Only 34 women representing about 16 percent made it to list of 212 District Chief Executive (DCE) nominees by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

A 36-year-old man, Abdul Salam, has been arrested by the Asankrangwa Police for murdering his six-year-old son for rituals. The suspect was alleged to have severed the head and left legs of the boy in what could be described as a ritual murder.

A business man, Bismark Kyeremateng, is in the grips of the police in the Ashanti Region for allegedly importing and distributing fake electricity meters. Kyeremateng is said to have been in the business for the past two years was arrested at his office at Kronom, a suburb of Kumasi.

The Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas), says it has renewed a Project Implementation Agreement with the conglomerate, Yantai Jereh Oilfield Services Group Co. for engineering and survey studies on the proposed 278 kilometre onshore natural gas transmission pipeline from Aboadze to Tema.

Incoming Black Stars coach, James Kwasi Appiah has held closed-door talks with President Nana Akufo-Addo. The meeting precedes Appiah's official announcement as coach of the senior national team.

Ghana’s Black Stars could face financial challenges following the Parliament of Ghana’s rejection of a budgetary allocation by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) to cover the company’s annual sponsorship of the senior national football team. The situation leaves the Ghana Football Association (GFA) in a dilemma as GNPC since 2013 has been the Stars’  Headline Sponsor who paid the national coach’s salary and also supported some activities of the team.

Holding a diplomatic passport facilitates easy travel as compared to an ordinary passport. In many countries, it is issued strictly to members of government [executive], diplomats and in some cases members of parliament. In Ghana, Section (6) of the Passport and Travel Certificate Act, 1953, talks about the Minister issuing diplomatic passports to members of government who are proceeding on official government business.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has released the list of all 212 Municipal and District Chief Executives. Announcing the appointments on Wednesday, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama said the appointees are expected to be approved by the Assemblies in the coming days and weeks to complete the process.

The two-year-old boy who became an international sensation after he was found chain smoking in a remote village has kicked the habit, lost weight and is now the 'champion' of his primary school. Aldi Rizal shot to fame in 2010 after he was discovered in a poor village in Sumatra, Indonesia, puffing 40 cigarettes a day while riding his tricycle.

A Screen Printer who collected GH¢8,000 from a reverend minister under the pretext of enlisting him into the Ghana Police Service or the Ghana Armed Forces but failed has been convicted to a fine of GH¢3, 600. Henry Kwashie in default would serve nine months in prison. The court further ordered him to refund the complainant’s GH¢8,000 to him.

The Speaker of Parliament, Prof Aaron Mike Oquaye has confirmed the involvement of three sitting Members of Parliament (MP) and a former MP in alleged visa fraud using their diplomatic passports. The MPs are said to have used their diplomatic passports to secure visas for some “relatives” to travel to the UK but who did not return per their visa conditions..

Former All Africa Games doubles gold medalist, Wisdom Na-Adrago, survived a scare to progress to the next stage of the ongoing McDan West African Open tennis competition after a hard-fought 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 victory over Benin's Theophile Sedogo. The clash between Na-Adrago, who won gold at the 2015 AAG in Congo Brazzaville and his Beninois opponent lasted a gruelling two hours and 25 minutes under the scorching sun at the Accra Sports Stadium.

The Kumasi Police last Monday arrested two suspected armed robbers believed to be members of a gang terrorising small-scale miners in and around Obuasi and Manso Watreso in the Ashanti Region. The suspects are Kwaku Asare and Daniel Kwadwo Asamoah, both 30. 

IT and Telecommunications solution provider, Subah Infosolutions Ghana Limited, has been adjudged the “Best Revenue Assurance, Fraud & Traffic Monitoring Solution” provider at the just-ended 4th Annual Africa Telecoms Fraud, Revenue Assurance and Risk Management Forum in Kenya.  The Director of Subah Infosolutions, Mr Redeemer Kwame, accompanied by the Business Development and Marketing Manager, Mr Emmanuel Hudson-Odoi, and the Revenue Assurance Manager Mr Felix Steve Quaicoe,

The Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 71-year-old man to six years imprisonment for pouring acid on his son and his eight-year-old granddaughter. The convict, Michael Kwame Martins, pleaded guilty to the charge of causing harm and was sentenced on his own plea by the court, presided over by Mrs Marian Affoh.

The Deputy Minister of Transport, Mr Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus-Glover, has asked public transport institutions to uphold good work culture built on integrity to promote a strong transport sector in the country. He said the culture of maintenance, avoidance of pilfering, management stock-taking and ensuring the safety of buses on the road should be non-negotiable for transport institutions.

Fiscal policy think-tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), has backed government’s decision to cap revenue allocations to statutory funds at 25 per cent of tax revenue, but fears gains from that “bold step” would be neutralised by counter-moves to commence the implementation of expenditure-laden campaign promises this year. Ahead of the government’s budget reading in March, the IFS had advocated for urgent measures to address the excessive rigidity associated with Ghana’s

The Ga Traditional Council has served notice that it will deal drastically with any individual or group of persons who will flout its directive on the ban on drumming and noise making this year.

Men's top seed Tomas Setodji has already decided how he will spend the $3,000 cash prize if he wins the 2017 McDan West African Open Championship. The confident Togolese says he came to Ghana to win the competition and will leave no stone unturned in his bid to win the 2017 McDan Open Championsip because he will use the money to fund his career as a budding tennis prospect.

There will be a whopping GH¢50,000 cash prize at stake for the winner when bitter rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante clash for the [email protected]/*