Dr Beatrix Allah-Mensah, Senior Social Development Specialist, World Bank, Tuesday said institutional arrangements, approaches and methodologies for  developing, use and management of water and sanitation services needed to be looked at again so as to factor in gender and household–based …

Professor Chris Gordon, Director, Institute of Environment and Sanitation, University of Ghana, Legon, on Tuesday said open defecation cost Ghana $79 million per year, where as it would require less than one million latrines to eliminate the practice. He said …

The government has secured $88 million from an Israeli company to revamp the activities of the National Service Scheme (NSS). The  Executive Director of the NSS, Mr. Vincent Senam Kuagbenu made this known at a three-day performance review seminar for …

Hawkers are back on the streets of Accra after the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Task Force evicted them on Monday. A visit by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to Accra on Wednesday revealed that majority of the traders, especially women, …

Mr Daniel Asiedu, a Chief Collector of the Eastern Regional office of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has advised persons who purchase vehicles to make it a point to verify the authenticity of those vehicles with …

The Volta Region did not record any commercial, industrial or institutional fire in the year 2012. It, however, recorded 83 domestic fires, 10 vehicular fires, 16 bush fires and one electrical fire. A release signed by Mr Franklin Philips Masiku, …

Members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who contested the 2012 parliamentary election as independent candidates need to re-apply to rejoin the party to qualify to contest by-elections on the Party’s ticket. Mr Simon Amegashie-Viglo, Volta Regional Secretary of the …

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Robert Ayalingo, Brong-Ahafo Regional Police Commander has observed that possession of locally manufactured arms among civilians is a major threat to security in the Region. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Sunyani, he noted …

Mr Joshua Opoku Agyemang, 54, Religious and Moral Education Teacher of Akrudwa Number Two District Assembly Junior High School, has been trapped to death by a collapsing wall. Madam Martha Opoku a teacher at the school told the Ghana News …

Nii Odametey II, Chief Fisherman of Tema Awudum, has appealed to the Premix Secretariat to increase its weekly premix allocation to fisher-folks at the Tema Fishing Harbour. The appeal, he said, has become necessary because of the influx into the …

The Supreme Court building The Supreme Court says it will rule on the National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s application seeking to join a petition contesting the declaration of President John Dramani Mahama as winner of the December 7, 2012 presidential poll.…

The number of people suffering dementia around the globe is expected to nearly double to 65.7million sufferers by 2030, the World Health Organisation has warned. By 2050 it is likely to rise 70 per cent above today’s figure of 35.6million …

The windfall tax on mining companies proposed by the government last year has been in limbo, but it is likely discussions on the matter will return after the election of incumbent John Dramani Mahama as president. Ghana, the second largest …

Phoenix Insurance (PI), a private insurance company, has this year targeted to rake-in 35 per cent more of the premium income it earned during the 2012 financial year. Mr Michael Okyere Baafi, Head of Marketing with PI, who disclosed this …

Nana Oduro Kwarteng, Chief Director, Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, has attributed the problem of poor sanitation in the country to mainly wrong attitudes in people. “Solving the problem of poor sanitary conditions begins with us. It is …

HFC Bank is to support the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) to establish a center of excellence for maternal and child care. The center will help reduce maternal and under-five deaths as well as promote teaching and learning. Mr Asare Akuffo, …

A total of ten farmer-based organisations in the Tolon and Kumbungu district on Tuesday received ten new parboiling vessels used to process rice and ten moisture content testers. The groups were also given 30 energy saving stoves and 10 storage …

EC Chairman – Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan The Electoral Commission (EC) has filed a motion at the Supreme Court requesting petitioners challenging the results of the December 7, 2012 elections to furnish it with “further and better” particulars of polling stations …

An Accra Circuit Court on Tuesday admitted to bail Lewis Afful, a student,  who is accused of having anal sex with a 15-year old boy. Afful, 18, pleaded not guilty to the charge of defilement and was admitted to a …

Mr Alfred Okoe Vanderpiuye, Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive, on Tuesday said efficient and successful waste management depends on availability of a well engineered land fill site. However, the AMA did not have one. He said the current land fill sites …