The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana on Tuesday organised a stakeholder consultative forum to discuss relevant matters relating to the achievement of democracy and peace, by improving upon the Voter Registration process to achieve credible elections

President John Dramani Mahama has assured that government was putting in place measures to change Ghana’s economy from being dependent on export of raw materials to an industrial economy, where its natural resources would be processed

The World Health Organization (WHO) new estimates released on Tuesday, reports that in 2012 around seven million people died as a result of air pollution exposure

Superintendent Patience Naa Ashorkor Quaye, Head of Human Trafficking Division, Ghana Police Service, is to be decorated with the “International African Woman of the year 2014 award,” at the 3rd Annual Women4Africa Awards night in London

Nana Akufo-Addo has warned Ghana and Nigeria against their growing dependence on crude oil exports

Tuberculosis is currently a national security threat due to its contagious, high infection and airborne nature affecting mostly young adults in their economic and productive years

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Sekyere South Constituency, has appealed to the members to back the decision by Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo to lead the party to electoral battle in 2016, describing him as its best bet

An Accra Circuit Court on Tuesday granted Abudu Nii Ayi Lartey, a driver bail in the sum of GHâ‚¡10,000.00 with two sureties, each to be a public servant for possessing firearms without lawful authority and carrying offensive weapons

The 28th Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Regional Conference for Africa opened in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, on Tuesday with a call on smallholder farmers to step up their efforts to help accelerate Africa’s economic transformation and development

The Member of Parliament for Achiase, Mr Robert Kwasi Amoah, has spoke out against lack of professional guidance and counseling coordinators in Ghana’s educational institutions and called for a holistic approach to remedy the flaw to improve the educational system

A 31- year-old illegal miner who inflicted cutlass wounds on his colleague at Ata-ne-Ata a village near Huni Valley has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Tarkwa circuit court

A Tarkwa circuit court has granted bail in the sum of 15,000 Ghana cedis with a surety to a supplier, Frederick Mensah Kobby, for allegedly stealing five boxes of dust mark valued 12,500 Ghana cedis

The proposed upgrading of Polytechnics into Technical Universities would uplift Vocational and Technical education in the country, Mr James Gunu Akatsi-North District Chief Executive (DCE) has observed

Renowned Takoradi-based sports journalist George Kuntu Blankson has released a list of 30 players from which Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah will pick his final World Cup squad

The Chief of Agona Asafo, Nana Nyanfu Esuako XI, has urged Guidance and Counseling Institutions in the Country to periodically organise seminars and forums to counsel the youth on the implication of practicing Occultism

Ghanaians must rise up and “overthrow” the Mahama administration, if it goes ahead to sign the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), Dr David Percy of the National Reform Party has advocated

The National Women’s Organiser of the governing NDC, Anita Desooso, has denied allegations that she has an amorous relationship with the immediate past flagbearer of the opposition NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo

Since September 2013, leaders of the Ghana Unions across the UK have been consulting their membership on the formation of an umbrella body called the National Council of Ghanaian Unions UK (N.C.G.U) to coordinate and facilitate joint action for the benefit of the Ghanaian Community in the UK in the spirit of ‘One Nation, One Voice

Corruption is a social-human factor that entails the abuse of public office for private gains. It encompasses unilateral abuses by government officials such as embezzlement and nepotism as well as abuses linking public and private actors such as bribery, extortion influence peddling or fraud

Prices for basic staple food are back in the headlines—they are rising again. This is bad news for those among Africa’s poor who consume more food than what they can produce