Once a formidable force in the Ghana Premier League, 2015 champions Ashantigold have seen their stock plummet this season after a poor run of results and the sudden departure of their head coach, Bashir hayford.

The 2nd Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Diploma and Practitioner training courses are set to come off between April 29 and May 10, 2017 in Accra.

The Programmes Director of the Trade Related Assistance and Quality Enabling Programme (TRAQUE), Mr Michael Senayah, has urged the government to continue with the establishment of the National Accreditation Body for standards, which was commenced by the European Union under the TRAQUE programme.

The Association of Ghana industries has asked the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) to put in adequate measures to ensure that items produced in the country were of high standards.

The Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNet) has presented a total of GH¢27 million as dividend to the government to cover the period April 2016 to March 2017. Yesterday the company paid GH¢17 million while first payment of GH¢10 million was made in the second half of 2016.

The Kibi District Commander of Police, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Marian Osei-Adu Owusu, has admonished teachers not to engage in unlawful acts such as rape and defilement since it was punishable by law.

Ghana is 60 and counting.  As a nation, our development agenda has been thwarted by numerous challenges.  Several explanations have been adduced to explain the causes of these challenges namely, colonialism, lack of technological know-how, corruption and outright laziness.

The Executive Director of Africa Peace Building Club, Mr Salam Ramani, has said that the pampering of vigilante groups such as Delta Force, by political parties is a threat to the country’s peace and growing democratic culture.

The maverick Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Mr Kennedy Agyapong, who had earlier defended the riotous activities of the Delta Force, a political vigilante group aligned to the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has made a U-turn and condemned the group.

  A Kenyan court has banned random breathalyser tests as a way to catch drivers who are over the limit. The decision was made following a three-year battle by bar owner Kariuki Ruitha, who complained breathalysers were ruining his business.

Swedish police have confirmed they discovered a suspect device inside the lorry which was driven into a Stockholm department store on Friday.

A survey conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service has indicated that Ghana received a total of GH¢ 1.36 million remittances in six districts in the Ashanti Region and Brong Ahafo region within 12 months. The districts included; Mampong Municipal, Sekyere Kumawu and Asante Akim North in the Ashanti Region and Brekum Municipal, Nkoranza South and Techiman Municipal in the Brong Ahafo Region, funded by the International organisation for Migration Development Fund.

 Three speakers at a public forum in Accra have criticised the huge size of government appointees under President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo‘s administration. In their view, such a huge size of the government would put pressure on the public purse and burden the taxpayer.

The Building and Road Research (BRRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSRI) has called on the government to use its well-researched Pozzomix Cement in all government projects to promote local content and ensure value for money.

Golden Exotics Limited (GEL) has distributed more than GH¢1.7 million among 2,200 workers of the company as bonus earned from Fairtrade between 2015 and 2016.

Discussants at a public forum on the establishment of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) have advocated an amendment to Article 88 (4) of the 1992 Constitution to make way for the establishment of the office, rather than the use of an Act of Parliament.

Members of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) have been urged to reposition themselves to partner the government to bring the much anticipated “One District, One Factory” policy to fruition.

Traditional healers have called on the government to include herbal medicine in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

The Asokore-Mampong District Court, presided over Mrs Portia Molly Anafo Salia, has remanded into police custody eight people suspected to be members of a gang that has been defrauding the state of huge sums of money through the use of ghost names.

Twenty-nine trucks loaded with illegal lumber have been impounded by the Goaso District office of the Forest Service Division (FSD) in the Asunafo North District in the Brong Ahafo Region. Also confiscated were 137 illegal chain saw machines, 25 Wood-Mizer and table saw motors.