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La youth to construct General hospital if…

The Coalition of La Youth Association have outlined plans to mobilise resources for the re-construction of the La General Hospital. This comes after the...

Man jailed 1 year for stealing ECG copper cables

Geofery Obuobi, unemployed, has been sentenced to one year in prison for stealing copper cables valued at GH¢7,550, belonging to the Electricity Company of...

Video News Release: The 2023 Africa Investment Forum Welcomes Rugby Africa President to Discuss the Business of Sport

Watch the video Today Herbert Mensah, the newly elected President of Rugby Africa (www.RugbyAfrique.com), the continental governing body for rugby in Africa, will discuss the...

Mercy Ships Recognised for Outstanding Advocacy Campaign on access to Surgical and anesthetic care and education across the surgical ecosystem in Africa

The pressing need for vastly improved access to surgical care across Africa has been amplified by an international health charity campaign that picked up...

Headmaster in custody for allegedly sodomizing student

The headmaster of a basic school at Kpogunor in the Lower Manya Krobo District of the Eastern region has been remanded for sodomizing a...

PK Amoabeng Scholars Programme inaugurated

In fulfilment of a burning desire to create and grow transformational leaders to help change the fortunes of the African continent, the first cohort...

KsTU first-year students mould coal pots to transform campus sustainability

In what the Kumasi Technical University (KsTU) describes as "a remarkable display of ingenuity and collaboration", first-year engineering students at the university have showcased...

 About 500 mineral exploration projects underway

Investors are currently undertaking about 500 mineral exploration projects in the country, mainly targeted at gold, lithium, copper and cobalt.   The Minister of Lands and...

2 in court for selling fake ECG metres

Two persons have been charged and put before a Circuit Court in Accra for selling unauthorised Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) metres to unsuspecting...

Zoomlion fumigates 9,000 homes at Mepe

Waste management company, Zoomlion, has fumigated more than 9,000 homes in the Mepe area as of Wednesday. The exercise is part of a vector...

Africa needs bold Innovative Initiatives to Unleash the Full Potential of the Continent—King Mohammed VI of Morocco

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI opened the 2023 Africa Investment Forum Market Days on Wednesday with a call for Africans to work together to attract the...

Task force to protect local producers launched

The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has joined forces with the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) to establish a market surveillance task force to safeguard...

Namibia, China launch paired hospital cooperation mechanism

The governments of Namibia and China on Wednesday launched the China-Namibia paired hospital cooperation mechanism at Walvis Bay Hospital, in the port town of...

Joy News’ Ivy Setordjie wins ‘Inclusive and Anti-conflict Journalism’ award

Joy News' Ivy Setordjie has won the Inclusive and Anti-Conflict Journalism Award for the Television category at the CSIR-STEPRI Conference Hall in Accra. Ivy...

Impose stiffer punishment for attacks on media personnel – Minister to judiciary

The Ministry of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has appealed to the judiciary to consider stiffer punishment for persons who attack media houses and journalists...

NHIS can cover renal services – Dr Okoe Boye

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr Bernard Okoe Boye has suggested measures the government can adopt to reduce...

I am willing to buy, complete Saglemi Housing Project – CEO

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Afro-Arab Group of Companies, Salamu Amadu has expressed interest in the controversial Saglemi Housing Project and has...

Toflokpo residents call for probe into Electrochem shooting incident

Residents of Toflokpo in the Ada West District, are appealing to the government to take action against the management of Electrochem Ghana Limited over...

Man found dead in his room at Dabiasem

A young man believed to be in his early 30s, Yaw Christopher popularly called Chris has been found dead in his room at Dabiasem,...

Court fines Charles Bissue in case against OSP

The Human Rights Court has fined former Secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Charles Bissue GH¢500 in his case against the...

WHO donates to victims of Akosombo Dam floods

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has donated eight tons of vital medical supplies worth $65,000 to the Ministry of Health to support communities and...

Group advocates for increased taxes on tobacco, alcohol

In an effort to address the critical issue of tobacco and alcohol consumption and their associated health risks, the Vision for Alternative Development-Ghana (VALD)...

Education Minister speaks on success of play-based learning

Deputy Education Minister, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, has touted that the play-based learning in kindergarten is making a great impact in the nation’s education...

Releasing GH₵2.86m for Akosombo Dam spillage victims an insult – Ablakwa

North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has criticised the government for releasing just GH₵2.86 million into the Volta River Resettlement Fund. According...

World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance pass the mid-point of the global 10-year strategy to eliminate...

Following devastating outbreaks in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2016 that saw exportation of cases to China, the EYE Strategy  –  a...

Jurors abandon criminal cases again over unpaid allowances

https://youtu.be/32P_yE0cH-k Jurors in the Upper West region have for the second time in three months stayed away from the courts in protest against delays in...

GIMPA gets first female GRASAG President

The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) chapter of the Graduate Students’ Association of Ghana (GRASAG-GIMPA) has sworn in Judith Sitsope Apetorgbor...

Parliament advocates for safety of journalists

Parliament is advocating for the safety and protection of journalists to allow them discharge their duties without fear or favour. The House has stated...

Truck carrying iron rods destroys NYA office wall at Oforikrom

A truck transporting building materials from Tema to Burkina Faso overturned at Oforikrom in the Ashanti Region in the early hours of Wednesday, November...

How is Korle Bu unable to operate? – Muntala quizzes

A member of the Health Committee of Parliament, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak says the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital's (KBTH) inability to run and sustain the...

Two awards recognize Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) innovative use of geospatial technologies

Two innovative products of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) won prizes at the fifth annual GEO SDG Awards, which recognize...

Roads Ministry warns public against advertisements in unauthorised places

The Ministry of Roads and Highways has cautioned the public against the continuous defacing of infrastructure with adverts and notices.  The Ministry has said...

Akosombo Dam spillage: MPs fight over govt’s response to disaster

Tempers were high in Parliament on Wednesday as lawmakers verbally fought each other over government's response to the devastating flooding caused by the spillage...

Centre for Plant Medicine Research touts progress in herbal treatment

Center for Plant Medicine Research (CPMR), Mampong has revealed that some 57 government hospitals operate herbal medicine units in the country. Executive Director, Professor,...

ATTC students descend heavily on thief after failed attempt

Students of the Accra Technical Training Centre (ATTC) took matters into their own hands when they confronted a man who allegedly made attempts to...

We want to know the killers of our brother – Toflokpo residents demand

Residents of Toflokpo, a salt mining community in the Ada West District of the Greater Accra Region are demanding a swift investigation into the...

World Vision Ghana donates relief items to 3 affected flood areas in Oti Region

The Kete-Krachi cluster of World Vision Ghana has donated relief items to the Oti Regional National Disaster Management (NADMO), for onwards distribution to three affected...

Three visually impaired men arrested for drug trafficking

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Nigeria has made a series of significant arrests and drug seizures, totaling around N13 billion (GH₵197,432,943.37) in...

Unlock Limitless Potentials: Canada-Nigeria Trade Expo 2023

Alpha Oasis International (https://AlphaOasisInternational.com), with the support of the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, and in collaboration with the City...