The Chairman of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) International, Apostle Stephen Amoani, has called on the church and the state to lead a concerted effort at raising God-fearing leaders for Ghana, Africa and the world.

Three rural banks in the Central Region have concluded their merger plans to raise capital and consolidate their operations in the banking industry under the Gomoa Community Bank.

Africana Children’s Education Fund (ACEF), a non-governmental organisation based in the United States of America, has presented a quantity of education materials to the Ankaase SDA Basic School in the Afigya Kwabre District in the Ashanti Region.

Work on a three-storey building to be used as the Cape Coast branch of Jayee University College (JUC) has begun.

Egypt's public prosecutor has frozen the assets of 14 Islamist leaders, according to judicial sources.

President John Mahama on Saturday paid a working visit to the Dawhenya Irrigation Scheme where a $3.6 million rehabilitation work is currently ongoing.

Editor of the Insight newspaper and social commentator, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., says Ghanaians need no corruption perception index to affirm the state of corruption afflicting the country, for the canker is widespread enough to be real.

Minister of state in charge of Allied and Financial Institutions, Fifi Kwetey says Ghanaians cannot expect investments in critical sectors of the economy without its attendant need for more taxes and more borrowing. Simply put, Ghanaians cannot eat their cake and have it.

Twenty-seven foreigners, mostly Nigerians, have been arrested in a swoop following the surreptitious return to Kenya of one of the suspected Nigerian drug traffickers deported to Nigeria last month.

Lack of decent accommodation for the security services in the Western Region is said to be a great distraction for personnel and their families who have no peace of mind to focus on their core duties.

I can now enjoy safe, clean drinking water for the first time in my life, was the expression of Madam Mercy, a 70-year-old woman at Agave Akplale in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region when President John Dramani Mahama turned on the tap to signal the start of the flow of pipe-borne water in the community on Saturday.

Up to 87 000 uniformed forces and electoral officials are to begin casting their votes on Sunday in a two-day special vote ahead of July 31 general elections.

More than 30,000 people have fled DR Congo after a group of Ugandan rebels attacked a border town, says the UN's refugee agency, UNHCR.