[Ghanaian Chronicle]The launch of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards 2013 was yesterday at the La Palm Hotel. It saw most industry players, music lovers and critics attend; the media as well was there.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kumasi -Construction work on the Sofoline Interchange at Kwadaso in Kumasi has, for the umpteenth time, come to a standstill, as workers of the Chinese Geo Corporation (CGC) working on the interchange have decided to lay down their tools.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Mampong-Ashanti -Mr. Ernest Owusu, Officer in Charge of Education, and Samuel Yeboah, in Charge of enforcement in the Ashanti Regional Zonal office of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), have said fighting against drug abuse in the country is a shared responsibility, for which reason everybody is expected to get involved in fighting the menace.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Accra will reverberate with excitement on the eve of Independence day when Grammy Award winner and electrifying performer Chris Brown hits the stage at the OheneGyan Sports Stadium to thrill fans in the Hope City Celebration Launch concert.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Unidentified persons, in the early hours of Saturday, butchered to death a retired officer of the Ghana Air Force, Flt-Lt Francis Ekpe Matanawui, aged 46, at his New Dawhenya home.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The government of Ghana has estimated US$1,000 per capital income by 2015 through tourism to boost the country's economic wealth creation, for which reason it has charged the Tourism Ministry, in its mission statement, to create a conducive and favorable environment for the sustainable growth and development of the sector.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]IN RECENT times, there have been much concern about the re-naming of the then Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs, into the Ministry for Gender, Children and Social Protection.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Traditional leaders of Takoradi Amanful and its adjourning communities have expressed displeasure at the sale of public lands for private use in the area.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kumasi -In harnessing the potential of the Suame cluster-based industrial centre into a technologically advanced industrial estate in Ghana, the Suame Magazine Industrial Development Organisation (SMIDO), has entered into a partnership project involving the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and a Dutch university to build a car at Suame Magazine this year.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The two Nigerians, who allegedly imported cocaine concealed in a cosmetic cargo, were yesterday brought before an Accra Fast Track High Court and detained over the accusation leveled against them.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]He appeared in dark glasses and sounded very energetic, as if all was well with him. However, deep down his spine, and to his bone marrow, he was fighting for survival.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Theater for a Change has launched its Old Fadama Legislative Theatre project with an interactive theater performance at Jamestown community theater centre.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Ambassador Kabral Blay-Amihere, Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), on Wednesday, said the media's performance in the 2012 general elections was an improvement on the previous ones.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Adedietam -Information reaching The Chronicle indicates that two galamsey (illegal) miners at Adedientam, a farming community in the East Akyem Municipality of the Eastern Region, were reportedly shot and wounded on Wednesday, following a clash between the youth and the security personnel of Extra Gold Mining Limited, which operates in the area.

[GoG]President John Dramani Mahama will this morning leave Accra to join colleague heads of state in Yamoussoukro, Cote D'ivoire for the 42nd Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The issue of illegal gold miners, popularly referred to as "galamseyers", in parts of the country is not only having a negative effect on the environment, but turning out to be a violent and dangerous activity.