Lead mobile telephone company, MTN, is cautioning subscribers to be awake to a series of promotional scams originating from foreign and local numbers. MTN says the scam involves the circulation of text messages falsely indicating that a subscriber has won one of several prizes in a promotion and should redeem their prizes by calling specific local or international numbers or to visit certain websites with a given PIN and to submit their bank account information for payment within a specified time.

  Pastor Dr Mensa Otabil,  General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC),  at the weekend, urged Ghanaians to be serious with national issues, so as to bring about socio-economic development. He said: “You have to stop allowing yourselves to make serious things appear funny. Because it looks like one of the ways to satisfy us is to just give us something to entertain ourselves, and we will entertain ourselves with it for life.   “One District Chief Executive makes a

  Mr. Samuel Oppong , Agona West Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), has warned drug barons  operating in the Municipality to  be prepared to face the full rigours of the law. The MCE said it was regrettable that  the rate at which wee and cocaine trading were being conducted in the Swedru township, was alarming, and the Assembly would not allow such illicit business to continue.Mr. Oppong sounded the warning when he addressed a stakeholders' meeting organized by the Agona West Municipal Assembly

  The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), an advocacy group against the use of child labour on cocoa farms, is establishing Cocoa Farmers’ Field Schools in some selected cocoa-growing communities in the country, to train cocoa farmers on modern agronomic practices to help increase crop yield and boost incomes of cocoa farmers. The aim is to expose the farmers to and help them adopt new and modern planting techniques, proper farm maintenance practices, as well as the use and application of approved