Tax avoidance, secret mining deals and financial transfers are depriving Africa of the benefits of its resources boom, ex-UN chief Kofi Annan has said.

The two Chinese in custody for killing two people at Obuasi have denied carrying out the act.

Police have arrested three persons believed to have stolen 22 bales of used clothing, shoes and other assorted goods belonging to traders whose wares were burnt in the last Sunday fire outbreak.

It could cost about 100 thousand dollars for an audit to be carried out on pink sheet exhibits in the on-going election petition case.

Burkina FasoÂ’s foreign minister has fainted during a joint press conference in Turkey.

Four Days into the ban of drumming and noise making in the Ga State for a period of one month, following a directive issued by the Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, urging all churches and operators of bars and restaurants to comply with the directives, a section of the public who sell CD recordings and vehicles which use sound systems are busy flouting the customs.

The editor of the Ghanaian Times Newspaper, David Agbenu says his outfit is ready to bury the hatchet with the Military over the assault that took place at the Independence Square in Accra during the 56th celebration of GhanaÂ’s independence.

A Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Samuel Awuku has said he was so devastated with the way and manner the Ghana Police Service and the Military handled issues concerning traders who lost their goods during the Kantamanto fire outbreak last Sunday.

Just about two weeks ago, the Member of Parliament for Odododiodio, Nii Lantey Vanderpuije, promised that he was going to rebuild Kantamanto, the Daily Searchlight can reveal. Two weeks later, the market had been razed to the ground by fire!

Police in Kumasi have arrested four persons for allegedly killing a third year student of Kumasi Polytechnic, in a land dispute at Atonsu S-Line.

The Ghana National Fire Service has promised to establish the cause of the infernos and take appropriate action per the findings.

The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister Mavis Ama Frempong has stated that the implementation of the Youth in Road Maintenance (YiRM) module in the past few years has immensely helped to reduce the burden of youth unemployment and therefore needs to be sustained.

The police have told Daily Guide that Collins Akomea Kankam, District Manager of Federated Commodity Company, a licensed cocoa buying company based at Sefwi Wiawso in the Western Region has embezzled GH¢564,847 meant for purchasing cocoa beans.

The Chinese government has admitted its failure to prevent its nationals from illegally traveling to Ghana.

The Information Ministry has said it has no knowledge of the alleged abduction and killings of some Ghanaians living in Libya.

The First Lady, Mrs. Lordina Mahama, says the time has come when no woman in Ghana should die while giving birth. She has therefore urged midwives in the country to close their ranks and forge forward together in unity.

The Akwatiahene, Osabarima Kofi Boateng III, has advised the people of the newly-created Denkyembour District in the Eastern Region to register with the health insurance scheme.

Two persons have allegedly been shot and killed by Chinese illegal gold miners over a disputed land at Mamiriwa in Obuasi in the Ashanti Region.

A 35-year-old Assembly member for the Gomoa Buduatta Electoral Area, Mr Frederick Joe Arthur, has been elected and sworn in as the new Presiding Member of the Gomoa East District Assembly in the Central Region.

Former NPP Member of Parliament (MP) for Asokwa, Maxwell Kofi Jumah, has said citizens in the Kumasi Metropolis are no longer in safe hands of the Ghana Police Service due to the recent uprising in the metropolis.