http://www.modernghana.com/ Visit Modern Ghana News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. Modern Ghana News provides trusted Ghana news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news. en-uk Fri, 24 May 2013 07:35:20 +0100 BO Adamson - info@modernghana.com 5/24/2013 7:35:20 AM Bright Owusu - webmaster@modernghana.com All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. 60 Asikam E/R, May 21, GNA - Ms Helen Adjoa Ntoso, the Eastern Regional Minister, has said that a 24-hour surveillance would be instituted to check illegal mining in all mining areas in the region. She urged the Police and the other security forces to beef up personnel at areas known for galamsey activities and also charged the Municipal and Dis ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/465105/1/surveillance-in-galamsey-areas-to-be-increased-eas.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/465105/1/surveillance-in-galamsey-areas-to-be-increased-eas.html Wed, 22 May 2013 04:30:19 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XGJndzNhbWw4OHRfbXJzX2hlbGVuX250b3NvLmpwZ3wxNTA= http://www.modernghana.com/news/465105/1/surveillance-in-galamsey-areas-to-be-increased-eas.html Accra, May 21, GNA - A three-day Internet Governance and Standards Development workshop to sensitise the internet community on key issues affecting the sector opened in Accra on Tuesday. The workshop, organised by the Internet Society ISOC, Ghana Chapter, was to build technical capacity in internet standards development and protocol analysis ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/465097/1/workshop-on-internet-governance-opens-in-accra.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/465097/1/workshop-on-internet-governance-opens-in-accra.html Wed, 22 May 2013 04:30:10 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XHB0azduYXk0NGhfbml0YS5qcGd8MTUw http://www.modernghana.com/news/465097/1/workshop-on-internet-governance-opens-in-accra.html Accra, May 20, GNA - Ghana is hosting a five-day African regional workshop on the implementation of e-learning platforms for networking nuclear education and training. The workshop, which is being sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, aims at using Information and Communication Technology ICT as a tool to transform Nucle ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/464996/1/ghana-hosts-afra-workshop-on-learning-management-s.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/464996/1/ghana-hosts-afra-workshop-on-learning-management-s.html Tue, 21 May 2013 17:17:14 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XGExN2h5bDN4d3NfZHJfb3RlbmdhZGplaS5qcGd8MTUw http://www.modernghana.com/news/464996/1/ghana-hosts-afra-workshop-on-learning-management-s.html Tema, May 20, GNA - President John Dramani Mahama on Monday inaugurated a 16.8 million-dollar systems control centre constructed by the Ghana Grid Company at Kpone with the assurance to build a resilient power transmission in the coming years. He said government was committed to ensuring adequate supply of the commodity that would enhance the r ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/465023/1/president-mahama-inaugurates-a-168-million-dollar-.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/465023/1/president-mahama-inaugurates-a-168-million-dollar-.html Tue, 21 May 2013 17:17:13 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XHByZXpfbWFoYW1hX2NvbW1pc3Npb25zX3N5c3RlbV9jb250cm9sLmpwZ3wxNTA= http://www.modernghana.com/news/465023/1/president-mahama-inaugurates-a-168-million-dollar-.html Nii Lante Vanderpuye Accra, May 20, GNA - The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Nii Lante Vanderpuye has called on Ghanaians to embrace the use of weighing scales in their interactions and business transactions. He said measurement played a crucial role in peoples daily lives and was important for socio-economic development. The Deput ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/464976/1/ghanaians-urged-to-embrace-the-use-of-weighing-sca.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/464976/1/ghanaians-urged-to-embrace-the-use-of-weighing-sca.html Tue, 21 May 2013 17:16:25 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XG5paV9sYW50ZV92YW5kZXJwdXllLmpwZ3wxNTA= http://www.modernghana.com/news/464976/1/ghanaians-urged-to-embrace-the-use-of-weighing-sca.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/464977/1/ghana-spends-70-million-dollars-annually-on-disast.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/464977/1/ghana-spends-70-million-dollars-annually-on-disast.html Tue, 21 May 2013 17:16:19 +0100 http://www.modernghana.com/news/464977/1/ghana-spends-70-million-dollars-annually-on-disast.html Dakola, Burkina Faso, May 20, GNA- The African Development Bank ADB, at the weened launched its Water Project at Dakola in Burkina Faso at the cost of 134,553, 405 CFA. Burkina Faso is expected to bear 20 per cent of the total cost of the facility. The Water Project, which has a sanitation component is mechanised and powered through sol ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/464696/1/adb-inaugurates-water-project-in-burkina-faso.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/464696/1/adb-inaugurates-water-project-in-burkina-faso.html Mon, 20 May 2013 08:15:14 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XHN4bzByZWQ1NWxfYWZyaWNhbl9kZXZlbG9wbWVudF9iYW5rX2FmZGIuYm1wfDE1MA== http://www.modernghana.com/news/464696/1/adb-inaugurates-water-project-in-burkina-faso.html Obuasi, May 17, GNA - Communications Minister Dr. Edward Omane Boamah has asked the Obuasi Municipal Assembly to allay fears that telecommunication masts pose health threats to people in the area. In a speech, read on his behalf at a days workshop on electromagnetic fields EMF exposure and health at Obuasi, the Minister said: We should leav ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/464594/1/obuasi-municipal-asked-to-allay-fears-about-teleco.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/464594/1/obuasi-municipal-asked-to-allay-fears-about-teleco.html Sun, 19 May 2013 00:01:35 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XHR4b2I2ZmQ2NTRfZHJfZWR3YXJkX29tYW5lYm9hbWFoLmpwZ3wxNTA= http://www.modernghana.com/news/464594/1/obuasi-municipal-asked-to-allay-fears-about-teleco.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/464580/1/stakeholders-in-agriculture-sensitised-on-waapp-ii.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/464580/1/stakeholders-in-agriculture-sensitised-on-waapp-ii.html Sun, 19 May 2013 00:01:04 +0100 http://www.modernghana.com/news/464580/1/stakeholders-in-agriculture-sensitised-on-waapp-ii.html Apam C/R, May 18, GNA - Three districts have been selected to implement climate change and health projects on pilot basis. The districts are Gomoa West in the Central Region, Keta in the Volta Region and Bongo in the Upper East Region. Dr Yaw Ofori Yeboah, Gomoa West District Director of the Ghana Health Service announced this when he bri ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/464579/1/ghana-to-pilot-climate-change-and-health-projects.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/464579/1/ghana-to-pilot-climate-change-and-health-projects.html Sun, 19 May 2013 00:01:03 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XG90MzduYXltbGdfY2xpbWF0ZV9jaGFuZ2VfcGl4LmpwZ3wxNTA= http://www.modernghana.com/news/464579/1/ghana-to-pilot-climate-change-and-health-projects.html