The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved additional financing of US$19.80 million to support the development of Ghana's rich oil and gas reserves.

The Black Stars went to Brazil with the blessing of the 25 million population at the Centre of the Earth to go beyond the quarter-final stage of the 2014 World Cup, and thus, advertise the potential of this nation to challenge for global honours.The President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Mr. Kwasi Nyantakyi, National Coach James Kwasi Appiah, as well as Captain Asamoah Gyan, all promised a successful campaign in Brazil.

A member of the Ghana Football Association Executive Committee Randy Abbey has revealed that it had always been the practice for government to carry cash to the Black Stars as payment for appearance fees and other allowances.

The Chief of Staff, Prosper Bani, has ordered the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum as a matter of urgency to dissolve the technical committee it instituted to probe the National Petroleum Authority's (NPA's) $63,000 monthly rent office building located at Cantonments in Accra.

Dr. Samuel Sarpong, Ashanti Regional Minister, has inaugurated an eight-member committee to regulate and streamline the activities of illegal mining in the region.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) in collaboration with Ghana Education Service (GES) has organized a three days workshop for teachers and community members on how to eliminate child labour and manage the basic schools in the district.

The Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana, His Excellency (H.E) Christopher Thornley, has paid a courtesy call on the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Hon. Mrs Nana Oye Lithur, to discuss issues of social protection in the country. The meeting was also to strengthen relationship between Ghana and Canada.

Accra, Ghana -The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has ruled out an increase in the price of petrol.

The Ghana Museums and Monument Board, University of Ghana in collaboration with Museums of Manchester has launched the Fragmentary Ancestors from the Koma land in Accra.

Ghana captain, Asamoah Gyan, has apologised on behalf of the senior men’s national side following a disastrous 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Even though the Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Law, 1984, Provisional National Defence Council Law 84 (PNDCL 84) requires the development of Regulations for competitive bidding in the award of contracts for oil blocks, no such Regulations have been passed to date.

Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the first quarter of 2014 grew by 6.7 per cent (year-on-year), while the year-on-year GDP growth for the first quarter of 2013 was 9.0 per cent, Mr Baah Wadieh, Deputy Government Statistician, has disclosed.

Prof. Larry Diamond of Hoover Institution, Stanford University, United States of America, has called for radical new approaches to more effectively and transparently manage Ghana's windfall oil wealth.

ARNOLD NIi Ofori Tackie, a 39 year old man who works at the Finance and Procurement unit of the Ministry of Education, as an architect has been gunned down at his residence, at Site Six, Community One, Tema.

"Even the Volta Region, generally referred to as the World Bank of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), is in turmoil. A demonstration, fixed for last Wednesday, was only averted by the last minute intervention of Togbe Afede XVI, Agbogbomefia of the Asogli Traditional Area, who is reported to have begged his people to exercise patience."

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has raised alarm over the Electricity Company of Ghana's (ECG) current practice of installing meters for domestic use on poles outside the homes using them.

THE MONEY conscious players of the senior national team, the Black Stars, have failed to proceed to the next stage of the FIFA world Cup, despite forcing the government to fly in over $3 million in suit cases to pay the appearance fee they were agitating for.

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Accra -Ghana President, John Dramani Mahama, has called for investigations into the senior men’s football team’s Ghana's disastrous showing at the World Cup in Brazil.

A total of 24 communities in the Bongo District of the Upper East region of Ghana are being hooked onto the national electricity grid under the rural electrification project. Ten benefited under Phase I while an additional 14 have been rolled onto the Phase II.