The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has suspended from office, with immediate effect, the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Mr. AB Adjei.

The Producer Price Inflation rate has increased from the 7.1 percent recorded in June 2019 to 8.8 percent in July 2019 representing a 1.7 percentage point increase.

"We may call ourselves African Americans but we are truly disconnected from Africa. I say WE because I'm not excluded! I thought 'my people' came from South Carolina ... but this heritage was only a small part of my people's journey that began in Ghana, a place that had kings well before Europe had theirs."

Cape Town -Former Ghanian footballer Junior Agogo has died in a London hospital, Kickgh.com reports.

uniSecurities Unit Trust (UUT) recorded a net assets growth of GH?5,260,109 in 2017 as against GH?2,477,787 in 2016, representing an increase of 112 per cent.

A five-day residential training workshop for 130 Master Trainers from private schools on the New Curriculum (Kindergarten to Primary 6) has been held in Accra.

Kabusgo -A new form of educational scholarship scheme dubbed, 'Trax-Kavli Scholarships Farm', is being implemented in the Kabusgo community in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region.

Amasaman -The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified air pollution as a major cause of death in the country.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will from September 2019, launch the Cocoa Beverage Project (CBP), to supply pupils under the school feeding programme, cocoa drink in addition to their school meals.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has called for an increased presence of Thai manufacturing industries in the country to enable them to take advantage of the African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat soon to be established.

A 27-paged magazine, titled Police Diary with focus on the Accra Regional Police Command, was launched yesterday.

Elmina -Some aggrieved residents of Elmina in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) have called for the reversal of the revocation of the licence of GN Savings and Loans by the Bank of Ghana (BoG).

An amended Minerals and Mining Act which seeks to, among other things, prescribe stiffer punishment for illegal mining in the country has been assented to by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

Ho -A worker of Volta Regional office of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) drowned on Tuesday when he was carrying out repair works on the main pipeline that supplies water to Ho and its environs.

Kumasi -Four persons have been arrested by the police in Ashanti Region, in connection with the murder of Corporal Benard Antwi of Manso Nkwanta Divisional Police, by unknown assailants, at Dome Junction, near Manso Abodom in the Amansie West District of Ashanti, whilst on his way to Antoakrom.

itel, a Hong Kong based mobile phone manufacturer has launched its latest selfie series smartphones onto the Ghanaian market in Accra.

Accra Hearts of Oak have signed an agreement with Turkish construction firms, Prefabex Modolar Building Solutions and Cube Architecture and Engineering for the construction and supply of materials for the Pobiman Academy Project.

The Allied Health Professions Council (AHPC) has been asked to take immediate steps to clamp down on quacks operating medical laboratories in the country's major cities and towns.

THE Trades Union Congress (TUC), Ghana, has urged the government to thoroughly investigate the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) - Power Distribution Services (PDS) scandal and expose all those behind the debacle.

The Ghana Police Hospital in Accra is to carry out a mass burial within three weeks of 160 unknown and unclaimed bodies, which have been in the mortuary since May this year to date.