The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital is collaborating with the Apollo Hospital of India to train local medical personnel and also offer treatment to patients at affordable cost. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Nii Otu Nartey, disclosed this in Accra on Thursday when a medical team from the Apollo hospital paid a courtesy call on him to familiarise themselves with operations of the hospital. They team later visited the Surgical, Medical and the Renal ... Read More

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) will from the next academic year blacklist registered private hostels which fail to provide adequate security for students living in them or guarantee their safety, Professor William Otoo Ellis, the Vice-Chancellor has hinted. Owing to the seemingly intractable problem of inadequate accommodation facilities on campus, a sizeable percentage of the University?s student population currently live off-campus in a large portfolio of ... Read More

The Ho Municipal Assembly has handed over a new six-unit classroom block to the chiefs and people of Ziavi Adukofe, in the Ho municipality. The facility contains a store, an office and a common room for the teachers, and was funded by the GETFund. The Ho Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Isaac Kodobise, expressed the Assembly?s preparedness to improve educational infrastructure in the municipality. He disclosed that the Assembly has removed more than 50 ?schools under trees? in Ho alone, ... Read More

The Asutifi District Girl Education Officer, Mrs Kyei Abrafi, has disclosed that 30 pregnant girls in the Brong-Ahafo Region sat for this year?s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), Of the number, 19 of them and a nursing mother, were from the Asutifi District. Speaking at the International Rural Women?s Day celebration at Obengkrom in the district, Mrs Abrafi disclosed further that a survey conducted in nine schools in the region last year, revealed that 30 pupils, including ... Read More

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has admitted 3,892 students from the Southern Sector, to its Institute of Distance Learning in Accra. Of the number, 1,628 of them would pursue postgraduate courses while 2,264 would offer various undergraduates courses. The students were from Volta, Eastern, Western, Central and Greater Accra Regions, which form the Southern Sector of the Institute. In a speech read for him at the matriculation ceremony, the Vice-Chancellor ... Read More

Abokobi, capital of the Ga East Municipality in the Greater Accra Region is the venue for the 2012 National Farmers? Day Celebrations slated for Friday November 2, 2012. Traditionally, the day is commemorated on the first Friday of December every year but this year?s have been brought forward to November because December 7, 2012 coincides with the 2012 general election. According to the Minister for Food and Agriculture, Hon. Kwesi Ahwoi, the theme for this year?s National Farmers? Day ... Read More

The Tema Community eight Park was brought to light as the Veteran Players from SOS and a selected side from some schools in Tema thrilled baseball lovers to an exciting game over the weekend. The selected side includes the Celestial School Complex, St. Paul?s Methodist School and Tema Community nine Baseball teams. It ended in favor of the host, the veterans who managed to record six runs as against the two runs obtained by the visiting selected team. After two of the expected distance ... Read More

Out of the fifty economies making the most strides in business regulation for domestic firms since 2005, seventeen are in Sub-Saharan Africa, the latest report by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank has revealed.  According to the 10th edition of the Global Doing Business Report African economies that had seen marked improvement are Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Burundi, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Angola, Mauritius, Madagascar, Mozambique, Côte d ... Read More

The Ashaiman Divisional Police Command on Tuesday embarked on a special exercise to check the illegal activities of motor riders within the municipality. The exercise, which was organised in conjunction with the Buffalo Unit of the Tema Regional Motor, Traffic and Transport Unit was code named, ?Enough is enough?. The operation targeted the Ashaiman Traffic Light, Community 22, the Ashaiman Market and Tema Community Nine. A statement issued by Chief Superintendent of Police  (CSP) David ... Read More

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills of the mega church Lighthouse Chapel International says the only reason Ghanaians should exercise their democratic rights to change a government is to prevent one party from staying in power too long and becoming overly corrupt, but essentially both NPP and NDC are the same. He was preaching at a special thanksgiving service to mark the 50th anniversary celebration of the University of Ghana Medical School, of which he is an alumnus. Bishop Heward-Mills noted that ... Read More

Professor Joseph Bediako Asare, former Chief Psychiatrist of the Ministry of Health, has said about 725,000 Ghanaians are suffering from severe mental disorders. Another group of 2,410 are also suffering from mild or moderate forms of mental disorder, Prof Asare stated at the presentation of a Mental Health Survey report in Accra. He said the survey discovered that the current funding for Mental Health Services in Ghana was in inadequate, whilst most services were provided only through the ... Read More

Two Military Officers Corporal Opoku Amankwaah No.191855, Lance Corporal Adu Owusu Prince No. 193197 together with George Dumanya a civilian last Tuesday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for alleged robbery and kidnapping. They pleaded not guilty to all the counts. The Prosecutor Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Patrick Morkeh told the court presided over by Justice Francis Obiri that the complainants Lawrence Obine and Prince Nicholas Atanaga are Nigerian Nationals, reside at ... Read More

The embattled flag-bearer of the New Vision Party, Prophet Daniel Nkansah, has mounted a legal action to stop the Electoral Commission (EC) from taking any further step towards the December presidential elections. Prophet Nkansah is specifically seeking an order to restrain the EC from printing the presidential ballot papers for the upcoming presidential elections until the determination of his suit against the EC over his disqualification to contest in the elections. The Electoral ... Read More

The Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), Mr Kabral Blay-Amihere has urged the media to provide equal coverage to all the political parties in the run-up December poll. He also charged them, to provide accurate reportage to ensure peaceful, free and fair 2012 election. ?You are the eagle eye of the electorate and any false information can mar the successful conduct of the electoral process and plunge the nation into chaos? he said Mr Blay-Amihere said this yesterday, during ... Read More

The Asante-Mampong Government Hospital has been thrown into shock, disbelief and grief over the gruesome murder of a 24- year-old nurse at the facility by her boyfriend. The deceased, Ivy Awuah, was reportedly stabbed several times in the abdomen by her lover, known only as Ike, who later committed suicide by hanging. The unnerving incident happened at about 0900 hours on Sunday. Deputy Superintendent of Police Abudulai Iddrisu, the Asante-Mampong Municipal Commander, confirmed this to ... Read More

The Regional Institute of Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana, is to organize a High National Level Policy Dialogue on Coastal Climate Change Risks in Urban Areas in Accra on November 8, 2012. The dialogue is under the theme: ?A Climate Change Risk Communication Framework for Coastal Urban Development Policy,? aims at promoting the use of climate change risks factors as basis for integrating climate compatible developments and policy processes within Ghana?s coastal zones. A ... Read More

Starbow Airlines, a domestic and regional airline would commence flights from Accra to Abidjan on Thursday November 8th, 2012. The airline would fly five times weekly on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursday, Fridays and Sundays, leaving Accra for Abidjan at 1730 hours and departing Abidjan to Accra at 1930 hours on all scheduled days, with the aim of having twice daily flights eventually. Dr. Brock Friesen, Co-Chief Executive Officer at Starbow made the announcement at a press conference in ... Read More

The chairman of the National Peace Council, the Most Rev. Professor Emmanuel Asante, has said the youth should regard the nation as their legacy and should not allow themselves to be used by selfish politicians to destabilize it. He said the youth should be ?bold enough to say no to violence and injustice, for Ghana is the only country that we belong to and live in?. The Most Rev. Professor Asante, who is also the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana, said this at Winneba on ... Read More

As the political parties are engaged the fight for votes, a Catholic Priest has counselled the electorate to be more discerning and cast their ballot based on their conscience. The Reverend Father Dr Patrick Osei-Poku, Parish Priest of the Saint Benedict Catholic Church at Kotei, Kumasi, said they should be careful to avoid making any wrong choices on December 7 and urged voters to subject the election promises of political parties to scrutiny. He said this when addressing a durbar ... Read More