AGRICULTURE experts from several African countries have expressed worry over poor agricultural data produced by governments and agricultural statisticians on the African continent.

Accra -VERDANT Zeal Marketing Communications Nigeria has acquired Brands and Products Limited, the Ghanaian marketing communications company.

It has been confirmed that Amarkie, the wedded wife of murdered artiste manager Fennec Okyere, was prevented from attending and partaking in the final funeral rites of her late husband.

Tanoa Sasraku-Ansah, the youngest of three children and only daughter of the late ace fashion designer Kofi Ansah has paid glowing tribute to him. Kofi Ansah, who was one of Ghana's few designers to have gained international recognition died Saturday morning at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.

Smooth Jazz proponent and fusion guitarist Peter White will light up Accra for the Stanbic Ghana Jazz Festival to be held at Labadi Beach Hotel May 9-11. The show will have supporting acts such as Oli Silk, Ofie Kodjoe and Aka Blay.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), in partnership with Worldreader, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), and Nokia, released the results of the largest survey ever to be undertaken on mobile reading in the developing world.

The Deputy Director of the Nogouchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMMIR), Professor Kwabena Bosompem, has stressed the need to invest in diagnostic tools to find remedies for diseases such as soil transmitted Helminths and their co-infections which are on the ascendency.

The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has held a farewell parade in honour of two its out-going Commissioners.

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), Hon. Nana Oye Lithur, has urged religious leaders to use their platforms to call parents to order to help protect children in the society.

A colloquium on Africa regional integration, which seeks to protect the integrity of Africa's integration agenda from the threats of the international trade regime, is underway in Accra.

THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency (EPA) has indicated its readiness to clamp-down on unregistered agrochemical operators, as well as those who are not adhering to good practices of handling pesticides in the country. Speaking at a day's training workshop, organised by the EPA, on pesticides control and management under the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP 2) in Koforidua, the Eastern Regional Director of the EPA, Mr. Felix Addo-Okyireh, raised serious concerns over the situation.

Fifteen years down the lane, the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards is by far Ghana's biggest music awards festival. From performances that make people dance to winning probabilities, here some things to look out for in this year's edition of the VGMA happening on Saturday May 3, 2014.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has cautioned its members with parliamentary ambitions to refrain from early campaigning, especially, in areas where they have sitting Members of Parliament (MP), since the party was yet to fix a date for such activities.

Actor John Dumelo has criticized a section of the Ghanaian media for trying to create rivalry between Shirley and Leila by twisting and reading meanings into a statement he made about Shirley Frimpong-Manso's new film movie, 'Love or Something Like That.'

This piece by Forrest McKennie, director of finance, investment and trade for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), was published on the MCC's Poverty Reduction Blog on May 5.

It could best be described as a political swindle in the case in which the Mayor of the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA), Captain Anthony Richard Cudjoe (Rtd), has been caught feeding fat on a GH¢30,000 travelling allowance he had pocketed.

THE STAR-GHANA project has improved the Dormaa Municipal Assembly's Internally Generated Fund (IGF) by 50%, since its implementation last year.

Ghanaian Big Brother Africa (The Chase) representative Elikem Kumordzie has proposed to his sweetheart Pokello Nare in an extraordinary fashion at the just ended Ghana Music Awards.