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.

The Judicial Council, the Association of Magistrates and Judges, Ghana (AMJG) and the Judicial Staff Association of Ghana (JUSAG) have condemned the attack on the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Circuit Court last Thursday by some members of the Delta Force, linked to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).

The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) and four other entities have condemned last Thursday's attack on the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Circuit Court by members of the Delta Force, a political vigilante group aligned to the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Acting national chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and a former deputy Speaker of Parliament, Freddy Blay has condemned the invasion of a circuit court in Kumasi Thursday by members of the Delta Force vigilantes.

The United States national football team is lining up a friendly against the Black Stars of Ghana as part of preparations for their CONCACAF Gold Cup campaign which begins on July 8. According to sources, the game will take place on July 1 at the Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut.

Ghana’s junior swimming team last Saturday arrived from Cairo, Egypt, where they participated in the African Junior Swimming Championship with no medals but qualification to the World Junior Swimming Championship to be staged in Indianapolis, USA, from August 23 to 28. The qualification was as a result of the team’s performance which saw them chalk significant improvements in their various events.

Juvenile tennis players selected from clubs in Tema, Sakumono and the Ashaiman commuinties are gearing up for a show down in the third day of the 2017 Baj Freight Junior Tennis League, which will come off Saturday at the Sakumono Tennis Club. The players, according to the organisers, will compete to build up more points in categories such as Under-16, U-14, U-12, U-10 and U-8 events for both boys and girls, as they seek to win the ultimate for their respective clubs and communities.