The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Karin Landgren, awarded United Nations Peacekeeping Medals to more than 700 Ghanaian peacekeepers for their outstanding service as part of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).

Lead counsel for the petitioners, Mr Philip Addison, continues his cross examination of Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Chairman of the Electoral Commission.

Lagos — Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja have arrested three fleeing members of a syndicate who allegedly specialized in selling live humans and decomposing human parts for money rituals.

President John Mahama has directed that a GH¢2 million fund should be established to assist victims of the recent market fires in Accra.

The TV reality show, Big Brother Africa started its eighth season recently. This one is called “The Chase”.

The World Bank has approved a US$155 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to support the government’s efforts to improve  sanitation and water supply services in the country. 

A Ghanaian-born entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sproxil, Dr Ashifi Gogo, has advised members of the Great Eight of Nations (G8) to direct their aid agencies to invest more in budding business ideas and entrepreneurs in developing countries, explaining that such investments were needed to create meaningful impacts in the lives of the populace.

President John Dramani Mahama has expressed the hope that justice will be served by the Supreme Court by acknowledging the free and fair nature of the 2012 presidential election.

The Supreme Court has instructed its registrar to liaise with international auditing firm, KPMG, which has been tasked to do a count of pink sheets in contention to find out when the firm will complete its work.

A seemingly harmless gas that emits from the ground may be slowly and negatively affecting the health of people who live at Dunkonaa and its environs in the Ga-South municipality in the Greater Accra Region.

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) yesterday began registering victims of the fire outbreak at the Makola Number Two Market to enable them to benefit from the loans and assistance promised by President John Dramani Mahama.

MAIN One, a wholesale communications services company, has assured its stakeholders that it will continue to make strategic investments to enhance its network infrastructure and to reach more customers in the country and West Africa as a whole.

The  impact of the three-month strike by pharmacists seems to have been lost on many Ghanaians, but the industrial action has taken a toll on health care and hospital finances.

Former President J.A. Kufuor has been appointed co-Chair of the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition. 

The Department of Urban Roads (DUR) has scaled down the implementation of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project owing to inadequate funding.

The management of the Metro Mass Transit (MMT) has denied reports that GH¢2.5 million of the company’s funds had been embezzled by five employees.

The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Edward Doe Adjaho, has asked Members of Parliament (MPs) to assist the House to generate its own business instead of depending entirely on the executive.

A planning committee has been set up to draw up a programme to mark the first anniversary of the passing away of President John Evans Atta Mills.

The HR Focus magazine, in partnership with the Institute of Human Resource Practitioners, Ghana (IHRMP), has launched the first Ghana HR Conference and Excellence Awards in Accra.

Savanna Plantations,  a Tamale-based plantations development organisation that is into mangoes, shea nuts, neem, agro forestry and epiculture (beekeeping),is to nurse two million shea seedlings for  distribution to farmers in the three regions of the north.