A US Peace Corps volunteer, Danielle Dunlap is dead.

Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of the Interior said at the weekend that Ghana has set up a National Integrated Programme (NIP) as an effective regional response to the threat pose by organised crime.

Seven Communities in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region are living in fear as a broken bridge along the Tumu-Chinchan road remains unfixed.

The National Road Safety Commission is set to launch a pedestrian campaign as part of their road safety initiatives. Scheduled to be launched on May 2, 2013 at Lapaz in Accra, it comes with the theme, “Be alert, Look out for other road users.”

Sixty percent of Ghanaian women, who were often victims of wife battery, according to a Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) say wife beating is justifiable.

There was drama at Agotime-Kpoitoa in the Volta Region on Friday evening when the chiefs and elders of the village prevented the family of the 50-year-old man from burying him in the village.

Brother John Alexander Osei, Chairman of the Executive Council of Wacam, human rights, environmental and mining advocacy Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has won a National May Day Award for defending the rights of impoverished communities affected by mining.

The Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council and the Accra Metropolitan Authority (AMA) on Saturday launched its Operation Clear Choked Drains in the Metropolis, as a preventive mechanism against flooding.

A Government delegation led by the Greater Accra Regional Minister Mr Julius Debrah, on Saturday toured Sodom and Gomorrah, a slum in Accra, gutted by a fire on May 3.

The Coalition on the Right to Information (RTI) on Thursday said there was the need for all workers to be well informed on their pension rights and responsibilities in order to hold their employers including the government accountable.

Mr Ahmed Ibrahim, Member of Parliament (MP) for Banda constituency in the Brong-Ahafo Region has observed that the Bui dam project has enabled many of the youth in the area to acquire employable skills.

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Saturday undertook its periodic clean-up exercise in Accra towards the face-lifting of the capital in conformity with its Millennium City Project (MCP).

The leaders of the two Asafo Companies and other groups involved in the celebration of the Aboakyer festival have signed an undertaken with the Central Regional Security Council (REGSEC) to ensure absolute peace in Winneba.

A SENIOR High School (SHS) form-two student of an Nsawam private school (name withheld) has told DAILY GUIDE in an exclusive interview that it will be wrong to accuse her of the death of her lover, a 30-year-old trotro driver and resident of Gbetsile near Afienya.

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection is offering the very aged and poor GH¢45 Ghana every month to enable them to make a living.

The Headmaster of Nakpanduri Business Senior High School (SHS), Chief Kipoe Harrison, has told Radio Ghana that the Konkomba-Bimoba conflict is seriously affecting life on campus.

An alleged murderer, who has been on the run for almost a year, has been arrested.

A Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) on Female Genital Mutilation/Cut (FGM/C), has revealed that 94 per cent of women between the ages of 15-49 years want the practice stopped.

Five persons, three of them staff of the Manhyia Sub Metropolitan office in Kumasi, died when a Nissan Urvan mini bus on which they were travelling ran into a ditch at Abofour in the Offinso South Municipal Area on Saturday evening.

At least 39 people have been killed in Nigeria's Taraba state as clashes broke out between Christians and Muslims at a funeral, say reports.