The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, has said the 212 appointees of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) announced last Wednesday have been “received well”.

Tributes have been paid to former Gabon international Moise Brou Apanga who died on Wednesday from a suspected heart attack. The 35-year-old collapsed during a training session with his Gabonese club FC 105 Libreville.

The Youth in Agona West Constituency in the Central Region have been advised to stop dragging the name of the Member of Parliament for the area, Mrs Cynthia Morrison, into the appointment of a municipal chief executive for the municipality. According to Mr Kofi Osei, the Constituency Organiser, the MP had no hand in the nomination of Justina Marigold Assan as the first woman MCE for the municipality since the commencement of the Fourth Republic

The National Chairman of the Convention People’s Party (OPP), Prof. Edmund Delle, has called on the rank and file of the party  to stamp out divisions within the Nkrumaists front. He said since the founder of the party, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, believed in unity and discipline, the  need to stamp out divisions in the party had become critical.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has indicted the Ghana Health Service (GHS) for failing to pay more than GH¢61,000 being proceeds from the auction of nine vehicles into a non-tax revenue account since 2014 as required by the Financial Administration Act . The said amount was hurriedly paid into the account only last Monday after the PAC had served notice to the GHS to appear before it in respect of the disposal of government vehicles

Ghana risks being sanctioned by the International Secretariat of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) if the nation fails to address certain challenges that have been identified by the global institution. The challenges has to do with license registration in the extractive industry, state participation in the sector, and issues relating to production and export data.