Authorities at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital have announced that the main surgical theatre would be shut down for renovation from Wednesday, July 17, 2013.

Scores of people have been rendered homeless after fire gutted a slum community called Abuja near the CMB in Accra.

The Ga South Municipal Assembly has begun the process to secure a new location to resettle the more than 500 residents of Kojontor left homeless, after a private developer razed down their houses.

Prices of premix fuel appear to be the hardest hit in the latest hikes in petroleum products. The fuel which is used by mainly fishermen went up by 23 percent and would be selling at 54.2 Ghana cedis per litre.

Road transport operators have served notice to passengers and commuters to get ready to pay higher transport fares.The pump price of petrol was yesterday increased by approximately 1.71%, Diesel by 1.27% and LPG by 6.18%.

Stone Strong Lager, one of Accra BreweryÂ’s flagship beer brands, has won a Gold Award for product and quality at the recently held Monde Selection Awards.

Prominent Cameroonian gay rights activist and journalist Eric Lembembe has been killed in the capital, Yaounde, a rights group says.

The Vietnamese court has sentenced five people to death for dealing in heroin lengthening the countryÂ’s list of condemned criminals as it struggles to obtain the chemicals needed to execute the criminals.

And while he would not respect our PhDs, Hilary Clinton respects Prof George Ayittey enough to invite him for talks on global economics. Mention Dr. Yao Graham in Kenya and you are forever proud to be a Ghanaian. Cross over to the Lui Centre for the study of Global Issues at the University of British Columbia in Canada, and you will discover Prof Atta Mills still lives.

The peddling of patent falsehood by Mr Philip Addison, lead counsel of the petitioners in the on-going Supreme Court (SC) challenge to the 2012 Presidential Election results has once again caught up with him.

If anybody has any genuine doubt that, indeed, President John Agyekum-Kufuor quintupled the size of Ghana's economy during the 8 years that he held fort, as it were, let that Doubting Thomas and/or Thomasina check the record books. Or is this also a mission impossible for the inveterate detractors of the Gentle Giant?

Imagine a prevocational situation where my mother in-law said she has suffered to cater for her daughter and that she will continue to exert her influence in her daughterÂ’s marital affairs, meanwhile the daughter has not complained of anything negative.

When have calls for prayers for oneÂ’s country become a crime in Ghana?

Dr. Afari-Gyan does not seem to have trusted the technological swiftness of using the biometric voting machines to reviewing the accuracy of the election results.

Simplifying cumbersome and lengthy laws and regulations, giving more economic freedom to private companies, local governments, and organizations and getting rid of politically driven decisions would substantially reduce corruption opportunities for government officials and bureaucrats.

Fifteen years ago, on 17 July 1998, history was made. Gathered in Rome, Italy, the international community agreed on the creation of a permanent international court with a mandate to punish the perpetrators of the most inhumane crimes imaginable and to provide reparations to the victims of such acts.

As a seasoned journalist and a proud Ghanaian who lives in one of the greatest nations on earth, I’ve never felt so ashamed in my life than when I read about Ghana Supreme Court’s decision to jail an editor of a newspaper for expressing his “opinion” of the court.