The Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SLIEPA), with support from the European Union, will facilitate the participation of 10 local businesses in the 2014 edition of Ghana Trade Fair Exhibition. The 10 businesses were selected from among 40 businesses that applied for the Ghana Trade Fair scheduled to take place in Accra between February and March this year.

Kpone -The registrar of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs (GARHC), Mr. Harry Anthony Attipoe has disclosed that for the first time in 13 years, the chiefs and people of Kpone are going to celebrate the annual Homowo festival in a grand style, devoid of division and in-fighting.

Stanbic Bank Ghana Limited in collaboration with Visa is seeking to reward two (2) Stanbic Bank customers with 'once in a lifetime opportunity', which is a trip to watch the Black Stars of Ghana in action in the up-coming FIFA World Cup, which will take place in Brazil.

GHANA'S Minister of Communications, Dr Edward Omane Boamah said the country was on course to safeguard its cyberspace from attacks. This follows the completion of a national Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) project in the country.

Kpone -It appears the Kpone Traditional Council (KTC) and the Kpone-Katamanso District Assembly (KKDA) are on a collision course over the alleged release of a 35-acre land located around the Kpone cemetery area to a private developer.

The Tema Development Corporation (TDC) is contesting the number of structures it pulled down in its recent demolition exercise at Adjei Kojo, near Ashaiman, insisting that a 10 acre land could not have accommodated 500 houses, which is alleged to have been pulled down during the exercise.

Nii Nuertey Amobi II, the newly installed Appolonia chief has sworn the oath of allegiance to Nii Tetteh Otu II, paramount chief of the Kpone Traditional area, at a short but impressive ceremony at Kpone.

Kumasi -THE ASHANTI Regional branch of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has taken the chairman of the National Democratic Party (NDP) to the cleaners, over his recent attacks on the NDC and the leadership of President John Dramani Mahama.

Ejisu-Ash -FOUR PERSONS have been remanded into police custody by the Juaben District Court, after they were arrested for stealing large quantities of fuel at Cell Sites at Ejisu in the Ashanti Region. The four suspects, including the driver of a Ssanyong Bus used for the operation, were busted by the Ejisu Police Patrol Team at around 4 am on Tuesday, following a tip-off. The suspects, whose names were given as Kwadwo Gyan, a.k.a Naaro, Ahmed Salifu, Kwaku Boahen and Christian Amponsah, reportedly

Dormaa-Ahenkro -But for the timely intervention of the Dormaa Divisional Police Command, led by its Divisional Commander, DSP Yussif Mahmoud, Gift FM, a Dormaa-Ahenkro based local radio station would have been set ablaze by some irate youth.

THE OBUASI Municipal Commander of the Ghana Prisons Service risk being ejected from his current residence within the next one week, if his men continue to forcibly eject traders along the Obuasi Prisons quarters.

Alhaji Ahmed Nii Nortey, Executive Director of United Muslim-Christian Forum (UMCF) has presented a memorandum to the Registrar General to provide a mechanism for the regulation and conduct of Muslim marriages and divorces in Ghana. The memorandum sets out in some detail the processes for the registration of Muslim marriages and divorces whilst attempting to obviate some of the legal and institutional difficulties that saddled the registration of Muslim marriages and divorces.

Dzifa Ativor, Minister for Transport, has disclosed that it is about time board chairpersons and heads of government agencies and departments come together as partners and .become trail blazers for the development of the country.

Ghanaians would have a test and feel of Japanese basic commodities showcased at Melcom Plus, Industrial area, from February 17 to March 16, 2014.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General, José Graziano da Silva, has lauded the planned expansion of Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity gardening project for young Africans.

The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Mr Kojo Oppong Fosu, yesterday interacted with the media, chiefs, civil society and key stakeholders on the implementation of the National decentralisation programme.

The Minister for Transport, Mrs Dzifa Attivor, had inaugurated an 18 member Local Organising Committee (LOC) to take charge of all the preparatory and other related issues of the African Air Expo 2014 which is scheduled to take place in October in Accra.

Over three thousand people are today preparing to paint the streets of Takoradi red, in a mammoth demonstration christened 'Yenko'.

Sunyani -The Brong-Ahafo Region was adjudged the overall best in Public Health performance in the country, in the year 2013.

Ghana's cedi and South Africa's rand are depreciating dramatically as the US slows down quantitative easing. But the US' move is not all bad news for Africa.