Mr Isaac Boabeng, Assembly Member for Oparekrom electoral area in the Akuapem South Municipality, has appealed to government and non-governmental organisations to help the assembly to construct a permanent school block.
Mr Boabeng ma…
Ms Akua Dansua, Minister for Women and Children's Affairs, on Monday said incorporating gender perspectives in the national development budget at all levels, should not be misconstrued to mean women were calling for more money.
Rathe…
Mr Theophilus Tetteh Chaie, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma Central Constituency on Sunday donated a number of relief items valued at over 5,000 Ghana cedis to flood victims at Mataheko.
The items include blankets, mattresses,…
Work on a 20-million-dollar modern car park for the Kaneshie Market Complex (KMC) would soon begin, its Managing Director, Mr Edmund Kofi Duffour Addae told newsmen in Accra on Friday.
He said due to the high level of mutual co-oper…
The Agona Swedru Calvary Crusaders Church Men Fellowship in collaboration with some health personnel in the area on Saturday de-wormed over 1,000 children in three towns in Gomoa East District of the Central Region.
The towns are Gomo…
The Catholic Bishop of Koforidua Diocese, Most Reverend Joseph Afrifa Agyekum, has cut the sod for work to begin on the construction of Akyem State University College at Akyem Asene.
He praised the initiators of the programme, especia…
The implementation of the five-year Afram Plains District Agriculture Development Project (APDADP), with the support of 32.5 million dollar loan from the African Development Bank, two and half years ago had increased agriculture production…
The Golden Jubilee anniversary of the Offinso Presbyterian Church of Ghana has been launched at Offinso with a call on Ghanaians to eschew ethnocentric sentiments and unite to develop the nation.
Reverend Otuo Acheampong, the Asa…
Four pupils of the Sefwi-Humigyibre Primary School drowned while swimming in a pond at Muoho near Humigyibre.
The deceased, identified as Augustine Atta, 12, Enoch Danso, 14, Oscar Agyabeng, 12, and Patrick Ofori, 15, are said to…
Researchers at the University of Illinois report that a toxic molecule known to damage cells and cause disease may also play a pivotal role in bird migration.
The molecule, superoxide, is proposed as a key player in the mysterious p…
Researchers at the University of Florida (UF) and the University of Winnipeg have developed the first detailed images of a primitive primate brain, unexpectedly revealing that cousins of our earliest ancestors relied on smell more than sig…
The Ajumako Enyan-Essiam District Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Mr Joe B. Morrison, has advised Ghanaians to desist from activities that destroy the environment.
He said activities including in…
A lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has suggested that a proportion of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) be set aside to top up the salaries of teachers.
Prof Dr Daniel Buor, Provost of the…
The Gomoa West District Social Welfare Officer, Mr. Wallace Acheampong, has called on fathers to show their children the love they have for them by devoting some time to satisfy their psychological needs.
Acquisition of worldly thing…
The Centre for Sustainable Development Initiatives (CENSUDI), a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) working in the Upper East Region has mainstreamed HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy into its operations.
The NGO works in the area of providi…
Ghanaians have been urged to desist from making unnecessary demands on public office holders because it can corrupt them.
Mr Kofi Mintah, Chairman of the Central Regional Disciplinary Committee of the National Democratic Congress (ND…
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has suggested a substantial increase in salary for public sector workers to help mitigate the harsh socio-economic impact that will result from the postponement of the implementation of the…
The Minister of Transport and Member of Parliament for Effutu, Mr Mike Hammah, has visited some flooded areas and its the victims in Winneba to assess the extent of damage caused by the heavy downpour at the dawn of Saturday.
No casua…
Two legal practitioners were dragged before an Accra Circuit Court on Monday for forgery and fraud.
They are Joseph Kwame Owusu Asamani and Ekow Amua-Sekyi, who were jointly charged for conspiracy, forging judicial service writ of summon…
Two members of a gang of four suspected to have stolen 10 cows from Mankesim in the Central Region and were transporting them to New Abirem in the Eastern Region were on Tuesday arrested by the Akwatia police and sent back to Mankesim.
T…
Dr. Joseph Oduro, Ashanti Regional Deputy Director in-charge of Public Health, has said health issues should not be the concern of health personnel alone.
He has therefore appealed to civil society organizations, churches and others to b…
Parts of Dubila in the Bolgatanga Municipality lack portable water and rely solely on a stream for their source of drinking water.
There is no school, no health facility and children in the community have to walk five kilometres to t…
A team of police personnel and members of the Tema Development Corporation (TDC) Taskforce have apprehended seven suspected land guards on a piece of land adjacent the Tema Animal Husbandry.
One AK 47 assault rifle, two pump action s…
The National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) will from June 24 organize a headcount for all beneficiaries to take inventories of those at post and wipe out the ghost names on its payroll.
This initiative was to save the programme…
The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) on Tuesday marked Olympic Day with a flag raising ceremony at the Ohene Djan Stadium, Accra.
The Day, which is celebrated worldwide, was to mark the formation of the Olympic movement and also forms p…
A Circuit Court in Accra on Monday found three Chinese who were busted for transporting and trafficking 10 Chinese girls to engage in the sex trade in Ghana, guilty and handed down various jail terms on them.
James Xu Jin, 41, who is bel…
Queen mothers in Tema Metropolis and Dangme West District of the Greater Accra Region have accepted the challenge to advocate against the raising of unplanned families in order to reduce the financial burden on women.
As a result, th…
Government on Monday afternoon dispatched a truck-load of mattresses and other relief items to last Friday's night (June 19) flood victims to meet their some of their immediate needs.
The Executive has also put place a task force com…
The Asogli State Council and the Volta Region House of Chiefs will launch a 250 million-dollar five-year Volta Region Economic Development Plan on June 30 at the Accra International Conference Centre.
A commemorative book on the fift…
An earthquake registered 4.5 magnitude jolted central Italian city of L'Aquila on Monday with no immediate report of any casualties, according to local news media.
Local TV station said earlier the quake, which struck at 11 p.m. loca…
Land owners affected by the construction of the treatment plant for the Koforidua water project at Bukunor, on Tuesday petitioned the Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, to intervene to enable their compensation packages to …
President John Evans Atta Mills will on Wednesday pay his first working visit to Burma Camp as Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) during which he is expected to roll out his government's programme for the GAF and situate th…
Atiku Apedo, 38, a businessman at Segbe-Junction who broke into a neighbour's room to steal a handbag containing Gh¢1,400 and CFA 500,000 was on Wednesday jailed eight year by an Aflao Circuit Court.
He was arrested hiding in a guest…
Two legal practitioners were dragged before an Accra Circuit Court on Monday for forgery and fraud.
The two are Joseph Kwame Owusu Asamani and Ekow Amua-Sekyi jointly being held for conspiracy, forging judicial service writ of summons, d…
A network of agencies on Tuesday gave a firm commitment to the protection and promotion of child rights for their positive development in the Northern Region.
The network would among other things monitor, sensitize and evaluate issue…
The Food and Drugs Board (FDB) has warned that it will not spare radio presenters, media, and members of the public who flouted its directive and mention names of regulated products especially medicines.
A statement issued in Accra o…
Poverty is responsible for 90 percent of child labour in Ghana.
Other causes are outmoded and harmful cultural and traditional practices, ethnic violence, discriminatory inheritance and parental neglect.
Ms. Stella Ofori, a Senior …
The Asogli Traditional Council on Monday said tribal undertones put on statements made by Togbe Afede XIV, at a durbar in honour of President John Evans Atta Mills on April 18 were in bad-taste and must be rejected.
A statement signe…
Female students in the Tema metropolis have appealed to the government and law enforcement agencies to ensure that the public adhere to legislations that concern the protection of the rights of children especially the girl child.
Th…
Officials of Value Added Tax (VAT) have locked up four companies in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality for their failure in submitting VAT returns.
The companies are Getensaps Civil and Mechanical Engineering which owes
16,639.39 Ghana…
The Amansie West Youth Association has called on President John Evans Atta Mills to review the Anwiankwanta-Abore-Adumasa road contract which was awarded to Messrs A Kannin Construction Limited on the eve of former President Kufuor's depar…
For some time now my journalistic mind has been wondering if the forums held in Ghana and tagged press (news) conference or press briefing, are really what they are supposed to be.
I picked at least three out of several web definiti…
The National Sports for all Association - Ghana (NASFAAG) will organize a Health Walk on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra.
The 5-kilometre Walk forms part of activities to climax the 49th Republic Day celebr…
The Interim Management Committee of Accra Hearts of Oak has appealed to the supporters of the Club to remain calm and focused in the face of the recent unimpressive performance in the premiership.
A statement signed by Frank Nelson Nw…
Sports Journalists across the World will on Thursday, July 2, celebrate the International Day of the Sports Journalists.
The day set aside by the Association of International Press for Sports (AIPS) was to highlight the role of the …
The Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) will organise a National Athletics Championship from 2nd-5th July, at the Baba Yara Stadium, Kumasi.
The championship is to select athletes who will represent the Nation in the forthcoming Afric…
The Vikings Basketball Academy is conducting a special justify your inclusion exercise to hunt for young talents in the sport.
The project is aimed at recruiting young potential basketball players from the ages of 12 to 18 years old…
Egypt reported Tuesday another case of influenza A/H1N1, bringing the total number of the flu in the populous country to 41, according to the Ministry of Health.
The new case is a 34-year-old British man who came to Sharm el- Sheikh …
Personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Greater Accra Region office, on Tuesday embarked on a desperate move to ward off hawkers, who had besieged their premises with their wares.
In an answer to a fire outbreak, the per…
Mr. Alexis Adugdaa Ayamdor, Assembly member for Zorku Kanga Electoral Area, in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region, has commended government for constituting child panels nationwide, to promote the rights of children under the Chil…