All valid omissions on the Health Sector payroll submitted to the Controller and Accountant-General (C&AG) have been processed for inclusion in the August payroll.
A circular signed by Mr Kwabena Adjei-Mensah, Deputy Controller & Ac…
The government has channelled colossal financial resources through the banks to strengthen the operations of the Rural Enterprise Project (REP) toward the economic empowerment of rural communities.
Mr Kofi Adusei-Poku, Deputy Minist…
New efforts show AIDS and HIV treatments can succeed in war zones, where people fear bombs and bullets more than a distant death from disease, non-governmental groups said Saturday.
Ahead of the 16th International AIDS Conference, do…
The war on AIDS may last decades, the head of the agency UNAIDS warned here, as experts gathered for the biggest-ever conference on a disease that has claimed 25 million lives in a quarter century.
Peter Piot, UNAIDS's executive direc…
The Justice Georgina Wood Committee investigating two major cocaine-related cases that hit the country late last year and early this year began sitting in camera on Monday to hear testimonies from some key witnesses.
Mr Ransford Tet…
China will offer special students discounts on tickets sold for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, state media reported Sunday.
The measure is meant to promote the Olympic movement among youngsters, Xinhua news agency reported, citi…
Dr George Ofori-Atta, Presiding Arch Bishop of the International Council for the Clergy, at the weekend slammed Christian leaders who condone wrong doing in society because of their quest to acquire material wealth.
He said God had c…
Medical doctors have been admonished to refrain from leaving the country after their training to seek greener pastures abroad since the practice thwarted efforts to enhance health care delivery in the country.
Professor Kwesi Andam…
Steven Gerrard has labelled Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo a disgrace for his behaviour towards United team mate Wayne Rooney at the World Cup.
Gerrard is furious with the way the Portugal winger intervened after Rooney a…
Mr. Kofi Nyantakyi, President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA)has said that the nation stood the chance of getting competent players to compete in international competitions if it invested heavily in juvenile soccer in the northern…
The Israeli army confirmed early Sunday that 24 of its soldiers had been killed the previous day in a series of clashes with the Hezbollah militia as it expanded its ground operations in south Lebanon.
The updated toll includes the f…
La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in the Greater Accra Region has been named the hotel of the year within the four to five star category at the seventh National Tourism Awards held over the weekend.
Lorneh Lodge, in Tegbi-Keta in the Volta Re…
President John Agyekum Kufuor said the signing of the Compact of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) and its successful implementation in Ghana would launch an epochal transformation of her agriculture into modernity.
He said the …
Mr Daniel Dugan, the Deputy Minister of Fisheries, at the weekend said government would ensure that only people with verifiable project plans benefited from credits under the Youth In Agriculture programme.
He said this would elimin…
Somali pirates on Saturday released a South Korean fishing boat with 25 Asian crew, hijacked in April, after a ransom of hundreds of thousands of dollars was paid, elders and militiamen said.
"The illegal fishermen who unlawfully ent…
The Most Reverend Robert Aboagye-Mensah, Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana, on Saturday urged authorities of educational institutions and the Church to ensure that students combined higher academic achievements with moral …
Dr. Kwame Ameyaw Domfeh, a Lecturer at the Business School Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management of the University of Ghana, Legon, on Thursday expressed concern about the rate of exploitation of natural resou…
Drinking bar operators and food vendors who fail to obtain medical certificates before operating will be sanctioned, a district environmental officer has warned.
Mr George Afranie Buadi, Twifo-Hemang-lower-Denkyira district environm…
Fuel stations in Ho have scaled down their fuel prices following Parliament's approval of reduction of taxes on petroleum products.
During its rounds of some fuel stations, the Ghana News Agency noticed that the price of a gallon of …
The Ecumenical Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (ECASARD), in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) and Minority Oriented Agricultural Programme (MOFA/MOAP), GTZ and ADRA have organized…
The Ashanti Regional Co-ordinator of the Integrated Community Centre for Employable Skills (ICCES), Nana Boateng, has appealed to the Ministry of Manpower, Youth and Employment to adequately resource its youth training institutions to ena…
Dr Henrietta Odoi-Agyarko, Deputy Director of Public Health, Ghana Health Service, on Monday called for a multi-disciplinary as well as multi-dimensional approach to curb the high maternal mortality and child morbidity rates in Africa.
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Mr Hackman Owusu Agyeman, Minister of Water Resource, Work and Housing has cut sod for the commencement of a multi billion water and sanitation project for three Dangme districts.
The project, which would provide potable drinking wat…
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr. Yaw Barimah, has urged motorists, pedestrians and road agencies to play their expected roles effectively to ensure a reduction in accidents from now to December.
He cautioned that posterity would n…
About 40 members of the Birim South District Assembly, opinion leaders and Chiefs on Wednesday, attended a workshop on Social Auditing at Akyem Oda.
It was organised by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) to get the el…
Mr Alban Sumanu Kingsford Bagbin, the Minority Leader in Parliament, on Wednesday urged his colleagues to show discipline by example for the citizenry to copy.
"We should stop preaching. We should practise and the people will follow. If…
A field officer of the East Akim District Secretariat of the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE), Ms Sophia Amponsah had observed that, if more women take up political positions in the country, corruption by political office ho…
Mr Kobina T. Hammond, Deputy Minister of Energy, urged Members of Parliament (MPs) to use part of their share of the District Assemblies’ Common Fund (DACF) to procure low voltage electricity poles for communities in their constituencies.
…
A three-day ECOWAS Brainstorming and Expert Planning Workshop on National Human Rights Institutions opened in Accra on Wednesday to develop an effective strategy to promote and protect human rights in the Sub-Region.
The workshop wo…
Instead of the Brazil-England rematch many were expecting, the second semi-final at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™ will be a step into the unknown at this tournament.
France and Portugal have never met at the FIFA World Cup, although th…
Franz Beckenbauer said on Tuesday he hoped coach Jurgen Klinsmann would continue to lead the national team despite a heart-breaking 2-0 loss to Italy in the FIFA World Cup™ semi-finals.
"We trust him, the players trust him. I hope he con…
A newly-published book said that a U.S. clandestine plan on air raiding China's first nuclear weapon facilities 42 years ago forced Chinese leaders to alter the nation's economic development strategy.
The book on the modern Chinese eco…
About 400 residents of Manhyia, a suburb of Goaso in the Asunafo District of Brong-Ahafo were at the weekend rendered homeless by floods following a torrential rainfall that lasted several hours.
The floods occurred when River Goa o…
European stock exchanges dropped heavily in morning trade, dragged down by mining and metals stocks and extending last week's plunge caused by concern about higher inflation.
The falls came as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) annou…
The Convention Peoples Party (CPP) has expressed condolences to the bereaved families, friends, and sympathizers of the Catholic Church over the loss of 35 members of the Abuakwa Parish who perished in an accident a week ago.
The CPP…
Droves of teenagers in the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District have fully taken advantage of the Capitation grant under the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) policy to enrol in basic schools specifically primary one, a survey by t…
The Ghana United Nations Association is embarking on a nation-wide sensitisation campaign to educate Ghanaians on the need to value and appreciate the relative peace and stability in the country.
This is aimed at prompting individual…
David Arkutu partnered by Nii Farl returned a net score of 63, to win this year's Barclays Bank Ghana Limited Invitational Golf Championship played at the Achimota Golf Course in Accra.
The two who played with a combined Handicap of…
Sweden became the first team to win world and Olympic titles in the same year after a 4-0 dismantling of defending champions the Czech Republic in the world championships ice hockey final here Sunday.
Jesper Mattson and Niklas Kronwal…
US President George W. Bush said Sunday that the formation of Iraq's new government will serve as a "devastating defeat" for Al-Qaeda and other terrorists seeking to create unrest in the region.
"I fully understand that a free Iraq wi…
Areeba, Ghana's major mobile phone operators has re-launched a road show aimed at bringing its services and products closer to the people, particularly, rural dwellers, who will have the opportunity of buying Areeba products at special pr…
The Ghana Association of Travel and Tourists (GATTA) has instituted a pageant to encourage young ladies between 20 to 25 years to be interested in the development of tourism.
The pageant was being promoted under a project dubbed: "G…
The Bongo branch of New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the entire Bongo community have hailed the recent appointment of Mr Andrew Awuni as the Press Secretary and Presidential Spokesman to President John Agyekum Kufuor.
"We the people of…
Mylik Sports, organisers of Mylik Classic juvenile soccer tournament has fixed the next edition of the competition for November 18 to 26.
This year’s tournament is meant for Under-19 juvenile teams and 12 teams are expected to partici…
Owning to lack of total support of Ghanaians behind the senior national team, the Black Stars towards the up-coming World Cup, Goldfields Ghana Limited, the headline sponsors of the team has launched a drive to galvanize total support for…
British Education Secretary Alan Johnson vowed on Friday to stop feeding pupils the "rubbish that they have been given for decades" with new rules cutting levels of sugar, fat and salt in English school meals.
Rules taking effect in …
Major (rtd) Courage Quarshigah, Minister of Health tasked health workers to abide by the Oath of their profession by attending to their duties with diligence, courage, compassion and trustworthiness.
He said the Oath represented the…
The Atwima-Mponua District Assembly has donated 10 sewing machines worth five million cedis to ten needy girls who have completed their apprenticeship in dressmaking to enable them start their own businesses.
Mr Wilberforce Owusu-An…
Assembly Members of the Hohoe District Assembly on Wednesday took a swipe at the Police and expressed their resentment for the inaction and what they described as gross unprofessional conduct exhibited by Servicemen, which had led to indi…
Thirty-five aspiring assemblywomen in the Upper West Region attended a day's workshop on campaign strategies to enhance their chances of winning seats in the District Level Elections in August.
The workshop organized by the Ministry …
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