Wa, Sept. 3, GNA – Mr. Baba Jamal, Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, has presented 250 motor tricycles to the Upper West Regional Minister, Dr. Ephraim Avea Nsoh for  distribution.

Accra, Sept. 3, GNA – Ex-Black Stars defender Anthony Baffoe has been named Match Commissioner for the 2014 World Cup qualifier between Nigeria and Malawi.

Oyoko (E/R), Sept. 3, GNA - Professor Reynolds Okine, Rector of Koforidua Polytechnic, has urged the government to put in place policies that would make science and mathematics studies more attractive to students at the pre-tertiary level.

Akwadum (E/R) Sept 3, GNA – Some 110 inhabitants of Akwadum, a farming community near Akwatia, have undergone health screening undertaken by Lend a Hand Club, Ghana, a non- governmental organization.

Accra, Sept. 3, GNA – Goalkeeper Foli Adade has been called up as a replacement for Adam Larsen Kwarasey for Friday’s 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier with Zambia in Kumasi.

Sunyani, Sept. 3, GNA – The University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), will organise a two-day workshop on the use of GEONETCast workstation for energy and natural resources management at Fiapre, near Sunyani.

Abesim(B/A), Sept. 3, GNA – Some residents at Abesim near Sunyani have appealed to the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to direct the Sunyani Municipal Assembly to complete an abandoned toilet.

Accra, Sept. 3, GNA – Ghana coach Kwasi Appiah has welcomed competition in his team ahead Friday’s crucial 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Zambia in Kumasi.

Accra, Sept. 3, GNA – Goalkeeper Adam Larsen Kwarasey is racing against time to be fit for Friday’s 2014 World Cup qualifier against Zambia in Kumasi.

Stockholm (Sweden), Sept. 3, GNA – With some two billion people around the world still lacking safe drinking water, world leaders gathered in Stockholm for the 23rd World Water Week on Monday called for global co-operation in tackling the coming demand for water.

Accra, Sept. 3, GNA – Ghana captain Asamaoh Gyan is battling fitness ahead of Friday’s 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Zambia in Kumasi.

Accra, Sept. 3, GNA – The Black Stars are two players short of completing the invited list ahead of Friday’s crucial 2014 FIFA World Cup clash with Zambia in Kumasi.

Ho, Sept. 3, GNA – Togbe Dzegblade IV, Chief of Adaklu Kodzobi, has called on people in the new Adaklu District to pay their levies to the Assembly to enable it raise enough Internally Generated Funds (IGF) for development.

Takoradi, Sept 3, GNA - Fifteen dead whales have been washed ashore between 2008  and 2013 in the Western Region since drilling of crude oil started in  2010, Emmanuel Ohene Marfo, a deputy Western Regional Fisheries Officer of the Fisheries Commission, said .

Tarkwa, Sept. 03, GNA - Kwabena Ayivor, a 31-year-old man, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour by the Tarkwa Circuit Court.

Izmir (Turkey), Sept. 03, GNA - Government must adopt a deliberate policy to support indigenous cocoa processing companies to become competitive, Mr Eric Mensah, General Manager, Finance and Administration Plot Enterprise Ghana, an indigenous cocoa processing company, has  said.

Tamale, Sept. 3, GNA – The Health Services Workers’ Union (HSWU) of the Trades Union Congress on Tuesday expressed its disappointment in some healthcare providers who refuse to accept postings to certain areas of the country.

Cape Coast, Sept. 3, GNA - The Central Regional Director of the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE), Mr. Cletus Abang, has appealed to Ghanaians to stop hate speeches and other utterances that could incite people against each other.

Izmir, Turkey, Sept. 03, GNA -The Ghana Export Promotion Authority has urged prospective Turkish investors to take advantage of the many investment opportunities in Ghana to enhance trade between the two countries.

Hohoe (V/R), Sept. 3, GNA- Dr Emmanuel Chamba, Plant Breeder and Geneticist at Savannah Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Industrial Research has said the timeline of 2015 for the commercialisation of Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) Cotton is over ambitious.