A SUSPECTED armed robber, believed to be a member of a notorious highway robbery gang who operates on the Accra-Tema Motorway, was in the early hours of yesterday shot dead on the motorway, when he engaged a police patrol team in a shoot-out.

The Mayor of Accra Alfred Oko Vanderpuye has said that his outfit will arrest all contractors and individuals who are caught engaging in illegal electricity connection at market centres in the capital.

Five suspected thieves were yesterday arrested for looting items belonging to traders whose stores were gutted by fire at Kantamanto market at the Central Business District of Accra early Sunday morning.

Judges of the Supreme Court who are hearing the 2012 presidential election petition Monday went to town in their condemnation of social commentators, lawyers and journalists for unfairly criticising their work.

A SCIENCE teacher at Brekumanso, a farming community near Asamankese in the West Akim Municipality of the Eastern Region, is in the grip of the Asamankese Police for raping a 22-year-old American volunteer, who is a colleague at the Brekumanso L/A Junior High School on April foolÂ’s day.

The Garu-Tempane District Assembly at its general meeting last Friday, failed to elect a presiding member (PM).

Everyone in Ghana is waiting for our leaders to overcome their disadvantages of youthfulness or inexperience by studying history. The most important subject for a young leader is history. A young person does not have the benefit of experience. He has to tap into the experiences of others. His only chance of avoiding certain mistakes is to study those who went before him.

A former Metropolitan Chief Executive of Kumasi, Mr Samuel Sarpong, was once quoted by the Ghanaian Chronicle newspaper as saying that the Kumasi metropolis, unlike Accra, is very safe from flooding.

Rent charges have become a perennial issue in Ghana, especially in the metropolitan and fast developing cities.

A memoir of resilience in the face of political, societal and economic challenges, Never Say Die! is interesting and fast-paced.

The mediation committee set up by the Sunyani Polytechnic (S-Poly) Council to investigate and mediate in the fracas between the registrar and the S-Poly branch of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) has exonerated the registrar from all allegations levelled against him by members of the teachers association.

Reconstruction of the fire-ravaged Kantamanto Market in Accra is to begin in July this year.

One of the two police officers cited in a contempt case by the former Deputy Head of the Police Commercial Crimes Unit, Gifty Tehoda failed to attend proceedings in court today resulting in an adjournment to 22nd of May 2013.

Some of the traders, whose wares were destroyed by the fire which razed down the Kantamanto market, clashed with personnel of the Ghana Police Service on Monday evening during an attempt by the police to take control of the area.

Editor of the Insight newspaper has urged the Ghana Police Service to discharge their duties as far as traders at the Kantamanto market are concerned with a human face and not with aggression.

Affected traders of the recent Kantamanto market fire on Monday ignored the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection Nana Oye Lithur when she took a tour of the burnt market.

Around the world today, approximately 400 million women were married as children. This practice is particularly prevalent in certain parts of Africa. In Chad and Niger, for example, which have the highest child marriage rates in the world, 70% of women were married off before their 18th birthday.

A South African lesbian couple have been told to split-up or their son will be expelled from school.

A research conducted by the Bosomtwe District Directorate of Education has cited irresponsible parenting as a major challenge confronting the development of education in the district.

The love affair between a 23-year-old lady, Dora Teye, and her fiancé, Kofi Akuffo, 41, turned tragic last Sunday when the young woman allegedly stabbed her partner to death.