Eight students selected from five West African countries on scholarship to undergo a four-year doctorate degree (PhD) programme in plant breeding at the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI),  have graduated.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, Dr Tony Aubynn, has called on junior high school (JHS) graduates to avoid friendships that will not be beneficial to them.

The President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, has stressed the need for Africans to take their destiny into their own hands by highlighting their history and achievements to the outside world.

The Tamale Metropolitan Assembly (TaMA) has carried out a three-day decongestion of the Tamale Central Market as a way of enhancing safety and promoting access to the market in case of an emergency.

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has launched a weekly newspaper, known as Kumasiano to project the activities of the assembly.

One issue that became the main focus of  the Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing,  Mr Collins Dauda when he visited the Barekese dam site a few  months ago, was  the impunity with which  illegal chainsaw operators were dissipating forest reserves at the catchment area of the dam.

One hundred and fifty seven road projects are to be funded from the $1 billion raised from the international capital market in New York on Thursday.

An accountant with Jins Ghana Limited, an Accra-based engineering and construction firm, Seidu Inusah Rashid, is in the grip of the law for allegedly defrauding the company to the tune of GH¢174,595.

The Chief Executive of Rlg Communications, Mr Roland Agambire, has said the issue of youth unemployment in most African countries is so complex, sensitive and yet thorny that it requires a concerted, multi-faceted and deep-rooted approach towards its resolution.

Adieus, Egya Kofi Atta Mbir; adieus, great leader of men and faithful servant of God. Adieus, you who the fortresses of poverty at Tarkwa Abontiako and the economic and social deprivations of Huni Valley could not prevent your golden character and steely intelligence from being milled and moulded into a man of valour and use to mankind.

President John Dramani Mahama has welcomed the over-subscription of the country's Eurobond and said the government will use the money to manage and grow the economy.

Though suffused with elements of prescience, this piece is neither a prophecy nor an incantation. This caveat is relevant, given how prophecies have recently gained political currency in the run-up to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the petition on the 2012 Presidential Election.

Two alleged fake doctors have been arrested by the police in Accra and  Hohoe.

LAHORE: At least 18 people were killed and around two dozen others suffered serious health issues after consuming toxic alcoholic drinks at two separate events, officials said on Sunday.

(CNN) -- Libyan authorities are trying to round up 1,200 inmates who spilled out of a Benghazi prison.

President John Mahama has reiterated that the national hockey pitch in Accra shall remain the “Theodosia Okoh National Hockey Pitch”, calling attempts last week to rename it after the late President John Evans Atta Mills as “a most sad mistake”.

DJ Khaled is putting his heart on the line -- all in the name of Nicki Minaj! While at MTV News on Thursday, July 25, the 37-year-old recorded a special video message to the "Super Bass" singer, confessing his major crush on her.

Journalists in resource-rich countries in Africa have been asked to understand slangs of the industry to enrich their reportage and to protect the interest of their countries.

Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) -- Blood and body parts littered the ground outside Turkey's embassy in Somalia on Saturday afternoon, the grisly result of a blast that police said left six dead and nine wounded.

Polls are due to open across Mali for a presidential election aimed at reuniting the country after months of political turmoil.