The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), in collaboration with the Canadian Teachers Federation (CTF), have presented teaching and learning materials to the Tsito E.P Early Childhood Development Center (ECD), as part of their efforts to promote effective teaching and learning in the school.

The Joint Monitoring Platform estimates only 14 percent of the Ghanaian population has access to improved toilet facilities, while close to 20 percent continue to indulge in open defection, due to lack of access to sanitation facilities and adequate water. This, Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection Benita Okity-Duah noted, had negative consequences for the health and wellbeing of people, particularly women and children .The Deputy Minister made the observation at the World Vision

Workers of the Africa Oilfield Services Limited, a Nigerian owned oil services provider in Takoradi on Friday laid down their tools to demand an upward adjustment of their salaries.

The Government of Ghana, in collaboration with the Italian government has received eight investment projects worth €3.3 million, to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the country. The €3.3million was part of the €22million credit facility pledged by the Italian government, which €11million had already been disbursed between 2004 and 2008 to address challenges facing the private sector.

The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Network of African Science Academies had jointly launched the 2014 World No Tobacco Day and the "Preventing a Tobacco Epidemic in Africa" report in Accra.

Students of the College of Health and Well- Being ,Kintampo have said that they would do whatever it takes to achieve "zero child mortality and zero maternal mortality," a standard government and the global world would love to attain.

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 Department for International Development (DFID).

The 2014 COSAFA Cup in Botswana will have a West African flavour after regional giants Ghana confirmed their participation in the championship that runs from September 13 to 27.