Mr. David Deribaa, Acting Upper West Regional Lands Officer, has drawn up an action plan to fight the general indiscipline that is associated with land acquisition and development in the region.
His strategy seeks among others, the d…
The Noble Order of The Ladies of Marshall, a friendly society, in the Catholic Church, on Saturday, presented a cheque and items totalling GHC 3,200 to the Centre of Hope Orphanage at Mataheheko, a suburb of Accra.
The items included…
Dr MacDamien Dedzo, Volta Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Friday stressed the need for the right work culture to be inculcated in the training of health workers.
He said this might help reverse the poor recepti…
Zain Communications Network has donated a large quantity of exercise books and other teaching materials valued at several millions of Ghana Cedis to the Lamboya Primary Model School in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region.
…
The 2391st star will be embedded on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame in remembrance of veteran actor Peter Graves, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce's Walk of Fame Committee announced Friday.
The star will be dedicated to Graves in a ce…
As part of its social responsibility, the Love Community Chapel on Sunday inaugurated a hospital to serve the people of Bubiashie where the mission is located.
"As exhibited by Jesus in his parables, the church should not be only int…
The Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS) on Friday sensitised the National House of Chiefs (NHC) on the causes, mode of spreading, effects and the prevention of the H1N1 influenza.
Professor Kwabena Bosompem, newly elected President of the…
A mycotoxin laboratory has been installed within the biochemistry laboratory of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to help detect aflatoxin and other deleterious
contaminants in processed cereals in the countr…
The Yendi Evangelical Presbyterian Development and Relief Agency (EPDRA), has granted an access production credit of GHC 4,000 to nine- farmer based organisations (FBO) in the Yendi
Municipality to cultivate soya beans, groundnut and sor…
The President of the University of Ghana (UG) Nursing Students Association (UGHANSA) Mr. Victor Godswill Kpodoviah on Saturday called on tertiary nursing students to sensitise, educate and
promote maternal and child health in Ghana and b…
The National Film and Television Institute(NAFTI) at the weekend outlined a global film students and lecturers networking platform, for the development and exchange of ideas within the
industry.
Mr Martin Loh, NAFTI Director told t…
The Ghana Coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Health on Friday asked for a probe into allegations of maladministration at the Bolgatanga Hospial.
At a Press Conference held in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region, they cal…
The Government is determined to aggressively promote Information Communication Technology Education across the country, Mr Gideon Quarcoo, Deputy Minister of Communications, has said.
He noted that the new economic revolution of the …
Animal traction has been identified as the ideal method of tilling land for farming in the three Northern Regions.
Dr. Roger Kanton, a senior Agriculture Research Scientist in charge of the Savanna Research Institute (SARI) at Manga,…
The Upper East Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Ghana Environmental Management Project (GEMP) has established District Environmental Management Committees (DEMCs) in the region's nine districts to monitor, coordinate the pro…
Mrs. Joana Osei-Poku, Commissioner of Police and President of the Police Ladies Association (POLAS), has called on women to be assertive and courageous to keep crimes at bay in their homes.
Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the G…
The Zain Group, the mother company of Zain Ghana,
has been nominated in four out of nine Telecom World Middle East Awards for this year.
A statement sent to the GNA by awards organizers, UK-based Terrapin Media, an international te…
The Brong-Ahafo Regional Trade Fair dubbed "Dwa Kese 2009" to showcase the economic potentials and investment opportunities of the region has opened in Sunyani.
The week-long exhibition is expected to attract buyers and potential inv…
Lieutenant General Joseph Henry Smith (Rtd), Minister of Defence, on Friday commended the Ghana Air Force (GAF) for maintaining the vision for its establishment despite the many challenges
facing it.
"I doff off my hat to the Ghana…
The Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, Ms Sherry Ayittey, has called for speedy acquisition and documentation of sites identified for the establishment of science and
technology parks in the Eastern Region.
This will e…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has elected a 15-member executive for the Jirapa constituency to manage the affairs of the party for the next four years.
The executives were elected by popular acclamation while that of the Yout…
Ghana Customs Inspection Company Ltd (GCIC) has
organised a comprehensive five-day training programme, for 30 personnel of the corporate entity, to enable them to operate the new Airport X-ray Scanner system.
The machine has the pr…
Panic has gripped residents of Seth Okai, near Nsaba in the Agona East District of the Central Region, following the looting of the grave of one Kwesi Matrifi, who was buried one and half
months ago.
The late Matrifi, a chainsaw op…
Dr Komla Dzisi, Rector of Ho Polytechnic, has said the educational institution was opening windows of opportunity for academic and professional progression for its students.
He said as part of the initiative, a team of lecturers from the…
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture has officially launched the Ghana Federation of Agricultural Producers (GFAP).
The federation comprises four major apex farmers associations - the Apex Farmers Organisation of Ghana (APFOG), Farme…
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.
…
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.
…
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…