Our Parliament has come to notice again for doing a very bad thing. I have on several occasions pinpointed it as one institution that hasn’t helped us move the country forward and our MPs as being more interested in seeking their own interests than assiduously performing their legitimate duties to justify the huge expenditure made on them.

One month ago, I set out to apply for a replacement of my driver licence. I finally received it on the second visit to the Driver and Vehicle Licence Authority (DVLA) office in Accra. It took me a total of seven and a half hours of intrigues, confusion, frustrations and much bitterness. I finally received a temporal licence after complete exhaustion and disbelief that I had endured such drama just to become a legal driver.

Most people take the work of professional drivers for granted, but in some ways, they are as important as medical practitioners, especially when you consider the number of lives they hold in their hands on a daily basis.

STAR-Ghana, the multi-donor pooled funding organisation has announced support for nationwide interventions towards enhancing national cohesion and preventing violence in the wake of the forthcoming Supreme Court ruling on the election petition.

Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is being held over allegations of links with Palestinian militants Hamas and plotting attacks on jails in the 2011 uprising, it has been announced.

With the incessant high pitched choruses for peace by many in this country, I am reminded of a song by Peter Tosh, a Jamaican musician who until settling for a solo career was an instrumental part of Bob Marley’s band, the Wailers.

Samsung has become the most profitable mobile phone company in the world, overtaking Apple, a report says.

Amid a surge of anti-gay violence and repression in several countries, the United Nations' human rights office on Friday launched its first global outreach campaign to promote tolerance and greater equality for lesbians, gays, transgender people and bisexuals.

There are many ways to miss one’s daddy, especially so if he is your biggest inspiration who suddenly passed on to the world beyond. For young Samuel Kofi Atta Mills, the phone calls he no longer can place to his late father, Prof. John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills to seek his counsel on any issue; the birthday greetings from dad that will no longer bell the phone; and in fact the ‘little, little things’ he no longer can share with him are among the most he will miss.

The Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST),  Prof. E. O. Ellis (second left), with some officials of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) and some of the staff of the university ready to inspect a modern fire station for the university after its inauguration.

Access to basic education on the Eastern Corridor of the Northern Region remains a big challenge for some communities, resulting in children travelling long distances  to schools.

Actress Emelia Brobbey has denied reports of her involvement in shoplifting incident that occurred while she was in the UK.

Johannesburg - Prosecutors have spoken of their bitter disappointment at the suicide of a serial child rape accused in Johannesburg.

The election petition brought by Nana Akufo-Addo et al has laid bare significant shortcomings in some of our most important democratic institutions.

The Guidance and Counselling Coordinator of the Accra Metro Directorate of Education, Ms Sylvia Aboagye, has called for the establishment of counselling units in schools to strengthen the guidance and counselling section of the Ghana Education Service (GES).

Parents have been urged to make sacrifices to assist their children to remain in school instead of engaging them in petty trading and other economic ventures which may impede the acquisition of the competences, skills and knowledge they need to progress in life.

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has waded into ongoing arguments by some people who are calling on the government to increase the age for which a person may legally enter into marriage, from the present 18 years to 23 years.

Access Bank (Ghana) has been appointed the sole partner bank for Muslims wishing to participate in this year’s Hajj.

Admission to the School of Medical Sciences (SMS) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is to be expanded this academic year, following the release of the four state-owned satellite hospitals in Kumasi to the university for the training of doctors.

ABUJA — President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, gave a firm commitment that he would take decisive action to curb political excesses ahead of the 2015 general elections.