A British court signed on Wednesday a deportation order for radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada to be sent back to Jordan.
Qatada, 48, was once dubbed Osama bin Laden's right-hand-man in Europe and was regarded by the Special Immigratio…
"Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way."
Originating from an American soldier's joke over 50 years ago, Murphy's Law has found yet another validation in the two recent collisio…
We reproduce below a rejoinder from Thomas K. Aubyn & Associates, solicitors of a traditional council in the Central Region, to the GNA story: "Chief Dies in Valentine Encounter with Concubine"
"We act for an on behalf of the ...Tradi…
Kwaku Bright and Yaa Dora, siblings, were on Tuesday, convicted by the Asamankese circuit court on charges of intended provocation and breach of the peace.
While Bright was found guilty of threatening to harm a brother in -law with a…
Mr. Frederic Noble Baada, Chairman of the Ghana Mobile Library Service Committee, complained that the group could not commence its work last year due to the lack of funds.
He said the expected funds would have been used to purchase g…
Workers excavating an underground garage in Los Angeles have uncovered the nearly intact skeleton of a mammoth and the largest known cache of fossils from the last ice age, it was announced on Wednesday.
The treasure trove included t…
The Beijing Olympics met its pledges on the environment, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in an assessment report on Wednesday.
The organizers made tremendous efforts to ensure that the 2008 Games marked a step fo…
Controversy is raging on in Goaso, capital of Asunafo North Municipality, over a demolition exercise being carried out by the Goaso traditional council.
The exercise has displaced traders and some workers who have threatened to go on…
The Northern Regional Security Committee (REGSEC) has appealed to the media to be circumspect in their
reportage to prevent any state of insecurity in the region, especially in the Tamale Metropolis.
The REGSEC has, therefore, calle…
The Pan African Writers' Association (PAWA), on Thursday said it had mounted a campaign to alert all African writers and publishers on the recent agreement reached with Google over the digitisation
and show of in-copyright books.
…
Seikwa Traditional Council in Tain District has proposed a national stakeholders' conference to brainstorm on how to reduce the cost of funerals in the country.
The council said the conference must be under the auspices of the Nation…
Dutch electronics giant, Philips, and a leading Ghanaian NGO, Kite, have teamed up to test and develop the introduction of a new generation low-cost sustainable lighting products in Ghana.
A statement issued by Philips in Accra on T…
Yaw Edward, a 26 year-old farmer, was on Thursday convicted on his own plea of guilt to six months imprisonment in hard labour by the Akyem Oda District Magistrate court, for felling a tree illegally in a forest reserve.
Police Chief…
Traditional authorities at Wenchi, Tain and Techiman in the Brong-Ahafo Region have suggested that part of the assembly's common fund be allocated to them so they could also initiate development programmes.
The chiefs made the sugges…
Agbeko Kwame, a farmer, has been put on trial at a Hohoe Circuit Court for cultivating and peddling Indian hemp.
Agbeko's plea was not taken and he was remanded into prison custody to re-appear on March 4.
Assistant Superintend…
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) owes the Tamale Teaching Hospital an amount of about GH¢1.7 million, a situation, which has affected the hospital's finances.
Dr Ken Sagoe, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Tamale Teach…
Mr Daren Schemmer, the Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana, says in order for businesses and organizations to thrive well in the communities they operate, they should complement best practices with Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) p…
The Upper West Regional office of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) undertook 177 educational programmes in some communities and institutions in the region last year.
Beneficiaries, which included basi…
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in collaboration with the Cardio Start International Compassionate Medical Assistance, a heart surgery team from the United States of America has performed a maiden heart surgery for six adults in …
Two students, formerly of the Saint Louis Senior High School (SHS), in Kumasi, have been adjudged the overall international and national best second best candidates in the May/June 2008 West African Senior High School Certificate Examinati…
Mr Mark H. Mensah, Headmaster of Bisease Senior High Secondary Commercial School, has commended the school's Parent/Teachers Association (PTA) for its support in the development of the school.
This was at the handing over of keys to…
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi on collaboration with the Cardio Start International Compassionate Medical Assistance, a heart surgery team from the US has performed a maiden heart surgery on six adults.
Afia Adowaah,…
Three Policemen were on Thursday put before an Accra Circuit Court for their involvement in the attack and stealing of monies and belongings of a Ghanaian businessman at a hotel at Dworwulu in Accra
They are Deputy Superintendent of Poli…
Madam Abravi Afeke, a 60-year-old trader, at the Kotokoraba Market, in Cape Coast, on Wednesday died instantly, when a VW saloon crushed her and another trader against a wall.
The other victim, Theresa Agbo, 18, was rushed to the Cen…
Mrs Juliana Azumah-Mensah, the new Minister of Tourism, on Tuesday asked the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), to help Ghana conduct a study to establish why it was not yet on the tourism map of the world.
She said f…
Mr Francis Boateng, Brong Ahafo Regional Coordinating Director on Tuesday recommended that neonatal health programmes must be placed within the broader context of improving maternal and child health, integrated with safe motherhood and chi…
The Chairman of the Drivers' Welfare Union of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), Mr Sumaila Boakye, has appealed to the National Road Safety Commission and the Ministry of Road and Transport to endeavour to tap the knowledge a…
Health care delivery in the Upper West Region has improved tremendously, especially in the areas of maternal and child health care.
The achievement had been made possible through the Japanese government interventions under its Progra…
Alhaji Mohammed Baba Alhassan, General Secretary, Coalition of Muslim Organizations, Ghana (COMOG) on Thursday said the dress code for Muslim women was a not an imposition but an obligation according
to the Quran.
"It is wrong to …
A two-week training workshop under the Afram Plains District Agriculture Development Project (APDADP), for 23 animal health workers to assist veterinary officers to reduce animal mortality through improved health status of livestock and po…
Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS), has called on the Ministry of Education to come out with appropriate guidelines for the establishment and management of private schools in the country.
The association expressed …
A total of 61,623 children, below the age of five years, out of a target of 77,976 were immunized against the poliomyelitis diseases in the first round of the national immunization exercise in the Tema Metropolis.
The number represen…
The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) is scrutinizing documents submitted to execute the bail bond for Daniel Charles Gyimah, Managing Director of the National Investment Bank (NIB).
"The BNI is still scrutinising the documents …
Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Japanese counterpart Hirofumi Nakasone signed a new pact Tuesday on the relocation of U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam, honoring the two allies' commitment to the 2006 roadmap on re…
Mr Alex Tettey-Enyo, Minister of Education has directed authorities of University of Development Studies (UDS) to stay further action on the intended closure of the Wa Campus.
He has also directed the students to resume lectures on T…
The French Embassy, in collaboration with the University of Ghana on Tuesday held a French fair to encourage graduate students to pursue higher education in French under the French environment.
According to Mr. Arnaud Dornon, Head o…
A circuit court 1 in Kumasi, on Monday remanded Michael Nyarko, a 31-year-old police constable, for allegedly defiling a 15-year-old girl school drop-out.
The accused, who was stationed at Bibiani in the Western Region pleaded not guilty…
Aryee Aryeetey, aka Ataa Ayi, who is currently serving two separate jail terms for robberies was on Tuesday brought to the Accra Fast Track High Court on fresh charges of conspiracy and robbery.
Ataa Ayi, who seems to be familiar with th…
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) in collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited would on Saturday, February 21, embark on a massive clean-up exercise as part of measures to rid the metropolis of filth.
Launching the exercise at a…
The Chief Justice (CJ), Mrs Justice Georgina Wood on Tuesday announced that the judiciary has embraced the use of the Alternative Disputes Resolution (ADR) to settle cases at every stage of the judicial process.
She said parties who …
Notre Dame Senior High School at Fiapre in the Sunyani Municipality at the weekend won the four-day non-residential Project Citizen Brong Ahafo regional showcase held in Sunyani.
The competition was under the theme "Consolidating Dem…
The demand for birth certificates by schools before admitting children at Kindergarten in the Brong Ahafo Region, has resulted in an increase in the registration of births in the region.
The region registered 24,399 children aged les…
The Court of Appeal on Tuesday adjourned sine
die the appeal application brought before it by the Electoral Commission (EC), challenging the Sunyani High Court's ruling in the Asutifi South Parliamentary election delivered on January 6.
…
Mr Kwame Adu Bediako, National Chairman of "Abetifiman Mma", a development-oriented association of citizens of Abetifi in the Eastern Region, has called on members to unite and initiate projects that would give the town a face-lift.
…
The so-called "war on terror" launched by the United States following the 9/11 terror attacks has resulted in serious damage to the world's respect for human rights, according to a report released on Monday.
The United States "has ad…
International medical charity, Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has warned that Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis continues to deteriorate, causing appalling suffering.
The organization said in a statement issued in Nairobi on Tuesday tha…
The Obuasi Municipal Director of Education, Mrs. Beatrice Boakye Prempeh, has called on heads of basic schools to continue sharing good practices that would help to improve the quality of education delivery.
She said such exchanges wo…
Some 45 officers involved in the planning for the June 2009 military manoeuvre to test the logistic component of the ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF) have concluded an initial planning conference in Ouagadougou.
Some 1,270 military personn…
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on Wednesday, announced two significant partnerships and $48 million in grants to help hundreds of thousands of small cocoa and cashew farmers in sub-Saharan Africa significantly increase their incomes …
A 32 year-old man, Kojo Ibrahim, drowned in a small lake called, "Rapaloma Bay," at Tarkwa, when he went to swim with two of his friends, last Sunday.
Ibrahim and his friends visited the lakeside for merry making and decided to swim …
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