The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) in Ghana will be headed by a new chief or Minister, Clement Kofi Humado, and the question on the mind of interested parties is what changes he will introduce or whether it will be business as usual.

When the rain started last Tuesday night around 11pm on 22nd of January, I lay in my bed terrified; thinking and wondering what would happen to these cursed Kaneshie market boys. My heart sank each time the thunder struck and I kept speculating the number of souls that would be washed away before the break of dawn. I just couldnÂ’t sleep so I had to wake up that night to type this out.

Accountability in higher education refers to colleges and universities being held responsible for using their resources in an efficient and effective manner in order to produce the best education possible at the most reasonable cost (Knight, 2003).

The US economy unexpectedly shrank at an annualised rate of 0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2012, initial official estimates indicate.

At least 300 people, including many schoolchildren, are injured when two passenger trains collide near the South African capital, Pretoria, officials say.

The number of people killed by a blast in Mexico City at the headquarters of the state oil company, Pemex, has risen to 25, the interior minister has said.

France's President Francois Hollande is to visit Mali, where three weeks of targeted French air strikes have forced Islamist militants to retreat.

About 13 out of 26 World Bank-funded projects in Ghana that were supposed to have been completed within three to five years have run far beyond their completion dates (see middle page insert), with some running for as long as eight to nine years, the BVisit Myjoyonline.com for latest news, breaking news, audio and feature stories in Ghana The Gambia introduces a four-day week for public sector workers, with Fridays now an extra day off.

Chevrolet is the world’s fastest-growing major automotive brand and as it continues to expand its global operations it is aligning its engineering, design and retail operations behind a single vision and communications platform – Find New Roads.

A 10-member committee tasked to investigate the June 11, 2012 communal violence in Hohoe, Thursday presented its report to the Volta Regional Coordinating Council (VRCC).

A disagreement between a husband and his wife over some missing eggs led the man to kill the woman.

A forty-five-year-old driver of Akyem Oda, Kwadwo Brako, has committed suicide after knocking down and injuring a little girl at Oda Old Town last Wednesday.

The Minister-designate for Education, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyeman, has advised female students to strive to do better in the universities instead of giving in to advances by male lecturers in order to earn their grades.

This year's Damba Festival has come off successfully at the Gbewaa Palace at Yendi and other parts of the Northern Region with an admonition on the people to embrace peace and unite to chart a new course to accelerate the development of the area.

The Upper West Region recorded four deaths out of 12 reported cases of suspected Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) in January, this year.

When Peggielene Bartels went to bed on a summer night in 2008, she was an ordinary administrative assistant living in a modest one-bedroom condo just outside Washington D.C.

People in a neighbourhood are discussing how a man was recently killed by a deity.

Inspector General of Police Paul Tawiah Quaye has been asked to commence his compulsory 90-day terminal leave effective February 5.

Pastor John Borham, National Overseer of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Ghana, has stated that although the church has contributed in diverse ways to national development, touching lives, especially those of young people, is the priority of the church.

The intervention by France and ECOWAS in the Mali situation is a welcome one and worthy of commendation.