Some delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region are bracing themselves up to publicly declare their support for Mr. Paul Afoko, one of the aspirants in the National Chairmanship race.

The Daily Graphic of yesterday, Monday, February 24, 2014, ha a cartoon with a message that is spot on. It is obviously aimed at illustrating various sentiments expressed on the paper's letters column on page 10.

THE NEWLY posted Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Kofi Boakye, has been handed what appears to be his first major "disciplinary reality check", after three of his men were reported to have subjected one of the cameramen of TV3 Television Network in Kumasi, Victor Opoku, to severe beatings last Thursday, at his house in Oforikrom.

The General Manager of the Presbyterian Health Service in Brong-Ahafo region, Mr. Fred Effah-Yeboah has petitioned the Moderator of the General Assembly Presbyterian Church of Ghana over the purported banishment and a threat on his life by the Dormaahene, Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyeman Badu.

President John Dramani Mahama will deliver the State of the Nation Address before Parliament tomorrow.

The President John Dramani Mahama is currently delivering the State of the Nation's address before parliament.

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Sunyani East, Kwasi Ameyaw-Cheremeh, has commissioned a dining hall facility for the Sunyani Nurses Training College.

Prof. Stephen Adei, former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) says Ghana lacks "capable leadership committed to national development to drive a national vision and transformational agenda."

I wish to congratulate the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority for the eagle-eyed effort they have been applying in their operations, resulting in the arrest of many smugglers and law breakers along our borders. Customs is actually doing a great service to Mother Ghana, and I wish they will continue like that.

A 57-year-old farmer from Bilensa, near Sandema in the Builsa South District, on Thursday met his untimely death, when he was electrocuted. The farmer, whose name was given only as Azetiska, was said to have climbed a neem tree to cut a branch, but unknown to him, some high tension cables were passing through the tree.

HIS ROYAL Majesty, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene has said that he is not daunted by the spate of false allegations by faceless people so long as God is in control and protects him.

It is not by chance or mistake that countries located within the global northern hemisphere and that of the Asiatic regions continue to chalk successes in all sphere of endeavours. Talk about industry, business, environmental issues, health, but more specifically, education.

An Accra Circuit Court has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a driver who has allegedly defrauded a driver's mate of a sum of GH¢21, 500 under the pretext of selling to him a Nissan urvan bus for commercial use.

Members of Parliament should be praised by citizens of this country, most importantly farmers, for attempts to pass the Plant Breeders Right/Bill, which has reached the second consideration stage in Parliament.

THE POOR father of eight children, Fuseini Bawa, who was unjustifiably banished from Kukuazugu, together with his entire household of 23, by the Paramount Chief of Wungu, has told The Chronicle in a follow-up interview that he was still living in fear and that his life was still in danger in the area.

Ten Gambian officials drawn from the National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDEA), The Gambia Police Force (GPF), and The Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) are set to leave for a U.S. government-funded basic investigations course at its Department of State's West Africa Regional Training Center in Accra, Ghana. In a press release sent to the Daily Observer, the US Embassy in Banjul said the personnel had on Friday, February 21 met with Ambassador Michael R. Arietti at his office on Kairaba Avenue.

When the President of the republic, John Dramani Mahama, appears before Parliament later today, he would be accounting for his stewardship, as he diagnoses the health of the national economy in his second State of the Nation Address.

A number of final year basic school students in the Akatsi-North District are said to have stopped attending classes, shortly after registering for the 2014 BECE examinations.

PRESIDING MEMBERS have suggested that ex-gratia of Presiding Members and Assembly members should be charged on the Consolidated fund. They say the ex-gratia of Presiding Members must be at the end of every two years.

Hundreds of residents of Bolgatanga, on Thursday, demonstrated against what they termed as the "unprofessional attitude of some police officers", regarding an exercise intended to enforce road traffic regulations.