West African leaders are to hold an extraordinary meeting Friday, in Accra, Ghana, to discuss the degenerating security situation in Nigeria and Mali where Islamists militants have launched intense attacks in the last one month.

Accra -NEWMONT Africa announced the appointment of Johan Ferreira as Regional Senior Vice President.

Accra -THE Chief Executive Officer of Nubuke Investments, Tutu Agyare, has challenged Ghana to position itself as an investment destination for Nigeria.

Accra -GHANA President John Mahama, Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has summoned all sub-regional leaders for a meeting aimed at addressing the Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria.

A two-day workshop to sanitise women on the dangers involved on alcohol intake during pregnancy has been organised in Accra. The workshop, organised by the Ghana Organization on Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (GOFAS) in collaboration with the Ministries of Health and Gender, Children and Social Protection, and the University of Manitoba, aimed to create a national awareness on Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and provide a platform for learning and exchanges between international experts and Ghanaian

Total Assets of the HFC Unit Trust Fund increased from GH¢33,572,706 in 2012 to GH¢ 42,849,652, representing a 27 per cent increase.

As part of ongoing changes in government, H E John Dramani Mahama has appointed Alhaji Salifu Osman, Chief Director at the Ministry of the Interior, as Deputy National Security Coordinator.

President John Mahama has, in accordance with Article 79(1) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, nominated Mr Alex Segbefia as a Deputy Minister for Defence.

Sunyani -Five hundred and fifty-nine needy school girls in the Atebubu-Amantin district have been presented with school materials worth over GHC 73,000 under the Girls Participatory Approaches to Student Success GPASS scholarship scheme funded by the Danish Fund for International Development DFID.

The Minister for Roads and Highways, Amin Amidu Sulemani has urged the Akuapem South District Assembly to stop private developers and operators of stone quarries who had thrown caution to the wind and are putting up their structure on the mountains along the Aburi highway. On the way forward, the minister said his outfit had received proposals from two companies to salvage the situation before disaster struck.

Hon Amin Amidu Sulemani, the Minister for Roads and Highways has undertaken a two-day road project inspection tour of the northern part of the Central Region to inspect ongoing road projects in the region.

A GROUP calling itself Crusaders of Nana Akufo-Addo (CONNA) has pledged to ensure that Nana Akufo-Addo gets 90% of the total votes that will be cast when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) goes to the polls in December this year to elect its flagbearer.

THE MEMBER of Parliament for Dadekotopon, Nii Armasah Namoale, in collaboration with EPP Books and La Dadekotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA), has presented a set of books to schools within the municipality, aimed at bettering the grades of Basic Entrance Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates.

IT IS undoubtedly the most popular music genre in Jamaica that is now further spreading its wings on the African continent.

THE AFRICAN Dancehall King Samini and the High Grade Family, on May 26, 2014, which was marked as a holiday for the AU celebration, spent the entire day with the deprived children of Awoshie, a suburb of Accra.

AC Milan midfielder Sulley Muntari insists there is no reason why Ghana can't 'go all the way' at the upcoming World Cup finals in Brazil.

Ghanaian actress, model, film producer and entrepreneur, Yvonne Nelson is frustrated at recent speculations making rounds that she is bleaching her skin.

Anger and frustration of being denied a semi-final spot at the last World Cup will be key to Ghana's quest at the 2014 finals in Brazil.