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The Food and Drugs Board (FDB) on Thursday ordered the immediate withdrawal of an antibiotic, Ciprofloxacin (500mg) tablets, from the markets by January 29. FDB said in a statement that the medicine was sub-standard, unwholesome and posed…

The Government of Japan on Thursday gave two separate grants to two community-based institutions in the Ashanti and Upper East regions under the Japanese Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects scheme (GGHSP). The first…

About 1,500 hectares of the degraded Desiri Forest Reserve had been replanted under the government’s plantation development programme launched in 2004. Species planted include Mahogany, “Emire”, “Ofram”, Cedrella and Teak, Mr Lawrence…

Rand Refinery, a South African gold refinery and smelting company, has donated semi-fabricated silver items to the Metal Product Design Section of Department of Industrial Art, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. The items…

A Nigerien trader, Amadu Mamudu, was sentenced to a fine of 2,500 cedis by a Jasikan Magistrate Court for smuggling prohibited cigarettes from Kpalime in Togo into Ghana. Mamudu pleaded guilty to the charge, paid the fine and would have…

Shaving 3 grams off the daily salt intake of Americans could prevent up to 66,000 strokes, 99,000 heart attacks and 92,000 deaths in the United States, while saving $24 billion in health costs per year, researchers reported on Wednesday.…

Oil fell on Friday to one-month lows below $76 a barrel after refiners in top consumer the United States processed the least crude in decades, reacting to a fuel demand slump, while talk of bank trading curbs upset speculators. Proposals…

Asian stock markets tumbled on Friday as commodity prices fell and the dollar weakened after U.S. President Barack Obama proposed tough new restrictions on banks, curbing investors' appetite for riskier assets. Japanese stocks fell almost…

Google Inc was among the first technology companies to shake off the recession last year, but the Internet giant's fourth-quarter report could not satisfy investors' increasing demand for stronger growth. Shares of Google fell about 4…

World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick on Tuesday starts an eight-day, three-nation Africa visit to help focus the attention of African governments, development partners and private investors on seizing the opportunity for renewed…