The 44th ECOWAS summit which ended Saturday in Yamoussoukro, the Ivorian political and administrative capital, elected President of Ghana John Dramani Mahama as the new chairman of the sub-regional organization.

Millicom has announced the appointment of Roshi Motman as its new General Manager at Tigo Ghana. Ms Motman is to take up the her new role on April 1 when she will replace Adil El Youssefi who will be leaving to take up a senior role outside the group at Airtel Kenya.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) mission in Ghana in partnership with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) will again repatriate over 254 stranded Liberians back home.

The Ghanaian government through the Ministry of Communications with support from the Rockefeller Foundation will be setting a up a massive data centre in Accra to offer technological skills to unemployed youths in the capital.

A doctor at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and his accomplice have been busted for diverting patients attending the facility to private hospitals in the Kumasi Metropolis. They were arrested by the internal security, after allegedly indulging in the practice for close to ten years.

Ibrahim Baidoo, the Ashaiman Municipal Chief Executive has noted that because Ashaiman is a cosmopolitan city, with people from different backgrounds, the residents, including the educated, throw refuse into drains and open places, thus creating insanitary conditions in the town.

Victims of female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso are struggling to get surgery to remove pain and increase pleasure during sex. A hospital for this purpose was built by donors from the Raelian movement in America but never opened. Why?

The U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Africa is holding a meeting on the U.S. Power Africa Initiative in Washington DC this afternoon.

The Central Regional Police Commander, DCOP Ninson has called on the media to help the police administration to expose personnel of the service who indulge in negative practices that tarnish the image of the service. DCOP Ninsin, who was speaking at the launch of the 'Re-affirmation of public confidence' - a mechanism put in place to erase the negative perceptions the public has about the police, especially on matters bordering on corruption and unprofessionalism, also pleaded with the media to

President John Dramani Mahama left Accra yesterday for Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, to join other West African leaders for the 44th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government.

They were the last African representatives to the 4th edition of the World Cup Under-17 female version which takes place in Costa Rica. Unfortunately, Ghana and Nigeria were eliminated from the competition after the quarter-finals played in the night from Thursday to Friday.

The Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill, 2013 has been passed into law to secure the country's territorial borders from the activities of terrorists.

Parliament has approved the formula for the distribution of the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF), the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) as well as the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) for the year 2014.