The world's most valuable individual prize - the Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa - has gone unclaimed yet again.

Government is making the necessary efforts to create and an enabling environment for job creation to reduce youth unemployment in the country.

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has adopted measures to reform the laboratory systems in health care delivery.

Mr Charles Amanoo, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dwadifo Adanfo Microfinance Company Limited, said the company envisions, in the long-term, to become the biggest financial institution for the informal sector within the country and beyond.

Plan Ghana, an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) will in the next two years award 1,500 scholarship to brilliant but needy students at the various levels of education.

A group calling itself Concerned Customs and Takoradi Port Workers is calling on President John Mahama to institute investigations into the circumstances leading to the reassignment and promotion of a senior customs officer fingered for wrong-doing.

Mr Stephen Boadu Appiah, Upper Manya Krobo District Director of Education, has expressed worry about indecent assault on young girls by  adults, and warned  the culprits that girls are not sex tools.

The Ghana Country Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) says currently, the total population of persons of concern to it hosted by the Ghana Government is 19,499.

Italy is stepping up sea and air patrols following the deaths of hundreds of migrants sailing in overcrowded boats from North Africa.

The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, has warned that a US default could tip the world into recession.

Pope Francis says the tragedy at Lampedusa is a disgrace. He, of course, being the pope is blaming the rich world, the Europe that has closed its doors and forced would-be migrants to desperate measures.

President John Dramani Mahama on Saturday announced that he would soon organize a meeting with all Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives, and parliamentary candidates who lost their seats in the December 2012 elections to deliberate on the way forward.

Mr Gabriel Pwamang, an Accra based legal practitioner at the weekend described the Electoral Commission’s (EC) invitation to its major stakeholders, including registered political parties, to submit proposal for electoral reforms as a national duty.

Ghana has backed the position of the African Union (AU) in requesting the International Criminal Court (ICC) to defer the trial of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto.

The death toll from a stampede at a Hindu festival in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has risen to 109, local officials have said.

The average change in prices of goods and services in the country, measured by inflation, rose to 11.9 per cent in September, this year, mainly as a result of the increases in transport fares earlier that month.

Sunday service at the Royal House Chapel  (Ahenfie) is usually a special affair for worshippers and after a week of the ‘Convention of Saints’, the congregation were expectant of the outpouring of God’s special favour.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has extended its congratulation to the party’s founder and a former President of Ghana, Flt.Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, on being awarded by the University for Development Studies (UDS).

Officers and men of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) demonstrated their preparedness to protect the country against external forces when they displayed their armoury at this year’s land combat power demonstration exercise at the Bundase Military Training Camp last Friday.

It has been more than three years since he released a song and the hiplife scene is being ruled by a new crop of artistes but Obrafour believes he is still a force to reckon with.