Gunmen have killed 20 people, including a traditional leader, in an attack on a village in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state, a local official has said.

Money collected from an appeal for funds at a praise and worship held at the Wesley Cathedral Methodist Church at Adum last Friday could not be found after the service.

Mr Ralf Wittek, Country Representative of Hanns Seidel Foundation, a based German organisation which specializes in political education, has lauded Ghana for the successes it had chalked as far as democracy on the African continent was concerned.

The Africa Bureau and the Washington Foreign Press Centre (FPC) of the United States Department of State is hosting 11 West African and Ethiopian Journalists on a working tour of the November 6 US elections.

Some pregnant women have accused nurses at the maternity ward of extorting money from them and turning the ward into a ‘market’.

The body of Kweku Sarfo, the 59-year-old man who was detained at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) when he was found with 77 pellets of thumb-size cocaine in his stomach, has been lying unclaimed at the Korle Bu mortuary since he passed away last Friday.

Residents in Asoyeboa, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, have been thrown into a state of shock after a seven year-old boy shot and killed his three-years-old sister while playing with what is believed to be their fatherÂ’s gun.

Kweku Adoboli, the former UBS AG (UBSN) trader on trial over a $2.3 billion trading loss, said his girlfriend encouraged him to confess his losses to managers while another trader on his desk told him to flee the country.

A two-man delegation from the United States Open Government Portal are expected in Ghana for a two-day visit from October 31st to November 2nd, 2012.

Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire was jailed for eight years Tuesday after a court found her guilty of terror charges and denying the genocide.

Kweku Adoboli, the former UBS AG trader standing trial for fraud and false accounting, acknowledged he lost control of his trading activities in the period that led up to the multibillion-dollar loss at the Swiss bank last year.

Three persons believed to be have robbed Kan Dapaah, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and Member of Parliament (MP) for Afiagya Sekyere West in the Ashanti Region of $1000, GH¢500 and other valuables, were arraigned yesterday.