Accra, Jan. 16, GNA – Professor Chris Gordon, Director, Institute of Environment and Sanitation, University of Ghana, Legon, on Tuesday said open defecation cost Ghana 79 million dollars per year, where as it would require less than one million latrines to eliminate the practice.

Coach Adusei, told GNA Sports 'i am very confident that the current crop of players can win the cup.My assessment of the team is based on the preparatory matches played against Egypt and Tunisia. The team showed they were really hungry for success.

'Ke Nako - a South African Sesotho language which means 'It is time for Ghana' or 'Go Ghana' remains the popular catch phrase on the lips of many fans in Port Elizabeth, home to Group B which comprises the Black Stars, DR Congo, Mali and Niger.

Information gathered by GNA Sports indicates that the Stars will train at the NMMU Sports Stadium during their stay in the coastal city for the group phase of the tournament.

The NDC filed the petition seeking to be joined in the suit, filed by the New Patriotic Party (NPP), contesting the result of the December 7 presidential election which declared President John Dramani Mahama as winner.

Mr Naoto Nikai, Japanese Ambassador to Ghana announced this on Wednesday when he signed an agreement to that effect in Accra.

She attended Anglican Girls’ Secondary School at Koforidua and Aburi Presbyterian Girls’ School.

The traders are therefore appealing to the New Juaben Municipal Assembly to provide them with spaces at the Kumasi Station to enable them do their business or the old  Koforidua-Ho station be allocated to another transport group to help revive their businesses.

Mr Denis Opoku Gyamfi, President of the Foundation, said members were ever ready to offer themselves to assist in the education and awareness creation of fire outbreaks and its negative effect on lives and property.

The Executive Director of the NSS,Mr. Vincent Senam Kuagbenu made this known at a three-day performance review seminar for its core management staff in Takoradi on Tuesday.

A visit by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to Accra on Wednesday revealed that majority of the traders, especially women, had returned to the streets.

He said, “This nonchalant attitude by purchasers is the result of most vehicles being impounded by the Customs personnel; so every person who wants to buy a car anywhere in Ghana must go to our offices to find out whether appropriate duties have been paid on the vehicle.”

It, however, recorded 83 domestic fires, 10 vehicular fires, 16 bush fires and one electrical fire.

Briefing newsmen on behalf of the Executives, Mr Kwasi Aboagye, the Volta Regional Chairman of the Party, expressed the hope that Mr Bani would apply his expertise to help President John Dramani Mahama to serve the country to the best of his ability in prosecuting the second phase of the “Better Ghana Agenda.”

Mr Simon Amegashie-Viglo, Volta Regional Secretary of the Party, stated this in response to questions by reporters on the eligibility of those candidates to contest the vacant Akatsi-South and Buem constituency seats on the NDC’s ticket.

As early as 0730 hours, long queues were formed at the premises of the Company with some of the queues extending to the courtyard of nearby Vodafone Ghana.

According to him, the school which now had a population of 1,700 students made up of 900 boys and 800 girls,was in dire need of a bus to facilitate mobility.

The rehabilitation would involve staff development, provision of medical and general equipment, office and structural refurbishment, a mechanized borehole and the acquisition of an ambulance.

Barima Boampong, 48, succeeded his uncle who died last year after a short illness.