Hundreds of South Koreans have offered to donate eggs for stem cell research in a show of support for cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-Suk despite his admitted ethical breaches, supporters said Sunday.
More than 700 would-be ova donors have …
The Assistant Commissioner of Police, Douglas Akrofi Asiedu on Saturday said it was required of civil society to support the Police Service with the needed logistics to enable them achieve efficiency in their task to enforce law and order …
Mr. Peter Kwabena Ameyaw, the Adansi North District Chief Executive, has expressed concern about Licensed Cocoa Buying Companies (LCBCs) that are sabotaging government efforts at promoting the cocoa industry through undue delays in the pay…
BERLIN, Nov 27 (AFP/GNA) - Bayern Munich surged six points clear at the Bundesliga summit with a 2-1 win over Mainz 05 on Saturday at the Allianz Arena.
It was Bayern's 12th win in their first 14 matches, a record Bundesl…
Thierry Henry reached another personal milestone as he scored the second goal of the day to help Arsenal secure a 3-0 victory over Blackburn at Highbury.
The Frenchman has already become the club's all-time leading scorer this season …
Six teams have confirmed their participation in the Otumfuo Invitational Tournament expected to kick-start on December 11, this year.
The teams are Enyimba FC of Nigeria, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, King Faisal and AshantiGold from Ghana,…
Delegates at the just-ended Conference of ECOWAS Chief Justices and ECOWAS Court of Justice in Accra have suggested that courses on the ECOWAS Treaty and Protocols be part of the curricula of law schools in member-countries.
Furtherm…
HelpAge Ghana (HAG), a non-governmental organisation on ageing, urged the media to develop interest in issues concerning the old and to give it more coverage.
"If you highlight issues affecting the elderly in our society and it is r…
The refusal of some people to pay their property rates, coupled with lack of revenue collectors in the Jirapa/Lambussie district, was impeding revenue mobilization of the Assembly.
While some landlords constantly chased away revenue…
The Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) of the Ghana Police Service in the Western Region has embarked on a programme to inspect vehicles of companies before they are put on the road.
This would ensure that vehicles, especially cargo…
A seven-member Indian delegation of diesel engine manufacturers has ended a three-day visit to Ghana during which Ghanaian authorities were given an overview of the Indian engineering industry.
The group also met with the Minister …
The Ghana Stock Exchange continued its slow rise on Wednesday with the GSE-All Share Index, the main market measure, going up by 0.19 points in a dull market that saw only one price appreciation.
The Index ended trading at 4,899.40 p…
With effect from January 2006, there will be no more personal income tax on minimum wage, Finance Minister, Mr Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu announced.
The move to abolish personal income tax on minimum wage is in line with government's objectiv…
A mission of the West African grouping ECOWAS, in Liberia to observe a presidential election, urged the losers Friday to accept the result "with dignity and grace" and winners to "acknowledge victory with humility."
The Economic Commu…
Mr Daniel Mensah of Gomoa Abonko, who started his education in a non-formal class in 1991, is now pursuing a higher national diploma (HND) course at the Cape Coast Polytechnic.
Mr P.K. Danson, Gomoa District Coordinator of the Non-F…
The Deputy District Officer In-charge of Department of Social Welfare in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar District, Miss Takyiwaa Opong, has expressed concern about the high rate of parental neglect of children in the district.
She said betw…
Members of Parliament (MPs) have deplored the irresponsible manner in which certain mining companies polluted and desecrated water bodies in their areas of operation.
They have, therefore, called for strict monitoring and enforcement …
Members of the Kumasi Central Market Women Association have appealed to the government to reduce taxes and duties imposed on goods imported into the country.
They have also appealed to the government to check the influx of cheaper …
The euphoria of the Real Tamale United and Kumasi Asante Kotoko's GT Premier League match scheduled for Sunday has reached high pitch in the Tamale Metropolis as supporters of RTU have started celebrating a win for their club to keep thei…
Ruud van Nistelrooy has lifted the lid on the depth of the crisis at Manchester United, admitting he has never known tougher times at Old Trafford.
In comments that, in more measured terms, echo captain Roy Keane's scathing criticism …
The biggest international meeting on the bird flu crisis opens on Monday to likely calls for extra money and fresh efforts to bolster defences against the H5N1 virus, starting with the poultry flocks where the deadly foe holes up.
The…
The Osu Traditional Council on Wednesday came to the aid of the National Union of Ghana Students by offering them two buildings to choose from and use one as an office and thus ending the hunger strike threat.
NUGS on Wednesday emba…
A 13-member Country Advisory Group (CAG) on Bio-safety was on Wednesday inaugurated with the task of advising the implementation of the country Programme for Bio-safety Systems (PBS) associate award to promote the judicious use of modern a…
Callous thieves broke into the home of a teenage amputee and made off with the girl's artificial leg, her family said Wednesday.
California schoolgirl Melissa Huff, 16, was horrified to find that the heartless burglars had not only st…
The White House refused to confirm or deny Wednesday that the CIA operates secret prisons, known as "black sites," for Al-Qaeda suspects in eastern Europe and other countries around the world.
The Washington Post reported that the pri…
Dr Kwabena Godfred Ofosu-Budu, a Senior Research Officer of the University of Ghana, Legon, has called on the government, non-governmental organizations and individuals to establish an Agricultural Fund (AGRIFUND) to help develop the rice …
Dr Seth Yeboah Bimpong-Buta, former Director of the Ghana School of Law, on Tuesday described the position of Mr Kwaku Ansa-Asare, Director of the Ghana School of Law (GSL) as fraudulent.
Mr Bimpong-Buta said Mr Ansa-Asare was not a…
Health Minister Major Courage Quashigah (rtd) has launched the national campaign for the policy on new anti-malaria drug, Artesunate-Amodiaquine, with a call on Ghanaians to ensure a reduction in the incidence of malaria.
Artesunate…
Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, has expressed concern that Ghana was facing increasing numbers of new HIV/AIDS infections and a growing death toll.
He said the massive social and economic cost in dealing with the rate of infectio…
The Nigerian government has launched an independent investigation into a clash in the economic capital Lagos between soldiers and police that left at least two civilians dead.
The panel appointed by President Olusegun Obasanjo is task…
The UN food agency launched a rare appeal to oil-rich nations to fill a 157 million dollar gap in food supplies that is threatening nearly 10 million people southern Africa countries.
"No funds have yet been pledged by the oil-rich s…
The World Bank is to fund the construction of a Technology Park at the Ghana Free Zone area in Tema.
Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, Minister of Communications who announced this, however, did not mention the amount involved in the project but…
Nana Oduro Poku, Chief of Dromankese in Nkoranza District, has called on his people to take advantage of the capitation grant policy and enroll their children in school.
Speaking at the close of the area's "Munufie" yam festival at Dr…
Ghana needs a national policy on human settlement to guide its town planning process and settlement pattern, Mr John Gyetuah, Member for Amenfi West said on Wednesday.
The member, who was making a statement on "Planning of Cities and T…
Two main Pan-African trade unions on the continent, the African Regional Organization of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU/AFRO) and the Democratic Organization of African Workers' Trade Unions have met in Accra t…
Leaders of five Southeast Asian nations gathered Wednesday in the Thai capital for economic talks that have taken a new focus since the latest outbreaks of bird flu in the region.
The prime ministers of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thaila…
The Ghana Cocoa Board has denied that there are insufficient funds for the 2005/2006 cocoa main crop purchases.
A statement signed in Accra by Mr Kwame Sarpong, Chief Executive, said; "sufficient funds have been released to the L…
The Suhum Constituency branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has elected a nine-member executive to steer the affairs of the party for the next four years at a delegate's conference at Nankese in the Eastern Region.
The officers w…
The Bolgatanga Central Constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at the weekend elected a 10-member Executive to steer the affairs of the party for another four years.
Six out of the 10 executive were retained unopposed.…
Ghana would soon ratify the United Nations and African Union (AU) Conventions on Preventing and Combating Corruption and related offences following Parliament's receipt of Government's documents on the issue.
So far only 10 nations,…
Osu based Auxerre F/C, a Division Two football club put up a good performance to beat visiting Oblogo Nikwab Professionals 2-0 in their Division Two League match at the Hearts Park in Accra on Sunday.
Auxerre's striker Stephen Aidoo …
The Minority in Parliament on Thursday called on President John Agyekum Kufuor to withdraw the appointment of Mrs Gifty Eugenia Kusi from the Boards of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) and Goldfields Mining Company Limited.
In…
The Accra bourse inched up in trading on Friday on a five-cedi gain by British-America Tobacco Company Limited on the broader market.
The gain pushed up the GSE All-Share Index, the main market indicator, by 0.13 points to 4,889.33 p…
Ghana is nearing the stage of being a polio-free nation if immunization programmes are taken seriously, Dr Kwadwo Antwi-Agyei, Programme Manager of Expanded Immunisation Programme of Ghana Health Service, said on Thursday in Accra.
H…
The Chief Justice, Mr Justice George Kingsley Acquah has inducted into office 18 persons as career Magistrates to fill vacant positions in 81 Magistrate's Courts.
The country needs about 800 Magistrate's Courts.
Thirty-two peop…
The Ghana Employers' Association (GEA) has warned that it would not countenance any action by workers, government and even employers that ran contrary to the dictates of the Labour Act.
The Association, therefore, affirmed its readin…
The Ghana Hoteliers Association (GHA) has appealed to the Ghana Tourist Board (GTB) to review the 400 per cent increase in the registration fees for new hotels.
They said the increase for all categories of hotels was arbitrary and a …
Madam Sophia Horner-Sam, Deputy Western Regional Minister, has said there was no need for rivalry between polytechnics and other tertiary institutions because they play complementary roles.
She made the call when addressing the opening …
The Most Reverend Emeritus Professor Kwesi A. Dickson, a former President o the Methodist Church of Ghana and the Immediate- Past President of the All African Council of Churches is dead. He was 76.
The Most Rev. Dickson, who was born…
Participants at a two-day workshop to promote democracy and good governance have suggested the institution of an anti-corruption day to create awareness about the effects and consequences of corruption.
They attributed the alarming …
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