A public interest Lawyer and Ghana’s former High Commissioner to India, Mr Sam Pee Yalley, has dared Mr Allotey Jacobs of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to drop a purported ‘bomb’ the latter claims is hanging on his chest.

Lionel Messi and his father’s appeal against a 21-month prison sentence will be heard three days before El Clasico, according to Spanish media reports.

The Export-Import Bank (Eximbank) of India is seeking to increase Ghana’s Lines of Credit (LoC) from the present $400 million. This is as a result of what officials of the bank described as the efficient use of the facility by the government of Ghana for various developmental projects.

A retired educationist, Mr Stephen Teye Adjabeng, has suggested to teacher training institutions to re-consider the mode of admission to colleges of education by ensuring that not only the best candidates are chosen but also those who have the profession at heart. Mr Adjabeng said the situation where students were admitted on-line was not the best, since wrong persons could get opportunities to the detriment of serious ones.

A white suit is the boldest style move a man can make because most of them feel comfortable in darker colours.

AT least, 213, 000 households in all 216 districts are to be paid cash grants from the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme with effect from today. At a press conference in Accra last Friday, the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), Ms Otiko Afisa Djaba, said an amount of GH¢16 million had been earmarked for the 47th payment cycle of the LEAP cash grant.

The Kwesi Botchwey Committee commissioned by the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to investigate the cause of the party’s defeat at the 2016 polls has called for a truce after weeks of bickering and mud-slinging.

President of the Full Gospel Church International, Right Reverend Samuel N. Mensah, has called upon the government to create a special fund to resource the security services in Ghana to increase their overall performance. The fund, according to him, should be used to provide the necessary logistics for the security services in Ghana to better equip them to carry out their duties.

The video analyst for Black Stars, Gerard Nus, caused a stir at the Swiss Spirit Hotel and Suites Alisa Accra last Saturday when he refused to settle a debt of about GHc5,000 arising from his seven-week stay at the facility at North Ridge. Nus had lodged at the hotel since Ghana returned from the Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Gabon and refused to return to his native Spain until he received fully all unpaid bonuses owed him by the Ghana Football Association.

The government has identified India as one of the major sources of technical support and orientation for the implementation of its One Factory, One District and One Village, One Dam policies. Delivering the keynote address at the celebration of the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) in Accra last Friday, the Senior Minister, Mr Yaw Osafo Maafo, said the government was optimistic that considering the successful implementation of similar

The Ashanti Regional Office of the Department of Children has partnered the Defence for Children (DCI-Ghana) to educate the key leaders in the various communities on the content of the Child and Family Welfare Policy. They have also educated the group on awareness of early and forced marriages in the communities and the need to avoid them.

The national cricket team defeated Everest Cricket club by six wickets in a special friendly played at their base at Obuasi. The match, which was a preparatory competition towards the ICC World Cricket League Qualifier- Africa Division One tournament scheduled for Benoni, South Africa, formed part of a 10-day camping to put the team in good shape for the qualifiers.

Maternal mortality rate at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) reduced from 10.56 per 100,000 live births in 2015 to 10.20 per 100,000 live births in 2016. This followed a drop in maternal deaths from 102 in 2015 to 91 in 2016.

The government has settled GH¢588 million of the GH¢2.4 billion indebtedness of the Volta River Authority (VRA) to local banks and its suppliers.This was after an initial deposit of GH¢250 million and two quarterly payments of GH¢169 million in the last quarter of 2016 and the first quarter of 2017.

South Korean prosecutors have applied for an arrest warrant for former president Park Geun-hye, for her role in a corruption scandal.

Actress cum producer Yvonne Okoro may not have won any award at the recently held fifth Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards held in Nigeria but she is not ashamed of that.

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), in partnership with the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), has put together a scheme to clear a number of drains in Accra of silt ahead of this year’s rainy season.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last Saturday cleared any ambiguity over the government’s policy to roll out its free senior high school (SHS) policy, effective September this year, saying SHS education would be truly free.

A contingent of well conditioned athletes from the Technical Services Department of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) last Saturday shrugged off competition from colleagues in the  other units to win the 2017 inter-departmental Health Walk and Fun Games held at the El-Wak Stadium in Accra. The annual competition, dubbed "Samuel Konadu Cup", saw the Technical Services team win eight events out of 20, amassing 35 points against defending champions G-Pak, who could only