Government places a high premium on the education of the girl-child and will continue to encourage Ghana's development partners to continue to support any initiative in that direction, Mrs Kate Agyemang Badu, Ashanti Regional Director of Education, has stated.

A Former Army General of the Ghana Army and a onetime Commandant of the Ghana armed Forces, Major General Nii Carl Coleman has called on all stakeholders in the Constitutional Review and Amendment process to be conscious and tread with caution over what he said can be described as certain procedural and constitutional lapses towards the amendment of some entrenched provisions of the 1992 constitution.

Scores of Liberians still residing at the Buduburum Camp, 44 kilometers west of Accra, Ghana in Accra, woke up Saturday morning to the stark reality of losing their makeshift homes in the refugee community they had come to call home since the dog days of the civil war in Liberia.

Two of the world's most sought-after commodities -bauxite and manganese are being locked up in Awaso and Nsuta in the Western and Ashanti regions of Ghana.

Mutual & Federal (M&F) Botswana has started trading as Old Mutual Short-Term Insurance. M&F has been operating in Botswana since 1994, offering a range of short-term insurance products and services. As Old Mutual Botswana, the financial services company will continue to offer insurance solutions for businesses, farmers and individuals through brokers as well as directly to the public. Old Mutual, which purchased Ghana's Provident Life Assurance last year, is listed on both the London and Johann

The Chief Executive of the Minerals Commission, Dr. Toni Aubynn has reiterated that the country's mineral sector still holds potential for investors who want to venture into mining.

THE current student accommodation problems facing the management of the Takoradi Polytechnic may soon be a thing of the past, following the successful signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between BSY Hostels Ghana Limited and it foreign partners, Common Interest Communities (CIC), to build an eight storey hostel for students of the school.

Accra -" It is a matter of great concern to me especially, that authority is trying rather very hard to use the might of state in a desperate search and destroy operation into our only source of pride - football, while rubbish piles into mountains, and cholera continues to claim precious lives. Oh Ghana! Where is thy anchor?"

The Executive Secretary of the Divestiture Implementation Committee Secretariat, Asakkua Agambila, has been summoned by the Sole Commissioner, Justice Yaw Appau, to appear on Thursday August 7, 2014, to help unravel the mystery behind the Subin Timber Company located at Apowa in the Western Region.

Residents of Dansoman say they can no longer stand the strange invasion of light greenish coloured mosquitoes that have been swarming the area for over two weeks.

Kumasi -The National Pensioners Association, in collaboration with Liberty Mutual Health Insurance, has launched the pilot registration for the Pensioners Medical Scheme (PMS), a top-up medical scheme which provides senior citizens with the treatment for ailments that are beyond the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

The 2012 flagbearer of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, on Tuesday, commissioned and handed over a Community Center to the people of Gwira- Akyinim in the Komenda Edina Eguafo-Abirem (KEEA) Municipality.

THE DEPUTY Brong-Ahafo Regional Chief Iman, Alhaji Baaba Seidu, has suggested that if it is permissible for a religious body to govern a country, then the Catholic Church should be allowed to govern Ghana to ensure rapid socio-economic development, unity and peace.

MR. ISAAC Dekpey Zorblewu, a National Democratic Congress (NDC) kingpin in the Western Region, who has been hauled to court for allegedly defrauding an oil company, Cudjoe Energy, of $180,000, is pleading with the court hearing the case to grant a settlement of the case at home.

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly has broken the ground for the construction of another Millennium City School at Gbegbeise, a suburb of Accra.

A one-day workshop has been organised for stakeholders in the catchment areas of the Weija Dam on how to keep and preserve the Densu River, which serves as a major water source for some parts of Accra and the Central Region.

A non-denominational outreach group with the calling to preach the gospel, mostly in the rural areas of the Upper East, Northern and Upper West regions, has made its widow's mite presentation of assorted items to God's Love Ministry Foster Centre at Soe in the Bolgatanga Municipality.

It all started so promisingly. Ghana kicked off their 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup campaign in the best possible manner with a 1-0 victory over hosts Canada, further fuelling the players' dreams of advancing from the group stage for the first time.

Press Release No. 14/389

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has awarded 10,000 Ghana Cedis in funding support to eight Ghanaian journalists to develop critical/investigative stories on health, corruption, education and the extractive sectors of the economy.