Members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) converged on Accra for a preparatory meeting to deliberate on strategies the region could adopt towards the development of regional positions for the ninth World Trade Orgnaisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference, otherwise dubbed as MC9.

Thirty years ago, on 26 September 1983, the world was saved from potential nuclear disaster.

Hackers stole millions of social security numbers by cracking open the networks of large US data brokers, reveals an investigation.

Ghana’s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings on Thursday described the late Professor Kofi Awoonor as a man who spoke against socio-economic injustice and had a good understanding of human frailties and inequalities.

The Inspection and Control Services Limited (ICS) on Monday started a four-week training course on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Customs Valuation, Expanding the Knowledge Base.

Hackers stole millions of social security numbers by cracking open the networks of large US data brokers, reveals an investigation.

The emerging differences within the New Patriotic Party bigwigs appear to gather some storm in spite of calls for calm and unity. The latest addition to the furore within Ghana’s biggest oposition, a rejoinder by Dr. Arthur Kobina Kennedy, one time flagbearer aspirant of the party,  reacts to comments he says were made by the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, which he claims attacked his person.  It was issued Thursday.

ADDRESS BY H.E. THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA, JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA TO THE 68th UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The body of the late Professor Kofi Nyidevu Awoomor, former Chairman of the Council of State, is to be cremated and the ashes interred at a spot in Wheta, his hometown, in the Volta Region.

The  Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says its post market surveillance exercises conducted on Wednesday has revealed that a variety of medicines imported into the country by Tobinco Pharmaceuticals Limited were yet to be approved by the authority.

A Professor of Law and Dean of Research and Graduate studies at the Mountcrest University College has stated that the Supreme Court, in their judgement handed down in the Presidential Election Petition, disappointed Ghanaians and failed to uphold the 1992 constitution of the Republic of Ghana.

The following is an article written by New Patriotic Party (NPP) member and former flagbearer aspirant, Dr. Arthur Kobina Kennedy on developments with the party.

A UN-backed special court in The Hague has rejected an appeal against war crimes convictions by lawyers representing former Liberian President Charles Taylor.

Mr Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah, District Chief Executive for Gomoa West, has suggested to the Ghana Education Service to create a place on the school timetable for reading.

A former Minister of State, Mr Stephen Asamoah-Boateng, has expressed concern about the scramble to contest leadership positions in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) when the immediate focus should be on galvanising grass-roots support for the party.

The Founder of Etherean Mission, Brother Ishmael Tetteh, has advised parents to strictly monitor their children against the misuse of the Internet and the evolving nature of social media platforms.

It is past midnight and the usually busy streets of Accra are quiet and deserted. A group of young women and girls are huddled together under the open skies, sleeping. As dawn approaches, the weather turns chilly but all they have are thin sheets of cloth to keep warm.

By Rev. Dr Anyani-BoadumDuring the past eight months, while the 2012 election petition dragged on at the Supreme Court, Ghana, undoubtedly, experienced significant deterioration in its economy. Considering our current economic situation, I dare say that these are not normal times. The period calls for all hands to be put to the plough, hence, to quote President John Mahama, "we cannot afford to be cynical. We do not have the luxury of sitting on the side lines. We must all work to make Ghana work."  To this, I say to President Mahama and his team; it is now time to go to work. Need I remind the President that good intentions alone cannot build a nation, and the outcome of election 2016 shall be determined by the achievement of the NDC government and not by party slogans and propaganda.Play like a winning teamIn our quest for peace in the country, the Supreme Court handed the nation an important side benefit: It made certain the restoration of decorum and responsiveness into our political discussions. With the affirmation of the validity of President Mahama’s election, the expectations of Ghanaians,- as part of the role of leadership- is for the NDC as the party in power to play the game like a winning team that has the desire and attitude to protect the scoreline until the final whistle. In our local football dramas, teams trailing in a match sometimes, instead of maintaining discipline in order to maximise their potential to level up, throw caution to the wind and show their frustration by losing their discipline. They heckle their opponents ceaselessly and carelessly as they engage in rough tackles, in clear violations of the rules and spirit of the game.    The feeling is that they dare risk hurting their opponents to frustrate them to commit offences that may attract red cards. As the party in power, the NDC has a critical obligation to work assiduously to preserve the decorum and to promote the peace through fairness and transparency in the national body politic.  It is not uncommon to see a team with a comfortable lead in a game squander the opportunity by losing the match through tactical indiscipline. This happens when the players of the winning team get distracted, lose their focus, drop their composure, discard discipline or resort to unnecessary rough play.  Mr President, need I remind you that the game is won on the field of play; not on the populist “turf” as is being encouraged by our political activists and political commentators in media houses. Come 2016, the consideration of voters will be focused on the strength of your competence and the tangible outcomes of your four-year reign. Very little, if anything, will be delivered by squabbles and noise making on the radio; therefore, control the pack: insist that your ministers and other appointees focus on their assignments and work hard on the nation’s problems. The pace must quicken and the muscles of the innovative solutions being offered to address emerging challenges must be tougher for an optimum environment to be provided for the mass of our people to build local industries and have control over our resources.Building local industriesIn spite of the age of globalisation and open markets, nations continue to protect and grow their local industries as the best bet; the safest and most tangible way to grow a national economy.  Government must, therefore, take a more formidable stance to deliberately create the space and optimum environment for our local industries to develop as the foci for foreign participation in our industrialisation, rather than for the foreign companies to continue to dump their goods on us. Local entrepreneurship and industries should be empowered with more robust research to fulfill their purpose and maximise potential as a means to consolidate the nation’s status as a middle income country. It is awkward, in fact baffling, talking about research in this day and age, to note that there is no research project to even try to build simple combustion engine to motorise simple operations and to produce tools and simple, ordinary products such as sprayers, weed-whackers, generators, vulcanising machines, motorbikes or tricycles for garbage collection in the country. Small beginnings for industrialisationTalking about building the local industry, there is a multi-trillion dollar wellness and beauty industry worldwide that offers tremendous promise towards job creation and massive foreign exchange earnings. A visit to any beauty supply shop in the United States, for example, will reveal how much the economy of every region in this country stands to gain from that industry. Apart from the traditional products such as shea-butter, cocoa butter and oil palm extracts, there are unimaginable non-traditional products- present across all 10 regions of the country — including mangoes, lime, lemon, avocadoes, oils from several plants to serve as raw materials for all kinds of hair and skin products. The nation can, within a short time, realise enormous benefit, should the government set its mind to the task to promote local industries to take advantage of the huge market available across the globe.Democratic governance is about promoting the well-being of the masses. If our forebears and founders believed that benefit could be gained from a proper understanding and use of democracy and democratic practices, should we not also expect to find such benefit in our current living circumstances and for our posterity? Please quicken the pace.

That Christopher Opoku is one of the top broadcasters in this country cannot be in doubt. Indeed, he has had a long experience in both radio and television as morning show host and as a quality sports presenter for so long and it has to be said that at the moment he is Ghana’s finest football commentator on television.

By Kabral Blay-AmihereGhanaian musician, Kojo Antwi, in his song - Adinkra, picks up the theme when he sings that we are literally saying goodbye to life as we go about our daily chores. His only prayer, since he accepts man's mortality, is that he does not meet his end in an accident in the middle of nowhere.