Finally, the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards is here and come Saturday, April 8, all roads will lead to the Accra International Conference Centre where the event will take place. A very important aspect of the event is the red carpet where celebrities flaunt various designs. It is no doubt a very exciting aspect of the ceremony and patrons and viewers around the globe look forward to it.

Tarkwa-based Medeama yesterday put up a fighting spirit, coming from behind to beat Kumasi Asante Kotoko 2-1 in their Ghana Premier League (GPL) encounter at the Tarkwa T and A Park.

An uninspiring Bechem United side yesterday paid dearly for their lucklustre performance and went down 4-2 to Accra Hearts of Oak in their Premier League match at the Accra Stadium.

The Minority Members of Parliament (MPs) on the Appointments Committee of Parliament (ACP) yesterday boycotted the ongoing vetting of deputy ministers designate because of what they described as a decision by the Majority MPs on the committee to impose the vetting on them.

The United Nations Children's Education Fund (UNICEF) has presented assistive and assessment devices valued at $100,000 to the Ghana Education Service (GES) to support the implementation of the National Inclusive Education Policy. The devices include wheelchairs, spectacles, hearing aids, crutches and basic screening materials such as Snellen charts, tennis balls and tossing rings.

A World Bank Representative in Ghana, Ms Kathleen Beegle, has asked Ghana to put in place a coastal management policy to reduce erosion, flooding and overfishing among other challenges.

Good nutrition and regular exercise are important components of a healthy lifestyle and that is what TV presenter, Berla Mundi and Starr FM’s Giovanni Caleb demonstrated last Saturday when they led hundreds of people up the Aburi Mountains.

The United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a new initiative to promote girls’ education in northern Ghana and the Volta Region. The programme, projected at a cost of US$2.6 million, is targeted at about 30,000 young girls at the junior high school (JHS) level in the Northern, Upper East, Upper West and Volta regions.

Worldreader, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) committed to providing books for children, has partnered local publishers to digitise textbooks and local storybooks and distribute them to schools using the Kindle e-reader, an electronic device purposely built for reading. The e-reader, which was perfected for Africa to hold hundreds of books, can maintain a battery charge for almost a month.

The Chief Executive Officer of Koans Building Solutions, Mr Kofi Anokye, has cautioned the government to ensure cheaper, sustainable and reliable power supply to areas where its ‘one district, one factory’ will be established. He said although the government might decide to put up mini hydro dams across the country or look at the option of putting up nuclear power, those were long-term measures, hence the need to look at short-term ways to actualise

There is a guy that you are dating. You like him. He is nice and funny and the two of you have a lot in common. You enjoy each other's company and it is clear that there is potential for a relationship to develop between you.

Machomen for Good and Justice has condemned members of the Delta Force who forcibly attacked and removed the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator from his office. They stated that irrespective of the graveness of their grievances, their violent action was unjustifiable and that they should have resorted to peace and diplomacy to make their concerns known.

The Global Head of Transactional Products and Services, Standard Bank Group, Mr Hassan Khan, has backed moves by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to facilitate money transfer services from one mobile money service provider to another, describing it as a necessary innovation in the modern space of banking. In the advent of seamless transactions in the financial space, Mr Khan said one could not think about a seamless mobile money services without interoperability

An Advocacy group on good governance based in the Upper East Region has commended President Nana Akufo-Addo for appointing some indigenes from the  region as ministers.

You and your partner were drawn together for many reasons–physical attraction, common interests, and more.  For weeks and maybe months, the two of you got better acquainted, got closer, and everything looked positive.

A Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Isaac Olawale Albert, has said the situation where African leaders wait until conflicts occur for them to do post-conflict analysis is not the best in promoting peace and security on the continent.

It was a side attraction initially but in recent times, the Red Carpet experience has grown to become the ‘grand opening’ to the annual Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) and many patrons take it very ‘personal’.

Ghanaians have been encouraged  to defend constitutional democracy and good governance as the basis of ensuring sustainable economic development. They must, therefore, ensure that the Directive Principles of State Policy in the 1992 Constitution guides government programmes and provide a solid foundation for human rights and good governance.

A 142-year-old abandoned one-storey school building situated on the compound of the Akotobinsin Methodist Primary School in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem (KEEA) District in the Central Region stands in danger of collapsing and causing havoc if steps are not taken to demolish it quickly. Barely two months ago a school building collapsed and killed six pupils of the Breman Jamera Methodist School in the Odoben Brakwa District in the same region.

A customs officer on special duty operations in the Ashanti Region to check importers who have defaulted in the payment of import duties is alleged to have been engaged in extorting money from importers. The officer, Mr Anthony Osei, also known as Tony, a driver with the customs division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), is alleged to demand sums of money ranging from GH¢10,000 to GH¢30,000 from the importers or have their goods seized if