September 2011

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has outlined the criteria for the draw of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations scheduled for October 28 in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. A statement on the CAF website culled by GNA Sports in Accra, said…

President John Evans Atta Mills on Thursday launched the Policy Performance Management System which is expected to monitor and evaluate government policies and programmes. A policy unit at the Presidency was established in 2009 for…

The government has launched a comprehensive industrial policy and clear cut industrial support programmes to enhance economic development, Ms Hannah Tetteh, the Minister of Trade and Industry, said on Thursday. She said the government was…

Mrs Delali Badasu, Lecturer at the Institute of Population Studies, University of Ghana, has called for the introduction of measures to reduce the rate of Ghana’s population growth. She noted that the world’s population estimated to reach…

Statistics from the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) indicates that 11,400 road crashes are recorded annually, resulting in 1,400 injuries and 1,800 deaths. In addition, 19 fatalities per 10,000 vehicles in Ghana shows that 43 per…

Six months after President John Evans Atta Mills cut the sod for work to begin on the Tarkwa-Bogoso-Ayanfuri road work is yet to start and the contractors are blaming the rains for the delay. The delay to start work on the 90-kilometre…

Concerned Riggers and Offshore Workers have called on the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, Regional Coordinating Council, Ministry of Energy and other stakeholders in the petroleum industry to intervene to enforce the local content…

Medal winners of Team Ghana at the just ended All Africa Games (AAG) had received their respective bonuses totaling $235, 000 dollars from the National Sports Authority (NSA). Information gathered by GNA Sports indicates that, the medal…

The MTN Ghana Foundation in collaboration with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has inaugurated an ICT Centre of Learning at Nyinahin in the Ashanti Region. This is part of the Foundation’s 10 ICT projects estimated at one…

A 34-year old woman, Yvonne Kpodo has been arrested by the Nsawam Prison Authority for possessing quantity of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp. She has since been handed-over to the Nsawam Police. Speaking with the Ghana News…