Government is aware of the fact that its performance would be judged by the improvement in the living standards of the people, President John Evans Atta Mills said on Friday.
He made the observation when Mr. Jeff Raike, Chief Executi…
The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) in collaboration with International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), is testing millet genotypes in the Upper West Region.
Eighteen millet genotypes obtained…
Participants attending the African Health Insurance Workshop in Accra on Friday called on governments on the continent to emulate the health insurance modules being implemented in Ghana and
Rwanda to improve on health care delivery.
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Mr. Zakaria Sulemana, Director of Education for Empowerment at Ibis, has said that knowledge acquired solely through classroom work was not enough for secure success for students especially,
the girl child in the 21st century world.
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Boards of Governors of second-cycle institutions
have been urged to work closely with managements to ensure the smooth administration of schools.
Mrs Ernestina Afosah-Anim, the Greater-Accra Regional Director of Education, who ma…
A two-week capacity building course for 150 junior police officers ended in Koforidua on Friday.
The course, which was attended by Constables, Lance Corporals and Corporals, took the participants through Community Policing to show tha…
Mr. Clement Akugre Atia, Bongo District Chief Executive (DCE), has identified smuggling as a major cause of fuel shortage,especially petrol in the Upper East Region.
He alleged that some people smuggled fuel to Burkina Faso and cautio…
An official of Action Aid, a non-governmental
organisation, has appealed to journalists at a workshop in the Upper EastRegion to report on development issues to promote its development.
The workshop was organized by Action Aid, an i…
Thirty houses including a block of six classrooms
belonging to the Suhum New Town Presbyterian Primary School, part of the Ghana National Fire Service garage as well as food crops were destroyed when a rainstorm hit Suhum and its surrou…
A team of medical specialists from the Children's
Hospital, Boston, in the United States in collaboration with their counterparts at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), had performed open heart surgeries on 14 children suffering f…
Ghanaians have urged not to condemn the Computer Schools Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) introduced in 2005 to replace the manual selection of candidates into Senior High Schools
The CSSPS was introduced as a result of outcry …
Doctor Linda Vanotoo, Western Regional Director
of Health Services, on Thursday attributed the upsurge in diseases to poor and unwholesome eating habits among Ghanaians.
"Usually unhealthy, fatty and junk foods are packaged and made…
A musician, Mr. Brice Osei Kufuor popularly known as Obuor, in collaboration with the Ghana Read Wide and Youth Icon Ghana, have begun building a community library complex at Zorko in the Bongo
District.
Cutting the sod Obuor said he…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, has commended the All Nations University College (ANUC) in Koforidua, for establishing a Women's Development Centre (WDC) to give free education to women who for some reasons could not hav…
The death is reported of Mr. Kenneth Wood,former Supervising Chief Editor of the Ghana News Agency.
Mr. Wood, 71, passed away in a London Hospital on October 20, according to family sources.Mr. Wood joined the GNA in March, 1961 as a…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama, on Thursday
called for increased private sector participation in maximizing financialand technical skills and competence to tackle the scourge of HIV and AIDS,
Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria on the cont…
Mr. Mohammed Ackonu, Headmaster of Ahmadiyya Senior High School at Gomoa Potsin, has called on the Gomoa East District Assembly to enforce laws on bush-burning to save life and property as the
harmattan season drew near.
He urged e…
The Mfantseman Municipal Assembly has launched a Disaster Fund to mobilize resources for awareness creation and management of disasters in the Municipality.
Mr. Henry Kwaku Hayfron, Municipal Chief Executive, who launched the fund at…
President John Atta Mills on Thursday assured workers of the Foreign Affairs Ministry that the government would soon relocate them to an appropriate accommodation so they could continue with their work.
"We have already had consultat…
A seven-member committee of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly's (AMA) Child Panel, which was inaugurated about three months to oversee the well-being of children in the metropolis, on Thursday paid a courtesy call on the Domestic Violence an…
Mr. Gershon Kofi Bediako Gbadiame, Chairman
of the Parliamentary Committee on Lands, Forestry and Natural Resources on Thursday called for the introduction of stiffer punishment for illegal
chainsaw operators as their activities were c…
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and
philanthropists have been asked to assist in the reconstruction of Atiabisi Primary District Assembly School that collapsed as a result of heavy rains.
Mr. Emmanuel Nsor-Atindana, Assembly …
Although the National Youth Employment Programme was envisaged to create an estimated 532,500 jobs between 2006 and 2009 from eight employment modules nationwide, available figures at the end of 2008 showed that only 25 per cent of the tar…
Three hundred and forty-two bags of maize meant for the 2007 flood victims in the Kassena Nankana District of the Upper East Region, have gone bad.
This was detected after the Assembly requested for maize that have been in the stores…
The Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai and Atwima-Mponua Districts have rejected 59,506 Ghana@ 50 Souvenir Cups sent to them last week.
Of the consignment, 36,674 cups were meant for Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai District and the remaining 22,832 cu…
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has expressed worry about the increasing rate at which school lands were being taken over by estate developers and called on traditional rulers and other stakeholders to help address the problem.
Mr Jose…
Miss Joyce R. Aryee, the Chief Executive Officer
of the Ghana Chamber of Mines has called on mining communities to hold the central government and their local assemblies, traditional authorities and councils accountable in their demands …
Participants at a day's national seminar on the HIV-AIDS disease have expressed resentment at the insistence on "mandatory test" by some churches before allowing their members to marry.
They said this must be stopped and that the dec…
The Suhum magistrate court on Friday sentenced two people to a fine of GHC 200 each for committing environmental offences.
The convicts, Richard Tei, a musician and Nana Oforiwa, a trader, would in default go to jail for six months i…
Some 198 volunteers working in 72 operational communities of Plan Ghana, a non-governmental organisation, in the Awutu-Senya, Agona, Effutu and Gomoa administrative areas, have been awarded for their excellent performance in the past year.…
The Metropolitan Chief Executive for Cape Coast, Mr. Anthony Egyir Aikins, has warned that his administration would not tolerate indiscipline on the roads, destruction of public property,
littering and building without permit.
"The …
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has been asked to reallocate about 800 deserted stalls at the Kantamanto Market in the central business area of Accra.
Madam Mary Deidei Tagoe, spokesperson of Kantamanto Market Food-sellers Asso…
Mrs Ama Benyiwa-Doe, Central Regional Minister, on Tuesday lauded the decent work programme of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and said it must be promoted to ensure that all
Ghanaians found decent jobs free from exploitation…
The Police at Bibiani are investigating the
mysterious death of an unidentified man at Sefwi-Anhwiaso in the Western Region.
The man was found dead in a pool of blood at the outskirts of Bibiani last Sunday at about 0200 hours.
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The National Theatre of Ghana in collaboration
with Swedish Riksteatern Production Team, has unveiled the African Cinderella Project Logo to begin theatre series replicating the Cinderella
Folktale based on the continent's perspective …
The United States (US) Consular Section on
Wednesday announced the opening of entries for its Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery for 2011 which would be closed at exactly 12 noon on November 30, 2009.
Mr Michael Evans, Chief of the Consul…
Stakeholders in the cocoa industry world-wide attending the Seventh Regional Executive meeting on cocoa, visited two cocoa farms at Tontro in East Akyem District of the Eastern Region on Wednesday.
The field trip was to expose them t…
The Mamponse Community Upgrading and Chemu Storm Drainage Project, under the Second Urban Environmental Sanitation Initiative, took off on Wednesday when President John Evans Atta Mills cut the sod for the 25 million-euro facility to be ex…
Mr. Foster Agyei-Korang, Brong Ahafo Regional Manager, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), on Tuesday appealed to operators in the region to ensure regular and prompt monthly payment of
monies due to client service providers for eff…
Despite constitutional guarantees of the right to industrial action, workers in essential services such as health professionals are not permitted by law to do so, Mr Emile Francis Short, Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Jus…
WACAM, a human rights and mining advocacy
nongovernmental organisation, has commended the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for boldly stating that the cyanide spillage at the Newmont
Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL) Ahafo Mine was caused…
Ms Shirley Ayittey, Minister of environment
Science and Technology (MEST), has appealed to research institutions under the ministry to come up with innovative strategies to propel science and technology as catalyst for increased producti…
Fire on Wednesday evening gutted the entire 10-storeyed building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Accra.The fire started from the ground floor at about 1700 hours and workers called the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), but it took …
Ms Becklyn Ulzen-Christian, National Vice President of Coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Malaria Control, on Wednesday said superstition and misconception accounted for most causes of maternal morbidity in Ghana.
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Offending children in the Northern Region are been kept in adult prisons because an arrangement that once keep them apart has collapsed, a 43- member-network working for the protection and
enforcement of the right and protection of child…
Voluntary Service Overseas- Ghana (VSO) in partnership with the Wa Municipal Directorate of the Ghana Education Service is initiating programmes to address challenges confronting quality education in the Municipality.
As a first step…
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) and the German Technical Co-operation Agency (GTZ) have handed over a rehabilitated dam to three communities in the Tamale Metropolis.
The two development partners also presented 300 bags o…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, on Wednesday expressed worry about the inability of some district assemblies to make readily available their counterpart funds thus leading to the stalling of projects.
He therefore …
Daniel Ayirebi, a 25-year-old barber, has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment by the Juaso Circuit Court for licking the private part of four-year-old girl at Jamasi in the Asante Akim
South District.He pleaded guilty.
Polic…
Mr Maurice Brown, a Philanthropist, in conjunction with Reverend Father Samuel Atinga, a Lecturer at St. Victor's Major Seminary in Tamale, have donated 100 dual desks worth 4,000 Ghana Cedis to the Maurice Brown Primary School in Zuarungu…