Ivory Coast has says it plans to try ex-first lady Simone Gbagbo in its own courts, instead of handing the case to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

A former youth organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Anthony Abayifaa Karbo, has hinted of massive demonstrations across the country should utility tariffs go up.

The Vice-president and Country Manager of Kosmos Energy Ghana, Mr Ken Keag, has pledged the company’s commitment to ethical business practices and ensure transparency and accountability to all stakeholders.

President John Mahama has returned home from Bamako, Mali where he attended the inauguration of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.

A woman who spent two years in a coma was bid a heartbreaking farewell by loved ones, who switched off her life-support machine just hours after she was married.

After a year roaming the surface of Mars, Nasa has failed to find any evidence that its atmosphere is supporting life, it was revealed today.

The Danquah Institute is calling for a critical national dialogue on Ghana’s spiralling public debt stock, which, according to the latest report from Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana, has jumped to nearly 50% of Ghana’s rebased economy.

A mother has spoken of her shock after she gave birth to a baby with two fully formed front teeth.

The former Member of Parliament for Asokwa, Maxwell Kofi Jumah has poured scorn on suggestions for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to review factors that led to its 2008 and 2012 electoral defeat or be stung yet again in 2016.

Ghana’s public debt stands at GHȼ43.9 billion (49.5 per cent of GDP) at end of August 2013, according to a recent report by the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana.

A gruesome attack by Boko Haram Islamists disguised in military uniforms and armed with heavy weapons in Nigeria's northeast has killed at least 87 people, a state government official said Thursday.

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has reconnected power to the offices of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), four days after the assembly was taken off the national grid for failure to pay its bills totalling GH¢56,000.

In spite of the sound and fury of the smaller also-rans, there are only two political parties in this country, the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) led by President John Dramani Mahama, and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), now led by its chairman, Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, following the defeat of the party in the December 2012 elections, and the second failure to secure victory at the Supreme Court in August, 2013.

(CNN) - Pope Francis said the church has the right to express its opinions but not to "interfere spiritually" in the lives of gays and lesbians, expanding on explosive comments he made in July about not judging homosexuals.

It’s happened to me hundreds of times:  I’ll stop by a friend’s home or bump into someone I know at a restaurant just as that person is about to sit down to a plate of food.  He or she will look at me warmly then, while shifting that gaze to the meal, say in a welcoming, almost stately, tone, “You are invited.”  By that they mean, “Have some,” “Come help yourself.”  But really, they don’t mean it.

The US Secretary of State John Kerry says "it is a fact" President Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack on Damascus in August.

The running mate to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2012 elections, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has appealed to members of the party not  to speak evil of one another since it leads to self destruction.

The National Communications Authority (NCA) has cited Glo Mobile Network for increasingly being used for international SIM box fraud in Ghana.

Ghana National Gas Company has so far paid a total of GH¢8,134,747.80 as compensation to 2,361 farmers along the 111 km right of way of the western corridor gas infrastructure development project.

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has rolled out a biometric registration system for the instant issuance of national health insurance identity cards to subscribers.