[State Department]Washington -Three winners were selected for the Apps4Africa 2012 Business Challenge contest, which awards cash prizes and mentoring to innovative African startup companies who develop sustainable technology-based solutions to youth unemployment.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The NDC MP for Adaklu, Hon. Kwame Agbodza has expressed concern over what he described as 'poor maintenance culture' Ghanaians which end up destroying state owned property to their own detriment. He stated that most often state owned properties are either poorly maintained or misuse by the people who benefit more from it.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Residents of Asamankese, the capital of the West Akyem Municipality of the Eastern region, are sitting on a time bomb of a possible massive and widespread outbreak of cholera, if the city authorities fail to act.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Diageo, the world's leading premium drinks and parent company of Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL), Ghana's only total beverage business has launched its annual Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards (DABRA) for 2013.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Kwaebibirem, Hon. Emmanuel Osae has issued a stern warning to one Sule Alhassan, a private developer who has allegedly taken the law into his hands and built on a piece of land earmarked for a road at Kade Zongo.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday called on government to consider the incorporation of childhood cancer in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Cape Coast -The Police at Kotokuraba in the Cape Coast metropolis have arrested four people who claim to be National Security Operatives.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Information gathered by The Chronicle indicate that National Security operatives moved in on Monday night to impound about 300 bags of expired Aluminum Sulphate at the Weija treatment plant of the Ghana Water Company.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Minor fire yesterday gutted part of Ghana's leading ICT and Electronics Company, Rlg Communications Limited head office opposite the Christian Council building at Osu, in Accra.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kpando -The Volta region branch of Zoomlion Ghana Limited has intensified its door-to-door operations in the Volta Region, with the distribution of free waste bins to residents in Kpando and Hohoe last weekend.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]President John Dramani Mahama on Monday announced that government would soon launch its Urban Renewal Project to improve on the lives of the people including those living in 'Zongo Communities'.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Takoradi -THE West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAGPCO) has fixed April 30th this year as the tentative date for the resumption of gas supply from Nigeria barring any unforeseen hitches.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Ziavi -The Volta Regional Director of Education, Mr. Emmanuel Keteku has advised school heads and management committees to adopt maintenance culture that would ensure that government property, like free computers under their care, were properly used and protected to prolong their life span.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Appeal Court sitting in Accra on Tuesday has set May 9, this year, to give judgment on a motion filed by the lawyers of Alfred Woyome challenging a ruling by the Commercial Court against the businessman involved in the GH¢51.2 million judgment payment.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Elmina -The resident of Elmina in the Komenda Edina Eguafo- Abirem (KEEA) Municipality in the Central Region have appealed to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament of the area, Nana Ato Arthur to reconstruct the Brenya Lagoon Bridge that links the castle to the Elmina Township, since it possess danger to users.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]A 38-year old business woman, Eunice Boateng, who falsely accused a Dutch national, Arthur Paes of defilement, has been granted a GH¢5000.00 bail with two sureties by an Accra Circuit Court.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Accra -President John Dramani Mahama will appear before Parliament House tomorrow, Thursday February 21, 2013, to deliver his maiden State of the Nation's address, with the 123-Member New Patriotic Party, conspicuously absent.

[Informer]The Managing Director of the National Port Authority (NPA), Madam Matilda Parker has admitted to lodging four Ghanaian consultants in her mother's house in the Mamba Point District of Monrovia.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]When the newly-appointed Minister of Finance, Mr. Seth Tekper, appears before Parliament in the next two weeks to present the 2013 budget statement, and to give details of the current health of the Ghanaian economy, the spotlight will be on the spiraling budget deficit which threatens to throw public finances out of gear.