[Ghana Govt.]The Netherlands has offered to support the development of a prototype vehicle designed and manufactured by artisans of Suame Magazine in Kumasi.

[Ghana Govt.]The government is to give the local manufacturing industry a package to propel its growth. President John Dramani Mahama said the stimulus package was to empower the local companies to grow and serve as an avenue for job creation.

[Ghana Govt.]The Upper East Regional Minister, Hon Alhaji Limuna Mohammed -Muniru, has said Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is "a must and not a choice" and that organizations must endeavor to meet some of the needs of society, especially the societies they operate in.

[Ghana Govt.]The government has secured funding for the procurement of ferries to be used to carry motorists and pedestrians across the Volta River at Senchi.

[Ghana Govt.]Many educated women today will scowl at the idea that "a woman's place or office is the kitchen".

[Ghana Govt.]Parliament today constituted a three member Ad-Hoc committee to recommend to the House an auditor to audit the accounts of the department.

[Ghanaian Chronicle](Speech delivered by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, NPP 2012 presidential candidate, at the book launch of "Odd Customs, Stereotypes and Prejudices", written by Archbishop Emeritus Peter Kwasi Sarpong, at the Coconut Groove Hotel, Accra, on 13th July, 2013)

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The much trumpeted takeover bid of Merchant Bank Ghana Limited (MBG) by South Africa's FirstRand Bank Limited has hit a snag, following the announcement by Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), the majority shareholder of Merchant Bank that the $91 million offer could not go through.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]As the first anniversary of the late President John Evans Atta Mills approaches, the stage is now set for the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), the party on which ticket the former head of state won election 2008, to extol him for his good works.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Given the brazen attempt to impose new taxes and increase the size of the existing ones, this government must certainly take the top prize for impunity and total disregard for the abject economic and social conditions in which the overwhelming majority of the Ghanaian live.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Salaga -The acting Northern Regional Stool Lands Officer of the Office of the Administrator of Stool Lands (OASL), Mr. Franklin Obiri, has called on traditional rulers and other stakeholders in the land sector to embrace the concept of the establishment of more Customary Land Secretariats (CLS) at the local level, since it was the key to Ghana's land reforms.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Afren, a UK-based independent upstream oil and gas exploration and production firm which is currently exploring in Ghana has partnered with University of Exeter Business School to fund an annual scholarship on the One Planet MBA for the next five years.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Whoever came up with the idea of imposing a levy on the import of agricultural chemicals, machinery and equipment has done the greatest damage to an already ailing agricultural sector in Ghana.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Bole -The Bolewura, Awuladese Pontonprong II, also known in private life as James Adama Mahama, has stated that the Bole Traditional Area does not make outright sale of lands to investors who, he said, are only considered as partners in development.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Last Tuesday, the Ghana Police Service (GPS) was tagged by the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), the local wing of the global anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International (TI), as the most corrupt public institution in the country, having scored a whopping 4.7 out of 5 negative rating in a corruption-perception survey

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week (AASW), organized by the Forum for

[Ghanaian Chronicle]International Enterprise (IE) Singapore, an agency under the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry, has taken a significant step to engage the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) with the opening of its first overseas centre in the sub-region on July 23, 2013.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Accra -They came primarily to honour the memory of Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia, the man they all look up to as the soul of their political tradition, on the centenary of his birth. But the party faithful who trooped in their numbers to the African Regent Hotel in Accra on the evening of Thursday, July 11, 2013, had other pressing issues in mind.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Assin South -Mrs. Sabina Appiah-Kubi, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Assin South has lost her bid to become the President's representative in the area for a second time.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]A multi-billion cedi mega edifice has been built and commissioned to serve as the Central Mosque at Bekwai in the Bekwai Municipality.