This yearÂ’s Aboakyer festival of the chiefs and people of the Effutu Traditional Area in the Central Region has been suspended.

The chief and people of Datuuk near Tongo in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region, have appealed to the Regional Minister, Alhaji Limuna Mohammed–Muniru to help find a lasting solution to threats and attacks from Fulanis headsmen in the area.

Africa had not added per capital value to the electricity sector for the past 30 years, Professor Ernest Aryeetey, Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana (UG), Legon said on Friday.

Speakers at a ceremony to mark World Press Freedom Day on Friday condemned attacks on journalists especially the recent assault of two photo journalists during GhanaÂ’s 57th Independence Day celebration by soldiers.

A 32 year old father with a wife and children, Yaw Berko, has met his untimely death after gulping pure locally made gin in a daring mood in bid to scare his competitors.

The Deputy Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Madam Sika Nartey has called on educational institutions in the nation to make sanitation a subject in their curricula.

President John Dramani Mahama on Friday inaugurated one out of the three turbines of the 400 megawatt capacity Bui Hydroelectricity dam to add 133 megawatts to the national electricity grid.

Several homes and property worth millions of Ghana cedis were destroyed when fire gutted Sodom and Gomorrah, a suburd of Accra in the Greater Accra region.

Communication Analyst, Paul Adom Otchere has charged journalists to develop capacity and stay abreast with the issues that determine the political dynamics of the country as Ghana marks World Press Freedom day.

Some residents of Cape Coast in the Central Region have sneered at President John Dramani Mahama for failing to address the water shortage that hit the area two weeks ago.

Three elderly widows who reside at Berekum in the Brong Ahafo region with 19 children and dozens of grandchildren and great grandchildren, have finally reclaimed assets they lost 37 years ago after the death of their husband.

The Central Regional Police Command has arrested Daniel Darkwa, who allegedly shot and killed a certain Franklin Hammond Appiah in his residence at Eyifuah Estate, a suburb of Cape Coast.

The Minister for Greater Accra Region, Julius Debrah has admonished Ghanaians to report cases of bribery to the appropriate authorities in order to swoop down on officials who authorize persons to set up buildings along waterways in the nation.

A US Peace Corps volunteer, Danielle Dunlap is dead. Dani, 25, died in Ghana on Sunday, April 28, after becoming ill, according to Peace Corps Deputy Director, Carrie Hessler-Radelet.

Civilian employees at the Police Hospital are likely to lay down their tools, if the police administration and the Ministry of Interior fail to increase their salaries by the end of the month.

The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Julius Debrah has urged institutions in the nation to participate in the clean-up exercise that will come off on Saturday.

Dr Charles Wereko-Brobbey, broadcast media pioneer, has advocated the establishment of a broadcasting law to bring sanity and order to the practice of independent broadcasting.

Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur on Friday launched GhanaÂ’s National Integrated Programme (NIP), to fight transnational organized crime and to strengthen the nationÂ’s criminal justice, in Accra.

About 41 women believed to be prostitutes together with 47 suspected criminals were on Tuesday arrested by the Madina Police. The suspects, according to the Madina Police, were part of suspected criminals terrorizing residents and travellers in the area.

For stealing N50,000 Sony Ericsson phone belonging to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, a 31-year-old Kevin Ighodalo has been sentenced to 45 years imprisonment by an Osogbo High Court.