The European Union (EU) has supported Christian Aid and Send-Ghana, both non-governmental organisations, with a grant of £656,180 to implement a project in maternal healthcare in some 30 districts in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions. The three-year project is aimed at contributing to the effective delivery of maternal health services in Ghana, with the specific objective of ensuring that citizens in the selected districts effectively held the government accountable in order to improve

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One of the accused persons in the GH¢4.1 million GYEEDA case has finally met bail conditions imposed by the Financial Division of the High Court. He has been in lawful custody for four weeks, four days. Philip Akpeena Assibit, who was on January 24, 2014 granted a GH¢2 million bail, with four sureties, two to be justified, could not meet the bail conditions and thus had to be transferred from police custody into prison custody. Counsel for Assibit, Mr Raymond Bagnabu, told the Daily Graphic in

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has resolved to sanction teachers who absent themselves from school starting this academic year.

The Foundation Cricket Club of Lagos commenced a two-match tour of Accra Ghana. ahead of the 2014 Lagos Cricket Club Council season. FCC, as the club is known was founded in 1985.

Ghana's World Cup opponents United States have named a 24-man squad dominated by Europe-based players for next week’s international friendly with Ukraine.

BEIJING, China - Chinese police have rescued 382 abducted babies and arrested 1,094 suspects in a national operation that busted four major Internet-based baby trafficking rings, the Public Security Ministry said Friday. The operation came after police in ...

The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, has described the female porters (kayayei ) phenomenon as a national challenge that can only be addressed through a holistic national and inter-sectoral approach. “The development, well being and best interest of these young girls must be a priority of all of us and not my ministry alone. A holistic national and inter sectoral approach is what is required to solve the problem. This would require ministry and the ministries

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President John Dramani Mahama yesterday inaugurated the rehabilitated 60km Asante Bekwai - Assin  Praso trunk road with a call on Ghanaians, particularly the youth, to bear with the government as it initiates action to either construct new roads and rehabilitate existing ones. Speaking at Assin Praso in the Central Region Thursday, he said the government did not have the resources to work on all roads at the same  time, adding that little by little all the roads would be fixed He, therefore, expressed

Ghana have dropped all four of their South African-based based players for their friendly against Montenegro next week with the World Cup looming.

Juventus will only make a decision on whether or not to play Kwadwo Asamoah against AC Milan on Sunday at the last available moment.

In a bid to better inform the consumers, the federal agency Food and Drug Administration is mulling over bringing changes to the labels on packaged foods depicting the “Nutrition Facts”. The food labels were introduced in the United States in 1993. According ...