On 14th August 2014, Chinese Ambassador to Ghana H.E. Ms. Sun Baohong held the Chinese Government Scholarship Students Reception at the Residence. The First Lady of Ghana, Mrs. Lordina Mahama, Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Mrs. Nana Oye Lithur, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Mrs. Elizabeth Ofosu-Agyare, Deputy Minister for Education, Mr. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, President and Secretary General of Ghana-China Friendship Association, officials from Ghana Scholarship

Your Excellency, Madame Lordina Mahama, First Lady of the Republic of Ghana,

The maiden edition of the Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN) Online Forum for online managers and editors has taken place in Accra.

A Biometric Membership System Review Meeting of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) in the Greater Accra Region has taken place in Accra.

Melcom Care Foundation, the Social and Charity Division of the Melcom Group of Companies, has donated a number of wheel chairs and crutches to five health institutions in Accra.

The United Nations University -Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) received with deep sorrow, the sudden passing away of the Former Vice Rector of the United Nations University (UNU), Prof. Alexander Adum Kwapong who was very instrumental in the establishment of UNU-INRA as the first UNU Institute in Africa.

Accra -Two close calls in the past weeks helped spur a series of reports linking Liberia with suspected spread of the Ebola virus in neighboring Ghana, currently embroiled in a mini-epidemic of its own, a cholera outbreak. To date, Ghana has tested about 45 suspected Ebola cases, but all of them, have proved negative.

Accra -Africa's long history is filled with narratives of powerful chiefs who ruled large and small kingdoms. Many traditions of power remain, though they are somewhat reduced in the evolving politics of nation states. In central Ghana one man guides the good behavior of 800 neighbors.

Government views the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD)as not only a health issue but also a security as well as an economic issue and is prepared to provide more to help curb the outbreak of the disease in Ghana.

Roads transportation remains one of the strategic sectors in Ghana's economy and forms part of the social safety net, facilitating the distribution of wealth through trade and employment opportunities, the Minister for Roads and Highways, Hon Inusah Fuseini, has stated.

The Ministry of Chieftaincy and Traditional Affairs has held its first Advisory Board meeting with a call on members to support the ministry to deliver on its mandate.

A workshop aimed at complementing the efforts of the Ministry of Health, (MoH), and the Ghana Health Service, (GHS), in terms of Health workers preparedness towards any reported case of the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) has ended in Accra.

The Weston Oil and Gas Fund (WOGFund) has been launched to assist companies and other agencies involved in the oil and gas business.

A training workshop for 60 selected youth leaders from the Gomoa West and Asuogyaman District Assemblies of Ghana has taken place.