Ghana News

Ghana is one of the world's top producers of gold, now mining more than five times as much as gold as it did in the early 1990s.

Two Industrial trawlers have been arrested and detained by the Ghana Navy in Cape Coast and Tema for illegally operating in the countrya s territorial waters.

A 38-year-old Lebanese, Youssef Salloum, has been arrested by the police for alleged illegal possession of six kilogrammes of suspected cocaine.

What do you do when an alcoholic who now claims to have taken up the Cross of Christ and is now a pastor starts quoting alcohol brands as titles of books from the Bible? Or you visit the poultry farm to buy one fowl for the Yuletide but the very particular bird you find irresistible forewarns you that it is beyond your pocket, and then when the ...

The Regional Minister for Greater Accra, Nii Armah Ashietey, has urged the Sub-Metropolitan District Assemblies of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to desist from hijacking the work of public and civil servants in the assemblies.

The two times NPP National Campaign Manager, who accused the ruling government of exhibiting revolutionary conduct, however, cautioned all delegates of the party in the upcoming National Delegates Congress to make decisive decisions and select people who could draw strategies and unite the party for the envisaged victory.

Kumasi - "In Ghana a bastard is somebody who was born out of wedlock and therefore has no father, and in some cases, his mother could not remember his real father because she slept with so many men before getting pregnant to deliver him.

Kosmos Energy announces today that the company's Mahogany Deep-2 well on the West Cape Three Points Block offshore the Republic of Ghana has encountered light oil in three stratigraphic intervals and successfully appraised the greater Jubilee area.

Kumasi, Dec.19, GNA-Chief Executive Director, Ghana Chamber of Mines , Dr. Joyce R. Aryee, has said that the nation needs committed civil servants to carry its developmental agenda through.

The Ghana Baptist University College has held its first Presidential Ball at Amakom in Kumasi with a call on students to be serious with their studies to justify the investments being made on them.

For the past three months, Ghanaians have been expressing concern over the erratic supply of electricity, for both domestic and industrial use, by the Electricity Company of Ghana .

The intermittent power supply across the length and breadth of the country seems to be far from ending, as the government is battling to find an amount of US$1 billion to increase its output in the energy sector.

Residents of the Adentan Municipality have expressed their displeasure towards officials of Aqua Vitens Rand Limited , and the Ghana Water Company Limited , for their inability and lack of commitment towards resolving the water problems facing the area, which have been in existence for the past fifteen years.

Former President Jerry Rawlings says President John Atta Mills has very good intentions for Ghana and should be supported to succeed.

The Chinese ambassador to Ghana said on Sunday that both countries are exploring opportunities for faster development as the world undergoes unprecedented changes and adjustment.

Barely a year into his administration's 4-year mandate, the president himself is feeling beleaguered and has had to come to his own defence a number of times - the latest being last weekend when he declared at Buipe that that he would not do anything to undermine the 1992 Constitution of Ghana.

A SOUTH Korean firm has agreed to build 200 000 homes in Ghana over the next six years at a cost of US$10 billion , Seoul officials say.

SEOUL: South Korea's STX Group said it signed a 10-billion-dollar deal on Wednesday to build 200,000 homes in Ghana over the next six years.

HYATT TALK: National Gas Company president Andrew McIntosh, right, speaks to journalists yesterday after a courtesy call on the President of Ghana, John Agyekum Kufuor, at the Hyatt Regency hotel, Port of Spain.

More than 12,000 Liberians still live in Buduburam refugee camp outside Ghana's capital Accra, nearly 20 years after the start of Liberia's long civil war.