A feature By: Paul Opoku AgyemangAccra, Feb. 4, GNA - Today is World Cancer Day. On every February 4, the world comes together to raise the profile of cancer in a positive and inspiring way.

By Joyce Danso, GNAAccra, Feb. 4, GNA – A 27-year-old aluminum fabricator apprentice Ebenezer Ofori who threatened to kill his mother with a broken bottle after the mother quizzed him for allegedly stealing a mobile phone has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court.

Dambai (Oti Region), Feb. 04, GNA - The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), as part of efforts to protect public health and facilitate trade, has visited the Oti Region to educate the general public on its mandate.The visit took the GSA team to markets in Dambai, the Oti regional capital, and farming communities in the

Accra, Feb. 4, GNA - Ghana has marked the World Wetlands Day with a call on the youth to play active roles in the protection of wetlands and keeping the environment clean for the benefit of mankind.Mr Dickson Yaw Agyeman, Wetlands Operations Manager, Wildlife Division, who made the call, said the involvement of the

Accra, Feb. 4, GNA - The Director-General (DG) of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Professor Alex Dodoo, has paid a courtesy call on the Oti Regional Minister, Mr Kwesi Owusu-Yeboa to discuss issues of deepening the presence of the Authority in the newly-formed Region.The brief meeting was held at the Regional C

By Kingsley Mamore, GNADambai (O/R) Feb 04, GNA - The Krachi East Municipal Assembly in the Oti Region has retained Mr Emmanuel Ladzi as its Presiding Member.He pol

By Christabella Arko, GNAAccra, Feb. 04, GNA — Elder Amos Kevin-Annan, Deputy Youth Director of the Church of Pentecost at the weekend urged Christian couples to develop a positive mindset towards their partners if their marriages are to be fruitful and become a success.

By Rashid Mbugri, GNA,Tamale, Feb. 04, GNA - The University of Ghana (UG) has held a day's engagement workshop with farmer groups in Northern Ghana to ensure sustainable adoption and use of biochar to increase crop yield and productivity.

By Afedzi Abdulah, GNACape Coast, Feb. 04, GNA - Mr Lawrence Ampah, a Principal Auditor at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), has picked nomination forms to contest the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Parliamentary Primary in the Cape Coast North Constituency.

By Mohammed Balu, GNAGwollu (UW), Feb 04, GNA - Mr Naliwie Salifu Baluwie, a former District Chief Executive (DCE) for the Sissala West District has picked  nomination forms to contest the New Patriotic Party's parliamentary primaries in the Sissala West Constituency.

By Agbaxode Emmanuel, GNAAkatsi (V/R), Feb. 04, GNA - The Akatsi South District Assembly in the Volta Region again failed to elect a Presiding Member (PM) after four attempts.

By Ewoenam Kpodo, GNAAflao (VR), Feb. 04, GNA - Seven persons including President Faure Gnassingbe, leader of the Union for the Republic (UNIR), have been cleared by Togo’s Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) to contest the country's upcoming presidential elect

By Hannah Awadzi, GNAAccra, Feb. 4, GNA – Grantees of the Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund, a public service project promoting Inclusive Education, has partnered the Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations (GFD) to implement the Universal Design for Learning component of

By Samuel Ackon, GNAAbura Dunkwa (C/R), Feb. 4, GNA - The Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese (AAK) District Assembly has failed again to elect a Presiding Member (PM) to steer the affairs of the Assembly for two years.

By Maxwell Awumah, GNA Correspondent, Cape Town, SACape Town (South Africa), Feb. 4, GNA - Ms Thuli Makama, the Senior Advisor for Africa Oil Change International, says mining companies are busily calculating their business profits at the detriment of protecting the environme

By Florence Afriyie Mensah, GNAKumasi, Feb.04, GNA - Kumasi Technical University has elevated 28 of its academic programmes to Bachelor of Technology (B-Tech) Degree as part of preparations to receive additional students next academic year following the upgrade.

By Bediako Gabriel Obofour, GNADunkwa-on-Offin (C/R), Feb. 4, GNA - Fire on Monday afternoon razed two male dormitories; Owusu Bore and Aggrey halls, at Boa-Amponsem Senior High School at Dunkwa-on-Offin in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality, displacing about 300 students.

By Dennis Peprah, GNAYamfo (Ahafo), Feb. 04, GNA – Government has directed the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to undertake educational infrastructure projects in all public senior high schools (SHSs) for successful implementation and sustenance of the Free SHS Policy.

By Samira Larbie, GNAAccra, Feb. 4, GNA - Ms Rose Eduful, Principal Nursing Officer, Korle-Bu Reproductive Health Centre, has urged parents to vaccinate their   adolescent girls against cervical cancer for 100 per cent protection against the disease.

By Samira Larbie, GNAAccra, Feb. 04, GNA - The African Cancer Organisation, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), has called for support to establish a Ghana National Population-Based Cancer Registry (GPCR) to enhance control of the disease in the country.