Some years past, the family was an important institution which held the pillars of society together.

The police arrested 30 suspected criminals at Bantama in Kumasi on Tuesday during a swoop.

In spite of efforts to minimise the incidence of malaria through the use of the Insecticide Treated Mosquito nets (IT MNs), some people in Sekesua, Akaten and their environs in the Eastern Region have found an alternative, but bizarre use for them.

Residents along the popular N1 Highway in Accra have turned footbridges along the 14-kilometre asphalt road into dumping sites where they drop wastes from their homes.

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Sanitation and Motor Court at Abeka in Accra, presided over by Mr. Emmanuel Antwi-Barima has fined five persons GH¢6,000 each totaling GH¢30,000, or in default serve a jail term of two years each for pirating.

It has emerged that more than one hundred and twenty (120) workers of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Customs Excise and Preventive Services (CEPS,) are living in morbid fear and anxiety of losing their jobs at the end of this financial year.

The Police in Bawku have intercepted two trucks fully loaded with subsidized fertilizer being smuggled to a neighbouring country.

Government has served notice that it will deal with any person or organisation found to have committed any act of malfeasance in the operations of the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA) programme.

President John Dramani Mahama has launched the newly-constructed system control centre of Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCO), which is said to be the first of its kind in the sub-region worth $16.8 million.

Internet scammers who use rituals to increase their chances of success at defrauding their victims have been spreading fear in the hearts of Tamale residents.

Angry landowners whose property has been destroyed as a result of the re-construction of the Suhum-Kwafokrom stretch of the Accra-Kumasi Highway yesterday blocked the entrance to the yard of the construction firm, China Water Electric (CWE), to prevent its workers from working on the project.

The Social Welfare Department has finally settled on a Swedish couple to adopt the conjoined twins born at the Cape Coast Metropolitan Hospital a fortnight ago.

The Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, Alhaji Collins Dauda, has underscored the need for public-private partnerships to pool resources to solve the water and sanitation problems confronting the nation.

Germany is the most positively viewed nation in the world in this year's annual Country Ratings Poll for the BBC World Service.

Four hundred people are demanding compensation from the State Housing Company (SHC) for breach of faith and contract after the company had failed to deliver the houses they had deposited various sums of money for.

Tema South District of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has described electrical connections at the Tema Central Market as appalling.

Renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who died in March, is due to be buried in his home town in Anambra state.

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has tasked local manufacturers to produce quality goods in order to attract the attention of consumers and boost businesses.

Road projects must not be awarded as job for the boys, but on merit to competent contractors who have the capacity to deliver high-quality roads, the Omanhene of Goaso Traditional Area, Nana Kwasi Baffour Bosomprah has said.

A former Egyptian diplomat, Ambassador Ahmed Haggag, has proposed the establishment of a forum for past African presidents and prime ministers to share their expertise with their current counterparts.