Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, running mate of President John Dramani Mahama, has asked the Ghanaian electorate to respond positively to providence and vote massively, to retain the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The 2012 Vice Presidential debate involving four political parties with representatives in parliament is slated for Tuesday, November 6 at Akroma Plaza Hotel, Takoradi, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has announced.

As part of its preparations for December's Presidential and Parliamentary elections, the Electoral Commission will, on November 3 and 4, conduct testing of its biometric verification devices in selected polling stations across the country.

A farmer Kofi Inkoom, 23, was on Thursday remanded in police custody by a Cape Coast Magistrate Court for attempting to murder a father and three daughters at Assin Atobiase.

A group of boarding students of the Dwamena Akenten Senior High School (SHS) in the Offinso Municipality have found themselves in trouble for persistently breaking school rules and regulations.

Government business has virtually come to a standstill in Ho three days into a sit-down strike declared by the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG).

The Graphic Communications Group Limited has made a giant step in the newspaper printing industry in Ghana with the inauguration of a KBA Comet Press. The company also commissioned a redesigned website to improve on the quality of services to the general public.

The fund size of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) recorded a 17.9 per cent increment at the end of 2011. The total contributions collected by SSNIT also increased by 43.19 per cent to 825 million Cedis in 2011, up from 576 million Cedis realized in 2010.

Kenyan police have arrested three more suspects in connection with the murder of a Venezuelan diplomat in the capital Nairobi in July, a senior officer said on Thursday.

The death toll from superstorm Sandy has reached more than 90 people as the US Coast Guard halted its search for the captain of a tall ship that sank off the North Carolina coast.

Russian and Estonian sailors kidnapped from a French-owned ship off the Nigerian coast last month have been freed, a military spokesman says.