The Ministry of Finance has released over fifty five million Ghana cedis to the Electoral Commission (EC) to hold the 2014 District Assembly Elections across the country. The EC had intended to postpone this year’s District Assembly Elections due to the delay in the release of funds. According to Mr Afari-Gyan. Electoral Commissioner, the lack of money for the district level elections meant the exercise, which is seven months away, would be postponed indefinitely. However, a statement issued by

The Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Mr Yaw Akrasi Sarpong, has mooted the idea of legalising marijuana in Ghana. Marijuana, also known as ‘cannabis’, 'wee' and indian hemp', is widely used in Ghana, despite it being banned. According to Mr Sarpong, a “virtual legalisation” of marijuana was already in place as the drug could be found in cosmetics and hair products used by women in the country. He said the drug is also smoked openly by many Ghanaians, including

Executive Director of Imani Ghana, Mr Franklin Cudjoe says state agencies, which can pay themselves should be weaned off government payroll as part of measures to cut down the growing wage bill. According to him, agencies such as the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Forestry Commission, Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) and the Security and Exchange Commissions (SEC) were capable of “taking care of themselves.” In a reaction to calls for government to curtail further payment of salaries

Eighty drivers have been arrested by the Ashanti Regional Command of the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) for obstructing traffic in the Kumasi metropolis. Dubbed ''Operation Let the  Roads Be Clear'', the drivers were arrested at areas such as Morrow Market, Dr Mensah, Bremang Junction, CAF, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Oforikrom and Alabar. Briefing the Daily Graphic, the Deputy Ashanti Regional MTTD Commander,  Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mr

An accident involving an articulated fuel tanker and four saloon cars at Broadcasting Junction (near the Kasoa tollbooth), Tuesday, resulted in a static vehicular traffic on the Mallam-Kasoa road for several hours. The accident occurred after the driver of one of the  saloon cars made an unauthorised entry into the main Kasoa road.  Unknown to the driver of the saloon car, an articulated fuel tanker was also speeding towards its direction. In an attempt to avoid a direct collision with the saloon

Four persons, including a chief, have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the shooting of the Mankrado (a sub-chief) of Gomoa Fetteh Kakraba in the Central Region, Nana Kwame Okyere Mpamtu. They were arrested at different locations after they had fled the town, near Buduburam, following the shooting of the chief at 6: 30 p.m. on February 27, 2014.  Nana Mpamtu died after receiving eight gun shots. More names come up  The police gave the names of the four suspects as Nana Kofi Baah II,

Ghana is the latest stop in CNN International’s ‘On the Road’ series, a special programme by the international news company that examines the culture, heritage, business and customs of a country. The series has so far visited Brazil, Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Poland. It embraces a wide range of topics ranging from the arts and cuisine, through to technology, architecture and sport. The CNN ‘On the Road’ team, led by its correspondent, Mr Paula Newton, has since March 1, this year,

Every year, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) provides more than eleven million school girls with food to help keep them in education and around three million vulnerable women with special nutritional support. According to WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin, “Giving women the power to make choices over their lives is one of the first steps towards a world with zero hunger.”  In a statement to mark this year’s, International Women’s Day which fell on March 8, the WFP said:

The West African Quarries Limited (WAQL), has begun full-scale production of aggregates in the Shama District of the Western Region. Located at Atta-Ne-Atta, the company, a subsidiary of Ghacem Limited,  has the capacity to produce an average of 250 tons aggregate per hour, using a three-stage mobile crusher. Inaugurating the project, Mr Daniel Gauthier, a member of the Managing Board of Heidelberg Cement Group who doubles as the Chairman of Ghacem Board, said being the leading aggregate producer

President John Dramani Mahama has announced that the government has initiated moves to use Chinese technology to clean rivers polluted by illegal gold miners (galamsey operators). Receiving the outgoing Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Gong Jianzhong, at the Flagstaff House yesterday, President Mahama said discussions to that effect were going on smoothly between Ghana and China. Mr Gong is retiring from diplomatic service after about three-and-half years duty in Ghana. The Chinese Ambassador was

The Mayor of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Kojo Bonsu, has noted that the increasing filth and degradation of the environment in the metropolis is scaring visitors and tourists away from Kumasi. He said the one-time garden city was losing all its greenery, while indisciplined residents and hawkers had taken over pavements and other  places in the city, culminating in serious congestion of the city. Addressing residents of the Bantama Sub-metro as part of his town hall meetings with the

Drivers at the Tema Station in Accra have expressed their displeasure with  the activities of traders at the station. According to them, traders plying their trade at the station are fast becoming an impediment to their operations. The current situation, they said, was causing a lot of inconveniences and vehicular traffic in and around the station. This complaint comes in the wake of an accident that claimed the life of a child at the station last week. According to reports gathered by the Daily

The Omankorahene of the Nkusukum Traditional Area in the Central Region, Nana Afena Dantsi I, has appealed to the Central Regional House of Chiefs to see to the early and amicable resolution of a chieftaincy dispute in the area. He expressed the hope that with their experience and wise counsel, chiefs at the Central Regional House of Chiefs would be able to resolve the impasse. The four-year-old dispute is over the nomination and enstooling of a successor to the late Omanhene, Nana Okese Essandoh

Ghana will hold the first-ever African Air Exposition (AIRSHOW) in October 2014 in Accra. As part of the preparations towards the event, the Minister for Transport, Mrs Dzifa Attivor, has led a high-powered eight-member delegation of the 2014 AIRSHOW Local Organising Committee to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to have  a deep insight into what the whole thing is about. The host, Mr Yusuf Hamadi, Chairman of the International Centre of Excellence (ICE), a privately owned establishment serving

Five persons, including a one-year-old baby, lost their lives when they got trapped in a mine pit at Akokonso, near the Odaw River in the Amansie Central District in the Ashanti Region. They have been identified as Adwoa Konadu, 27; Atobra Akwasi, 42; Kwadwo Addai, 34; his wife Adwoa Anokyewaa, 27, and their baby Sarah Anokyewaa. Their decomposed remains have been deposited at the morgue at the St Peter’s Hospital at Jacobu, the district capital, pending an autopsy. The Jacobu District Police

About 1,200 women in the Asikuma Odoben Brakwa Constituency in the Central Region have benefited from free a breast cancer education and screening exercise. The well attended programme was organised by the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Asikuma Odoben Brakwa Constituency, Mrs Georgina Nkrumah Aboah, with support from Breast Care International (BCI), a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the creation of awareness of breast cancer, especially among women in rural communities, so that those

Three prominent international institutions have endorsed Ghana as a destination worth visiting. After separate meetings with Ghana’s Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts Minister, Mrs Elizabeth Ofosu Adjare, on day two at the ITB Berlin tourism fair here, representatives of Cable News Network (CNN), known by its more popular acronym, CNN, the German Travel Association and the World Travel Market seemed sufficiently convinced that Ghana had a lot to offer international travellers in search of sustainable

Four community leaders at Joma, near Ablekuma in Accra, have been picked up by the police to help in investigations into the gruesome murder of the chief of the town. Nii Ayittey Noyatse, the Joma Mantse, was shot and killed by unidentified assailants in his room on Monday. Those arrested include a rival chief, Nii Solomon Aya Ayii, and the Zongo Chief of Joma, Sariki Moses. The Chief Linguist of the community, Nii Ayikoi Ayeh, and an elder, Nii Sipi, who are reported to have gone to the house of

A group of young men yesterday morning vandalised the premises of Justice FM, a radio station in Tamale, following panellists’ discussion of the circumstances leading to the murder of a 26-year-old vulcaniser, Abdul-Rashid Mustapha, at Aboabo, a suburb of Tamale, last Monday. A motorbike and four cars belonging to some members of staff of the station were burnt in the process.  No casualties were reported and no arrest has been made yet. It took the intervention of a combined team of the police

The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Mr Seth Terkper, has appealed to the United Nations system to assist the country in its smooth and efficient transitional agenda from a lower income to a middle income country. That, he said, was important so that the country was not stampeded into a status for which it was not there yet. Addressing the first inter-ministerial meeting on Delivering as One in Ghana, a UN initiative Mr Terkper said the assistance of the UN system was key because it had