Traders at the Elubo Central Market have expressed their disappointment over the government's failure to assist them after the fire that razed through their wares on September 22.
Mr. Kobena Owusu, Chairman of Elubo Traders Associati…
A survey conducted by the Ghana News Agency on Monday showed that most people especially traders and school children did not know much about the Housing and Population Census.
Kweku Opoku, an insecticide seller, said he had not heard …
The Institute of Public Relations (IPR) on Monday, launched activities for the 2010 Public Relations Week, to provide a platform for discussions on how the profession could strategically be positioned to manage the nation's reputation agai…
The Controller and Accountant General's Department on Monday officially opened a three-day public financial management workshop for finance officers in the Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDA's) and Metropolitan, Municipal and Distric…
Mr Opoku Mensah, an opinion leader at Tinkong, a farming community in the Eastern Region, has reiterated the call on the government to facilitate an urgent rehabilitation of the rail transport system to reduce the problems associated with …
Frustrated over Pakistan's lacklustre response to failed Times Square bombing, the US has warned Islamabad that it will be "unable to stop the consequences" of any terror attack, whose wires are linked to that country, a new book has said.…
India and the US dubbed President Barack Obama's visit to India in November as a "defining moment", during a bilateral meeting between India's External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
During t…
In the midst of speculation about an Indo-Pak bilateral in New York this week, Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that any talks between the two countries needs to be "meaningful."
At this stage, Quershi noted…
Amid speculation about an Indo-Pak bilateral meeting here this week, India's Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao on Tuesday said that talks between the two neighbours were necessary but asked Pakistan to first stop supporting terrorism against …
Britain has named a female career diplomat as its next ambassador to North Korea, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said Tuesday.
The office said Karen Wolstenholme has been appointed as its envoy to the Democratic People's Republic …
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Government and Development partners rose from their consultations on Monday, agreeing that the country must focus on retaining budget deficit to contain inflation and provide the basis for a strong private sector despite the strong progres…
South Korea welcomes a recent proposal to establish a secretariat for the Group of 20, a ranking Seoul official said Tuesday, saying the countries must seriously consider institutionalizing the economic forum.
Sakong Il, head of the or…
Small scale businesses and petty trading in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar District are collapsing as a result of increases in revenue and tolls by the district assembly.
Mr Ernest Agorh, Secretary to the Suhum Traders Union, made this kno…
The Government of Japan is to renew a number of grants to Ghana which were removed in previous years following Ghana's adoption of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative.
With Japan's renewed confidence in the Gh…
The AKyempem Rural Bank, would soon introduce an Automated Teller Machines (ATM) as part of its 18-month corporate strategy to better serve the needs of clients and up its profits.
Colonel (Rtd) K. K. Nyame, Chairman of the board of …
The following are the average inter-bank exchange rate of the dollar and derived rates for the major currencies against the cedi as issued by the Ghana Association of Bankers on Tuesday, September 28, 2010.
GHANA CEDI EQUIVALEN…
China allowed its currency to strengthen against the U.S. dollar on Tuesday amid Washington's escalating demands that Beijing speed up the appreciation of the yuan.
According to the central People's Bank of China, the yuan's central pa…
President John Evans Atta Mills this evening left Accra for Japan for an official state visit.
He was accompanied by government officials and a group of Ghanaian entrepreneurs who are expected to interact with their Japanese counterpa…
Mr Eric A. Botwe, Head of Cocoa at OLAM Ghana Limited, has said it is the hope of players in the cocoa industry that the 1.5 billion dollars facility raised by the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) for the purchase of cocoa would generate a lot …
The Ajumako District Magistrate's Court has fined two chainsaw operators GH¢ 1,600.00 each for defrauding Baaba Shaibu of Breman Essiam the sum of GH¢ 1,200.00 under the pretext of supplying him sawn boards.
Kwame Oboh, 40, and Kwabena…
Foreign nationals, mainly from ECOWAS member states, caught up at the Ghana/Togo border raised initial objection to being captured during the census night enumeration of floating populations.
It took some persuasion by Statistical Ser…
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, was among the foremost personalities who were enumerated in the Kumasi Metropolis on Monday morning as the 2010 Population and Housing Census took-off in the Ashanti Region.
Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Am…
Nii Armah Ashitey, Greater Accra Regional Minister, on Monday advised companies using inflammable products to constantly observe safety practices to prevent fire outbreaks.
He also asked management of such companies to provide their w…
The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor has inaugurated a nine-member Ghana Revenue Authority Board (GRA) and charged members to pursue excellence and distinction in the performance of their duties in the face of…
The 2010 Population and Housing Census officials, who called at the Ho Public Transport Terminus at around midnight, to enumerate stranded passengers, had a difficult time convincing them that it was just as good being enumerated there, ju…
A visit by the GNA news team to the Accra business district on the eve of the National Population and housing Census (PHC) shows an apathetic and ignorant attitude towards the whole PHC exercise.
The GNA observed that most of the nigh…
The Ghana Tourist Board (GTB) has stressed the need to adopt viable and sustainable measures to protect the Owabi Dam which supplies treated water to about 13 per cent of the population in the Kumasi metropolis.
Mr Ekow Sampson, …
The police at Aflao and their Togolese counterparts are to swap prosecution witnesses and crime investigators to facilitate the prosecution of cases against cross-border criminals in Ghana and Togo.
Mr Ahmed Issah Yakubu, the Aflao Di…
A team of military and police personnel from Koforidua and Suhum, have arrested eight galamsey operators, who took over a piece of land belonging to the Abuakwa State College and Community School for the Deaf at Kyebi for mining.
The…
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Social Welfare, Employment and State Enterprises, at the weekend visited the Upper East Region to acquaint themselves with the effects of the floods to help monitor the associated problems.
Briefi…
The Ashaiman Office of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU), is investigating a case in which a grandmother reportedly burnt the right foot of her seven-year-old grandson.
Elizabeth Darree, alias Ajara, is said to hav…
With the US attaching "important priority" to liability matters, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton raised the issue of India's civil nuclear liability legislation with India's External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna in the wake of conc…
A local court in Goa on the west coast of India will give its final verdict on the charges of rape levied against serial killer Mahanand Naik on October 1.
The district court in Panaji in Goa has heard the arguments in the rape case, …
A top South Korean diplomat urged China Tuesday to exercise pressure on North Korea to give up its atomic weapons programs, saying international nuclear talks cannot move forward unless Beijing uses its influence over Pyongyang.
"As lo…
Four thousand enumerators have been dispatched to carry out the 2010 Population and Housing Census in the Central Region, the Regional Statistician and Census Officer, Mr. Francis Bright Mensah, told the GNA on Monday.
He said in Ca…
Dixcove Government Hospital commonly known as Nana Hemang Denkyi Hospital in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region, has recorded six cases of buruli ulcer.
The hospital has also recorded 3.2 per cent of HIV positive cases thi…
African countries can improve air safety and promote their own economic growth and development prospects by putting into practice commitments they have made to open local air service markets to foreign operators, says a new study by the Wo…
Government has announced an increase and modification in the intake of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) personnel from 50 per cent to 100 per cent.
This was contained in a statement issued and signed by Mr. John k Paul, B…
The police in Bawku, in the Upper East Region, has mounted a search for one Inusah Yakubu, for allegedly murdering his wife, Hamida Abduliah, 30, on Thursday, in Bawku.
The Municipal Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police, …
The Mpraeso Circuit Court on Friday sentenced a 32-year-old-driver to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour for causing damage and stealing personal effects worth thousands of Ghana cedis.
Emmanuel Asante, the driver, pleaded guilty to a…
In commemoration of the birthday of Ghana's first President, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the Ellembelle District Assembly, has donated items worth GH¢750 to the Word Alive Orphanage at Esiama in the Western Region.
The items comprised f…
Reverend Samuel Dickson Dumevi, Interchurch Relations Secretary of the Global Evangelical Church (GEC), on Saturday said religious and political leaders must utilize the spiritual and physical resources of people with uttermost integrity. …
Mrs Dzifa Attivor, Deputy Minister for Transport on Sunday presented assorted medicines and items worth GH¢2,500 to the Ho Bonita Leprosy Clinic.
The presentation, which was upon a request by cured lepers of the Schoonhoven Cured Lep…
A District Court in Accra has convicted a German to a fine of GH¢ 3,000, for angrily tearing into pieces, a default notice, of Aqua Vitens Rand Limited (AVRL).
The court found Dirk Daumen guilty of causing damage to public prope…
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The 2010 Population and Housing Census took off officially at midnight on Sunday, September 26.
The National Fire Service tenders sounded the siren at midnight, apparently to click an imaginary camera that took a picture of all people…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Monday stated that his return from China to participate in the population Census was a demonstration of how important the programme was to every Ghanaian.
"I considered it carefully before travelling f…
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, left Accra Sunday night for Paris, France, as a speaker at a three-day conference of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF).
The conference on the theme:"Re-positioning Africa for the 21…
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Employment, Social Welfare and State Enterprises on Monday called for establishment of a joint Upper Volta Basin Management Agency (UVBMA) by Ghana and Burkina Faso.
"The UVBMA would be mandated t…
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