The thirteen members of the Delta Force vigilante group aligned to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) who escaped from the Circuit Court in Kumasi last Thursday have been fined a total of Gh¢31,200. The 13 who pleaded guilty to the offence of escaping from lawful custody was fined Gh¢2,400 each by the Kumasi Circuit Court (4) when they were arraigned on Tuesday morning, reports Graphic Online’s Donald Ato Dapatem from Kumasi. 

Vodafone Ghana has introduced a new product christened ‘Vodafone all- in-one’. The product includes fixed broadband, voice minutes for landline, mobile voice and mobile data put into one seamless package.

The Parliament’s Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and Cocoa Affairs has indicated that the Ministry of Food and Agriculture may not be able to carry out its “Planting for Food and Jobs” programme if the Ministry of Finance goes on with its planned directive to have the Ministry’s arrears of GH? 182.81 million debt paid from its 2017 budget allocation.

A wood processing factory at Akyem Manso near Oda in the Eastern Region,  A.K. Ghana Wood, is accusing the management of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) at Oda of contributing to the destruction of five large motors belonging to it. According to the management of the wood company, it had spent  GH¢30,000 to repair the damaged motors.

The police administration has charged five inmates who were on detention at the Half Assini District Police station for beating a fellow inmate to death. The deceased was said to have disturbed the sleep of the inmates and stepped on one of them whilst they were asleep and hence they allegedly assaulted him.

Ghana has been ranked the fourth best place to invest in Africa by RMB Global Markets Research. Ghana beat countries such as Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Cote d’ Ivoire and Algeria as it is placed among the top 10 countries on the continent. It also ranked fourth as the country to have attracted the highest amount of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2015 even when the economy was heavily saddled with major economic challenges.  Ranked among the top five recipients according

The Stockholm truck attack suspect has confessed to a "terrorist crime", his lawyer says. The admission came at a custody hearing in the Swedish capital.

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has presented relief items to the Overlord of Mamprugu, the Nayiri, Naa Bohogu Mahami Abdulai Sheriga, and the St Charles Minor Seminary/Senior High School (SHS) in separate ceremonies at Nalerigu and Tamale. Fire recently gutted parts of the Nayiri Palace in Nalerigu and the boys dormitory block of St Charles SHS.

There was a fire outbreak at the Avenor branch warehouse of Ashfoam in Accra on Monday. According to a supervisor, they received a distress call that fire had engulfed the building so they alerted the fire service.

Hewale Sounds, a neo-traditional/contemporary band led by master flutist, Dela Botri, is 21- years-old and the anniversary will be marked with concerts  and workshops in Accra and Akosombo.

The Omanhene of New Juaben and United Nations Commissioner on the International Civil Service Commission, Daasebre Prof. (Emeritus) Oti Boateng, has observed that the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), though laudable, lacks the basic community development substratum to attain implementation efficiency and sustainability. He acknowledged that the agenda for sustainable development was well-crafted with respect to its 17 goals and 169 targets but its major fault-line

Rice farmers in the Volta, Upper East and Northern regions are groaning under a glut in the rice market. While some of the farmers were unable to find market for their produce, others were selling at give-away prices.

Fidelity Bank Limited has received a loan of $ 54 million from two companies to enable it to provide long-term capital to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The companies are The Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) a Dutch development bank which supports sustainable private sector growth by investing in ambitious entrepreneurs and the Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries (BIO).

The lack of a single window for trade facilitation in many West and Central African countries has become an impediment to intra-regional trade, the Secretary General of the Port Management Association of the West and Central Africa (PMAWCA), Mr Michael Luguje, has said. According to him, out of the 20 countries within the PMAWCA zone, only Ghana, Togo and Benin have national single window systems that cover everything about port clearance procedures, as well as all other public agencies

The government has released GH¢465 million for the commencement of the one-district-one-factory project. It has also released GH¢256 million for the revamping of 100 private commercially viable and distressed companies throughout the country. The Director of Policy Planning, Monitoring and Budget at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Mr Padi Adjirakor, announced this in Accra yesterday.

British Vogue has confirmed Edward Enninful as its first male editor. Enninful, who has previously worked for Italian and American Vogue, will take over from Alexandra Shulman, who announced her departure in January.

Shell has admitted for the first time it dealt with a convicted money-launderer when negotiating access to a vast oil field in Nigeria. It comes after emails were published showing Shell negotiated with Dan Etete, who was later convicted of money laundering in a separate case.

The Managing Director of Stanbic Bank Ghana Limited and President of the Ghana Association of Bankers (GAB), Mr Alhassan Andani, expects the new Bank of Ghana (BoG) Governor, Dr Ernest Kwamina Yedu Addison to address three key policy issues that are needed to engineer growth and confidence in the sector.

A camp housing 1,500 migrants in northern France has been destroyed in a fire that officials said began during a fight between Afghans and Kurds. At least 10 people were injured when the fire tore through closely-packed huts at the Grande-Synthe camp, near the port of Dunkirk.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has underscored the need for Ghana and Korea to continue to enhance their bilateral relations and cooperation. He said that had become necessary, especially at the time when Ghana was seeking to embark on an ambitious programme of social and economic transformation modelled on the programmes used by the ‘Asian Tigers’.