The Ghana Meteorological Agency has rendered an apology to the nation for its inability to notify Ghanaians of the rainstorm which marred the 57th Independence Celebrations across the country. According to a statement signed by, the agency apologises, especially to the President and the school children who were drenched by the rain on the parade. It said management’s attention has been drawn to the various interviews which were granted some media houses by some personnel from the agency. Disassociating

The policeman involved in last Saturday’s shooting incident at the Derby Avenue branch of Cal Bank has been detained. This is to enable investigations into the incident which involved the policeman and a customer of the bank. Corporal Bernard Frimpong, is said to have fired his AK 47 rifle at the banking hall repeatedly following a confrontation with the customer, named as Nortey. Three persons, including Nortey were wounded as a result of the incident. According to the police, Corporal Frimpong

Plans are on course to set up a Low Income Consumer Support Unit (LICSU) at the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), to exclusively deal with unserved areas in the country. The LICSU is expected to ensure that newly developed and unserved urban settlements are piped and connected to the pipelines of GWCL. With the setting up of the office, the frustrations and bottlenecks associated with connection to GWCL’s pipelines, as well as access to potable water and the water company’s consumer base would

A new gas cylinder for domestic use, made of glass fibre and with a transparent outlook, has been introduced on the Ghanaian market. Wrapped in a poly-case and weighing 14 kilogrammes, the transparent Swedish-made gas cylinder, also called the “Miss Gas”, has been calibrated, and it is light in weight and easy to handle. Unique nature of cylinder Speaking at the launch of the transparent gas cylinder in Accra, Mr Maxwell Opuni Antwi, the General Manager of the Obaatanpa Group of Companies, suppliers

The Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) has described the banishment of the Manager of the Presbyterian Hospital at Dormaa, Mr Fred Effah Yeboah, from the town as unfortunate and a worrying development for health care delivery. It described the action of the Dormaahene as hasty, premature, knee-jerk and without recourse to fundamental human rights, natural justice and fairness.  A statement signed by the Executive Director of the CHAG, Dr Gilbert Buckle, said “we do recognise that this

The Head Pastor of the Liberty Centre Assemblies of God Church at Estates, a suburb of Sunyani, Rev. Joseph Danquah, has advised Christians and Ghanaians in general to cultivate and demonstrate the habit of sharing as a way of showing true love to their neighbours. He said sharing what they had with those who lacked was one way of demonstrating true love among themselves. Special exercise  Rev. Danquah was speaking on  the church’s premises at the closing session of a month-long exercise aimed

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has held its 2013 annual thanksgiving service, with a call on Ghanaians to appreciate God’s goodness despite the current economic challenges. According to Rev. Owusu Ansah, a membe of staff of the GRA who made the call, although the country is facing some development challenges, God has been extremely faithful to Ghanaians. Thanksgiving service The service, which was held at the forecourt of the GRA’s head office, was attended by both Christians and Muslims,

About 200 residents of James Town and its environs in Accra have benefitted from a medical screening organised by Vodafone Ghana. The beneficiaries were screened for various illnesses, including high blood pressure and diabetes, and medications prescribed to those who needed them. The residents were also educated on how to live healthy lifestyles. Healthline launch The exercise was further used to launch Vodafone Healthline Season 4, a television series designed to educate and empower Ghanaians

The Coca-Cola Company’s 5by20 programme, announced in 2010, is part of the company’s global sustainability initiatives to economically empower five million women entrepreneurs across the company’s value chain by 2020. By providing access to business skills, financial services, assets and support networks of peers and mentors, 5by20 is helping women to be successful  entrepreneurs by removing the barriers they face, while creating thriving sustainable communities. “Working with and investing

Students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) are partnering two international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in designing a deliberate policy to encourage the youth to go into the production and distribution of cocoa to save the industry from imminent collapse. The move is a response to a research which indicates that most cocoa farmers are ageing and the youth are less motivated to take over. The student volunteers, mostly from the agricultural department of

The Upper Manya Krobo District Assembly in the Eastern Region exceeded its revenue target last year by 108.75 per cent by collecting GH¢230,956.87 against GH¢212,366.00 budgeted for the year. The District Chief Executive, Mr Joseph Tetteh Angmor, announced this at the assembly’s first meeting of the year at Asesewa, the district capital. He said the achievement was the result of prudent measures instituted by the assembly. The assembly, according to Mr Angmor, also received GH¢607,641.41 as

An-eleven member board has been inaugurated for the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), with a directive to the authority to stop the issuance of letters to quarantine warehouses, since that responsibility is the preserve of the Minister of Health. The Minister of Health, Ms Sherry Ayittey, gave the directive when she inaugurated the board, chaired by Mr Kofi Totobi Quakyi. According to her, investigations by the ministry had revealed that some officials of the FDA had been writing letters to officials

Tragedy struck a family of five at Ejisu in the Ashanti region Monday dawn when the room in which they were sleeping caught fire and burnt them to death. The incident was said to have happened at about 12:30am near the Ejisu Senior High Technical School.  The mother, identified as Akua Afriyie was burnt beyond recognition together with her four kids, two of whom were twins, a boy and girl. Eyewitnesses said they were awoken by the sound of an explosion and when they came out of their rooms, they

Market women at the Kaneshie Market in  Accra  have blamed the insanitary conditions there on the negligence of the waste management company assigned to collect waste in the market. They  appealed to the government to ensure proper sanitation in the market because they were charged daily for that purpose. The market women, who spoke to the Daily Graphic, were commenting on the liquid discharges from the four overflowing refuse containers at the market with the accompanying pungent stench. Selling

The Minister of Health, Ms Sherry Ayittey, has underscored the need for traditional medicine to be given a significant boost in order to ensure its viability as an option to improving health in the country. According to her, it was important to accelerate the implementation of national traditional medicine policies which would ensure that traditional medicine products were safe, affordable and accessible. Such a move, she said, would offer the added advantage of protecting intellectual property

The two special schools in the twin-city of Sekondi/Takoradi continue to survive on the benevolence of the general public and corporate bodies, as feeding and administrative grants to the school continue to delay. The two head teachers of the Twin-City Special School and the Sekondi School for the Deaf, with  a student population of about 500, said government support to the schools continued to be  in arrears. The two heads  were speaking to the media after the staff of  the Tema Customs Division

A farmer based group in the Bosomtwe District in the Ashanti Region put up a  spectacular show at the 57th Independence Day parade at Kuntanase. The farmer-based group, numbering about 60 and dressed in their various farm gears, carried various farming implements . When the name of the farmers group was mentioned, spectators started screaming and when they got to the dais to greet the district chief executive and the other dignitaries, the crowd gave them a standing ovation which  lasted for about

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says the video clip  on how sausage is produced which is being circulated on the social media is inaccurate and mischievous. A statement signed by the Chief Executive of FDA, Mr Hudu Mogtari, said  the video, which was first aired on NET 2 TV, courtesy Oheneba Ntim-Barimah, was a doctored clip. It said the video was a wrong attempt to describe  the process of producing sausage. According to the  statement,  “The FDA, after carefully watching the video clip,

Members of the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) Ladies Club in all parts of the country dressed in their respective native wear to the office on Friday to mark International Women’s Day, which was observed on March 8. Dressed in colourful 'kaba and slit' with matching scarf popularly referred to as "eda so bowo" with accompanying beads, the ladies (especially those at the counter) made customers feel at home. They served customers with their usual adroitness. Two customers who spoke to the Daily Graphic

The Accra Regional Police Command has begun investigations into the alleged shooting incident involving a policeman and a businessman at the Derby Avenue branch of Cal Bank last Friday afternoon. According to the Public Relations Officer (PRO) at the Accra Regional Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Freeman Tettey, the purported shooting incident resulted in the injury of three customers of the bank, including the businessman, Natheniel Nortey. The other victims, whose identities