After a poor start, Africa's 2014 World Cup is starting to look like it has the potential to be the continent's best ever, a perception nailed home by Algeria's stunning 4-2 Group H victory over South Korea on Sunday.

Indications are now emerging that Africans have woken up to the indignity of living on a green continent where crops grow all the year round and yet their governments spend billions annually on food imports and depend on charity handouts.

Ghana defender John Boye and midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng missed the Black Stars training session on Sunday night ahead of their Thursday clash with Portugal at the 2014 World Cup.

Child Labour is one of worst forms of social canker, if not a deadly disease, that continues to rub the nation's future leaders. It constitutes blight on the development of every country as children are the nation's most valuable asset and its human resource base.

The Newmont Ahafo Development Foundation (NADeF) has spent GH¢1.2 million towards the construction of social and other development projects at Kenyasi Number One in the Ahafo project of Newmont Ghana Gold Limited in the region.

But for the timely intervention of the Police, the headquarters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) at Asylum Down, a suburb of Accra, would have been turned into an arena of kick-boxing, where blood and sweat would have been the order of the day.

The Black Stars of Ghana must defeat Portugal convincingly and hope Germany defeat United States in Thursday's final Group G matches to ensure the Black Stars' qualification for the knock-out stages of the World Cup.

This was a vintage Black Stars performance. Given no chance against Germany after a fumbling technical bench, and equally bungling Football Association officials had contrived to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory against the United States on June 16, the national team of Ghana, seized almighty Germany by the throat at the weekend, and forced them to share the points in one of the most exhilarating games global football has had the privilege of organising.

MTN has been rated among the top 500 global companies on corporate sustainability and environmental impact in the 2014 Newsweek Green Rankings.

The government of Ghana is currently considering the rehabilitation and upgrading of the Aburi botanical garden in Aburi in Eastern region.

The Africa Pharmaceutical Summit, an event concept that focuses on the pharmaceutical industry across the African continent is scheduled to be held in Accra this year between the 10th - 12th of September.

TRADITIONALLY, "the word "literacy" is used to refer to the ability to read and write. Today, it is often used to refer to reading and writing at a level adequate for communication. The opposite (or antonym) to literacy is illiteracy, the inability to read or write.

Mr Charles Abbey, Social Development Consultant and Vice President of the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW), has described social protection as an underexploited tool for achieving rapid and cost-effective reductions of hunger and poverty-- with positive results on development.

As part of the pragmatic efforts to transform Ghana into an information-rich knowledge-based society, Media Response, in collaboration with First Digital Television and the National Information Technology Agency (NITA), yesterday launched the e-Governance Forum in Accra.

Luanda -The coach of the national squad, Romeu Filemon, highlighted on Thursday in Luanda the teams of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire as potential representatives of Africa in the world cup, happening in Brazil, to qualify for eight finals.

When the Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Justice, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, drove all the way from Accra to Sekondi on Thursday, June 19, 2014, she had one mission to accomplish - over-turn the injunction placed on the operations of a strategic national asset, the Ghana National Gas Company.

A Ghanaian expert on weather condition and climate change, Mr. Joseph Essandoh- Yeddu has described climate change as a serious threat to any developed or undeveloped country. This, according to him, is because of its negative impact on the coastal area of that country.

The London based Ghana International Bank (GHIB) Monday opened its first four day international trade finance training program in Monrovia, Liberia. In attendance are thirty bankers from four countries in West Africa namely The Gambia, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The workshop will focus on recent issues in international trade finance, risk assessment, money laundering and fraud as well as practical problem solving.

Ghana is currently being splashed by a case of match-fixing. Monday, The Telegraph, with the assistance of Channel 4 publishes a survey that involves two leaders of the Ghana Federation including President Kwesi Nyantakyi, and a Fifa player agent in a case of match-fixing.

The government has granted residence permits to 3,800 Liberian refugees who have chosen to integrate into the Ghanaian society, the Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Ms Chansa Kapaya, has said.