Okuley Tetteh, an unemployed thirty six year old man, would forever be grateful to God for mysteriously denying ‘death a date’ with him; when a commercial bus smacked his head after he recklessly tried crossing a busy road with a wood on his head.

Dr Mark Nii Akwei Ankrah, Managing Director, State Housing Company (SHC), on Wednesday said the company was embroiled in about 400 legal suits, which could eventually cripple its fortunes.

Mr Kwame Poku Boah, Counsel for the Lands Valuation Board, on Wednesday told the Judgement Debt Commission that the Attorney-General's Department failed to inform his outfit of the payment of Ghc 27 million on stool land.

Government needs 225 million dollars annually to construct sustainable water and sanitation facilities to be able to meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of persons without access to potable water and sanitation facilities by 2015.

President John Dramani Mahama will leave Accra on Thursday to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to take part in activities to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the formation of the Organization of African Unity, now the Africa Union.

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has begun an intensive exercise to rid markets in the metropolis of any illegal activities.

Trade and Industry Minister Haruna Iddrisu has urged business associations, trade unions and the media to initiate innovation ways to improve the competitiveness of the private sector.

President John Dramani Mahama, on Wednesday swore-in Sir James Bebako-Mensah as the first Ghanaian Ambassador to the Vatican, since the creation of a Mission by Ghana at that city-state, this year.

One person has been shot dead during a shootout involving land surveyors and some unidentified persons in Dodowa.

The inter-Ministerial task force on galamsey has hinted it will resort to the use of drones to smoke out the illegal miners.

Ghana will use Intelligent Addressing (IA) technology from the UK to name streets and properties in Ghana.

The Minister for Water Resources Works and Housing, Hon. Collins Dauda, has claimed that government needs massive external support to be able to tackle the water and sanitation problem in the country.

Mr Samuel Sellas-Mensah, Chief Executive of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), has said developing countries need well qualified procurement professionals to manage the challenges in the current global economic environment.

Government has instituted investigations into allegations of suspected mismanagement of modules under the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA), Mr Mahama Ayariga, Minister for Information and Media Relations, has said in Accra.

The Former Secretary to Cabinet under the erstwhile Mills administration Sir James Bebaako Mensah has been sworn into office as GhanaÂ’s first ever diplomatic envoy to the Vatican City.

The cocaine turned baking soda case involving a former Deputy Head of the Police Commercial Crimes Unit, Deputy Superintendent of Police Mrs. Gifty Mawuenyega Tehoda has again been postponed to June 27.

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, on Wednesday affirmed its commitment to the passage of the Affirmative Action Bill into law, to facilitate the development of women in the country.

Africa must increase competitiveness or jeopardize future growth, the Africa Competitiveness Report 2013, has warned.

Professor Kofi Asare Opoku, Acting President of African University College of Communications (AUCC), has advocated an educational system with content rooted in Africa culture for Africans.

Plus One Investment Limited, a subsidiary of the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority, has begun the export of butternut squash, one of the major crops of dry season farming introduced by SADA in the three Northern Regions.