More than 20 people have died in fresh violence in Egypt, as protesters loyal to the ousted President Mohammed Morsi clash again with security forces.

Zimbabwe's MDC party has dropped its legal challenge to President Robert Mugabe's re-election, saying it could not get a fair hearing.

The Member of Parliament for the Bosomtwe constituency in the Ashanti Region, Mr Simon Osei-Mensah, has attributed the current economic meltdown to mismanagement and uncontrolled corruption in the country.

Ghanaians continue to agitate against metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAS), due to lack of information, transparency, and their inability  to participate in activities of the assemblies.

When the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital was built in 1925, the then Governor of the Gold Coast, Sir Gordon Guggisberg, had planned that it would become a medical centre for the training of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health personnel. The colonial government, after Guggisberg, however, did not find the need to train medical doctors in Ghana.  

Never again“Who do people say I am?”  Matthew 16:15And “Who do people say N.Y.B. Adade was?”For my part, I cannot say anything more than how I perceived and wrote about N.Y.B. Adade in my autobiography, “The River in the Sea,” published in June 2010 almost three years before the demise of N.Y.B.

The Ghanaian atmosphere is very pregnant with what? Expectations? No. Fear ? No. Panic? No.As optimists let us say the two weeks leading to the pronouncement of the ruling by the Supreme Court on the famous election petition is just a long wait. Let us also make up our mind that we will all be proud of the baby. Surely it will be delivered without pain or tears. For, have we not gone through enough panic and are exhausted from clinging to the precipice already? Ghanaians may not like the face of the baby, but we have carried it in our womb for well over 50 days. We have felt its kicks and we have borne them proudly. Now this is the real thing. Let’s accept it.Onye easy is a famous Ghanaian saying that sums up our spirit of accepting unpalatable situations and turning the other cheek. In this period when everyone is calling for prayers, we should all talk and act like cowards. What’s the crime in tucking the tail and running to the police station to lodge a complaint rather than retorting sharply and hurling a stone? Cowards live longer. They strategise and score long-lasting victories whereas people who act as heroes are nothing more than failed state architects.

A British spare parts expert, Mr Tim Cooper, is to manage the operations of a newly built spare parts warehouse, Pasico Ghana, in Accra.

For the first time in its history, the Sefwiman Rural Bank will pay dividends to its shareholders.

The manganese industry is growing on the back of the global steel industry that presents countless opportunities for Ghana but hindered by rising cost and decaying rail infrastructure.

The embattled General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, has rendered an unqualified apology to the nine judges of the Supreme Court, after he was convicted of criminal contempt.

We are in the peak season for traditional festivals and from the southern parts of the country to the most northern territories, various celebrations are being held in remembrance of timeworn achievements and adversities while family reunions, development forums  and reconciliation meetings also play major parts.

We all love Prof. Mills, but Ataa Oko loves him more! We cry real tears for Prof. Mills, but for Ataa Oko, it is unadulterated blood. No matter the depth of sadness the anniversary of his sudden demise evokes, Ataa Oko feels greater pain! He must! Why else will he engage in fisticuffs with a 90-year-old national heroine over a hockey pitch appropriately named after her? But Ataa Oko too, why? One ‘world class’ hockey pitch for a whole country is inadequate anyway.

To my mind, the live coverage of the Election 2012 Petition evokes the imagery of one of the phrases associated with the late former British Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, “the oxygen of publicity”. For, one can coin a similar expression by likening the effect of the live broadcast to ‘the illumination of publicity’.

Guests at the recording of Pan-African music station Channel O’s O News Live recording last Sunday, were treated to amazing performances by selected Ghanaian musicians and South African hip hop star AKA.

Many of us focus on safe driving from two principal angles; the ability to operate a vehicle in motion on one hand, and  also the ability to bring it to a complete stop on the other. Scarcely do we consider the third and fourth legs of the process, that is maintaining the vehicle and parking safely when it is not in motion.

As the chiefs and people of the Asogli state gather this morning near the Nurses Training School junction at Ho in the Volta Region for the customary inauguration of this year’s Asogli yam festival, a more sombre mood than the recent official launch in Accra is likely to prevail.

This year’s Odambea festival promises to be thrilling with superb performances from some of the country’s best hip life artistes including Stonebwoy, Keche, Nhyirabe Kojo, Stay Jay, Yaa Pono, D Cryme and Castro.

The Miss Malaika delegates have paid a surprise visit to the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Ms Dzifa Gomashie, to share in her birthday joy.

The Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) has launched its flagship Welfare Fund for Ageing Musicians (AMWeF) in Accra.The President of MUSIGA, Bice Osei Kuffour, aka Obour, said the AMWeF was to take care of the welfare of members of MUSIGA who were 60 years and above.