[Ghana Govt.]The Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Eric Opoku says government is making strides in food production.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]In order to boost production of food and food security in the country, the nation set aside the first Friday in December to award our gallant and hardworking farmers. The celebration takes place at the national, regional and district levels.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Winners of the National Best Cassava Farmer and the regional best cassava farmers for the Volta and Eastern regions at just-ended National Farmers' Days have received equipment from Accra Brewery Limited (ABL), producers of the cassava beer, and Eagle Lager.

[CAJ News]Accra -THE Central Organisation of Trade Union (COTU) leader, Francis Atwoli, has defended the new pension scheme by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) as viable and safe for all Kenyans.

[Africa Top Sports]This is surely a message to Ghana's Fifa World Cup group opponents that Black Stars will not be an easy side to play in Brazil.

[FrontPageAfrica]A new book 'African Agriculture and Climate Change' which was launched in Warsaw at the nineteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 19) of the United Nations Framework convention on Climate (UNFCCC) examines how climate change will affect food security threats and explores increased efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security in 11 of the 16 countries that make up West Africa- Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Teachers and pupils of St. Charles Primary School in the Bolgatanga Municipality have become the latest beneficiaries of the MTN Foundation's Information Communication Technology (ICT) Centre project for selected communities and institutions in the country.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]I must say that the outcome of the recent Election petition hearing had contributed to the decline of the judiciary because the case of the petitioners could have been thrown away in the initial stages and immediately strike it out. A case of prima facie should have long been determined within four weeks. Instead, the nine Judges allowed it to travel nine months before telling Ghanaians that the petitioners had no case with a 5-4 ruling in favor of President John Mahama.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]It appears the country's power distributor, the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has embarked on a secret load shedding exercise, without informing the public.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]At the regional celebration of Farmers' Day, which took place at Osiem in the East Akyem Municipality, Emmanuel Takyi Appiah of Teko Farms in the Fanteakwa District was crowned the Regional Best Framer.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]THE COMPETENCE of the New Patriotic Party's flagbearer in the 2012 general elections, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, to lead the party to victory in the 2016 elections appears to have been called to questions by his own close confidant, Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Overall Best Farmer award of the 29th Farmers' Day celebration 2013 in the Upper East Region went to Mr. Daniel Duut from the Garu-Tempane District, while Mr. Yusif Asurikabiya from the Gowrie Abaabisi community in the Bongo District was adjudged the Overall District Best Farmer.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The complainant in the alleged plot to defame the Greater Accra Regional boss of the Driver Vehicle and Licensing Authority (DVLA), Mary Ama Serwaa Kulevome, is establishing herself as a hostile witness.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Member of Parliament (MP) for Nhyiaeso and former Minister for Roads and Transport, Dr. Richard Winfred Anane, says the party is gradually losing its identity as a conservative political organisation.

[Ghana Govt.]The Clients Services Office, a Unit of the Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Education, was, yesterday, inaugurated in Accra.

[Ghana Govt.]The MTN Group has conveyed its heartfelt condolences to the Mandela family, the people of South Africa and the world on the passing away of former President Nelson Mandela.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]JDM is in the Merchant Bank saga, big time. Whether he likes it or not, he placed himself there when he did not follow his own code of ethical guidelines, with which he expects his ministers to conform. Unless it is one of those politician things where you say something or develop a regulation or rule simply to assuage the populace with no intention of ever monitoring the code. And we have several of such in Ghana.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Tamale -THE Chief of Tamale, Gulkpe-naa Alhassan Abdulai has thrown his weight behind the Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) of Tamale, Hannan Abdul-Rahaman Gundadow, in his quest to beautify and transform the metropolis to become one of the leading tourist and commercial centre in Ghana.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Accra -World leaders are expected in South Africa for the 10-day state funeral of Nelson Rolihala Mandela, the father of the nation who died on Thursday, aged 95. The Madiba, who survived 27 years of tortuous prison conditions to defeat apartheid and became President of a non-racial society, will be buried at his hometown, Qunu, in the Eastern Cape Province on Sunday, December 15.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The National Executive Committee of the United Front Party last weekend clamped an indefinite suspension on its 2012 Presidential Candidate, Mr. Akwasi Addai, known popularly as Odike.