The eight Delta Force members arrested for raiding a Kumasi Circuit Court to free 13 of their members are to be arraigned in court Monday morning amidst tight security. They are to be charged for disturbing a court session, resisting arrest and rescuing persons in lawful custody.

The Peter Mensah Sports Foundation (PM Sports) last Saturday rounded up their one-week tennis clinic organised for children aged 8-14 with a grand durbar at the Ghana Tennis Club at Adabraka. The event, which attracted a large crowd, including the president of the Ghana Tennis Club, Mr Isaac Duah, started with participants going through technical, physical and complete tennis training before they were divided into groups to compete among themselves.

Ghanaians should protect water bodies in their localities from getting polluted as currently many water bodies have become polluted due to the activities of galamsey operators. The acting Central Regional Director of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), Mr Henry Franklin Asangbah, who gave this advice, was speaking at a ceremony to hand over a small town water system to the Ayanfuri Kurofofrom community in the Central Region.

The regional office of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the Western Region has initiated an exercise to educate students from selected educational institutions in the region on the company’s operations. The campaign, which forms part of the company’s stakeholder engagement and communications strategy, targets students of senior high schools (SHSs), nursing/midwifery institutions and colleges of education.

  Jockey Jonathan Mensah has appealed to the Ministry of Youth and Sports and corporate bodies to help develop and promote horse racing in the country. This, he said will not only create employment opportunities for the youth but will help them desist from engaging in social vices.

THE relative peace hitherto experienced by residents of Yewa, Isawo community in Ikorodu area of Lagos was, yesterday, shattered following sporadic gunfire by suspected kidnappers, which left six persons, including an Army Captain, four policemen, a landlord and a member of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, dead.

Marshalls College, in Accra, for the second successive year, won the Basketball competition of the Private University Students Association of Ghana (PUSAG) Basketball competition. The Marshalls basketball team, in a space of one week, also won silver at the Universities, Polytechnic and Colleges (UPAC) Games.

Journalists in Kumasi were last Thursday conducted round the newly constructed Kumasi City Mall (KCM), during which they were briefed on how the mall will operate when it is eventually open to the public on Thursday, April 20, 2017.

The total prize money for the 2017 McDan West African Open Tennis Championship has been doubled from the previous tournament, organisers have announced. The winners of this year's tournament will split $10,000 compared to the $5,000, they shared in 2016.  The organisers expect that the prize money will be enough to bait the finest tennis players on the African continent to come to Ghana from April 24 to 29 when the tournament takes place at the Accra Sports Stadium.

The Fruit Processors and Marketers Association of Ghana has requested for a US$10 million bailout from the government to be able it to boost pineapple farming in the country. The funds are needed to help the association to venture into large-scale pineapple farming to increase production from the present 33,000 tonnes to 10 million tonnes per annum.

The new Commissioner-General of Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Mr Kofi Nti, has expressed confidence in having a paperless system under the Ghana National Single Window (GNSW) project that will help enhance trade facilitation in the country. He made this known after touring the Customs Technical Bureau office located at the Ministries in Accra last Thursday.

The government has been urged not to overly rely on tax cuts as a means to free up capital and whip up private sector growth. It has been advised to work at stabilising the local currency against the major foreign trading currencies, particularly the United States dollar.  

The tennis courts at the Accra Sports Stadium are due for major face-lift following the decision of the Executive Chairman of the McDan Group, Dr Daniel Mckorley, to renovate it at a cost of GHC50,000. The courts are currently in a state of disrepair with only a few days to the start of Ghana's flagship tennis tournament, the McDan Open on April 24, which is being put together by the McDan Group in collaboration with the Ghana Tennis Federation (GTF)

The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) will by the close of next month embark on a rigorous fund-raising exercise aimed at mobilising enough funds to support federations and athletes who will be competing in the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia next year. The GOC is, therefore, setting up a working structure in the form of a board by close of next week to be supported by nine sub-committees which will become the working arm of the board.

Construction work on a 13.5 million-litre capacity Marine Gas Oil (MGO) storage facility by the Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) at the Takoradi Port in the Western Region has been completed.

Former Premier League Champions, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, have sacked 52-year-old Croatian trainer Zdravko Lugarusic, after 11 matches in the ongoing league. 

The Indian government says it is ready to support Ghana in developing the technical and vocational education sector. The Indian High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Birender Singh, who stated this, explained that technical and vocational education was the way to go to be able to support the one district, one factory policy of the government.

The new Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel, John Agyekum Kufuor, has safely arrived in the country’s waters. It is currently being moored on top of wells at the Tano Basin Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP).

The Agona Swedru High Court will, on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, hear an application for the committal of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mr  David Amevor to contempt of court for failure to comply with a court order directing him to arrest and prosecute intruders found on a plaintiff’s land. The contempt application was filed by counsel for 21st Century Construction Company Limited and Gelina Tropical Company Limited following the failure of ASP Amevor to effect the arrest

The Mudor Faecal and Waste Water Treatment Plant has begun full operations with a call on the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to put in place a mechanism to ensure that no individual or group is allowed to discharge liquid waste into the sea. "We are currently operating fully. We receive about 250 trucks of human waste daily without any challenge,” Mr Haidar Said, the Managing Director of Sewerage System Ghana Limited, operators of the facility; said.