A multi-million cedi educational project to give free education to deprived rural children, has taken off at Abenkyim near Asante-Bekwai.
It is being funded by Alison Education Fund set up by His Children Foundation, a child welf…
The Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai District Assembly, has constructed a school block valued at GH¢ 28,414.77 for Fahaikobo, a farming community in the area.
The chiefs and people constructed the project through self-help with the assembly prov…
Chief Executives of the two Assemblies in Dormaa Traditional Area have expressed dismay at the rapid ascendancy of Indian hemp smoking among the youth in the area.
In separate interviews with the Ghana News Agency, Mr. Vincent Oppon…
The Central Regional Commander of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), Mrs. Joyce Addo, warned on Monday that with the introduction of the new biometric passport, any attempt to acquire additional passports under different names using othe…
An Australian scientist, who co-authoured the controversial climate change report, Monday tried to defend the errors found in it, saying the discovery of the mistakes does not undermine the case of global warming.
According to Andy Pi…
The Director General of the Ghana Prisons Service has set up a committee that is currently investigating the circumstances that led to the escape of Johnson Kombian from the Tamale Prisons.
The Northern Regional Commander of Prisons …
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Circuit Court has ordered that a 49-year old man and member of the Krofrom Town Council Task Force should be kept in prison custody for defiling a six-year-old girl.
Yaw Owusu's plea was not take…
Nana Effah Boakye, Krontihene of Fiaso in the Techiman Municipality, has called on the Government to create a separate Ministry for anti-bushfire squads to make the control of bushfires more effective.
He said the establishment of pe…
A nine-room house was razed by fire at Abourso in Techiman Municipality at the weekend, displacing all the tenants.
Property worth more than GHC 5,000 was burnt but there was no causality.
Items lost included refrigerators, coo…
Prakash Jha Productions and charitable organisation 'Anubhooti' founded by the Indian filmmaker, have come together to raise funds to build a 1200-bed multi- specialty hospital in India's eastern state of Bihar to provide health care to th…
An 18-year-old driver's mate has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a Kumasi Circuit Court for defiling a 14-year-old girl. Isaac Obeng, who pleaded guilty to the offence, insisted the victim was his girl friend.
Police Chief…
A final year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Rose Ohene Asante has been remanded in police custody to re-appear before a Takoradi District Magistrate's Court for fraud.
Her plea was not taken…
Seventy year old Odorgonno Senior High School is to become a first class senior high school in the country by 2012.
The school is embarking on infrastructure expansion as well as strengthening its teaching and non-teaching staff to m…
The Kwabre District Mutual Health Insurance Scheme is indebted to public and private health providers in the area to the tune of GH¢441,910.71.
The Asonomaso hospital has highest unpaid claims of GH¢104,402.03, Mamponteng Health Centre, …
The Nsein Senior High School, formerly known as the Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah Secondary School, has re-launched its Golden Jubilee Anniversary at
a ceremony in the Nzema-East Municipality.
The anniversary to start in October this y…
A 25-year-old Agent of Multi Television, Bernard Brew, has been arrested by the Asante-Mampong police for driving under the influence of alcohol.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Benjamin Gyasi, Commander of the Motor Traffic T…
Mr. Thomas Adda Dalu, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Kassena-Nankana West, has given the assurance that the Assembly would support self-help projects in the area.
He said the authorities were prepared to assist communities that w…
Seventy-six boys from north eastern states of Assam and Manipur, who were lodged in an unregistered children's home in Kanyakumari district in the southern tip of peninsular India, have been rescued.
Child Welfare Committee members ra…
Work on the 30 million-dollar E-governance backbone Project is expected to begin soon, Mr Gideon Quarcoo, Deputy Minister of Communication said on Monday.
The Management of China-based HUAWEI Telecom was awarded the contract to under…
A 35 year old driver on Monday prayed an Accra Circuit Court not to remand him because he wanted to go home and watch the upcoming semi- final match to be played by Ghana.
Frimpong Manso said this in response to a trial judge's question …
Afrodesiac Worldwide, a Ghanaian fashion company,on Monday feted pupils of Street Academy and donated assorted items valued 3,000 Ghana Cedis to the school.
The items included a computer and its accessories, text books, Casio calculators…
Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), on Monday said that MOFA would enforce the Fisheries Act to bring sanity to the fishing industry in the country.
He said the Ministry was collaborating with the Ghana Navy to a…
Mr. Mike Hammah, Minister of Transport, on Monday said Ghana was working closely with the United States (US) Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), to resolve all deficiencies in safety and security
oversight in this country's aviation indust…
Wetlands across Kerala are witnessing bird poaching on an unprecedented scale posing threat to many endangered fowls including migratory birds, according to bird lovers and environmentalists.
Conservationists complain that though ca…
The current exhibition is scheduled to continue for three months after which the space will be used for other events.
"This is just a small part of my collection and we plan to do three or four events in a year," says Kiran, who has n…
A leopard was caught by villagers when he strayed into a farm in the village in Kollam district of south Indian state of Kerala.
It was later handed over to wildlife officials by local people.
The male cat that made its way i…
A 35-year-old woman was found hanging inside the toilet of an Express train here.
The body was noticed by some passengers when they boarded the train at a platform, Railway sources said.
The Thiruvananthapuram-Mangalore Malab…
Dr. Joseph Annan, the Deputy Minister of Education, has launched a 10-year development plan for Komenda and said the defunct sugar factory would be revamped.
He said a feasibility study on the factory had been completed and discussion…
The Nsein Senior High School, formerly known as the Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah Secondary School, has re-launched its Golden Jubilee Anniversary at a ceremony in the Nzema-East Municipality.
The anniversary to start in October this year, w…
Authorities of the Kwanyako Secondary/Technical School and the Parents Teacher Association (PTA), have agreed to destroy by fire 24 mobile phones seized from students last year.
Mr Francis Koomson, Headmaster of the school, disclosed thi…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo the Eastern Regional Minister, has supported the idea of maintaining a ceiling on the Parent-Teacher Association's (PTA) dues in Senior High Schools(SHS)to help protect the interest of poor parents .
While commendi…
Students of Kwahu Ridge Senior High School have appealed to the Director General of Ghana Education Service (GES) to transfer the Headmistress of the school, Ms Anita Jackson, to ensure peace and sanity in the school.
The students said t…
Robert David, a 41-year-old taxi driver from Cape Coast was on Monday arraigned before a circuit court in Cape Coast charged with defilement, abduction and depriving one from lawful possession and care.
With him in the dock was Evelyn Ob…
The tenth edition of the World Social Forum started on Monday in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, with critics to the capitalism and the economic neo-liberalism.
In the first day of the event, the organizers discussed the advances made…
Passengers were removed from a U.S. Southwest Airlines flight at Midway Airport in Chicago, Monday afternoon after an "unusual item" was found on board, airport officials said.
The unidentified item was spotted as Flight 2543, bound …
Colombian rescuers said Monday they had found two people alive during 10 days of rescue operation mostly in Jacmel, a coastal city in southeast Haiti.
"We helped in the rescue of a baby 22 days old close to Rue de la Comedie," said J…
The Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District has been selected alongside two other districts in the Central Region for the promotion of Community-Led Total Sanitation in the district under the sponsorship of DANIDA.
The two districts are Asikum…
U.S. researchers have identified a new disease mechanism and therapeutic approach for a type of advanced kidney disease that is a common cause of complications in patients with lupus. The study appeared Monday in the online edition of the …
Mr Demedeme Naa Lenason, Director of Environmental Health and Sanitation Directorate, has appealed to parliament to approve the environmental sanitation policy before it.
Mr. Lenason said this at the opening of a three-day review an…
A Techiman magistrate court has sentenced a 21-year-old self-styled student at James Town in Techiman Municipality to two years imprisonment in hard labour after convicting him on three counts of unlawful entry, causing damage and possessi…
Cirrus Oil Services Limited (COSL), dealers in petroleum products that has bought land at Egyambra in the Nzema area, has assured the 150 farmers whose crops would be destroyed of appreciable compensation.
Speaking to the GNA on Mo…
The high rate of still birth in Ejura-Sekyedumase District has become a source of worry to health providers in the area.
Mr Jacob Amoah, District Health Director, said a total of 36 cases were recorded in 2009 as against 37 the previo…
A team of Chinese army doctors and nurses arrived at the airport of the earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince on Monday to provide medical care for the Haitians, bringing with them large quantities of medicine and medical equipment.
The …
A strange disease has attacked about 95 per cent of the youth at Agyapongkrom, a farming community in the Asunafo South District of Brong-Ahafo.
The victims are mostly children aged between six and 10 years. However, Opanin Adu Mensa…
Philiand Trust, a United Kingdom (UK) based Non-Governmental Organisation has donated medical equipment worth thousands of Ghana Cedis to the Government Hospital in Goaso.
The equipment, which included wheel chairs, gloves, needles a…
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently apologized for its disputable claim that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, which it said was not based on actual scientific data.
In a 2007 report, the IPCC said t…
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole sky in infrared light.
But there is no…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday approved the Medtronic Melody transcatheter pulmonary valve and ensemble delivery system, the first heart valve to be implanted through a catheter, or tube, in a leg vein and guided up …
The Brong-Ahafo Regional Police Command has arrested Kwaku Sam in connection with the murder of an evangelist of Deeper Life Bible Church at Sankore in 2008.
Superintendent of Police Charles Domanban, the Regional Crime Officer, told…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, the Eastern Regional Minister, has expressed concern over land litigation in parts of the region and said it had negative effect on private businesses and efforts at attracting investors to the region.
He said…