[Independent]The Government of the United States of America has launched an exchange program for Media Professionals from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and the United States.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira, has called for the use of bench marks to determine services delivered at health institutions to raise the standard of health delivery in the country.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Ghana is to host an international fraud and corruption enrollment conference to highlight the emerging role of academia in assisting governments and business to manage the risk of financial crime.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The processes used by President John Mahama in retaining the various substantive ministers, including Regional Ministers and non-career Ambassadors in their respective positions as caretakers came under Parliamentary scrutiny with a cross section of members raising some objections about the said processes.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]THE OPPOSITION New Patriotic Party (NPP) that is challenging the outcome of the December 7 and 8, 2012 elections says the Electoral Commission's (EC) response to their petition before the Supreme court is nothing, other than pathetic excuses. According to the Party's Chairman, Mr. Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, the EC's document was full of arrogance and irreverence, and offered no justification for the flaws, other than pathetic excuses about signatures not passing through 3 sheets of carbon paper and suggesting

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Some banks in Accra say high electricity bills, rent, water bills and salaries of workers are impacting negatively on their businesses and ability to lend more.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]An Accra circuit court has sentenced a taxi-cab driver to ten 10 years imprisonment for stealing various items and money, worth $8000 from a US-based Ghanaian, who had arrived at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).

[Ghanaian Chronicle]A labourer and a mason have been remanded into custody by an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly robbing and raping a sales girl.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Konkomba Youth Association (KOYA) has congratulated Mr. Dominic Nituwul, Member of Parliament for Bimbilla Constituency, in the Northern Region, on his appointment as the Deputy Minority Leader of Parliament.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]On Christmas day 2012, staff of the UT Group, led by their Chairman, Joseph Nsonamoah, went out on the streets of Accra to show love to some of the underprivileged on its streets.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Sogakope -The Sogakope Senior High School (SOGASCO) and the South Tongu District Assembly have expressed grave concern over the continued intrusion of the SOGASCO campus and activities of the school by the people of Kpekpo community.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday, barely 24 hours on the job, after his swearing-in on Monday, announced the names of the first four members of his kitchen cabinet -his innermost circle.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The European Union (EU) in Ghana has disbursed close to EUR 16 million to the Government of Ghana. This disbursement comprises of €10 million Sector Budget Support for the Ministry of Health and €5.65 million General Budget Support under Ghana's Multi-Donor Budget Support (MDBS) framework.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]More than 400 children, most of them orphans from the Kumasi Municipality, began the New Year in grand style when they were feted by the MTN Ghana Foundation as part of the organisation's commitment to support needy children.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Figures from the Ghana Statistics Service (GSS) indicate that the government of the West African second largest economy slightly missed its 8.5 percent year-end inflation target.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]As the Supreme Court (SC)gets ready to adjudicate the first test case in an election petition filed by the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo- Addo and two others against the declaration of President John Dramani Mahama as winner of the 2012 Presidential election, there had been series of preparations done to ensure security and safety of the public, who may attend the court sitting today, January 10, 2013.

[AEP]The Supreme Court will this morning hear the preliminary joinder motion filed by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) seeking to join the petition by the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo; his running mate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, and the National Chairman of the NPP, Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, challenging the Electoral Commission's (EC's) declaration of President John Mahama as winner of the December 7 presidential poll as a respondent.