The flag bearer of the National Democratic Party, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, is urging Ghanaians to avoid destructive political banter while basic social amenities continue to be a challenge.

The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning has started collating inputs into the 2013 national budget. Officials have hinted that the cocktail of tax policies will be used to deepen stock market activities.

About 200 pupils who were withdrawn by their parents from the Weija Cluster of Schools because of the absence of a footbridge over a portion of the Weija Lake have now returned to school.

The World Bank has rated progress on the implementation of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in the country as 'moderately unsatisfactory'.

Hawkers have virtually taken over the pedestrian walkways and the shoulders of streets in the central business district (CBD) of Accra.

After several hours of fierce competition, Yaw Azure, was crowned the overall best of this year's Man Ghana competition at the D.G Hathramani Hall of the Accra Sports Stadium last weekend.

President John Dramani Mahama has directed the Minister of Youth and Sports to give $3,000 to each of the 21 players of the Black Maidens for winning bronze at the FIFA Under-17 Women's World Cup.

Ghana's Junior Black Sticks recorded their worst defeat against South Africa in recent times after losing 0-6 in their second match at the ongoing Africa Junior Hockey Championship in Randburg, South Africa, but still have a chance to pick one of the tickets for next year's World Cup in India if they win their remaining two matches.

Living legend, Sir Cecil Jones Attuquayefio, turns 68 Thursday but might not be in the right mood to celebrate it the way he would have wished considering the way he has been shortchanged by organisers of his well-patronised charity match in Accra four months ago.

The National Chairperson of the Convention People's Party, Ms Samia Nkrumah, says she will return to government chest any increase in her salary as a Member of Parliament (MP) if the salary hits her account.

The load-shedding exercise which has been occasioned by a shortfall in gas supplies is scheduled to be over by November, the Chief Executive of the Volta River Authority (VRA), Mr Kweku Awortwi, has said.

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) District Magistrate Court Tuesday directed the state to appear before it Wednesday to clarify matters surrounding the murder case involving Justin Katinan Kone, a Minister of Budget in former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo’s government.

The flag bearer of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has called on all the silent supporters of the PPP to go out in their numbers and intensify their campaign and vote for the party on Election Day.

Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, wife of the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) presidential aspirant, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has told Ghanaian women that the free senior high school promised by her husband is not A propaganda just to win elections.

The Convention People's Party (CPP) has said it will build a strong society in which no one will have any anxiety about the basic means of life.

The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Peter Jones, has said Ghana has "earned a fantastic reputation" in its democratic process.

The Electoral Commission (EC) has set out acts and inaction that may constitute electoral offences in Election 2012 and called on the political parties and other democratic stakeholders to respect the laws or face the consequences.

The Adaklu District Assembly has failed to confirm the President's nominee for the post of district chief executive for the area.

The National Sanitation Taskforce has embarked on a nation-wide clean–up exercise to better Ghana’s chances at achieving the Millenium Development target on sanitation by the year 2015.

Political parties in the country will, from today, begin filing their nomination forms to contest this year's presidential and parliamentary elections.