[Daily Trust]Accra -The Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana Ambassador Ademola Seyi Onafowokan has asked the government of the West African country for the prerogative of mercy regarding a Nigerian on the death row in the country.

[Daily Trust]Accra -Former Vice- President of Ghana, Alhaji Aliu Mahama is dead. He passed on at 9A.M on Friday at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. He was 66 years old.

[Vanguard]Ibadan -Nigeria's High Commissioner to Ghana, Ambassador Ademola Oluwaseyi, has expressed delight at the way Nigerian students are excelling in Ghana University of Technology.

[AEP]The biometric verification machine was the subject of a heated controversy between the two main political parties, the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) some months ago.

[AEP]President Mahama, who at Dormaa Ahenkro as part of his four-day campaign tour of the Brong Ahafo Region, told Journalists that although he was aware of his admission in hospital, little did he know it could lead to his death.

[AEP]Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has called off his campaign tour in the Eastern Region due to the sudden death of the former Vice President under the Kufour Administration, Alhaji Aliu Mahama.

[Vanguard]I bring the felicitations of the good people, the Government of Nigeria and its public service to this most esteemed gathering. Stepping onto this platform today raises a whole new emotion that I have never felt before in spite of the fact that the very act of mounting platforms has incidentally characterised my many years in the public service.

[ANGOP]Accra -Angolan students in Ghana sang, danced and performed theatre play during an activity sponsored by the Angolan embassy to the western African country to mark the 37th anniversary of national independence of Angola.