The Defence for Children International-Ghana (DCI), in collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has sensitised selected assembly members from the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) and Asokore Mampong Municipal Assembly on the Children's Act, to enable them protect the rights of children.

Cape Coast. -Nana Appiah-Korang, the newly confirmed Municipal Chief Executive of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Municipality in the central region has observed that there is massive indiscipline regarding sanitation issues in the municipality.

Assin Darmang -Mr. Derrick Owusu Ambrose, the newly confirmed District Chief Executive DCE for the Assin South District says he will collaborate with the police to fight against all forms of crime in the district.

EPF Educational Empowerment Initiative has presented menstrual pads to girls in their adolescent age at the Old Tafo SDA Junior High School.

In the bestselling novel, In High Places by Arthur Hailey, the Chairman of the opposition party made a statement to this effect to a young lawyer: "The work of the opposition is to always find faults in the ruling government, even if what it is pursuing is the right way. When you come to power, and you will have to do same things, you only have to find very good excuses."

Mafi-Kumase -President Akufo-Addo has directed the Minister for Education to, as a matter of importance, identify the critical needs of all senior high technical schools (SHTSs) and technical and vocational institutes to get them well-equipped.

The Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERERA), Professor Honoré Bogler, has expressed renewed confidence that the launch of the first phase of the ECOWAS electricity market, will go on as rescheduled, especially, with the appointment of two Regulatory Council Members to join in the decision-making process of the institution.

Kumawu -The District Chief Executive (DCE) nominee for Sekyere Kumawu, Samuel Addai Agyekum, has obtained an overwhelming victory of 97.2% from the assembly.

A vigilante group believed to be members of Fisheries' Watch Committee from Prampram has wreaked multiple knife wounds on twenty fishermen on the high seas at Ada for allegedly engaging in light fishing.The 'hooligans' had reportedly been monitoring their victims who were engaging in the unlawful fishing practice. As a result, when the fishermen went fishing over the last weekend, the vigilante group chased and overpowered them in their different canoes and inflicted multiple cutlass wounds on them.After

So, it is all about the beautiful Otiko Afisa Djaba and the strongman, Daniel Bugri Naabu. Recounting from experience, it is obvious this clash between the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Northern Regional Chairman had its foundation based firmly on some mistrust or permanent differences between the two. On the political side of NPP, Otiko is boss over Bugri, in view of the fact that she is a national officer and the latter is a regional officer.

Kumasi Asante Kotoko Football Club, on January 10, 2017, engaged the services of a Croatian Coach, Zdravko Logarusic, to manage the Asantehene's football club to achieve greater laurels after placing fifth on the 2015/2016 Premier League table, with 46 points.

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A 42-year-old football coach, Mr. Akuffo Koranteng, who suffered an attack from a liquid substance suspected to be acid, which resulted in injury to his eyes, and burns on his head, face and other parts of the body since August 3, 2011, has been given a new breath of life.

Government has selected June this year to launch its 2016 campaign promise of establishing a factory in each of the districts in the country.

The Minister of Aviation, Cecilia Dapaah, says the government would be supporting the youth to acquire skills to be gainfully employed in the aviation sector.

Takoradi -A taxi driver, who stabbed a popular Takoradi-based spiritualist and radio pastor to death, has now been arrested and handed over to the Police. Hassan Salifu, 24, allegedly stabbed the radio pastor cum spiritualist, Frank Agyekum, popularly known as Nana Nkwantabisa, at about 9:00pm on Monday, this week, and went into hiding.

Tongo -In the wake of the Bureau of a National Investigations (BNI) report that indicts Mr. Benson Tongo Baba, Member of Parliament (MP) for Talensi in the Upper East Region, for engaging in illegal mining (galamsey) in his constituency, the Paramount Chief of the Tongo Traditional Area has directed all sub-chiefs and landowners to stop leasing lands for mining purposes.

The Students Representative Council (SRC) President of the Kibi Presbyterian College of Education (KPC), located in the East Akyem Municipality, Daniel Selasie, has passionately called on the government, and for that matter Ghana Education Service (GES), to build a sick bay for the college.

The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources (MLNR) has debunked media reports suggesting that the Okyenhene, Amoatia Ofori Panin II, and his palace, were mentioned in a report by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), as being behind illegal mining activities in the Kibi area.

The effective operations of fire fighters of the Ghana National Fire Service in the Ashanti Region have been crippled, making management of fire outbreaks hazardous and tedious for the personnel.