Organised Labour has declared a nationwide strike after failing to reach an agreement with the government and the Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC) over the recent hike in utility tariffs.

Leaders of the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) recently held a special summit in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, which focused on moving the region towards a common market and a single currency by 2020.

Leaders of the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) recently held a special summit in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, which focused on moving the region towards a common market and a single currency by 2020.

My good friends, the daily news reports about the theft of public funds are troubling. Within the past few months, we have been bombarded with such news reports to such an extent as to wonder whether there is any hope for this country at all in the management of its finances.

President John Mahama has left Accra for Stockholm, Sweden, where he will be co-hosting the mid-term review meeting of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI Alliance).

Two Kenyan soldiers have been sacked and jailed for looting during last month's attack on the Westgate shopping centre, the army chief has said.

On September 9, 2011, then Vice President (and now President) John Mahama announced government’s plans to set up a Media Development Fund (MDF).

Ghana’s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings on Sunday paid a courtesy call on President Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa at his residence in Johannesburg.

The Vice Chancellor of the Wits University in South Africa, Prof Adam Habib has called for equitable partnership between the western and developing world.

Libya's state news agency says gunmen have stolen $54m (£33.5m) in an attack on a van carrying foreign and local currency for the Libyan central bank.

Pressure is growing on the White House to explain US intelligence gathering and why President Barack Obama appeared not to know the extent of operations.

The UN's special envoy in the Democratic Republic of Congo has told the organisation's Security Council that the M23 rebel movement is all but finished as a military threat.

It seems like yesterday but three days away,  it will be exactly 10years since the death of hiplife musician Terry Bonchaka, real name Terrence Nii  Okang  Mensah Adjetey.

The government is considering weaning-off state institutions identified as self-sufficient in resources, from the government payroll.

Anxious journalists who thronged a press conference by the leadership of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to address concerns raised by the media on a service contract awarded Revsol/Subah Infosolutions Ghana Limited left the venue disappointed as the meeting ended abruptly.

A policeman and two others were yesterday sentenced to a total of 90 years’ imprisonment with hard labour by the Accra Circuit Court for robbing two licensed arms and ammunition dealers in Accra.

The mystery surrounding the sale of the drill ship belonging to the Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC) and the disbursement of the money from that sale has deepened, as the Bank of Ghana (BoG) cannot tell whether or not an account into which the money is said to have been paid exists.

Leti Arts tells the African stories through interactive cross-platforms.  As one of a handful of interactive media studios in sub-Saharan Africa, Leti has been introducing global audiences to African story-telling.

Government plans to establish a fund for the construction of affordable houses to reduce the chronic housing deficit bedeviling the country.

The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GHPA) has downplayed fears that the country risk losing its maritime traffic to neighbouring Togo following the construction of a new port in the Togolese capital, Lome.