Mpohor W/R, July 11, GNA -Tragedy struck the residents of Mpohor in the Western Region when information went round that Victor Kwame had drowned in the Butre River. The Mpohor Police said the deceased went to farm with four of his friends at Mpohor in the early hours of Saturday July 7. They said when they were returning home around 09 ...

Accra, July 11, GNA Ghana has constructed a national park located between the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium and the Independence Square in honour of its gallant heroes. Mr Charles Nii Okine, Principal Landscape Designer of Parks and Gardens Division of the Castle, told the GNA that the park would serve as a tourist and recreational garden for peo ...

Saltpond C/R, July 11, GNA The Mfantsiman Girls Senior High School Parent-Teacher Association PTA is in a process of procuring laptop computers for the teachers of the School. Mrs Theodora Froko, Chairperson of the PTA, who announced this at a meeting held at the School, said the executives of the Association had entered into an agreement ...

Bechem B/A, July 11, GNA The heavy reliance on Arts subjects in the educational system other than Science continues to do more harm than good to the nations developmental structure. Mr. Nathan Pecku, Director in-charge of Special Education at the Ghana Education Service, GES said this at a workshop organised by some JICA volunteers in th ...

Bisease C/R, July 11, GNA Miss Hannah Ampoma Mensah, a 23-year-old student of the Institute of Professional Studies has been declared winner to represent the Central Region in the Ghana Most Beautiful 2012. Her identification name is Ama 1788. The organisers and promoters, TV3, officially introduced Ama 1788 to the chiefs and people o ...

Cape Coast, July 11, GNA - The Manager of the Central Region Catholic Education Unit, Mrs Doris Eshun, on Tuesday called on NGOs and the government to consider giving teachers training in computer studies to enhance quality delivery. She said though it is laudable to introduce ICT in the school curriculum, it was unfortunate that teachers who w ...

Apam C/R, July 11, GNA - The four schools in Gomoa West District managed by the Transition And Persistence TAP Project being implemented jointly by USAID and Plan Ghana were presented with awards at a ceremony at Apam. The TAP Project aims at increasing Junior High School JHS enrollment and to bridge the gap between Primary and JHS comple ...

Kumasi, July 11, GNA - The Sofoline Interchange being built as part of the GH 99.6 million reconstruction of the 11.3-kilometre Kejetia-Abuakwa stretch of the Kumasi-Sunyani road is set to be opened to traffic in October. Mr Kwaku Boampong, the Resident Engineer, said it is now about 80 per cent complete. The contractors had finished with ...

Klikor V/R, July 11, GNA Vice President John Dramani Mahama has said it was time Ghanaians overcome the erroneous mindset about vocational and technical training. As a country it is time we depart from the erroneous mindset about vocational and technical training, he said. The Vice President made the call in an address at the first sp ...

Fiapre B/A, July 11, GNA The Catholic University College of Ghana branch of the Student In Free Enterprise Sife on Tuesday presented its national SIFE championship trophy to the universitys Vice chancellor, Professor James Ephraim Hawkins at a short ceremony at Fiapre, near Sunyani. The team also received other awards namely, the SIFE Sp ...

Hausa culture and religion is second to none of their invaders but like all Africans, they share tolerance for these same visitors. We know the history of Hausa States before and after the invaders. It is a shame that this rich culture and religion was suppressed just as those in the South had been by the Muslim and Christian values that created ...

No matter the occasion or the nature of her audience, Anne-Marie Slaughter insists that every introduction of her must necessarily include the fact that she is a mother of two boys. Family is her real life, as Mrs Hilary Clinton put it when she was asked about Chelseas wedding. Otherwise, she is a professor of politics and international affairs at ...

The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Dr Benjamin Kunbuor, Wednesday told the Public Accounts Committee PAC of Parliament that the country was likely to pay more judgement debts but his outfit was not in a position to do anything about the situation.He said th ...

Eastern regional Minister Ambassador Victor Smith has cautioned chiefs to refrain from illegal allocation of concession for mining. According to Ambassador Smith, the Constitution has vested all natural resources in the hands of the State hence no chief has the power to allocate concession without approval of the Minerals Commission and other s ...

Some aggrieved contractors for the Ghana Education Trust Fund GETFund today the besieged the premises of GETFund to demand payment of monies due them.The contractors claimed they had not been paid for about Seven months after completion of works on projects awarded them by the GETFund.They said their checks at the Ministry of Finance and ...

What causes conflicts at the work place? Why the conflicts are more between the boss and the subordinates in most corporate. Is there any simple way the conflicts can be managed, if, they cannot be avoided. If the corporate people are willing to learn from nature, especially from wildlife, they can easily manage conflicts at the work place. ...

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has said that it is closely monitoring City and Country Waste Limiteds CCWL claim to sell seven properties belonging to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly AMA. The intended sale of the properties follows notices of auction placed on them by an Accra High Court when a Supreme Court ruled i ...

LOMEX CONSTRUCTION, a construction firm, has had its contract with the Ministry of Roads and Highways terminated as a result of its ineffectiveness, according to the sector Minister Joseph Gidisu. The termination of the contract, which took effect from Friday July 6, 2012, was made known during the ministers surprise visit to Ashaiman to inspe ...

DuPont, a developer of genetically altered crops, commissioned the Global Food Security Index as a means of identifying areas where reforms were most urgently needed and ranked Ghana 68th out of 105 other countries.In a release issued by DuPont the food security index was launched by the Economist Intelligence Unit EIU, an advisory and foreca ...

The Ghana National Association of Private Schools GNAPS has resumed the debate on the three-year or four-year duration of the senior high school SHS and called for a national referendum to take a final decision on the subject matter.It said the entire country needed ...