THE ASHANTI Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has beefed up security at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) to ensure that all health personnel of the facility work in safety. It deems it appropriate to ensure the safety of doctors and nurses in order to save lives hence the collaboration with the management of KATH to strengthened security measures there.

OBAAPANIN ADWOA Adowaa, the head of the Asaman Kani Ekuona Royal family of Kumasi has told the Judgment Debt Commission that the family is not privy to the payment of GH¢11,000,000.00 by the government in respect of 2nd Brigade lands in Kumasi.

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Ghana, a leading commercial bank in the country has unveiled a current account meant for only females. The account dubbed 'Ruby' is said to be the first of its kind in the country.

Importers and exporters in Ghana have complained bitterly that despite the directives issued by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) and endorsed by the government that all transactions should be quoted in cedis and not in any foreign currency, the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) continues to quote their fees and other operational charges in dollars.

President John Dramani Mahama has made a strong case for African nations (and the developing world) to be supported in the local manufacture of Anti-Retroviral Drugs (ARV) to ensure a more affordable treatment of people living with AIDS.

Kwabena Agyepong, a former press secretary and Presidential spokesperson to President Kufour, has assured party delegates of his desire to institute a Certificate of Service for past executives, whose commitment and sacrifice has brought the NPP this far.

GLO Mobile Ghana and Expresso Ghana closed the year 2013 with massive drop in their subscriber bases while fellow rivals recorded increases.

The Society of Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA) Ghana and its partners are intensifying a campaign to educate the public on the use of the female condoms as an alternate to the male condom.

Two tragic events struck the Michel Camp Barracks of the First Battalion of Infantry (1BN) at Tema last Friday.

The Ghana Mineworkers' Union (GMWU) has through its Bisa McCarthy Education Endowment Fund given bursaries to 500 Senior High School Students who are wards of members of the union to pursue secondary education since 2005.

The Minister for Energy and Petroleum, Hon. Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, last Saturday left Accra for China on an official visit aimed at encouraging independent power producers (IPPs) to invest in the energy sector in Ghana.

The Kpando Municipal Assembly is exploring strategic avenues to make the area a net exporter of fruits and vegetables, particularly butter squash.

The MTN Ghana Foundation's annual Valentine's Day blood donation exercise has attracted many people including the telecom firm's staff who turned out in their numbers to donate blood to hospitals in the country. The exercise which took place in four regional capitals was targeted at donating over 500 pints of blood from the Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi, and Tamale all in the Greater Accra, Ashanti, Western, and Northern regions.

The government has finally released a total of Gh¢2.1 million for the payment of the second batch of compensation to people whose crops, buildings and structures were destroyed in the construction of transmission lines under the Bui Hydroelectric Project.

As Africa moves from subsistence to a cash economy, an overarching issue becomes how to bring business opportunities, technology, education and training, and new opportunities for jobs and income to a scattered population speaking many languages, with a high rate of illiteracy, and many communities off the electric grid.

The Rockefeller Foundation and the Tony Elumelu Foundation have announced the winners of the Africa Impact Economy Innovations Fund (IEIF).

THE KUMASI street naming exercise, an offshoot of National Street naming and address program, which aims at providing modern addressing system, has had the backing of Manhyia Palace.

Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur on Thursday reminded people in leadership positions in government to rally behind president Mahama and make effective input into the successful execution of the Better Ghana programme.

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Prayer Chain Ghana, a Ministry with the aim of spreading the gospel, on Thursday joined the female inmates of the Nsawam Prisons to celebrate Valentine's Day. The Ministry donated food items like cooking oil, bags of rice, bags of maize, spaghetti, bags of garden eggs, yams, drinks and toiletries' among others, to the inmates.