The legal tussle over the detention of Argentina?s naval training ship in the country is far from over as the legal processes is continuing in Ghana albeit a UN tribunal?s order to Ghana to release the frigate. Although Ghana is not a party to the case pending before the Accra Commercial Court, which ordered the detention of the ARA Libertad, the Argentine Government took the country to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in an attempt to get the frigate released. Following ... Read More

The Volta River Authority (VRA) yesterday held a second local content stakeholders forum in Accra. The forum is designed to provide the guide posts in VRA?s effort at promoting local content development in the power utilities. Held under the theme; ?Promoting Local Content Development in the Power Utilities and Related Industries in Ghana ? Achievements and sustainable initiatives?, it is also expected to set out a number of actions constituting elements of a policy for promoting local ... Read More

A ceremony has been held in Accra to induct into office, a nine -member Board of Trustees to oversee the activities of the KNUST Institute of Sanitation and Waste management (KISWM). The Institute, which opens in 2013, aims at building the capacity of people in waste management and to draw governments? and stakeholders attention to the waste and sanitation problems facing the nation. The Board of Trustees has the Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, ... Read More

The Acting Volta Regional Librarian, Mr Alikem Tamakloe, has attributed the poor academic performance in both first and second cycle schools in the country to the poor reading culture among pupils and students. ?To curb, if not eradicate this canker completely, pupils and students should be encouraged to use their leisure time to read,? he advised. Mr Tamakloe was speaking at the awards ceremony which climaxed this year?s International Children?s Book Day celebrations, at Peki-Blengo in ... Read More

The leader of Accra Hearts of Oak supporters? wing, Chapter O, Aziz Haruna Futah, has distributed food items and cash of GH¢2,000 to the Mallam Mumuni Orphanage at Nima and the Osu Children?s Home at Labone in Accra. The items and cash, he explained on behalf of Mrs. Zein, wife of the board chairman of the construction firm, was to make the children happy after the election and during the Yuletide. Each of the Homes received GH¢1,000, four gallons of oil, bags of rice and fruit ... Read More

The Ministry of Communications (MOC) and the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) of the Republic of Korea for technical assistance in the deployment of the national Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). The MOU, which was signed on October 19 during the 2012 Global e-Government Forum held in Seoul, is designed to facilitate the collaboration between the Ministry and NIPA in order to ... Read More

Parliament yesterday reconvened from a one month break to wrap up its activities before it dissolved on January 7, next year. The House, which went on recess on November 4, to enable members to campaign in the just ended general elections, is expected to bring its activities to a closure to give way for the Sixth Parliament to be inaugurated. Welcoming the legislators back from recess, the Speaker of Parliament, Joyce Bamford-Addo, commended members for their contribution towards a ... Read More

The Ghacem Cement Foundation has, this year, distributed about 34,680 bags of cement to about 220 selected institutions and communities throughout the country to support their programmes. This year?s donation brought the total number of its cement donations to 350,000 bags valued at Gh 6million) made since 2002 through the Cement Foundation for the construction of health and educational facilities, particularly in deprived communities. This was contained in a keynote address by the ... Read More

The Presidential Commission of Inquiry into judgment debts held its second sitting in Accra yesterday with the full co-operation of officials of state institutions subpoenaed to appear before it. State officials who appeared before the Commission yesterday presented the requisite documents. The Commission at its maiden sitting encountered some difficulties because the state officials who appeared before it failed to furnish it with the necessary documents. The Auditor-General was ... Read More

The Executive Secretary of the South Ghana Conference of Seventh Day Adventist (SDA), Pastor Dr Chris Annan Nunoo, has cautioned politicians, technocrats and policy makers, to stop politicising education.      He warned that the constant change of educational policies, particularly the duration of Senior High School, by successive governments, could affect teaching, learning and standards, in the country.       Pastor Nunoo was speaking at the 10th anniversary celebration of the Gomoa ... Read More

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has offered GH¢5,000 as reward for information leading to the arrest of the three suspects who attempted to murder the Bekwai constituency chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Sulley Musah, the victim was said to have been left in a state of unconsciousness, in a bush, by his assailants who thought he was dead after they had beaten him severely and attacked him with a cutlass. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Augustine Gyening, ... Read More

The President of the Confederations of African Football (CAF) Issa Hayatou will arrive in Ghana tonight for Thursday?s Glo CAF Awards. Mr Hayatou will arrive at the Kotoka International Airport at 7:30pm this evening and he will address a press conference at the VVIP lounge shortly after his arrival. All media practitioners are invited to cover his ... Read More

BBC World Service has announced the winner of the 2012 BBC African Footballer of the Year award. Christopher Katongo, who led Zambia to Nation?s Cup success earlier this year, has been voted BBC African Footballer of the Year. Katongo, who plays for Chinese side Henan Construction, won just over 40% of the vote, holding off Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast and Shanghai Shenhua), Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast and Manchester City), Younes Belhanda (Morocco and Montpelier) and Demba Ba (Senegal and ... Read More

The Presbyterian University College over the weekend held its sixth congregation at the Okwahu Campus at Abetifi. In all, 522 students graduated in Business Administration, Business Economics, Information and Communication Technology, Mathematics, Environmental and Natural Resources Management, Rural and Community Development and Nursing. Professor Sraku-Lartey, President of the University in his address said, the College, which started in 2003 with 55 students, now has a population of ... Read More