Mrs Thomford Okyere, Headmistress of Oguaa Senior High Technical The deputy Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Lawyer Ebo Barton Odro, has stated that Ghana will only be able to achieve quality education for socio-economic development if various educational structures are developed to enhance academic excellence. According to him, developing infrastructure at the various levels of education... 

For polluting water bodies   Group photograph of participants at the conference The Minister of Environment, Science and Technology Ms Sherry Ayittey, has taken a swipe at the multinational mining companies in the country for destroying the natural resources and vast arable land. She noted that this has made the standard of living of the people in the mining communities nothing to write home about. The... 

The National Youth Leader of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Divine Nkrumah, has said his party had the better policies for the youth than all other political parties clamouring to rule Ghana. Divine Nkrumah, PPP National Youth Leader Mr Nkrumah said this when speaking during the inauguration of new executives of the Progressive Youth Movement (PYM) for the Polytechnic, Nurses Training College,... 

Paul Tawiah Quaye, Inspector of Police This book has an identity problem. The author, the NPP politician and medical doctor, Arthur Kennedy states in the introduction that the book is “a work of fiction.” Five lines later he restates that “this book is fiction.” The author states that the book is an attempt to sound the alarm about the impact of drug abuse on Africa in general and on West Africa... 

West Africa’s regional bloc Ecowas has agreed a deal with Mali’s junta for Djouncounda Traore to remain as president beyond Monday’s deadline. As part of the deal, coup leader Captain, Amadou Sanogo, will get all the benefits of a former head of state. Mr Traore was initially sworn in for 40 days in April, replacing Captain Sanogo who seized power the previous month. The coup, and... 

Former Libyan intelligence, chief Abdallah al-Senussi, has been charged in Mauritania with illegally entering the country, officials say. Mr Senussi, who fled Libya after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, was held at Nouakchott airport after flying in from Morocco in March. Both Libya and the International Criminal Court want him extradited to face trial for crimes against humanity. Mauritanian officials... 

THE coast of Ghana was hit by a devastating rainstorm which left in its wake debris and filth. The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and the Ghana Fire Service were at wits ends once again as they sought to respond to the disaster.   IN the capital, some trees fell from the impact of ravaging storm, while giant billboards tumbled on roads, thus resulting in serious traffic congestion... 

To address Effutu Aboakyer Afahye   Last Saturday’s rainstorm that hits most parts of the country did not deter the Progressive People’s Party’s (PPP) flag-bearer, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, from addressing enthusiastic Ghanaians who had thronged the Winneba township to celebrate the age-long Aboakyer festival of chiefs and people of the town and its environs in the Central Region. Dr Nduom addressing... 

*At Amasaman *4 cops beat man to a pulp *But District Commander denies story of Eric Ofosu lying on his sick bed at Amasaman Gov’t Hospital The Industrial Relations Officer of the Maritime and Dockworkers’ Union of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Mr Eric Ofosu, was thrown into a state of shock and utter bewilderment when he was alleged to have been severely brutalised by four fully-armed policemen... 

The Central Regional office of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) has arrested a 22-year-old driver, Kofi Mensah, for having sex with his 19-year old sister, Ama Essumanba, at Abaka, near Abura Dunkwa in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District of the Central Region.   Kofi Mensah and the sister are both of the same parentage with Ama Essumanba nursing a month old baby. Briefing...