Food security in Ghana is largely dependent on the contribution of smallholder farmers predominantly engaged in crop and cash production, Mr Medhi Saint-Andre, Managing Director of Yara Ghana, has said.

A two day seminar for civil society groups in Ghana, aimed at exploring ways to ensure the sustainability of their programmes in the society, has ended in Accra.

A report on the review of the Persons with Disability Act, 2006 (Act 715) has revealed a number of inconsistencies with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).

The National Coordinator for National Disaster Management Organization [NADMO], Mr Kofi Portuphy is being tipped to win the Best Regional Farmer for the Eastern Region the second time in three years.

The Queen is to receive an inflation-busting 5 per cent ‘pay rise’ next year, giving her an annual income of £37.9million.

The chief of Nkwaben, a town in the Nkoransa south municipality of the Brong Ahafo region has slapped a fine on a 35-year-old woman who lured a 12-year-boy into the bush and defiled him.

Former Presidential Aspirant Prof. Mike Ocquaye has asked the African Union to treat with utmost “contempt” and “disdain”, President Obama’s call on African nations to decriminalise homosexuality.

A 30-YEAR-OLD woman at Maakro, a suburb of Kumasi, was allegedly hacked to death by her boyfriend who later attempted suicide and suffered severe injury in the ribs at the dawn of Thursday.

Three out of four teenage boys who conspired and executed a robbery attack on an aunty of one of the suspects with kitchen knives have been arrested by the Teshie District Police in Accra.

Britain’s proposal for a migrant bond has been dismissed by Nigeria as a “blunt instrument” that will damage commercial ties.

Dr Francis Appiah, a Post Harvest Specialist at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has called for intensified education on the use of modernised farming technologies to control post harvest losses.

Parliament, the legislative arm of the state, and the Judiciary, the justice system of the state are in a tussle over how summons of the courts are served on members of Parliament.

A US appeals court has lifted a ban on same-sex marriages in California, following a Supreme Court ruling.

US President Barack Obama is to meet members of Nelson Mandela's family during his visit to South Africa, the White House says.

The Western Accord 2013 Command Post Exercise to help build the capacity of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Forces to enhance their capacity to support regional peace keeping operations has ended in Accra.

A 45-year-old farmer of Agona Obosomase in the Agona East District in the Central Region, has allegedly beheaded his four- year-old biological son after slashing the stomach of his wife.

THE VOLTA Regional Parliamentary Caucus made up National Democratic Congress (NDC) Members of Parliament (MPs) has appealed to the government to ensure that peace is immediately restored to Nkonya and Alavanyo in the Volta region.

FIVE GHANAIANS and a Nigerian have been arrested for terminating international calls to deny government of millions of cedis.

POLICE IN the Ashanti Region shot and killed a suspected armed robber in a shootout after a gang of four armed robbers undertook a robbery operation at a filling station at Ejisu-Krapa, near Kumasi, on Thursday.

A California woman convicted of severing her ex-husband's penis and throwing it in a kitchen waste disposal has been sentenced to life in prison.