Ms Florence Owusua Afriyie, a hairdresser, on
Monday donated GHC 1,000 towards the upkeep of Marvelyn Ohemen Marfo, a hole-in-heart child, at Madina in Accra.
Presenting the amount Ms Afriyie said the money was not enough for the u…
The Ho Central branch of the Apostles
Revelation Society, on Monday paid to release from the Ho Women Prison, two babies and their mothers.
The Society, which is a Church, paid a total of GH�980 as total fines and compe…
The West African Examination Council (WAEC), on
Monday said it had released provisional results of the April 2010 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
A statement issued in Accra and signed by Mrs Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, Prin…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama, on Monday said
Government was not interested in muzzling the press and had no hand in the police debacle with the managements of Joy FM and the Ghanaian Times.
�We are not interested in seeing jo…
A Circuit Court in Accra on Monday sentenced a
student Nana Yaw Tuffuor to 24 years imprisonment for conspiracy and robbery.
Tuffuor who pleaded not guilty allegedly robbed Madam Hetty Ayittey a caterer at gun point of her three mob…
Mr Epsona Ayamga, Municipal Chief Executive
(MCE) of the Bolgatanga Assembly in the Upper East Region said education was one of the major tools that could combat poverty in the three northern regions.
The MCE, who said this at the G…
The Ghana Scout Association (GSA) has appealed to
the Police Administration to intervene in what it described as constant fear and robbery attacks at the Baiden Powell area near Bank of Ghana in Accra.
The Association said there hav…
Mr John Tia Akologu, Minister of Information, on
Monday inaugurated a 10-member Ministerial Advisory Board for the Ministry to ensure its smooth operation and promote good governance.
The Board would be chaired by the Minister, bac…
Superintendent of Police Mrs Debora Addison-Campbell of the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU), has expressed concern about the high level of indiscipline among pedestrians in the country.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Ac…
Parliament on Monday passed the Organized Crime
bill which seeks to establish a comprehensive legal framework to monitor, investigate and facilitate the prosecution of organized crime.
It is also to ensure the recovery of proceeds of…
Professor Clifford Nii Boi Tagoe, Vice-Chancellor
of University of Ghana (UG), on Friday inaugurated science laboratory equipment for three departments to help improve academic performance.
In addition a residential facility was ina…
A Senior Health Practitioner on Friday proposed
the establishment of a fund for the compensation of victims of medical accident or negligence.
Dr Divine Banyubala, Head of Medico-legal Unit, Ghana Health Service (GHS), who made the …
The President of the National House of Chiefs (NHC), Wulugu Naba Pugansoa Naa Professor John S. Nabila, has appealed to chiefs to make significant input to the Land Bill, to enable it
to stand the test of time.
"As custod…
Ms Adwoa Sakyi, a steering committee member of
Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), on Friday observed that only affirmative action could get more women into Ghana's parliament.
She therefore reiterated the call on all po…
India and US have signed an agreement on reprocessing of American nuclear spent fuel by
India, marking the final steps in terms of implementation of the landmark civil nuclear deal between the two countries.
Upon entry into force, …
The Saboba district in the northern region has taken delivery of over 340,000 uniforms for distribution to pupils in basic schools in the district.
Mr Joseph Nimpuri, Presiding Member of the Saboba District Assembly launched the dist…
The Mensah Sarbah Hall Alumni Association (MSHAA)
of the University of Ghana, has begun constructing a 2000-capacity hostel complex to help reduce the acute accommodation problem facing students of the hall.
The construction of the …
An ethnic Indian woman in Malaysia who is seeking to quash her three children's conversion to Islam by her ex-husband has been threatened by him not to pursue the court battle to get the custody of their youngest daughter, her lawyer claim…
The chiefs and people in communities within the
Ghana Consolidated Diamonds (GCD) concession areas, have declared their support for the takeover of the company by the Great Consolidated Diamond Limited (GCDL).
They have therefore ap…
The Asamankese Circuit Court will on August 16, give judgement in a case in which Augustine Awuku, a barber, is on trial for gang raping a 15-year old school girl with two others.
The two others charged with him, Foster Adjei and one…
Mr Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister, on Friday, commended Peace Advocates and Voluntary Organizers Association (PAVOA), for its numerous programmes and initiatives in promoting peace in the Region.
The Minister made the com…
The Information Services Department in conjunction with the Disease Control Unit of the Ministry of Health has embarked on a week long tour to create awareness on Tuberculosis (TB) in the Twifo-Hemang-Lower Denkyira District.
…
The Cape Coast High Court II presided over by Justice Alhaji Mohammed Mustapha on Friday sentenced two friends to a total of 90 years imprisonment for raping a girl leading to her death.
Ernest Andoh popularly called Kweku Ata 31, a …
The World Vision Ghana (WVG), an international non-governmental organisation (NGO), on Friday donated relief items to flood victims in Ga West Municipality at Amasman.
The items made up of 104 mattresses, 88 mats, 192 blankets and 93…
Professor Clifford Nii Boi Tagoe, Vice-Chancellor
of University of Ghana (UG), on Friday inaugurated science laboratory equipment for three departments to help improve academic performance.
In addition, a residential facility was in…
K M Mathew, Chief Editor of Malayala Manorama daily and a doyen of Indian media industry, passed away at his residence in south India on Sunday morning, family sources said.
He was 93. Mathew was a former Chairman of Press Trust of I…
Jantar Mantar, the Pink city's celebrated astronomical observatory built in early 18th century, has been granted World Heritage status by UNESCO.
The decision was taken in UNESCO's World Heritage Committee meeting in Brasilia.
…
Participants at a Regional Consultation
Stakeholders workshop held in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region has called on Government to increase the budget allocation for the protection and
promotion of children�s rights.
At a stakehold…
The Odikro of Aiyinase-Nyamebekyere in the Ellembelle District, Nana Kweku Obo, at the weekend said the poor condition of the road makes them feel cut off from the rest of the district.
He said the community had been neglected for fa…
Mr Albert Ocran, the Chief Executive Officer,
Combert Impressions, a print service company, has called on the youth to develop strategic partnership in order to become future leaders.
"Leadership is not about position or title one ho…
Government will continue to implement policies to
compel local financial institutions to reduce their lending rates (interest rates), Mr Franklin Fiifi Kwetey, Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning has assured.
He said th…
Vince Cable, the influential Business Secretary in the David Cameron cabinet, has returned from his recent India visit flush with the impression that despite poverty, 'India is a success story'.
Cable wrote a lengthy account of the vi…
Asafoatsengua Gaduga Osrama IV, the most Senior Divisional Warlord of Dangmebiawer Clan in Ada, has stressed the need for traditional rulers to use festive occasions to initiate development
programmes to better the lot of their people.
…
Mr Paul Levin Gyato, Nkwanta North District
Chief Executive, has called on farmers and fisher folks to embrace Government's interventions and programmes in order to increase their yields.
He said perceiving agriculture as a business…
Reverend Moses Faith Nyomi-Nyamedi, Synod Clerk
of Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC), West Volta Presbytery, has called on Christians to ensure peace and love and speak the truth.
He made the call at the opening of a three-day F…
An Accra Circuit Court has directed the State to
apply to the court to close down Conquerors Redemption Ministries International, Achimota, if the Police was unable to apprehend its Pastor,
Richard Kwesi Dwofuor.
The court presided…
A High Court in Cape Coast presided over by Alhaji Mohammed Ahmed Mustapha, on Thursday sentenced Kwesi Nkrumah, a 60-year old unemployed to death for murdering his two children.
Nkrumah, who had pleaded not guilty to the …
The desire of Berekum Traditional Council to further beautify the town received a jolt at the weekend when unidentified persons destroyed a structure meant for the erection of a statue at the main round-about.
The police are investig…
�Contractors in the Upper East Region who have been awarded contracts under the government�s crash infrastructure programme for Senior High Schools (SHSs) are working vigorously to complete
them before September, as scheduled.
…
Mr Daniel Nankeb, a records Officer at the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly, at the weekend said education was important in nation building.
He said it was for this reason that the Assembly had made education its priority in order to de…
The Special US Envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) Rashad Hussain would
travel to India next month during which he would meet country's top Muslim leaders, officials and academicians.
The nine day India visit of H…
'That Girl in Yellow Boots', a Bollywood thriller film directed by filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and co-produced by National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) has been selected for the 67th Venice Film Festival.
The film will …
An Indian woman accused of throwing her
18-month-old daughter into the Hudson river here and then jumping in has been allowed by a Manhattan judge to be released, without bail, for
attending a day-long psychiatric counseling at a hospit…
Mrs Hilary Gbedemah, a legal practitioner, at the
weekend urged women in the formal sector to see pregnancy as their social duty to society and must never be remorseful about it.
"Pregnancies are social functions which you have to b…
Mrs Hilary Gbedemah, a legal practitioner, on Friday
suggested that the state should pay maternity benefits to women in the formal sector.
She said this has become necessary because many employers were not paying such benefits.
…
Mr John Welbeck, Principal of Institute of Technical Supervision (ITS), has appealed to government to as matter of urgency fence round the school�s land to ward off encroachers.
�We would plead with the government to fence our lan…
Parliament on Friday passed into law, the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) bill - an affirmative action to seal the development vacuum between the south and the north.
The 20 year strategy seeks to generate accelerat…
Mrs. Agnes Atagabe, the new Municipal Director of Education for Bolgatanga, has called on teachers to set good moral and ethical standards worthy of emulation by their pupils.
Mrs. Atagabe who was on tour on Friday of the ten Circuit…
Mr Billy Mawasha, General Manager of Anglogold Ashanti, Iduapriem Mine Limited (AAIL), has noted that water and sanitation were essential to life and must not be taken for granted.
He said life without water and adequate sanitation,…
South Korea's state-run nuclear foundation said Wednesday it has signed a pact with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to assist countries that want to build new reactors.
The Korea Nuclear Energy Foundation (KNEF) said the …