President John Dramani Mahama on Sunday said Ghana would soon come out of the socio-economic turbulence it is currently going through.

Presidential Advisor on National Security, Brigadier-General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, has incurred the displeasure of striking workers with his suggestion that workers who go on strike should not be paid.

Ghana and Cuba yesterday signed a bilateral agreement to strengthen existing relations between them.

The Upper East Regional Minister, Alhaji Limuna Mohammed-Muniru, has tasked municipal and district Assemblies (MDAs) in the region not to embark on new infrastructure projects but rather be creative and devise strategies to complete uncompleted projects dotted all over the various communities.

Days after the launch of the 2013 edition of the Glitz Africa Fashion Week (GAFW) at the Alisa Hotel in Accra, the organiser of the event, Claudia Lumor says all is set for a great show.

Emmanuel and I were not amused when my young pal, Nana Yaw, opted for a chicken and rice dish for breakfast the other morning while we were in Ho.

The 10 finalists of this year’s Miss Malaika beauty pageant sent a clear message during the final event on Saturday to all well-to-do Ghanaians to support the needy, as video clips on their various charity projects showed the poor and sick swimming in a sea of misery.

Mahama jabsFormer President Rawlings was honoured last week by the University for Development Studies (UDS) for his contribution towards the establishment and growth of the institution.

The outcome of the emergency meeting of the African Union is scarcely surprising. The AU agreed on a deferral of the Hague trial in the case of Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, till the end of his term. They also stated emphatically that no sitting African head of state should appear before any International Court.

CEMETERIES are designated places to honour and celebrate the lives of our departed loved ones.  So when people die, Ghanaians go to much extent and expense to organise a respectable ‘send off’ for them.

The greatest threat to life all over the world today is TERRORISM. Indeed, I am yet to learn about any disease that kills tens and hundreds of people in one country in a single day as terrorism does when terrorist groups slay people with bomb blasts and other artillery attacks.

By Bernard OtabilIn fact, there should be no award if you are able to correctly identify that when your cost of living goes up and your income stays the same, you will have less to spend.

An-18- year-old student has been arrested by a team of police and military personnel stationed at the Nkrankwanta checkpoint in the Dormaa West District for possessing eight parcels of dried leaves and seeds suspected to be Indian hemp concealed in a gallon.

A HIGH Court in Ho has sentenced a fisherman, Kwetey Kofi Afeti (from an island on the Volta Lake, Gabikpo, near Kpando), to death by hanging.

TWO hundred and fifty allied health graduates have been inducted into the health profession at a ceremony organised at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi.

The Brong Ahafo Regional Programmes Manager of ActionAid Ghana, Madam Christina Amarchey, has said that a child who does not die but suffers from undernourishment up to the age of two will have his or her mental and physical development damaged forever.

The Ghana Prisons Service (GPS) has appealed to employers and individuals in the country to employ the services of skilled prisoners to enable the service to raise revenue to improve the quality of life of the prisoners.

One of the largest campaign marches against breast cancer is set to hit Accra, in the nation’s renewed fight against the deadly disease.

A total of 42 corpses which were in the morgue of the St Dominic Hospital at Akwatia in the Eastern Region were retrieved by the family members for burial on September 7, this year.

By Uncle Ebo WhyteNot long ago, the world mourned the passing of Mrs Margaret Thatcher, the woman who is now acknowledged as one of the greatest Prime Ministers Britain has ever seen.