A number of youth organisations, advocacy non-governmental organisations advocacy and faith-based community organisations, concerned with the protection of the country’s forest reserves, have called on government and regulatory agencies to be proactive in preventing pollution of rivers by mining companies. In a release dated March 19, 2010 and signed by advocacy NGOs including Wacam, Youth for Action... 

Two drivers who decided to combine their profession with robbery have been jailed 50 years each by a Kumasi Circuit Court for robbing another driver of an amount of GH¢5,100. Kweku Opoku, 27, and Kwame Boateng, alias White Man, 24, were pronounced guilty by the court presided over by Mr Amo Yartey, after they pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob and robbery. Kweku Opoku (left) and Kwame Boateng (right)... 

Chairman of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), Achimota branch Number One, Mr Paul Boahene Asante, has furiously declared that his outfit will deal drastically with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) if it refused to pay compensations to victims who lost properties at a demolition exercise held recently in the area. Chairman of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) Achimota... 

Ghana’s President, John Evans Atta Mills, last week Friday, March 19, 2010 assured the investor community in the country of maximum returns of their investments. The president gave the assurance when he received a delegation from Goldfields Ghana Limited (GGL) at the Castle, Osu. According to President Mills, the country’s investment code created an enabling environment which makes it convenient... 

A 27-year-old block-builder was last Monday handed a 13-year-jail term by a Takoradi Circuit Court for defiling his 13 year-old-niece. John Krah, pleaded guilty to the charge and asked the court to tamper mercy with justice, but his plea was not taken by the presiding judge, Justice Charles Banfo. The prosecution team, led by chief Inspector Richard Jabi, told the court that the victim who is a pupil... 

The news of the gruesome murder of a female teacher over the weekend in Sunyani has struck inhabitants of Sunyani and its environs with grief and awe. Madam Alice Nimoh, a teacher at Stadium Primary School in Sunyani, was killed by unknown assailants at Mayfair, a suburb of Sunyani. The murder of the primary school teacher occurred late in the night of this past Friday, March 19, 2010 around 1a.m. At... 

Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN) Ghana has launched its first edition of external newsletter in the Central region to keep stakeholders and its partners updated on major activities and events happening within the organisation. Mrs Mawuena Trebarh launching the newsletter. The newsletter is also to open another channel of communication for customers to express their views on MTN products and... 

Royal Priesthood International School, a private school in Amasaman in Accra, was last week Saturday adjudged the overall best school during the Independence Day march past held in the municipality. Among the things considered in the award were academic performance, school attendance by students and how well a school marched on the day, taking into consideration its dress code. In all 30 schools took... 

Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch, Mr Benjamin Emmanuel Ephson, has issued a stern warning to Hon. Maxwell Kofi Jumah, Member of Parliament for Asokwa Constituency in the Ashanti region, to be wary of the way and manner he talks about him. Ben Ephson, Managing Editor of Daily Dispatch Last Wednesday on Accra-based Asempa Fm’s Ekosi Sen, programme, Mr Jumah, who has penchant and sharp tongue for... 

Azorka Boys, a cluster of NDC youth groups, well noted for its unwavering support for the NDC party in the Northern region, is gradually falling apart and losing its steel, Today has gathered. This follows the decision by some of the groups within the Azorka company to break away from the union. Although Accra-based Citi Fm reported on Wednesday evening on its Eye Witness program that one of the groups...