President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday tasked the security agencies to beef up security in Kumasi to deal with criminal elements and ensure the safety of residents. Speaking at the backdrop of shooting incidents by some suspected criminal elements in the Garden City recently, he asked the security agencies to increase their strength and presence in Kumasi, tighten their monitoring and surveillance in the Metropolis and beyond. President Mahama made this call in a closed door meeting ... Read More
An Accra Magistrate?s Court has ordered the Head Pastor of Faith Demonstration Ministries International Church at Darkuma in Accra to relocate or face demolition on March 30, this year. The accused who pleaded not guilty to charges of excessive noise, operating a church without as permit and non-compliance to relocate church has been convicted for the offences. Pastor Victor Annan, who refused to appear before the court on several occasions was arrested on the orders of a bench warrant ... Read More
Mr Alhassan Azong, Minister of Public Sector Reforms, has said report from the annual Global Employment Trends released by the International Labour Organisation indicates that unemployment rose by 4.2 million in 2012. The report estimated that about 74 million people in the 15 to 24 age group are unemployed around the world. Mr Azong made this known at the Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) work readiness programme stakeholders conference in Accra on the theme: ?Creating Jobs ... Read More
A Nigerian businessman was on Monday arrested by the police for allegedly importing fake drugs into the country. The businessman, Ezekiel Ade was said to have supplied fake Oxitozyne Injection to some private hospitals in Accra. According to a police source, the suspect was arrested and a report was made to the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA). Ade is assisting the police in investigations. The Head of Drug Evaluation and Registration Department at the FDA, Mr. Seth Seaneke told ... Read More
Pro-opposition pressure group, Young Patriots, has accused former Supreme Court Judge, Justice Francis Yaonasu Kpegah of refusing to pay over GH¢689,000 in rent and utility bills owed to the State.  In a statement issued on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, the group expressed its ?its disgust at the abuse and deliberate running down of a State Bungalow and the refusal to pay rent by no less a person than a retired Supreme Court Judge, who ought to know better?.  The statement said: ?Ever since ... Read More
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, has advised players of the senior national team, Black Stars, to play their hearts out to qualify Ghana for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. He has charged them to do everything to fly high the flag of the nation as they battle their Sudanese counterparts at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium on Sunday. The Asantehene, who was receiving the Stars to his Manhyia Palace, counseled them to demonstrate high sense of discipline both on-and-off the field, and become ... Read More
A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) legal team, lawyer Kwame Akuffo says Justice Francis Kpegah is "a walking contradiction". He said the retired Supreme Court Judge has no moral right to claim that Nana Akufo-Addo is not a lawyer when in fact "he [Kpegah] even after retirement calls himself a Supreme Court Judge". Justice Kpegah has sued the NPP?s 2012 presidential candidate in the High Court for holding himself as a lawyer when in fact his checks at the General Legal Council prove ... Read More
The Sudan national team were left stunned with inhospitable reception upon their arrival in Accra. The Sudanese delegation were left stranded at the Kotoka International Airport for well-over an hour with no official of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) present to welcome them. Per the regulations, at least an official of the GFA was expected to be at the airport to facilitate the formalities for the arriving party, but it turned out to be the opposite, with no GFA official in sight for ... Read More
Some supporters of Kotoko have vented their spleen on head Coach, Mas-Ud "Didi" Dramani, accussing him of technical bankruptcy. This was after the 'Porcupine Warriors' succumbed to a 1-2 defeat at the hands of city rivals, King Faisal, in their outstanding Glo-Premier League clash at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi. The defeat, Kotoko's first in the 2012/13 season left most of the supporters livid, compelling Dramani, to be whisked away in a black Honda vehicle to prevent the ... Read More
Ghanaians referees have been assigned for this weekend?s 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier involving DR Congo and Libya in Kinshasa. The crunch Group I qualifier between the two top teams will take place on Sunday, March 24, at the 80-000 capacity Stade de Martyrs in the Congolese capital. Information gathered by GNA Sports has it that experienced referee William Agbovi will be at the helm of affairs, assisted by Abdul Salif Malik and David Laryea with Cecil Fleischer serving as the fourth ... Read More
Developers have started encroaching on portions of the land belonging to the Central Regional Hospital, thereby threatening the future expansion of the hospital. Some members and opinion leaders in the Abura Community, where the hospital is located, are believed to be selling the hospital?s land to the developers. A number of buildings have sprung up at the site while others are at the foundation level. The Medical Director of the Central Regional Hospital, Dr Daniel Asare in an ... Read More
The Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly has demolished over 2000 unauthorised structures dotted along major streets within the municipality in an effort to beautify the regional capital. Also pulled down during the exercise were all unauthorized bill boards, sign boards of various departments, ministries, NGO?s and other business enterprises. Mr. Edward Ayagle, Municipal Chief Executive told The Ghanaian Times that the exercise was also aimed at ensuring that those intending to do business ... Read More
Parliament has approved GH¢9, 404,510,928 from the Consolidated Fund as the budget estimates of 26 public institutions for the fiscal year, with the health sector garnering the chunk of the amount. Ministry of Health received GH¢ 3,529,444,056, Ministry of Communications GH¢56, 968,313, and Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, GH¢447, 495,901. National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) received GH¢8, 994,734 and National Labour Commission was allocated GH¢2, ... Read More
The National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) has launched a new programme called the Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in higher education. The Course is for lecturers and all other instructors in institutions of higher education. Professor Linus Abraham, Rector of NAFTI said the educational field had become very competitive with several other inlets of knowledge. He stated that students in present times, through access to facilities such as the internet and other ... Read More
School children in Tamale Metropolis on Thursday joined the rest of the world to mark this year?s International Day of the Forest. Many of them told the Ghana News Agency that they are ready to support the national greening project by planting flowers and other forms of vegetation on their various campuses. The Day is set aside to venerate, celebrate and raise awareness on the importance of the environment. Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, Minister of Land and Natural Resources warned that very ... Read More
he Minister of Education, Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has appealed to teachers to accede to the directive by the National Labour Commission (NLC) and go back to the classroom. She reminded them that examinations were also times for their work to be assessed and added that nothing would be gained if they had all their requests met at the expense of the future of children. ?Examinations themselves are anxious times for children and anything that makes them more anxious is not helpful,? ... Read More
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