The acting Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr Akwasi Osei, has said most suicide cases in Ghana are attributable to mental disorders. Dr Osei said this at a forum on key provisions in the Mental Health Law (Act 846) organised by Basic Needs in Bolgatanga. He said considering the magnitude of the problem, there was the urgent need for the government to pay attention to the sector and that the situation of mental health care in the country was not the best. Dr Osei said the

Reeva Steenkamp, the girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius, was seated on a magazine rack in a defensive position when he fired through a door killing her, a police ballistics expert said.

tweets: Roux says accused says he fired in two short bursts. Witness says that's not consistent with wounds to Reeva. #OscarPistorius. 08:15: Defence lawyer Barry Roux is asking the witness about the shots Mr Pistorius fired. Barry Roux, lawyer for Oscar ...

Fulham midfielder Derek Boateng is back on the agenda at Charlton Athletic as the Ghana international fights to get playing time to make the World Cup squad.

Pediatric cardiologist Betty Gikonyo reveals what led her to dedicate her life to helping disadvantaged children receive urgent medical care and launch a state-of-the-art medical facility in Kenya.

The Ministry of Education has requested the Council of the University of Ghana to , as a matter of urgency,  submit a report that informed the university’s decision to regulate access to its premises. The ministry also asked the Council to submit “a specific report on the new guidelines that informed its thought processes to check security, collect tolls and control traffic at the university”. “The Minister of Education expects that the report is submitted latest by Friday, March 21, 2014,”

"The [Israeli Defense Forces] IDF targeted several Syrian army positions which aided and abetted the attack against IDF personnel yesterday," a military statement said. A spokeswoman for the IDF later confirmed that the Israeli air force had executied the ...

The Metropolitan Chief Executive of Tamale, Hanan Gundadow Abdul-Rahman, has cut the sod for the commencement of work on new stores at the Tamale Central Market. The two-storey facility would contain 40 stores each and will  be completed within a period of six months. He also announced that a new market would be constructed at Kakpagyili and Lamashegu, both suburbs of Tamale, to decongest the central business district. Mr Abdul-Rahman explained that “these initiatives have been put in place to

Watch Asamoah Gyan's two goals in Al Ain's 3-1 victory over Tractor Sazi in an Asian Champions League match on Tuesday night.

The empowerment of women and girls is one of the most effective ways to achieve higher economic growth and better living standards among the millions of people in developing countries in our region. As Australia’s first female foreign minister, support for the empowerment of women and girls in our region, the Indian Ocean and Asia Pacific, is one of my highest priorities.  This support will take many forms, from direct business assistance to higher standards of education, healthcare, and agricultural

Accra -THE Vice-Chancellor of the University for Mines and Technology (UMAT), Prof. Jerry Samuel Kuma, has appealed to Sandvik Mining Ghana to avail, its cutting technology and equipment to the university to help train the country's small-scale miners.

The Advantage Group (TAG), a  communication and design services group at Osu, has handed over a  furnished 40-seater kindergarten classroom with study materials and toys to the La Dadekotopon Municipal Education Director for the Tenashie A & B Primary School. The donation formed part of the group’s corporate social responsibility.   TAG, which  believes in the importance of accessing education at a tender age, agreed to support the school in line with the Ministry of Education’s directive

Investigators probing the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner with 239 people on board believe it most likely flew into the southern Indian Ocean, a source close to the investigation said on Wednesday. An unprecedented search for the Boeing ...

The Bolgatanga municipality in the Upper East Region is to join an international trade movement known as the Fair Trade Town Organisation (FTTO). Local artisans, food vendors and the business community are being encouraged to form cooperatives as a way of helping the municipality to acquire that fair trade town status. The membership status involves networking with a variety of global partners and demonstrating the municipality's adherence to fair trade values. Bolgatanga has the opportunity to

Some residents of Apatrapa, a suburb of Kumasi, are calling on the Asantehene and the Manhyia Palace to intervene in what they term the "illegal activity" going on at the Apatrapa Old Cemetery. They are also calling on authorities of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) to halt the "illegal activity" taking place at the cemetery. A spokesperson for the aggrieved residents, Osei Ahenkora, alleged that the Obaapanin of Apatrapa, Oheneba Akyaa Panin III, had developed about half a plot of the Apatrapa

Artificial limbs made by 3-D printing are changing the lives of amputees in Sudan.