The Adisadel College in Cape Coast woke up to tragedy Sunday when one of its tutors was found hanging on a tree behind his bungalow. The lifeless body of Mr Appiah Menka, about 58 years and an English tutor at the school was found dead by his colleagues at 6am. Mr Menka's body was found on a mango tree a few meters from a bungalow he shared with two other teachers. Witnesses  at the scene when the Daily Graphic got there said Mr Menka had a note explaining his action. The police have confirmed

Assembly members serving in the Bawku Municipal Assembly have called on the security agencies to consider lifting the ban on motorbikes on Bawku and its environs, because of the harm and hardships of the ban on the residents. The Assembly members made the call during the first ordinary general meeting of the fourth session of the Bawku Municipal Assembly at Bawku to affirm their decision to take on any group which failed to see the assembly as the highest decision-making body. They argued that the

The  University of Ghana, has received more financial aid from individuals and organisations in local and international front, to support needy students and facilitate academic activities. The World Bank has selected the university to receive 16 million dollars to establish the West Africa Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens.   The amount is also meant to build up a West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement into an African Centre for Excellence, to train plant breeders, seed scientists

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Capacity Development Mechanism (CDM), has trained its Eastern Regional staff members to handle internal Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems. It has also provided a mobile phone and a laptop computer  to each of the staff, to enhance its internal communication strategy. Internet connectivity and a television set to be used as electronic board for monitoring EPA activities on the field have been provided to the regional

Dr Henry Seidu Daannaa, Minister of Chieftaincy and Traditional Affairs at the weekend announced the introduction of a new chieftaincy programme that would codify lines of succession of paramount stools  in the country. He noted that  the programme was introduced because of the numerous chieftaincy disputes and appealed to the traditional rulers to cooperate and support it Dr. Daannaa said this at the end of a one-week working visit to selected Traditional Areas in the Brong-Ahafo Region. The

Professor Kelly Chibale of the University of Cape Town has discovered a single oral dose anti-malaria drug suitable for the treatment of malaria in varied climatic conditions. From a library of about 40, 000 drug leads, he successfully obtained a single oral dose of one of the front runner compounds to provide a complete cure in a mouse model. Professor Emeritus Rose Gana Fomban Leke, University of Yaounde1, Cameroon, announced on Friday at the close of the 2014 Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial