The National Peace Council (NPC) has begun a two-week capacity building workshop in the Ashanti Regional capital of Kumasi to build the capacities of the board and staff of the NPC in peace mediation, dialogue and negotiation for the NPC to fully discharge its mandate.

The use of the  Tema engineered sanitary landfill site at Kpone is being overstretched because huge tonnage of refuse from Accra and its suburbs,including Achimota and Ashaiman,now find their way to the  site.

The Court of Appeal will on July 17, 2013 hear a motion for stay of execution of a judgement which ordered the state to pay the monthly pension and other entitlements of a former Auditor-General, Mr Edward Dua Agyeman.

Although Ghana has made some progress in the protection and promotion of the rights of women in the country, there are still gaps in interventions made so far, panellists at a roundtable discussion have said.

The Managing Director of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), Mr Kenneth Ashigbey, has advised university graduates against joining the Unemployed Graduates Association of Ghana (UGAG) and rather venture into entrepreneurship.

The Ghana Education Service (GES) and the West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC) have described this year’s West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE)  as successful despite the change of month for the BECE and the large number of candidates that sat for the WASSCE.

An environmental non-governmental organisation (NGO), Van-Argar Services Foundation, has mounted nine traffic direction stands at vantage points in the twin towns of Effiduase and Asokore in the Sekyere East District of Ashanti to aid schoolchildren  to cross the road without the threat of being knocked down by vehicles.

The Sekyere East District Assembly in the Ashanti Region has disbursed an amount of GH¢16,000.00  to over 30 disabled persons  in the district.

Stool or skin lands in Ghana are not for outright sale, the Paramount Chief of Kumbungu, Kumbun Naa Yiri II, has said.

The introduction of subsidies on fertilisers for agriculture purposes in the country was greeted with  joy by Ghanaians, particularly farmers. All over the country, farmers took advantage of the offer to increase yield to feed Ghanaians and also to earn some money for themselves and their families.

A special police task team has been assembled in KwaZulu-Natal to track down a suspected serial killer in the Tongaat area north of Durban.

The head of the Egyptian army has appeared live on television, announcing the suspension of the constitution.

President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday inspected on-going works on some roads aimed at improving traffic in the Eastern parts of the capital, Accra, and assured that work will be completed on all roads across the country.

Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur is calling for greater collaboration and harnessing of policies to boost relations, especially trade between Ghana and the United Kingdom.

One more way the Royal Baby is clearly a breed apart from anyone else on the planet? He or she already has a Wikipedia page.

Your resume needs an update -- that is, if your resume is like that of most people, it’s not as good as it could be. The problem is language: Most resumes are a thicket of deadwood words and phrases -- empty cliches, annoying jargon and recycled buzzwords. Recruiters, HR folks and hiring managers see these terms over and over again, and it makes them sad.  

There have been increased activities in the operations of both child and adult prostitutes in the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis, as nightlife picks up in the twin-city.

Three members of a gang that kidnapped the wife, daughter and driver of a judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, in May, this year, were among the seven suspects paraded by the State Security Service (SSS) in Benin City, Tuesday. The Rhodes-Vivour family was held captive for 18 days by their captors.

A former Deputy Attorney-General, Mr Ebo Barton-Odro, justified the payment of judgment debt to Alfred Agbesi Woyome in a letter copied to President J.E.A. Mills. This emerged at the Financial Division of the High Court sitting in Accra yesterday.

Three thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven Chinese resident in the country left for China last month following the exercise to clamp down on foreigners engaged in illegal mining in the country.