A 250,000 US-dollars cold storage facility is being constructed near the Aviance Cargo Village Section at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra.
The facility, an initiative of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), is expected…
MTN Ghana says its mega text and win promotions were usually targeted at only five per cent of their subscriber base.
In response to a questionnaire from the Ghana News Agency, Mrs. Mawuena Trebarh, Corporate Services Executive of MT…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Central Region has assured government functionaries, especially Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives that the party would not use frivolous agitations to remove them from offic…
Suspicion and hostility towards China "runs rampant" in India, the state media has said,
citing the predicament faced by Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh for his recent pro-China comments.
Commenting on the outcome of a surv…
Egypt and Pakistan Sunday discussed the Iranian nuclear issue and the conflagration in Afghanistan and Iraq, besides the resumption of Indo-Pak talks as Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi met Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak here.
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India and Pakistan are likely to be inducted into the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)while Iran may miss the bus as the country is already under UN sanctions for its nuclear programmes.
"The country aspiring to join SCO should…
Seventy Yuvan motorbikes acquired at a total cost
of Ghc 83,265.00 by the Keta Municipal Assembly from its common fund, have been presented to the members of the Assembly at Keta.
The bikes acquired at a unit cost of Ghc 1,189.50, …
Prosper Kudohia, a chainsaw operator, charged with stealing, has been remanded in prison custody by the Akim Swedru Circuit Court in the Birim South District.
The 27-year-old operator pleaded guilty to stealing chainsaw machine value…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, has expressed worry about the refusal and failure of teachers to accept postings to rural areas, which he said had contributed to the poor academic standards in those areas.
He obser…
A tiger which stepped into a nearby village here and disappeared into the Burgur forests after killing a buffalo triggered panic in Erode district of south Indian state Tamil Nadu.
According to forest officials, local people had spo…
The Men's Fellowship (MF) of the Tema Community 20 Ebenezer Methodist Church has donated various food items to the James Camp prison in Accra.
The items included rice, sugar, cooking oil, yam, bread, laundry soap and detergents.
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Vodafone Ghana Foundation has launched the world of difference, an initiative to provide ordinary people the opportunity to contribute their skills to community development or project that they are connected with.
The community impact…
Professor S.K.B. Asante, Board Chairman, of the Salvation Army Senior High School at Akyem Wenchi in the Kwaebibirem District, has expressed worry about the wide gap between the rural and urban educational systems.
"Despite the fact …
Mr George Andah, Chief Marketing Officer of MTN has urged parents to inculcate the habit of reading in their children when they are young.
He observed that besides promoting a child's cerebral and emotional development, reading was a…
Air India on Sunday announced an interim compensation for the victims of the air crash,
including Rs ten lakh for the family of those above 12 years of age, even as it handed over 128 bodies to the kin of the victims.
Addressing a pr…
Mr Mohammed Ahmed Baba Jamal, Deputy Eastern Region Minister, at the weekend admonished students not to resort to violence and demonstrations to back their demands, but to channel their grievances through the appropriate quarters for redre…
The Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR)and the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) of the illfated Air India
Express plane were Sunday recovered from the crash site here and are expected to provide vital clues about the cause of the accident that left 15…
Global sanitation NGO, Sulabh Foundation, which has pioneered low cost Indian toilet system will introduce the innovative technology in over 50 developing countries across the world.
Bindeshwar Pathak, head of the Foundation whi…
It was nothing less than a miracle or perhaps beginning of a 'second life' for the nine people who did not show up at the airport here to board the ill-fated Air India Express flight that crashed in Mangalore killing 158.
The nine, …
Rapid urbanisation is leading to destruction of natural habitats of birds as they are struggling to find a place to build their nests, according to
a noted ornithologist.
As towering apartments dot the urban skyline, the felled trees…
A team of experts arrived here Sunday morning from Hyderabad city in south India to conduct DNA tests to help in identification of bodies charred beyond recognition in the Air India Express plane crash.
Some 115 bodies had been iden…
One in every four air crashes across the globe can be attributed to error during landing, similar to this morning's Air India crash in Mangalore in which 158 people were killed.
An analysis by commercial aircraft maker Boeing show…
Monsoon watchers appear to have heaved a sigh of relief on the weakening of cyclone 'Laila' as they believe it would now have little impact on the annual rainfall season.
"We are still going ahead with the initial prediction on mons…
Tools For Self Reliance (TFSR), a non-governmental organisation in the United Kingdom has, through the Centre for the
Development of People (CEDEP), presented sewing machines worth 66,000 Ghana cedis to four institutions and individuals …
The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) has announced its decision to sponsor a prize award for well researched articles on HIV/AIDS as part of this year's Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) awards package.
The winner would receive a plaque…
Ghana Journal on Disability, a book highlighting scientific research findings, challenges and general information on disability issues is to be published in 2011.
The quarterly Journal is a collaborative work between the Centre for Disab…
The World Food Programme operating in the three northern regions, has sponsored 15 girls to second circle institutions.
The girls, who performed well in the 2009 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), were presented with 400…
An Agona Swedru Circuit Court on Thursday remanded into prison custody a drinking bar operator at Agona Duakwa, when he made his second appearance before the court, for alleged defiling 14 year-old girl.
Kobina Baah, 28 maintained hi…
Mr Alex Tettey Enyo, Minister for Education said government was seriously considering a recent request by the Jayee University College to support private universities through the Ghana
Education Trust Fund (GETFUND).
Mr Tettey Enyo…
Stakeholders at a day's workshop held in Bolgatanga on Friday, observed that the best way to deal with child migration, child labour, and child abuse in the Region, was for them to collaborate with one another.
The Workshop organized…
Fifteen persons have been arrested by the Eastern Regional Police Command in a swoop at Asenema in connection with violence that led to the vandalizing of houses.
Briefing the Ghana News Agency, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) R…
A consultative Committee is to be formed to champion the rapid socio-economic development of the Volta Region.
The Committee, to be chaired by the Regional Minister, would identify and collate all developmental challenges of the Regi…
The Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology on Friday urged Ghanaians to make use of biodiversity, especially in eco-tourism, medical research, agriculture, horticulture and other
economic ventures to the benefit of the people.
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Mr Kofi Opoku-Manu, Ashanti Regional Minister, has said that the Government would not discriminate in the provision of education infrastructure.
He said Government would ensure that all school children have access to quality educatio…
MTN Ghana, the mobile telecommunication services
provider, on Friday launched "Happy Minds Reading Clubs" to mark the end of its annual 21 Days of Y'ello Care programme.
A statement signed by Mrs. Georgina Asare-Fiagbenu, Senior Ma…
The Ministry of Information has appealed to all
Ghanaians and foreigners resident in Ghana to come out boldly on Friday, May 21, in their red, gold and green outfits "as Ghana gets ready for the World Cup 2010."
A statement issued…
The mobile phone service provider, MTN Ghana, has
supplied insecticide treated bednets and thousands of cedis worth of malarial drugs to residents of selected communities across the country, as part of its annual 21-day "Yello' Care" pro…
Participants at a Human Rights Workshop held in Koforidua have accused Newmont Gold Ghana Limited (NGGL) Akyem Project of violating their economic; social; political; environmental and cultural
rights with impunity.
A communiqu�…
Alhaji Zaidu Tamimu, an Administrator at the Upper West Regional Coordinating Council, has observed that Islamic education has been declining since the conversion of Muslim Quranic Schools into English/Arabic Schools by the government in 1…
A farmer, who took part payment of GH�170.00 from Mr Yaw Ofosu, a driver, under the pretext of leasing him a parcel of land for farming, has been remanded by the Akim Swedru Court in
the Eastern Region.
Yaw Ayim, alias Bronya (Ch…
The Akim Oda Magistrate Court in the Eastern Region, has remanded in police custody, two unemployed persons for allegedly possession large quantity of Indian hemp.
Nana Baah, 55 and Kwasi Yeboah, 49, whose pleas were not taken by the…
The Campaign Office of Mr. Isaac Osei, one of the five presidential aspirants of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has expressed optimism that Mr. Osei would be elected at the August 7 National Delegates' Conference, to lead the party to vict…
Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, NPP Presidential Aspirant has urged polling station executives, council of elders and constituency executives of the party, to vote for a candidate
with a science and technology background as flag bear…
Mr. Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister on Friday reiterated that Government was committed to the development of the three Northern Regions.
The Minister gave the assurance at separate meetings, when he addressed Regional, Con…
Mr. Alexis Ayamdor, Assemblyman for the Zorko Kanga Electoral area in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region, has underscored the need for the Constitutional Review Commission to review the remuneration package of assembly members.
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A lecturer at the Home Economics Department of the University of Education, Winneba, Miss Katumi Comfort Maddah, has urged student-teachers
to develop business and entrepreneurial skills to enable them to impact such knowledge to others.…
HFC Bank Ghana Limited has opened a branch at Tarkwa-Maakro in the Kumasi Metropolis as part of the push to establish a firm foothold in the Ashanti region.
This brings the number of branches in the region to four and ups the national to…
The Mfantseman Municipal Coordinator of the national Disaster management Organisation, (NADMO), Mr. Felix Quansah has appealed to the Management of Ghana Commercial Bank to relocate the Saltpond Branch to save it from the annual ritual of …
Vodafone Ghana has said customers would remain focus on its operations as the company rolled out new technologies to boost communications and internet usage.
Mr David Venn, Chief Executive Officer, Vodafone Ghana, said the company ha…
Farmers in Northern Ghana are to benefit from a
new program aimed at increasing their earning potential.
The program, launched by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the International Centre for Soil Fertility…
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