Government has been urged to come out with a more comprehensive salary structure for workers in the country to enable them to cope with the current economic difficulties.
Mr. Richard Asueme, Industrial Relations Officer, Upper East …
Matilda Ampofo, a woman, who had earned the nickname "man woman" was on Thursday arraigned before the Kade Magistrate Court for escaping from lawful custody.
Matilda pleaded guilty and in default would go to prison for 12 months in h…
Mr. Joseph Kwabena Onyinah, Ashanti Regional Director of Education, has advised teachers to desist from rushing to the media to address their grievances.
The Ghana Education Service (GES), he said, has laid down communication structures …
A Kumasi Circuit Court has fined a mason and a Vulcanizer GH¢200.00 each for stealing engine oil.
They will in addition pay a sum of GH¢400.00 for the engine oil, as well serve a bond to be of good behaviour for one year or in defaul…
An educationist has described as unacceptable disparities in the postings of newly-trained teachers and advised that majority should be posted to rural areas where their services are most needed.
Mr. Joseph Kwabena Onyinah, the Ashanti R…
The Ashanti Regional Branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Constituency Secretaries Association, has congratulated Mr. Sylvestor Mensah, a former Member of Parliament for Dadekotopon, on his appointment as the Chief Executive Of…
The Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare has presented 15 bicycles to members of Community Child Labour Protection Committee in the Atwima Mponua District to enhance their movement for effective monitoring of child labour in the distr…
John Kusaasi, a 30-year-old carpenter, was electrocuted at Nyinahin when he touched a metal television pole in his house.
Unknown to him the pole had come into contact with a high voltage electricity cable following a heavy downpour…
Mr Omane Agyekum, Mampong Municipal Director of National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has called on the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to introduce biometric voting for the 2012 election to ensure clean and credible election…
Four Police Officers of the Drug Enforcement Unit of the Ghana Police Service in Kumasi, who refused to take GH¢20,000 bribe to kill a drug case, have been rewarded with half the amount as motivation by a Kumasi Circuit Court.
The re…
Mr. Anthony Bassaw, Mpohor Wassa East District Chief Executive, has inaugurated the district's 29-member Malaria Advocacy Team at a special session of the district assembly on the malaria advocacy programme.
In a speech, he urged peop…
A Tarkwa Circuit Court has remanded a 27-year-old porter (cocoa carrier) Samuel Baidoo into police custody for giving a 19-year-old Victoria Akoto medicine to terminate her pregnancy.
He pleaded guilty and the court presided over by …
Africare Ghana, a non-governmental organization (NGO), has donated items worth 12,000 dollars to Wassa Amemfi District Health Directorate.
The items included one motorbike, 13 bicycles, weighing scales and treated mosquito bed nets.
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School children in the Northern Region have pleaded with their parents to allow them to be in school rather than withdrawing them for farming activities, which draws back their development.
The children indicated that their future re…
A Tarkwa Circuit Court has adjourned a case involving a 22-year-old unemployed Bismark Yeboah for possessing a quantity of dried leaves suspected to be Indian Hemp.
He pleaded guilty to the charge and he will re-appear on June 20.
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Massive corruption has been detected in the National Disaster Management Organization, (NADMO), National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) and the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) all in the Volta Region.
Mr Joseph Amenowode, the …
The Kpando District Assembly is working towards the resumption of pontoon services between Kpando-Torkor and Afram Plains in the Eastern region.
The assembly is holding meetings with some investors to consider the viability of the pro…
Kwaku Owuraku, unemployed, who stole a taxi driver's mobile phone was on Thursday remanded in police custody by the Kade District Magistrate Court.
He pleaded not guilty and will re-appear on June 25.
Police Inspector D.T. Cobbina, pro…
The West Akyem Municipal Assembly on Thursday elected Mr Kenneth Francis Teye, a 43-year-old farmer, as its new Presiding Member.
Mr Teye was challenged by the out- going presiding member, Mr Daniel Safori Owusu, but three rounds of …
Two semi-detached houses costing GHC 41.7, 000 and funded by the Parent/Teacher Association (PTA) of the Ofori Panin Senior High School (SHS) at Kukurantumi were inaugurated on Thursday.
The Chairman of the PTA, Mr Ekow Mensah, said acco…
The government has initiated a Country Strategic Investment Framework for Sustainable Land Management (GSIF) to prevent further land degradation through out the country.
The programme, under a multi-partner initiative known as the Te…
Mrs. Elizabeth De-Souza, Northern Regional Director of Education has urged Managements of Islamic Education Units to improve upon the environment and facilities in which their schools operate.
She noted that most of the schools were …
An appeal has gone to Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) to encourage untrained teachers to make good use of the courses being offered by universities and colleges to upgrade themselves.
Mr. Joseph Foster Andoh, the Distri…
Dr Francis Dakura, NDC Member of Parliament (MP) for Jirapa, on Wednesday linked the excessive consumption and abuse of alcohol to poverty and frustrations and called for quick intervention to save the youth from the effects of substance a…
Dr. Alfred Vanderpuije, Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive (AMA), on Thursday tasked the Town and Country Planning Department, to issue building permits within three months, in order to reverse the long waiting period by applicants.
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The Spanish and Mexican governments signed here Wednesday an agreement aimed at promoting gender equality and the protection of women.
The agreement will allow the exchange of information and the analysis of strategies, experiences a…
Spain is reviewing a U.S. request to accept four prisoners from the U.S.-controlled Guantanamo prison, Spain's Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said on Wednesday.
Moratinos said at a press conference that Spain will study each…
The Spanish parliament on Wednesday agreed to dispatch 532 troops to Afghanistan, as requested by Defense Minister Carmen Chacon.
The mission for Afghanistan is "the toughest, complex and risky one for the Armed Forces and it is deve…
The visiting NATO's Secretary General Jaap de Hope Scheffer on Wednesday announced sending additional troops to Afghanistan ahead of the second presidential election after the fall of Taliban regime set for August 20 this year.
"We a…
Nigeria's major militant group in the oil rich Niger Delta region, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said its fighter destroyed a major crude oil pipeline in southeast in Bayelsa State belonging to Royal Dutch She…
Somali Islamists battling the transitional government of the Horn of Africa nation have reiterated their threats to invade Kenya unless the east African nation pullout it's military from the common border.
The local Daily Nation news…
Several African countries have made impressive gains in child survival in recent years but much more needs to be done, UNICEF said on Tuesday in marking the international Day of the African Child.
This year's theme is "Africa F…
Mr. Moses Mabengba, Deputy Northern Regional Minister, on Tuesday expressed worry about the violation of children's rights by parents and teachers in the country.
He said the situation had resulted in some children dropping out of sc…
Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Moscow Tuesday night for a state visit aimed at enhancing the Sino-Russian strategic partnership of cooperation.
The Chinese president flew into the Russian capital from Yekaterinburg, where …
IBF Bantamweight champion, Joseph Agbeko has dissociated himself from reports linking him to derogatory comments said to have been made against Joshua Clottey's loss to Miguel Cotto last Saturday.
A comment was posted by one "Joseph …
Members of the Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Parliament on Tuesday raised issues over the absence of the Sports Minister, Alhaji Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak to answer an urgent question concerning the level of preparations for the Afr…
Farmers in the Upper East Region have been called upon to vaccinate their livestock against the various preventable diseases that have been the cause of high mortality rates in livestock.
Dr. Thomas Anyorikeya, Regional Veterinary Of…
The Mankessim Programme Area Manager of the Plan Ghana, an international child-centred community development organization, Mr Sulemana Gbana has called on the government to provide adequate resources to address ignorance, poverty and dise…
Mr. Bukari Anaba Zakari, Tano South District Chief Executive on Tuesday urged parents and guardians with physically challenged children to discard the notion that disability is the result of a curse.
He stressed that it was wrong fo…
Opanyin Kwadwo Broni, 114 years, the oldest person at Beposo in the Sekyere Central District in Ashanti Region has attributed his age and good health to kindness to other people refrain from alcohol, avoidance of argument and litigation.
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The Tema Fishing Harbour branch of the women's and youth wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was on Tuesday inaugurated with a call on party members to draw strategies to address current challenges to ensure a brighter future fo…
A total of 760 million Dollars was spent on the treatment of malaria and its related problems last year, Dr George Sipa Yankey, Minister of Health has said.
He explained that the cost covered the procurement of medicines for the tr…
The Chieftaincy Act of 2008 made all chiefs with the title "Fiaga" in the Volta Region paramount chiefs, Nana Soglo Alloh IV, Vice-President of the Volta Region House of Chiefs.
Speaking at a general meeting of the Volta Regional …
Out of the 2,000 metric tonnes of waste generated in Accra daily, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has the capacity to handle only 1,500 metric tonnes of it.
Dr Yaw Boateng, Director of Public Health, AMA who disclosed this in A…
Ms Francisca Dzata, Eastern Regional Biomedical Scientist, on Wednesday expressed concern about the reluctance of people to donate blood to hospitals, resulting in relying on replacement donation.
She said available statistics indica…
The Hearing Assessment Centre of the Korle Teaching Hospital in Accra was on Tuesday evening gutted by fire resulting in the loss of equipment and destruction of the building that cost about 500,000 dollars.
Dr Emmanuel Dornu Kitche…
Mr Stephen Afreh, Asunafo North Municipal head of Business Advisory Centre (BAC), has appealed to Ghanaians to patronize Made-in-Ghana goods, especially those produced in their localities.
He said this would encourage small and mediu…
George Kennedy, a labourer who allegedly assaulted Madam Esi Mansa, a 65-year-old woman over toilet tolls appeared before the Kade District Magistrate's Court.
Kennedy pleaded not guilty to unlawful and intentional assault and was gr…
Third SaNsA International Artists' workshop has ended in Kumasi with a call on Artists to work hard and be innovative to find solutions to the nation's socio-economic challenges such as environmental degradation and pollution of the eco-s…
Dr John Eleeza, Ho Municipal Director of Health, has recommended that employers institute a twice-yearly routine medical screening for their workers to enable them track their wellbeing as they laboured for them.
He said often peopl…