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Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) would on Monday disseminate preliminary results for the 2010 Population and Housing Census, which took place on Census Night Sunday, September 26, 2010. However, only the regional results would be released…

Mr Paa Kwesi Yankey, the new Chairman of University of Ghana Alumni Association (UGAA), has said he would work with the University authorities to set aside a day in its calendar to organise a job fair and an advisory centre for the…

The Sekyere Central District Director of Health Service, Mr Cletus Opoku Amankwaah, has expressed concern about the growing number of still births in the area. The area recorded 14 still births, last year, as against the previous figure of…

An 11-member inter-ministerial committee on the Ghana Information Communication Technology (ICT) project was inaugurated in Accra yesterday. The committee, chaired by Dr Nii Narku Quaynor, Board Chairman of the National Information…

The Ghana Ports and Harbours Author­ity (GPHA) is to provide a bigger con­tainer terminal to accommodate new generation vessels which call at the Tema Port. These vessels are huge and have large cargo­-hold capacities capable of carrying…

The Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) on Friday discredited the perception that a fully deregulated petroleum sector will lead to price hikes and manipulation by the oil marketing companies. "A deregulated regime on the contrary will…

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has recovered about GH¢18 million in student loans paid to 28,430 beneficia­ries. The recoveries were made between January ­and November 2010. Out of the amount, GH¢5,884,982 was…

The Canoe Owners Association (COA) has urged the government to review the provision in the Fisheries Act which criminalises the use of light for fishing. It said the government should approve the use of 1ight as a new technology for…

A long stretch of the coastline at Axim in the Western Region has been inundated with heavy oil spillage, known as tar balls, as a result of the increase in vessel traffic in the country's waters. The substance is not the country's sweet…

The latest forecasts from UK-based Informa Telecoms & Media said mobile SMS traffic reached five trillion by the close of 2010 but the number of mobile phone text messages is expected to reach 8.7 trillion a year by 2015. The report,…