A company in Spain, Entaban S.a. and Juanx Lioret S.a., has expressed interest in establishing a Jatropha plantation and Bio- diesel plant at Offinso in the A...

Kofi Akosah-Sarpong examines Mozambique’s attempts to eradicate flourishing witchcraft and human sacrifice in its development process, drawing cases ...

Nana Yaw, 28 year old, a Phone Dealer, arrested at Ashaiman near Tema for possessing fake Ghana Cedis (GH?), has led the Police to arrest two of his accomplic...

...$11m more loan for Ghana@50 celebrations Accra, July 31, GNA - Parliament, after a heated and lengthy debate between the majority NPP and the main opposit...

Former UN Secretary General Busummuru Kofi Annan on Tuesday appealed to politicians to be mindful of their words and to avoid inflammatory declarations as the...

The Volta River Authority (VRA) on Tuesday said it would continue to run the two generating units at the Akosombo until further notice. A statement the VRA...

The Accra-Tema railway transport for passengers would begin by the end of September of this year. Briefing the media at the Meet-the-Press series on Tuesday,...

The National Service Scheme (NSS) has saved the country a total of over 260 billion cedis for the 2005/2006 academic year, Mr Ken-Wuud Nuworsu, Deputy Minis...

President John Agyekum Kufuor on Tuesday rallied Ghanaians to be patient and remain confident that the nation's current energy crisis would be resolved. ...

A documentary focusing on Former President J.J. Rawlings was adjudged the best out of seven presented at the Eighth Pan African Students Film and Television f...

An Accra Fast Track High Court saved several hundreds from being homeless when it placed an interim injunction on the demolition exercise being carried out in...

The raging rumours surrounding fake currency notes of the new Ghana cedis before it was introduced must not b taken lightly as evidences have proven them to ...

The two British teenage girls accused of trying to smuggle drugs from Ghana to the UK have appeared in court. Yasemin Vatansever(pictured) and Yatunde Diya,...

The Volta River Authority (VRA) spends about 42 million dollars monthly on fuel to power emergency power plants generating electricity during the power cri...

The Volta River Authority (VRA) has dispelled media speculations that it will shut down its plants this week. The Director of Hydro at the VRA, Kirk Coffie...

The Northern Regional Director of Food and Agriculture, Mr. Sylvester Adongo, has said the three northern regions would experience an acute food shortage if...

The outgoing Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, Hackman Owusu-Agyemang, has called on the legislating and implementing authorities to revisit ...

The Chief of Staff and Minister for Presidential Affairs, Mr Kwadwo Mpiani has told Parliament the plush presidential palace currently under construction at...

Unless there is divine intervention, the Akosombo Dam, Ghana’s economic heartbeat and most valuable asset will be closed down next week. This follo...

Parliament on Tuesday ended debate on the energy crisis by voting massively on an amended motion filed by some NPP members of parliament supporting government...

A 20-member health team from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has presented 20,000 doses of measles vaccines worth 130,000 dollars to the Ministry of Health as the...

Mr Isaac Owusu Oduro, a staff of the Environmental Protection Agency, has been elected as a member of the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Cont...

It has been almost ten months since the country started experiencing the load shedding programme due to the low water level in the Akosombo dam and technica...

The Minister for the Interior, Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, has stated that the government will not sit down unconcern for a few selfish individuals to hold the nat...

The Embassy of the United States (US) has donated assorted books to the Cape Coast slave castle library and expressed the hope that the donation would help ...

Ghana's first female Chief Justice, Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood and 77 other individuals were on Friday recognized by being awarded state honours for disting...

Government in collaboration with the Japanese government is to set up solar testing and training centres for the implementation of Ghana's solar energy Mast...

Government has put together a team of local solar energy experts to help kick-start the implementation of the development of solar energy systems in the country...

Ghana has already taken a lead in rehabilitating and expanding its railway network system, to pave way for the Trans-ECOWAS interconnecting railway project in m...

Ghana is hosting the Sixth US Sub-Saharan African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) forum in Accra, from July 16 to July 19, 2007.The forum is expected to attra...

Government has voted 60 billion cedis out of the HIPC Fund for street naming and house numbering in the 10 regional capitals and some major towns throughout the...

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, has accepted an invitation to pay a visit to the Island of Seychelles at an appropriate date to be announced soon.The Seychell...

The new Ghana cedis and pesewas will be put into circulation today, Tuesday, 3rd July 2007. One US Dollar is now worth about GH¢0.92 (i.e. 92 Ghanaian Pes...

The refusal of women in the media to take up challenges such as running shift, covering difficult assignments, sexual harassment and the perception that women...

The General Secretary of the Ghana Mine Workers Union, Mr Prince William Ankrah, has expressed concern about the influx of expatriates who have occupied pos...

When the 14th Ordinary Session of the Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) of the African Union (AU) opened on Friday in Accra, the large white banner be...

It was not a boom night, but a night to celebrate and adulate Flt Lt. Jerry John Rawlings -- the only man who for close to two decades ruled supreme over Gha...

The African Union Summit has kicked off in Accra, Ghana with the opening of the African Union (AU) Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC), as part of the ...

Former President, Flt Lt J.J. Rawlings, has reiterated his commitment to help protect the country's Constitution. He added, however, that he would continue t...

There are indications that government may not be able to meet its September deadline for an end to the load shedding exercise. Government has assured tha...

The Chinese government has expressed interest in the funding of the implementation of the Bui hydropower project at an estimated cost of 600 million dollars. ...

…In the midst of light-offs The Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei has given hints that utility tariffs will ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings is set to mark his 60th birthday today, June 22, with a party at the Banquet Hall of the State House. He was born o...

The Minister of National Security, Mr Francis Poku, has announced that intelligence sources have picked up indications of attempts to counterfeit the new Ghana...

Accra, June 6, GNA - Mr Gordon Wetherell, the British High Commissioner in Ghana, has announced that the World Bank (WB) is due to release a sum of US$50 mill...

FATHIA Nkrumah, wife of Ghana’s first President, will be buried in Accra, next Tuesday, June 12, at the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, beside her husband. Sek...

Accra, June 6, GNA - Nii Adote Obuor II, President of the Ga Traditional Council, has stated categorically that the beating of the "Odadao Drums" to...

Accra, June 6, GNA - The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) lost about five billion cedis over a 10-month period through the stealing of cables, underground a...

Kofi Akosah-Sarpong discusses a Gabonese teacher’s campaign against human sacrifice and its wide-spread implications Africa’s progress Either b...

Trudy Bower-Pirinis, Representative of the United Nations World Food Programme, Ghana on Saturday said Ghana was among the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa...

The Hawa Yakubu Funeral Committee has released the official programme for the funeral and burial service of the late Madam Hawa Yakubu, First Vice President of ...

Kofi Akosah-Sarpong argues that the rumour of Washington setting up military base in Ghana is part of the broader bases Washington is building in Africa for its...

A nation that cannot manage its organic and plastics waste in urban areas should not be thinking of nuclear power generation that yields some of the deadliest t...

In his State of the Nation address delivered to Ghanaians on February 8, 2007 President Kufuor out-lined short and long term measures that his government was ...

... Only for Literates .... What if applicant is literate in a local language? The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority has launched a new driver’s lic...

The new Ga Mantse, King Tackie Tawiah III, was officially outdoored as the rightful King to lead the people and steer the affairs of the Ga State at a colourful...

The Tema Oil Refinery will shut its 45,000 barrel per day crude distillation unit (CDU) for planned maintenance during the first week of July, its managing dir...

The Government has in the last few years up to July 2006 been paying some two thousand and twenty three (2,023) ghost workers, whose names were on public payro...

The Search for Alternative Energy Source Ghana's foremost Professor of Mathematical Physics, Professor Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey has stated that with...

A total of 143 out of 255 patients screened at the St. Theresa's Hospital at Nkoranza last year tested HIV/AIDS positive.The Nkoranza District HIV/AIDS Moni...

The first set of emergency power generators has started working in Tema, producing an additional 30 megawatts of power to augment national energy supplies. It...

In Ghana, the wife of former President Jerry Rawlings said President John Kufuor’s government is persecuting her family and members of the main oppositio...