An 8 member regional planning committee to oversee the affairs of the National Festival for Arts and Culture (NAFAC) celebrations has been inaugurated at Koforidua in the Eastern Region.

The 69TH Session of the United Nations General Assembly(UNGA) was officially opened yesterday September 16, 2014 in New York with a call on Member States to strive to ensure that the Post-2015 Development Agenda is truly transformative, with the eradication of poverty and hunger and the promotion of sustained economic growth.

Hon. Alex Kyremeh, Deputy Minister for Education in-charge of pre-tertiary, and Member of Parliament for Techiman North, has interacted with some basic school pupils in the Ga Central District of the Greater Accra Region to commemorate their first day at school.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Emerging Leaders Africa (ELA), a non Governmental Organisation, Rev. Dr. Anthony Cudjoe has told a section of the youth that opportunities would always present themselves but ones' preparedness towards taking firm advantage and using them for the betterment of life was what mattered.

The Deputy Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Hon. Alexander Ackon, has disclosed that the ministry would be expanding the legibility criteria of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty(LEAP), programme by adding pregnant women and infants in extreme poor households under a "LEAP 1000" initiative.

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Twifo Atti-Morkwa Constituency, Hon. Samuel Atto Amoah together with two officials from Ghana Education Service in the District have gone to some schools in the district to welcome the children who for the first time are stepping their feet into the classroom (that is those kindergarten and basic stage one pupils) to school.

Monrovia -President John Dramani Mahama has frowned on countries, isolating Ebola affected countries terming it as not the best way to jointly fight the disease.

The Adentan Municipal Assembly (AdMA) has held my first day at school at the Adentan Community Kindergarten in Accra.

The fourth National Financial Literacy Week which aims to follow through existing policy priorities to improve outreach for the full range of financial services to the Ghanaian populace is to be held in Accra.

The 8th Annual National Delegates Congress of the Private Universities Students Association of Ghana (PUSAG) has been launched in Accra.

President John Dramani Mahama has frowned on countries, isolating Ebola affected countries terming it as not the best way to jointly fight the disease. According to an Executive Mansion release, the Ghanaian President said isolating countries will further compound the precarious situation, especially trade and commerce thereby seriously affecting the economies of these countries.

Ghana is a signatory to various international and regional protocols such as the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Africa Protocol on Women's Rights, for example, which aim to promote women's rights--yet compliance with such protocols is hardly evident in any of the country's development sectors, including oil and gas.

Nana Oye Luther, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) has revealed that the ministry is expanding the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty ( LEAP) programme to cover pregnant women and infants from extremely poor households under a "LEAP 1000" initiative.

Government has been commended for the development of major policies and legislations such as the Petroleum (Local Content and Local Participation) Regulations (L.I. 2014), Natural Gas Pricing Policy and the Gas Master Plan to promote the development of the energy sector.