the 54 per cent of payments made by the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) on the cost of medicine for clients is unsustainable.
"This high expenditure on medicines alone poses…
A Circuit Court in Accra on Friday remanded into police custody Emmanuel Gbeti, a 28-year-old carpenter for allegedly defiling his landlady's 10 year old class three pupil at Weija.
Gbeti, who denied the charge, is expecte…
The Atwima-Mponua District Assembly has
presented 100 bags of cement and 68 bundles of roofing sheets in support of the rehabilitation of houses damaged by the recent rainstorm that hit the area.
A heavy downpour accompanied by stro…
Bibiani was on Thursday thrown into a state of shock, grief and disbelieve, as the residents woke up in the morning to find the lifeless body of 35-year old driver, Kwame Charles, dangling from a cocoa tree.
The wife, Adwoa Fosuaa, w…
The Ghana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) on Friday
called on the youth to be wary of political leaders, who used and dumped them after gaining power.
It called on them to use dialogue to express their opinions at all times to ensure p…
An eleven-member town Development Committee, was on Thursday inaugurated at Gomoa Awomberew to facilitate the development of the area.
The Committee headed by Mr John Kwame Quansah, would also enforce sanitation and communal labour b…
Mr Kempes Ofosuware, Tema Metropolitan Chief
Executive (MCE), has on behalf of the Assembly, presented GHC 1,000 and assorted drinks, towards this year�s Homowo Festival of the chiefs and
people of the Tema Traditional Council (TTC).
…
The Chiefs and people of Ga-Dangme lands have celebrated this year�s Asafotufiami Festival, under the theme: �Culture, A Platform For Unity And Development,� at a grand durbar held at
Bid Ada.
Dzetse Nene Abram Kabu Akuaku t…
Mrs Emma Boafo Yeboah, Founder of Country Side
Orphanage at Bawjiase in the Central Region, on Friday appealed to government and philanthropists for assistance to renew the National Health
Insurance premium for the inmates to enable them…
The Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA), on Friday presented the last part of relief items to the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), for onward distribution to flood victims in the Municipality.
The items, …
The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana has organized a free health outreach programme for about 12,000 people at Abono and its nearby communities along the Bosomtwe Lake, in the Bosomtwe District.
It formed part of the Society�s Diam…
Moses Wellington, 19, a notorious criminal on the
police wanted list in the Volta Region has been arrested by the police at Aflao.
Colleagues of the suspect, who allegedly became fed up of his criminal life, gave him up.
Mr. D…
The Brong-Ahafo Regional Secretariat of the Human Rights Reporters� Network (HRRN) has expressed disgust at recent attacks on journalists who were subjected to several forms of beatings in the course their constitutional duties in the re…
The District Chief Executive for Atwima Nwabiagya, Nana Asare Bediako, has pledged the district assembly's resolve to put in more resources to create the right conditions for effective academic work in schools in the area.
He sa…
Mr. Kwadwo Agyei-Dwomor, Nkoranza North District Chief Executive, has said the government would continue to place high premium on education since it is the bedrock of every nation�s development.
Mr. Agyei-Dwomor said this when he …
The Management of Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), on Wednesday said it had suspended the sale of SSNIT Workers Housing throughout the country with immediate effect.
A statement issued by the management in Accra …
A Public Relations and Sports Marketing Consultant, Magnus Rex Danquah, has stressed on the need for an economic impact assessment of sports for a fuller appreciation of the role of sports as an instrument for national development.
R…
The Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing has rolled-out an elaborate plan to facilitate a smooth take off of the STX Housing Project nationwide.
A statement issued in Accra on Wednesday and signed by Mr Alban S.K. Bagbin, t…
Mrs. Dorothy Gordon, Director-General of Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence, on Wednesday called on the Ghana Education Service to introduce a subject in secondary schools that would assist students to solve their problems.
…
The resident pastor of the Nsawam branch of the Christ Resurrection Church (CRC), Rev Joseph Emmanuel Mensah, on Wednesday, presented food items and a quantity of bed sheets, valued at about GHc500, on behalf of the church, to the Nsawam h…
Former President Jerry John Rawlings and wife, Nana Konadu, on Wednesday urged Muslims, to use this year�s Ramadan to promote and enhance unity and strength of all communities by praying for love and peace.
In a statement issued in…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday donated two Dell computers and their accessories to the secretariat of Kayeye Association in Accra with a call on them to create a database for their members.
He said the creation of a da…
A 33-year old driver, has been ordered by a Kumasi Circuit Court, to pay a fine of GH�240.00, for knocking down a 54-year old man with his vehicle.
Adomako Mensah would in default serve a six-month prison term.
He pleaded gui…
The Cities of Charlottesville in Virginia, USA and Winneba in the Central Region of Ghana, have signed Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of a sister-city relationship aimed at a long standing, comprehensive and mutually ben…
Accra, Ghana, 12 August 2010 - African heads of state, industry representatives, the international donor community and farmers will meet in Ghana at the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in the first week of September. Delegates will c…
Best known as the daughters of Run-DMC's Rev. Run, Vanessa and Angela Simmons have literally grown up on MTV. Across six seasons of Run's House and in the first season of Daddy's Girls, DStv viewers have watched them begin to make their ow…
The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) has organised a free health outreach programme at Abono and surrounding communities in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region, as part of its
Diamond Jubilee celebration.
The exercise…
Fifty-one drivers from the Ghana Prisons Service
establishment through out the country ended three-day training in driving management science and road safety in Accra.
The participants were taken through topics including drivers'…
The Disaster Volunteers Group (DVG) in the
Akuapim South Municipality, has cultivated ten acres of cassava and maize in Dego, Djatsui and Pakro communities in the municipality.
Briefing the Ghana News Agency on Wednesday, after insp…
Vodafone Ghana, on Wednesday held a capacity
building workshop on health, safety, and wellbeing for its employees, suppliers and contractors to ensure the effective delivery of the company�s health and safety policy.
The workshop…
Mr Ebenerzer Nii Armarh Tackie, Ga West Municipal Chief Executive, has reiterated the need for developers, chiefs and landlords to stop putting up buildings on water ways in the municipality.
Nii Armarh Tackie made the call on Tuesda…
A 30-year-old driver, Salasi Danko, arrested with
14 parcels of substances suspected to be narcotic drugs, on Wednesday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court.
Danko pleaded not guilty to possessing narcotic drugs without lawful au…
The United Nations Department of Public Information (UNDPI) on Wednesday held a day�s conference with Coalition of NGOs affiliated to the UN to discuss topical issues.
The annual conference is a prelude to global conference schedu…
An abandoned GH�50,000 block to house the
reproductive and child health unit of the Nyinahin Government Hospital has been given a new lease of life following intervention by Milicom Ghana Limited, operators of TIGO.
The company is …