Twenty acres of cocoa farms has been completely destroyed at Wassa Asikuma and Wassa Nkran in the Prestea Huni/Valley district following a continuous rainfall last Friday.

A new World Bank report says that AfricaÂ’s farmers can potentially grow enough food to feed the continent and avert future food crises if countries remove cross-border restrictions on the food trade within the region.

Government has directed the Ghana Education Service (GES) to ensure that schools which force students to practice religion against their will to stop.

GhanaÂ’s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings and Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings have sent a message of goodwill to Muslims on the occasion of the Eid ul Adha festival.

The 2012 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, on Friday, joined Muslims in the Bia West Constituency in the Western Region, for Friday prayers to mark Eid Mubarak.

I am elated to wish my fellow Muslims in Ghana and the world beyond, a Happy Eid ul-Adha on my own behalf and that of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo and the entirety of the NPP.

Detective Chief Inspector Charles Adaba, the investigator in the MV Benjamin cocaine saga Thursday told the Accra Fast Track High Court that in 2006, the Minister of the Interior set up a committee to investigate how five slabs of 30 slabs of cocaine, retrieved from MV Benjamin got missing.

Ghana's government was embarrassed as a visiting Argentine naval ship was detained in the country, deputy foreign minister Chris Kpodo told Xinhua on Wednesday.

A privately owned light bodied single engine aircraft (Beechcraft, B-36) with registration number F – GELY registered in France, has been involved in a ground accident at the Kotoka International Airport at about 1415 hours on Thursday.

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President Mahama has met with heads of security apparatuses on their readiness for the upcoming December polls.

Dadzie and Associates, Solicitors for UNIEX GhanaÂ’s Executive Chairman, Dan Markin, have denied their client ever demanded as bribe, 50 percent of a judgment debt award meant for Rockshell Limited.

A 13-year-old primary six pupil, Laila Nuhu died on the spot after she was struck by lightning last night in an open field in the Upper West regional capital, Wa.

Ex-President Jerry John Rawlings has made a passionate appeal to President Mahama to block the takeover of government lands opposite the 37 Military Hospital by greedy political figures.

Security in Bawku has been intensified following the burning of some billboards belonging to the ruling NDCÂ’s Parliamentary candidate.

THIRTY-ONE year old Joseph Kwesi Quarshie who could not stand the thought of his girlfriend jilting him for another man has ended up stabbing her to death.

A MAN believed to be the Manager of Macbaron Hotel at Tema Community 11 has allegedly shot and killed his close friend.

United Nations Ghana country team, umbrella body of UN agencies operating in the Country on Thursday had a dialogue over its operations with heads, managers and editors of the various media houses in the country.

President John Dramani Mahama has engaged with the Military and Police top hierarchy.

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