The World Bank has praised economic policies of President Goodluck Jonathan‘s administration, declaring that it has led to slight reduction in the country’s poverty index from 48 to 46 percent.

Professor Chris Gordon, Director, Institute of Environment and Sanitation, University of Ghana, Legon, on Tuesday said open defecation cost Ghana 79 million dollars per year, where as it would require less than one million latrines to eliminate the practice.

About 800 students may be denied their right to sit for this yearÂ’s West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in the Asuogyaman district, according to the area Member of Parliament.

President John Dramani Mahama cut the sod on Wednesday for work to begin on a project that is expected to provide lasting solutions to Accra's perennial flooding and waste management challenges.

The Kwahu East District National Youth and Employment Programme (NYEP) Coordinator," Mr Addo Adjei, is in trouble for allegedly using his office for 'sex-for-job' activities.

Bright Kumadey, aka Lebene, a driver, was on Wednesday sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by an Accra circuit court on the charge of causing harm to a police officer by running over him with his private car.

An Ashaiman resident, Prince Tetteh, Wednesday narrated to Daily Guide how he was rushed to the Tema General Hospital after his scrotum was subjected to vicious attack by a female co-tenant of their house at Valco Flat, an Ashaiman suburb.

The Alhaji Issa Mobilla murder trial came to a close yesterday as lawyers put their cases before the jury for consideration.

Four Ghanaians held hostage by Somali pirates on a ship called the Iceberg have been released.

The First Lady, Mrs Lordina Mahama on Thursday presented a 12-seater Hyundai mini-bus valued at about $30,000 to the Sunyani Traditional Council in Sunyani.

Alfred Agbesi Woyome, has once again stated his innocence in the GH¢51 million judgment debt saga saying he knows he would be vindicated at the end.

Liberia's jailed ex-President and war criminal Charles Taylor appears to have written to MPs demanding an annual state pension of $25,000 (£15,600).

Four Ghanaians have been given scholarships to pursue PhD courses in marketing, agribusiness and economics under the DANIDA Building Stronger Universities Programme.

Teachers who have been re-engaged by the Ghana Education Service (GES) are to begin receiving their salaries by the end of February this year.

More than 50,000 slum dwellers at Sodom Visit Peace FM Online for latest news, breaking news, audio and feature stories in Ghana About 800 students may be denied their right to sit for this yearÂ’s West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in the Asuogyaman district, according to the area Member of Parliament.