Golden Tulip Kumasi City has been recognised for its outstanding contribution to business promotion in the Ashanti Region at the 10th Ashanti Business Excellence Awards (ABEA) held in Kumasi.

The second in a series of prayer conferences organised by the Greater Accra Regional directorate of the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International (FGBMFI) for 2013 comes off this week at the La Palm Royal Beach Resort.

Local and international researchers and farmers have begun a pilot project on the planting of genetically modified cowpea seeds in the country.

The Mangoase Senior High School (SHS) in the Akuapem North District of the Eastern Region has unveiled its new official school cloth for its 22nd anniversary and maiden speech and prize-giving day.

Some students in the basic and senior high schools, as well as in the universities, tend to avoid studying Mathematics, although it is a subject students cannot avoid.

“It is a laudable national event so I’m completely for it but I’m also happy to be part of it because it is an initiative from a highlife artiste and the effort will definitely help more people know the relevance and maturity of contemporary highlife in this country.”

Award-winning gospel singer, Ohemaa Mercy always has a peculiar way of grabbing audience attention and come this Saturday, October 12, the talented singer will dish out some of her popular songs at the Shouts of Victory concert being organised by the Christ Embassy church at Nungua in Accra.

The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has said there is no crisis within the NDC.

A businessman in Wa in the Upper West Region, Mr Kodwo Frimpong, has suggested that if Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo–Addo does not contest the presidential primaries of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamadu Bawumia should be made to do so.

The government has urged the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to review its stance on the 10-day ultimatum it has given to it and the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) to reduce utility tariffs.

If you can read this piece and understand it, you are part of the problem of Africa. Every successive day confirms my belief in the moral bankruptcy and corruption of the educated African as our problem. This group includes those we describe as the African intelligentsia, the educated, the literate or the ‘book-long’ people.

The No.3 Graphic Road stretches from the Obetsebe Lamptey Circle to the bridge, over the railway, passing through the slum now popularly called Abuja. It is a busy road, often laden with long queues of trotros that move like snails in the mornings and evenings.

Ghana’s Health Insurance Scheme has been applauded for adopting strong policies to address its challenges and improving health care delivery in the country.

Residents of Bortianor and its surrounding communities continue to beseige the district office of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to register their displeasure at problems with the new prepaid meters being installed in the area.

The Africa Regional Conference on “Population and Development Beyond 2014” has ended, with the adoption of an Addis Ababa Declaration.

Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of the Interior, has said the government will wait for the outcome of investigations currently going on in the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) uniform saga before commenting on the issue or taking any decision.

Ghana is to host the first-ever global aviation exposition in Africa in Accra, in 2014.As a prelude to that event, a Presidential Advisor, Mr PV Obeng, has launched the “African Air Expo 2014,” which would bring to Ghana all stakeholders in the aviation industry from around the world from October 9 to 11, 2014.

The first phase of a new model co-educational senior high school (SHS) at Mamponteng in the Kwabre District of the Ashanti Region has been completed to admit fresh students for the 2013/2014 academic year.

The News Editor of The Catholic Standard, Mr Damian Avevor, is among 25 journalists worldwide who have been awarded at the ongoing World Media and Journalism Congress of the International Christian Organisation of the Media (ICOM) at Panama in Central America.

Annually, harrowing statistics are churned out about admissions into our universities.  The sad fact is that whereas the number of students who qualify is small, the number is further atomised and reduced for the lack of coordination of admissions in the public universities.