The World Bank is set to invest $300 million in Ghana's cocoa industry to shore up production of the crop over the next five years, a Senior World Bank Agricultural Economist, Amos Gyau has announced.

Dr Steve Manteaw, the Chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has questioned the process that gave 51per cent majority shares of Power Distribution Service (PDS) to the citizenry.

Bolgatanga -The Upper East Regional Director of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Mr Sebastian Alagpulinsa, has observed that the pragmatic policies and programmes being pursued by the directorate, is going to make it the first to achieve the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030.

The Executive Committee of Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG) - Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) has paid a courtesy call on the Deputy Bono Regional Minister, Mr Siaka Stephens in Sunyani.

The Head of Chest Unit at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Dr Jane Afriyie-Mensah, has said (TB) cases were becoming a serious health hazard in the country.

Koforidua -The Chief Director for the Ministry of Interior, Mrs Adelaide Anno-Kumi, has called on security agencies to coordinate and harmonise their efforts in the prevention and combating of terrorism to protect human lives in the country.

THE Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Keta in the Volta Region, Daniel Effah, has urged the youth in the area to rally behind him to wrestle the Keta parliamentary seat from the National Democratic Congress (NDC), which has won it since 1992.

Sokabisi -Three basket exporting organisations have paid for 4,000 women basket weavers in selected communities in the Bolgatanga municipality of the Upper East Region to register and renew their National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) membership cards.

A campaign calling on government to fast-track the laying of the Affirmative Action Bill (AAB) before parliament and passing it into law was launched in Accra yesterday.

Two ministers of state, in the past two weeks, have lamented the lackadaisical attitude of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) towards official duties in the Northern and Upper East Regions.

The Upper West Region has consistently maintained below 50 per cent performance in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for the past six years.

Founder of Gunter Frey International School in the Ga South municipality, Mr Mamadu Mudasiru, has entreated parents to pay their wards' school fees to sustain teaching and learning.

The Minister for Education, Hon. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, says the decision by the Akufo-Addo led government to spend the country's oil revenues on "Free Senior High School education is a better investment than anything the country can dream of."

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured residents of the Upper East Region that the Bolgatanga to Bawku road will be completed before the 2020 elections.

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the Ghanaian people will not entrust power into the hands of the opposition National Democratic Congress in 2020 because of their determination to cancel the Free Senior High School policy.

A corruption scandal is in the news in Ghana again. Media reports suggest an elaborate scheme of cronyism in the procurement of private sector involvement in the country's energy industry. This is only the latest of many allegations of serious corruption in the country.

As part of activities to keep officers fit, the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) on Saturday, held its maiden health walk to sensitise workers on the need to adopt healthy lifestyles.

Buru-Kazigu -The chief of Buru-Kazigu in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region, Pe Parekuri Thomas Aluah, has expressed worry about the indiscriminate cutting down of trees in the region by some individuals to sell to pito brewers and some caterers of the School Feeding Programme to prepare meals for school children.

The youth must be innovative and entrepreneurial-minded to reduce the high rate of unemployment in the country, Mrs Sandra Bremfi, Chief Executive Officer of Global Cleaning Services (GCS), has said.

The Riis Congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG), Gbawe District on Saturday, undertook cleanup exercise to rid their locality of filth and encourage healthy lifestyle.