The Christian Mothers Association of Ghana (CMA), a non-governmental organisation in the Catholic Church, has a passion to make poor women productive. With a strategic approach to women’s holistic development, the organisation has trained a number of women in skills development to empower them socially and economically.

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) has asked the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regional members of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI)  to take advantage of the exchange’s new market, the Ghana Alternative Market (GAX), to raise long term-capital.

Eleven people have been arrested by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) officials for their alleged involvement in the shipment of 250 kilogrammes of marijuana or Indian hemp to the United Kingdom.

How Ghanaians will react to the Supreme Court election petition verdict will be the subject for discussion at a National Summit to be held on July 19, 2013.

The chiefs and people of three traditional areas in the South-Dayi District in the Volta Region have called on the government to ensure that Members of Parliament (MP), district chief executive (DCE) and Presiding Member positions in a heterogeneous district should not come from the same traditional area.

A former justice of the Supreme Court and consultant to the Ministry of Justice, Mr Justice V. C. R. A.C. Crabbe, has said that the ‘winner-takes-all’ phenomenon threatens the country’s democracy.

Ghana Commercial Bank Limited (GCB) has opened an agency at the North Campus of the University College of Education, Winneba (UEW) to cater for its growing customer base in the area.

The government is to give the local manufacturing industry a package to propel its growth. President John Dramani Mahama said the stimulus package was to empower the local companies to grow and serve as an avenue for job creation.

The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2012 general election, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stated that the vision of the Prime Minister of the Second Republic, Prof. Kofi Abrefa Busia, is what is serving Ghana now by way of democracy and rule of law.

The incumbent District Chief Executive (DCE) for Sekyere South, Mr Edward Kusi Ayarkwa has cautioned Ghanaians to not allow partisan politics to take the better part of the country.

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Atwima Mponua, Mr Isaac Kwame Asiamah, caused a stir when he stated that Parliament was broke.

The Eastern Regional Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Bismark Tawia Boateng, has suggested to the leadership of the party to dismiss any member, especially government appointees in the assemblies who kick against the President’s nominees for the position of metropolitan, municipal and district chief (MMDCEs).

Due to the pressure the security services have put on illegal miners in some mining communities in the southern part of the country, some miners are now shifting their activities to the Upper West Region.

A complete inventory of assets and properties of the state does not exist and so the size, location, condition and value of those assets and properties are not known.