Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said on Friday it would not recognise the results of disputed elections that look set to hand President Robert Mugabe a landslide victory.

A Shama District Magistrates's Court on Wednesday imposed a fine of 85 Ghana cedis on Monica Newman, a Nigerian, for failing to attend communal labour on three occasions at Ohiamadwen.

Pastor Mensa Otabil says Ghana’s leadership lacks a clear idea to guide the country’s vision and development.  

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party has won a two-thirds majority in parliament in this week's elections, officials say.

President John Mahama on Thursday visited Madam Theodosia Okoh, the designer of Ghana's national flag and a former national hockey player. The President was accompanied by the Minister for Youth & Sports, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah and the Metropolitan Chief Executive of Accra Alfred Oko Vanderpuije. The 90-year old National Honours recipient was also joined by her son and other relations to receive the President and his team. The visit followed a week of controversy over the Accra Metropolitan Assembly's failed attempt to rename the Theodosia Okoh Hockey pitch. Several groups and individuals protested the excercise while President Mahama also ordered a stop to it and personally apologised to the old lady for any emotional trauma she may have suffered. Click to watch.

Mr Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa, the Deputy Minister of Education, on Friday appealed to the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) to call off their strike.

Government has released an additional GHȼ 3 million to augment the GH¢7.6 million which was released earlier this year for the completion of expansion projects at the various public tertiary institutions.

A high school English teacher who had sex with three of her students — and became pregnant by one — has been jailed after she pleaded guilty to six counts of unlawful sex and oral copulation with a minor.

Award winning Nollywood actor, Ramsey Nouah says as much as his fans would have loved him to get married to actress Genevieve Nnaji, whatever happened between them was “more of a brotherly, sisterly attachment”.

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) will no longer give automatic on-campus accommodation to fresh students.

The Minister of Education, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has launched the Pre-Tertiary Teacher Professional Development and Management (PTPDM) policy in Ghana.

Some lecturers sponsored by the Accra Polytechnic to pursue various PhD programmes have left the polytechnic for other public universities, the Rector of the polytechnic, Dr Sylvester Achio, has disclosed.

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has described the appointment of Mr P.V Obeng’s Committee to review the GYEEDA Report and advise the President as nothing but a cover-up engineered by the presidency.

Three women’s group coalitions have applauded President John Dramani Mahama for his swift intervention in the renaming of the “Theodosia Okoh National Hockey Pitch” to the “John Evans Atta Mills National Hockey Stadium”.

A Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection (GCSP), Mrs Benita Okity-Duah, has said that Ghana is taking steps to address issues of discrimination against the disabled in society.

A lot has been written and spoken by friends and foes alike, on the life and politics of President John Evans Atta Mills since his sudden death in office last year. I have chosen to devote my very first effort as a columnist here to pay a belated tribute to the memory of the late President  whose first anniversary the country just marked with multiple official events in Accra and Cape Coast.

The Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Public Private Partnership, Alhaji Abdul Rashid Hassan Pelpuo, has stressed that Ghana and Morocco have many things in common that would help to deepen bilateral ties between the two countries.

Mr Frazier has been away to a rural location from base for a couple of weeks. Fortunately he gets Internet connectivity in the bush and he is able to read all the online daily newspapers that matter to him.

The Ghana Navy in a joint operation with National Security has intercepted and arrested the crew of a ship, MT MUSTARD, for suspected involvement in a piracy incident off the coast of Gabon.

Fire has gutted a slum quarters at Railways, near Graphic road in Accra.