[Ghanaian Chronicle]Agogo-Ash -CONSTITUENTS OF Asante Akyem North District are pleading with President John Dramani Mahama to appoint a District Chief Executive for the area. The district has been without a Chief Executive since it was created by the late President J.E.A Mills.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The leadership of the Local Government Workers' Union (LGWU) of Trades Union Congress of Ghana (TUC) says it will ensure that its members at the Metropolitan, Municipal, District Assemblies (MMDAs) tasked with mobilizing revenue, take the necessary measures in 2014 to achieve the projected revenue target towards the execution of development projects and programmes in the various assemblies.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Akatsi- North District will go into commercial agriculture next year, James Gunu, the District Chief Executive said on Wednesday. He was speaking at a durbar to mark the District's Farmers' Day celebration at Ave-Dakpa on Wednesday.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Greater Accra Regional Police Command has arrested two suspected child kidnappers at various churches in the capital.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Takoradi -Five former Kwesimintsim constituency executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have filed contempt charges at a Sekondi High Court against the Western Regional Chairman of the party, Nana Owusu Ankomah, the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency, Joe Baidoe Ansah and the constituency chairman, Ransford Odame, for denyin g them the right to vote in the just ended constituency congress.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Ministry of Communications has assured Ghanaians that telecom service providers in the country have given an undertaking to the observance of good quality of communications services during this festive season.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Mr. Okletey Terlabi, Deputy Minister of Defence, has charged graduands of the junior staff course 61 of the Ghana Armed Forces to always put the interest of the nation first in whatever decision or action they take.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Ho -Volta region has seen much development in the area of quality healthcare delivery in 2013, particularly in maternal mortality and general health care provision, but lags behind in the area of education, as performances at both the basic and second cycle level are not encouraging.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Despite the roof top pronouncement by the government that a whopping 70% of Ghana's domestic revenue is being used to pay workers under Single Spine Salary Policy (SSSP), it has, at the same time, put a stopper on the policy being pursued by stakeholders to help reduce the huge public sector wage bills.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Tema -Sampson Ahi, deputy minister of Works & Housing has appealed to the board and management of the Tema Development Corporation (TDC) to consider providing more accommodation to help reduce the 1.8 million housing deficit facing the country presently.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The sprawling city of Ashaiman, which is considered as one of the fastest growing cities in Ghana, with its attendant crime rate, has been deprived of a higher judicial outlet.

[Ghana Govt.]Mr Bossman Osei Hyiaman, the District Chief Executive of the Twifo Atti-Morkwa District Assembly has promised to build a teachers' bungalow for teachers at Kyeaboso District Assembly Basic School to motivate them to do more for the community school.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Organised Labour on Friday, December 13, 2013, called on the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) and the Bank of Ghana to suspend the sale of Merchant Bank Ghana (MBG) to Fortiz Private Equity Fund Limited.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The youth of Abenase in the Ejisu Juaben Municipality have appealed to Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, to, as a matter of urgency, intervene and resolve the chieftaincy dispute in the area.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]There is a general uproar in the country's insurance industry over the presidential directive on insurance cover for government businesses, which industry players say does not only nail the coffin for the collapse of the private insurance companies, but also flies in the face of the law that governs the industry .

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Prof. Ohene Adjei, has hinted that the hospital is devising more efficient ways of service delivery in order to enhance the quality of healthcare for its clients.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The management of Kessben FM, a private radio station in Kumasi, brought smiles and joy on the faces of inmates of the Mampong Babies Home, ahead of the Christmas festivities, when the station presented items worth over GH¢20,000 to the home.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Several hundreds of residents across the length and breadth of the Tema Metropolis, last Saturday joined officials of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) and other stakeholders to embark on a clean-up exercise to rid the city of fifth.

[Ghana Govt.]The Silver Jubilee anniversary of the Melcom Group of Companies will be marked in Ghana, next year, with a series of activities, Mr Godwin Avenorgbo, Director of Communications of the Melcom Group of Companies, has disclosed.

[Ghana Govt.]Ghana has been elected President of the Bureau of UNESCO's Management of Social Transformation (MOST) Programme's Intergovernmental Council.