A former salesman/private dispatch rider, Dominic Anabiga, who allegedly Conspired with the Financial Controller of Qualiplast to steal about GH¢180,000 belonging to the company, has been arrested.

President John Evans Atta Mills has learnt with deep concern the flooding of some parts of Accra with consequent loss of lives and damage to property.

For trafficking their nationals for prostitution, three Chinese nationals were on Monday June 22, sentenced to a total of 41 years imprisonment in hard labor by an Accra Circuit Court.

A Kumasi Circuit Court, has sentenced to 18 years imprisonment in hard labour, a 26-year-old man, Akwasi Kankam, for defiling a six year-old girl
He pleaded not guilty.

Vice-President John Mahama yesterday inaugurated the Presidential Commission of Enquiry into the Ghana@50 celebrations at the Castle, Osu, and charged it to be objective, fair and just in its work. "Our strong desire is for an objective, fair and just enquiry that establishes the cold, hard facts of all transactions and activities related to the 50th anniversary celebration," he said.

President John Evans Atta Mills says he is determined to broker a deal for a reliable gas supply from Nigeria to boost electricity production in Ghana. He said the government would do everything possible to ensure that power generation plants, particularly the newly built Sunon Asogli Power plant, had gas to generate electricity to supplement the country's current stock.

The president John Evans Atta Mills has accused the previous New Patriotic Party government of leaving the country in a dire state. According to him, the previous government piled so much debt and left a “big hole” in the economy, making it difficult for his government to maneuver. President Mills said the economy is in such a sorry state that international banks have refused to lend money to the country for development projects.

Former President, J. A Kufuor and former Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, have not been paid their monthly salaries since they left office six months ago. Former workers of the two Statesmen have also not been paid their entitlements. Apart from the entitlements stated in the Chinery Hesse report, the two Statesmen, particular Mr. Kufuor is entitled to a monthly pay.

Another shakeup in the Ghana Police Service has been effected, the second since Paul Tawiah Quaye assumed leadership of this foremost internal security organization barely a month ago. Although such movements have now become standards of every leadership change, this particular one appears to have triggered muffled grumbling by some officers who think that the exercise has turned upside down the seniority table in the regimented service.

Vice-President John Dramani Mahama has asked public sector workers who have threatened to opt out of the single spine salary structure (SSSS) to rescind their decision. He said such a decision would not "augur well for an equitable and fair salary administration in the public sector". His call was in apparent reference to some public sector workers, including doctors, who have indicated that they will not subscribe to the new pay policy unless the relativity ratios in it are corrected.

Ghana's gold output in the first quarter of 2009 was 675,151 ounces, up 9 percent on the first three months of last year, while higher world prices pushed cumulative mining revenue up 11 percent to $641.2 million, Chamber of Mines data showed on Saturday. Ghana, the world's no.2 cocoa producer, is also Africa's second biggest gold miner after South Africa.

The President, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, has called on Ghanaians to have confidence in the government as it works assiduously to build a better country for all. He noted that no government could use just five months to right all that had been done wrong over the years, but said with the total support of all Ghanaians, the government would be able to deliver.

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has been rendered incapable of dealing with many of the fire outbreaks in the country due to the breakdown of most of its fire engines and the only turn-table ladder used by firefighters to gain access to high structures for rescue operations. The Deputy Public Relations Officer of the GNFS, Divisional Officer III Timothy Osafo--Affum,

A police in uniform and wielding an AK47 rifle was caught in the web of 'sakawa' last Wednesday, when he and two civilians were arrested for allegedly defrauding a Namibian of $7,900.

Member of Parliament for Atwimah Mponuah has expressed disgust over claims by the Majority Leader, Alban Bagbin that excess diaries printed for MP’s was to be blamed on the previous government.

Vice President John Dramani Mahama is strongly opposed to the four-year senior high school programme.

Sixteen players are expected to fly to Tamale on Friday where the team will begin its second phase of camping for next month's dual 2010 World cup qualifiers.

International scientists say they have found the first evidence of resistance to the world's most effective drug for treating malaria.

The Minister of Interior Mr. Cletus Avoka, Thursday refuted the allegation raised by NPP Presidential candidate for Election 2008, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was interfering in chieftaincy affairs.

President John Evans Atta Mills, on Thursday said that government would do its best to carry out all developmental activities, outlined in the National Democratic Congress (NDC), manifesto, to make Ghana a better place to live in.

A U.S. soldier convicted of murdering an Iraqi family spoke out for the first time Thursday, issuing a public apology for his crimes.