[This is Africa]While Barack Obama's re-election has been met with enthusiasm across Africa, many are frustrated about a lack of delivery on past promises.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The sixth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana seems to have started with a limp. Ghana's Parliament has gone for a two-week break to enable the leadership find a lasting solution to the congestion problem in the Chamber.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]In 2010, during the World Cup, I panicked when I realized that Ghana, which was then coached by the Serbian, Milovan Rajevac would face Serbia in the preliminaries stages. Ghana did win but I have always been bothered by the question of divided loyalties.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kuntenase-Ashanti -Nana Attakora Bonsrah, Chief of Kronko in the Bosomtwe district of the Ashanti Region has drawn the attention of the government to the deplorable nature of the road network in the area.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]In a few weeks, bank customers can use their ATM cards to shop anywhere in Ghana and make payment on point-of-sale devices with their cards.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The 64th Annual New Year School and Conference opened at the University of Ghana on Monday. This year's theme is "The Key to Future Health of our Country: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene".

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Court of Appeal, on Tuesday, ordered the state to file a formal application confirming a presidential pardon offered to Adamu Dramani Sakande, former Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, who is serving a two-year jail term.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The much talked about National Democratic Congress (NDC) joinder to the election petition, filed in reaction to a challenge against the Electoral Commission's (EC's) declaration of President John Mahama as winner of the 2012 presidential poll is back in court today.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Ghana Chamber of Mines is advocating a national mining vision and policy to direct as well as regulate the inflows from that sector into proper development projects.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kpedze -The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ho West, Mr. Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah has assured the people of government's preparedness to transform the area to an appreciable level as the potentials in the area would be harnessed effectively to the benefit of the people.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The desire by the state to retrieve the controversial GH¢51 million paid to an Accra-based businessman, Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome, as judgement debt, suffered a temporary jolt yesterday, as state prosecutors handling the case failed to produce witnesses as earlier promised to testify in the case.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]An Accra Fast Track Court (FTC) has ordered the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Madina Constituency in the December 2012 parliamentary election to pay a security cost of GH¢1, 000 for an election petition he filed before it.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kumasi -Three suspected armed robbers were shot dead by the Ashanti Regional Police Command in the early hours of yesterday.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Anti-corruption campaigner, P. C. Appiah Ofori has fired the first shot at the nomination of Nana Oye Lithur as minister-designate for Gender, Children and Social Protection, calling on the President to rescind his decision in nominating the gender right activist for such a sensitive position.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Just when her name came up for the position of minister designate for Gender, Children and Social Protection, a group calling itself concerned clergy association of Ghana came up with allegations that Nana Oye Lithur was in support of gays in this country.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Executive Chairman of the Zoomlion and Jospong Group of Companies, Dr. Joseph Siaw Adjepong, says that Ghana's gloomy water and sanitation situation is due to the systematic failure of policy.

[AEP]An appeal has been made for the indigenes of Akatsi South and Buem to consider reserving their vacant parliamentary seats for only women to contest.

[CISA]A Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr Fritz Gockel has called on the Catholic Church to develop a national policy on priests' retirement, because in organizational behaviour the presence and quantum of insurance has a direct effect on workers' productivity.

[State Department]Washington -The United States is working with officials in 10 nations to address illegal, unreported, unregulated (IUU) fishing in 2011 or 2012, or that had ineffective measures to prevent the unintended catch of protected species in 2012.