I recently heard a radio advertisement by a bank in Ghana that really got me angry, sad and scandalised.The bank was selling educational loans and the message, as I understood it, was that one should come and grab the loan, get some education, land a good job and drive a big car.

Over the next four weeks, Bernard Otabil will be exposing you to creativity and innovation in the development of a successful life.

Two weeks ago, drivers, passengers and pedestrians alike watched in horror and fascination as a street protest carried out by the youth of Ashaiman spilled out of the community onto the Accra-Tema Motorway in the early hours of Monday morning.

Selly can't seem to shake off the Nando rumours.

Tonight has been a double blow for Elikem. While he licks his wounds after his lady friend, Fatima became the eleventh Chasemate to be booted out of the game, the Ghanaian fashion designer has Angelo to deal with.

Two pregnant girls and a 46-year-old farmer, Mathias Bayuo, were among 165 candidates, made up of 98 boys and 67 girls, who wrote the just-ended Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at Nsuta, near Techiman, in the Brong Ahafo Region.

A female Business student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Miss Dorothy Gyamerah-Ako, emerged the Overall Best Student during the 47th congregation of the College of Art and Social Sciences (CASS) last Saturday.

The newly appointed Italian Ambassador to Ghana and Togo, Dr Laura  Carpini,  joined a section of the Italian business community and dignitaries in the Kumasi Metropolis and its environs last Thursday to celebrate Italy’s 67th national day.

Brazil has requested clarifications from the US government about reports that its intelligence agencies monitored millions of emails and phone calls from Brazilian citizens.

Statistics available at the Motor Transport and Traffic Unit (MTTU) of the Ghana Police Service for the first quarter of the year show that there is a reduction in road accidents.

A highly placed source at the Road Fund Secretariat has denied that GH¢ 9 million cannot be accounted for from toll booth collection as contained in the Auditor-General’s report for 2011.

The Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has cautioned the general public to keep information about them, particularly their telephone numbers and residential and postal addresses from strangers because, “there are a lot of tricksters on the loose”.