The second edition of the National Player Awards will be held on June 21 at the State Banquet Hall, organizers have confirmed.

A motorbike, he was riding, run into an on-coming vehicle at Adukuro on the Kumasi-Techiman road.

The affordable housing project was initiated by the previous New Patriotic Party (NPP) regime under former President John Agyekum Kufuor.

“Indeed, no one today can foresee the quandary in which our human settlement, especially the urban areas, will turn into in 10 or 30 years’ time if efforts are not made to have a proper street addressing system,” he said at a stakeholders’ workshop on the implementation of street naming and property addressing system in Accra.

The participants were made up of agriculture extension officers, district directors of agriculture, farmers and seed producers, selected from the various beneficiary districts, including Mion, Central Gonja and Karaga.

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Christopher Tawiah, Brong-Ahafo Regional Police Public Relations Officer, making the appeal in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Sunyani on Tuesday, said the incident occurred on April 22, this year.

A press statement from the Public Affairs  section of the U.S. Embassy in Accra and copied to the Ghana News Agency, said the center was being launched as a Commitment to Action through the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).

The members are made up of: Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Chairman; Mr Mark Woyongo, Minister for Defence, member; Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister for Interior, member; Dr Joe Oteng Adjei, member and Ms Hannah Tetteh, member.

The Vice President, Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, who made the announcement in Accra on Thursday, said current challenge facing Ghana in achieving sound and stable macro environment, was how to extend the nation’s fiscal space, through public expenditure rationalization and revenue mobilization.

He pleaded not guilty and will re-appear on May 29.

Mr Iddrisu, who gave the advice at the Second Africa Congress of Accountants organised in Accra, said increased intra-African trade, provision of reliable supply of energy and infrastructure at reasonable prices to businesses were other measures critical for sustainable growth.

The International Criminal Court launches a preliminary inquiry into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in May 2010.

The Governor–General, who has already met President John Dramani Mahama at the Flagstaff House, Kanda, is expected later today to hold a joint news conference with President Mahama. He would also hold bilateral discussions with other Ministers of state regarding their various sectors.

The accused, who was convicted on his own plea in default, will serve six months imprisonment.

Kwadwo pleaded not guilty and would re-appear before the Court on May 24, 2013.

Sherrif Hussein, businessman and Simone Scantebury, writer, both pleaded not guilty to the offence.    

The Democratic Republic of Congo is to build a town in honour of independence figure Patrice Lumumba, a government spokesman says.

He said: “Canada through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has become a household name, especially rural northern Ghana, for its support in the provision of potable water, health facilities and food security.”

In its annual report, the Group said even with external challenges, its revenue was up to US 21.1 billion dollars, an increase of 17 per cent over last year’s earnings while its cash balance grew by 53 per cent to US 7.3 billion dollars.

Kenya sets up an anti-doping centre in the north-western town of Eldoret, the home of the country's distance running training camp.