Two persons have been arrested by the Koforidua Municipal Police Command for setting fire at 'Pintoa Wala' in Koforidua on Thursday to obstruct the construction of an ultra modern Bus terminal for the metro buses.
The Pintoa Wala are…
The health of students of Achimota School in Accra is under threat as its entire sewerage system is collapsed forcing human excreta and other hazardous materials to gush out through chambers on campus.
Since the emergence of the prob…
The Police were offered the last chance on Thursday to produce a bill of indictment and summary of evidence on the five soldiers allegedly connected in the murder of a bank official,Mr. Rokko Frimpong.
The Osu District Magistrate's C…
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday said its UN Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Ghana had airlifted 150 metric tons of urgently needed relief items to victims of the Haiti earthquake.
A statement issued b…
Bayerebon-Number-One, a community in the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai District, has been thrown into a state of shock, grief and mourning, following the discovery of the dead body of a 29-year old farmer, who went missing a month ago.
Yaw…
A 48-year-old farmer at Nsiakrom near Sefwi-Bethlehem, Kwame Kusi, standing trial at the Bibiani Magistrate Court for arson, has been remanded into prison custody.
He pleaded guilty to the charge but with explanation.
Police Detec…
The key to deepening democracy and preventing conflict and under-development in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is empowering the media to expose bad governance in society.
Speaking at the regional meeting on t…
Tragedy befell Kyereyaaso, a farming community in the Atwima-Mponua District when a 42-year old, Kofi Acheampong, a chainsaw operator, was trapped to death by a falling tree.
The deceased had gone to a forest reserve in the area wit…
Advocacy programmes for the Ghana Federation of the Disabled received a boost on Thursday when the Danish government through its aid agency, DANIDA, launched a programme to improve on the Federation's performance.
Organizations which…
Mrs. Ellen Semenhyia Acheampong, Chief Executive of Se Menhyia Herbal Clinic at Kasoa in the Central Region has called on the government to support traditional herbal medicine practitioners to export their products.
She said this wou…
Mr Peter Kwadwo Owuadzi Mensah, a legal practitioner, has suggested the need for litigants to bear the cost of appearing before the Judicial Committee sittings of the Regional Houses of Chiefs.
Addressing a workshop for members of the…
Women from the former Nkonya and Alavanyo feuding communities, on Wednesday organised a peace rally at Nkonya-Tayi in the Volta Region to consolidate their harmonious co-existence.
The previous sworn enemies, who were brought together w…
The Decentralised concept of governance holds the key to the rapid development of the country side, Mr Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister has noted.
"The concept has the major provision of government mandating its various arms in …
Fire last Sunday afternoon devastated the Nkwanta market destroying about 85 per cent of infrastructure and wares running into millions of cedis.
The whirlwind-propelled fire disaster recorded no casualty but investigations have commence…
The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), on Thursday appealed to the Minister of Roads and Highways to review the recently introduced toll rates downwards to enable vehicle owners to break even.
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Kwame Noi Koranteng, a 70-year-old private school teacher at Kwabeng in the Atiwa District, on Wednesday appeared before a Mpraeso Circuit Court on a charge of defiling his 16-year-old former pupil.
Koranteng, who pleaded not guilty, has…
The Chieftaincy Act 759 of 2008 makes destoolment of chiefs a serious business exclusive to kingmakers with the consent of the chief concerned.
Mr Peter Owuadzi Mensah, Counsel for the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs, who made this k…
The Chieftaincy Act 759 of 2008 makes destoolment of chiefs a serious business exclusive to kingmakers with the consent of the chief concerned.
Mr Peter Owuadzi Mensah, Counsel for the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs, who made this …
Mr Joseph Z. Amenowode, the Volta Regional Minister, has said plans were advanced to reactivate the defunct Worawora Nurses Training School into a Midwifery Training institution.
He said feasibility studies on infrastructure were underway…
Mr. Henry Bagah, Wa Municipal Environmental Health Officer, has called for the arrest and prosecution of people who allow their animals to roam the streets and cause fatal motor accidents leading to the death of motorists and other road us…
The medical director in charge of the Twifo Praso Government Hospital, Dr. John Benjamin Annan, has expressed concern about the rate at which teenage girls in the area carry out abortions with a particular birth control drug.
He said las…
Mr Joseph Z. Amenowode, the Volta Regional Minister, has said plans were advanced to reactivate the defunct Worawora Nurses Training School into a Midwifery Training institution.
He said feasibility studies on infrastructure were underwa…
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) on Thursday organised a day's workshop on block farming in Sekondi, for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief executives and agriculture personnel in the Western Region.
Speaking at the wo…
The Upper West Regional Police Command, on Wednesday apologised to members of the Regional Branch of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) for arresting Mr James Donkor, a journalist in Wa on October 24, last year.
The Command also apo…
Mr Ambrose Dery, Deputy Minority Leader on Thursday, expressed the need for government to decentralise legal education to create fair access to prospective law students across the country.
He, therefore, called on the Ghana Legal Council…
Heavy duty truck drivers plying the Adomi Bridge route have appealed to the Ghana Standards Board to examine the axle weighing equipment on the Adom Bridge.
They expressed worry about disparities they encounter when the same loadedtruck …
Many children still roam the streets of Koforidua selling during school hours in spite of the Capitation Grant and other educational intervention by government to ensure that every child of school going age has access to education.
These…
The Yendi Municipal Assembly in the Northern Region has held a three-day performance review workshop as part of processes towards the development of the Medium Term Development Plan for the Municipality, under the national development poli…
A three-day African Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information opens at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra this Sunday.
Organised by the Carter Centre and other African partners, the conference is to advance the ri…
Mr Charles Oti-Prempeh, the District Chief Executive for Amansie West, has advocated the use of local language for teaching at the pre-school and lower primary levels.
He said there should be no doubt that this could significantl…
Participants at a special sensitization programme on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) at Jasikan have advocated for conscious capacity building strategies for stakeholders towards a steady growth and development of the latest approach …
The Hohoe Midwifery Training School risks closure due to an eminent water crisis, Ms Narki Doku, Principal of the School has said.
Speaking at the matriculation of its third batch 83 students for the Diploma in Midwifery programme i…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Amansie-West, Mrs Grace Addo, has presented items valued at about GH¢20,000 in support of five health facilities in the area.
These included two generators, mower, air-conditioners, laptop computer and a…
American Evangelist Richard Roberts, who is also Chief Executive of Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association on Wednesday, declared that the yoke overhanging Ghana was broken, signifying spiritual and material prosperity for the more than 22 …
Middlesex University in the United Kingdom is working on the possibility of establishing a campus in Ghana to serve all of West Africa.
To this end, the Middlesex University Alumni Association in Ghana would be officially launched at …
The Poku Transport Endowment Fund on Wednesday presented an amount of GH¢ 2,500 to five brilliant but needy students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in support of their education.
The beneficiari…
Professor Mike Oquaye, Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, has called on President Atta Mills to save Achimota School lands from encroachers.
Prof. Oquaye who said this in a statement presented to the house on Wednesday noted that th…
Kwasi Larweh, a farmer who shot and killed a pig, was on Wednesday sentenced to a fine of GH¢ 60 by the Kade District Magistrate Court.
Larweh who pleaded guilty with explanation would in default serve 30 days in prison.
Addition…
A district court in Kumasi has sentenced a 21-year-old butcher to 36 months imprisonment for unlawful entry and stealing.
Baba Abubakari, an ex-convict, pleaded guilty.
Police Chief Inspector Georgina Penn told the cour…
Rosina Yeboah, a trader, was on Wednesday arraigned before the Kade District Magistrate Court for pushing down and injuring a male labourer.
Rosina initially pleaded guilty with explanation to a charge of assault but when she explaine…
The Accra Fast Track High Court on Wednesday sentenced two Nigerians, Benedict Onuoka and Friday Nbanya, to 10 years' imprisonment each.
Onuoka and Nbanya were charged with the possession and importation of 33 pellets and 383 grams of…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the return of all properties acquired by Calvary Charismatic Centre (CCC) before its cessation from the Assemblies of God Church (AG) in 1992 to the Church.
The properties include an old chapel b…
An Accra Circuit Court on Wednesday sentenced Philip Asiedu aka Spike to nine years imprisonment for kidnapping an eight-year-old pupil of Alpha Beta Educational Complex at Dansoman, an Accra suburb.
Asiedu, 24, unemployed was found …
The Adjabeng Magistrate Court 'B', on Wednesday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of 13 butchers at the Mallam Atta Market, who failed to appear before it December 23 last year for selling meat without medical certificate.
One o…
A 55-year old mason has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by a Kumasi Circuit Court for defiling his 12-year old niece.
Kofi Atta pleaded not guilty to the offence.
Police Inspector Martin Asenso told the Court presided o…
An agricultural budget tracking research report has recommended that government should go beyond the rhetoric of supporting smallholder agricultural development and come out with a special investment fund to cater for smallholder farmers. …
WACAM, a human rights and mining advocacy nongovernmental organisation, has called on the Government to withdraw the mining lease and permit given to Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL) to destroy Ajenua-Bepo Forest Reserve for misconduct. …
The Akatsi District Assembly is to initiate an anti-malaria drive aimed at reducing the high incidence of the disease in the area with over 41,341 cases being recorded in 2009 alone, a three-fold surge over the 2004 record of 11, 619 cas…
The management of Infection Control and Preventive Services (ICPS), a chemical producing company, on Wednesday presented disinfectants and equipment worth GH¢2000 to the Ministry of Health (MOH) in the fight against the H1N1 influenza. …
Ghanaians have been urged to adopt healthy life styles and undertake regular screening for cancers including self breast examinations.
This would help eliminate some of the myths and misconception on cancers and reduce the incidence o…