The National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) has stated that the colleges of education are neither universities nor polytechnics but a subset of the tertiary education systems.

The Leklebi Senior High School (LESEC) is a typical rural school located in a remote environment in the Afadzato-South District in the Volta Region.

A website that creates, collects and publishes Akpos Jokes has been founded in Accra, Ghana. The website, FunnyAkposJokes.com, will, on a daily basis, serve Ghanaians, Nigerians and other Akpos-loving Africans with the latest, funniest and most exciting Akpos Jokes. Apart from Akpos Jokes, the website will also provide exciting Ghana Jokes, Nigerian Jokes and African Jokes in general. There will also be foreign jokes, categorised into the following: Relationship Jokes, Lawyer Jokes, Medical Jokes, Bar Jokes, and Religious Jokes. In a statement released to the media, administrators of the site promised to keep the site updated with the best of the best Akpos Jokes at all times.

“Let’s elect our Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs)”, as I have heard some suggest “and the current challenges facing the local government structure would be a thing of the past”.

This week I like to touch on two special situations in the country. The first issue which presents a critical moment in our democratic practice concerns the rejection of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) nominated by the President by some chiefs, communities and districts.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a Mankessim-based company, Clement Osie Bagyinah, and his banker friend, George Amonoo, who is stationed at Agona Kwanyako, are in hot waters for defrauding two teachers of over GH¢16,000.

The Agona Swedru District Magistrate’s Court, presided over by Mr Kwaku Baah Frempong, last Tuesday heard the story of a 13-year-old boy  who broke into a store at Agona Swedru through the ceiling and stole GH¢10,000.

A baby girl of about one-week-old found abandoned in front of a church building at Kyirapatre in Kumasi Sunday morning has been rescued alive.

The Entrepreneurs Foundation of Ghana (EFG) has shortlisted some made-in-Ghana products to receive honours at the maiden edition of Ghana-Made Product Awards and Exhibition 2012.

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) is yet to receive funds budgeted for  in the 2013 budget, a deputy Director in charge of Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluations Division of the ministry, Mr Daniel Ohemeng Boateng, has revealed.

Have you applied your make-up today?  I am pretty sure that the ladies would understand the ‘make-up’ process more than men, even though these days some men too have pitched tent in the beauty industry.

One of the functions of Parliament, the embodiment of the sovereign will of the people, is its oversight responsibility over the Executive.

I have been in Europe these past two weeks and it strikes the visitor from Africa that unlike the situation at home, old people in Europe are very much on display. The demographics make this unavoidable. While nearly 20 per cent of the UK population is more than 60 years, less than four per cent of Ghanaians fall into the same age bracket.

This is a little piece to encourage those who are on diet and are really finding things difficult. In my clinic, there are two categories of patients. Those who come for follow-ups judiciously and those who do not come for their follow-ups at all.

First of all, one personal disclosure: If you are looking for me and there is one place I would be hiding apart from my normal circles, try up here. I feel so much at home, anytime. I love Navrongo. And the reasons go way beyond tourism (can we leave it at that?).

This year’s Miss Malaika contest is undergoing a new phase — the introduction of three celebrity god sisters who will be responsible for mentoring and grooming the delegates to win the ultimate crown.

The Koforidua Circuit Court has sentenced two armed robbers to 35 years’ imprisonment for attempting to rob a UK-based businessman at a guest house at Aburi in the Eastern Region.

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor is in Bamako, Mali, for the Presidential elections run-off.

A traditional priest, popularly known as Nana Sawobentoa of the Apitikooko Shrine, near Obuasi in the Ashanti Region, has given up his work and converted to Christianity.

People in Mali are voting in a presidential election run-off. Many expect Former Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who won 40% of the vote in the first round, to defeat ex-Finance Minister Soumaila Cisse.