West African leaders call for a unity government and interational military intervention in Mali, to restore stability after a military coup in March.

The Reverend Robert Peasah, Circuit Pastor of the Christ Apostolic Church International (CACI), Abeka Assembly, has called on the government to institute measures that would allow national service personnel from tertiary institutions to provide service at the prison centres in the country. He said a feel of the prison environment would help shape their emotions and character and positively on their work when they are entrusted with the responsibility to manage a public office. The man of God ... Read More

The second season of the Airtel Rising Stars football competition ended in style at the El Wak sports stadium last Friday with the Southern sector emerging winners in the finals of the boys? category after beating the Northern sector 1-0. In the girls division, Inter Royals from the Ashanti Region defeated GHATEL Central by 2-1 to win the girls? division. The Southern Select side will now represent the nation at an Inter-Country Under-17 competition in Kenya later this year. In ... Read More

Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, has stated that the creation of more district assemblies would accelerate socio-economic development. He therefore appealed to all personnel posted to serve in the new assemblies to work diligently and with passion to bring positive transformation to the lives of the people. He was speaking at the opening session of the Ninth Quadrennial Delegates Conference of the Local Government Workers Union of the Trade Union ... Read More

A suspected armed robber was Saturday night shot dead in Kumasi when he engaged a police and military patrol team in a shootout. The deceased Kwaku Asante is believed to be a member of a notorious armed robbery gang in the city. Three other members of the gang, Kojo Isaac,34, Nicholas Amoah, 20, and Peter Woraye, 20, who were arrested in the swoop are assisting the police in their investigation. According to the police, the patrol team raided the hideout of the gang upon a tip-off ... Read More

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has cautioned chiefs in the Ashanti Region to desist from multiple and fraudulent sale of land or face dire consequence including instant destoolment from their thrones. Chiefs and traditional authorities, particularly caught selling land acquired by the state or Asanteman for national purposes, will suffer this action. He also urged the chiefs and traditional authorities to be wary of fraudsters parading as investors with ?grandiose plans and ... Read More

The immediate past Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, Prof. Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, has launched a 354-page textbook on business management, titled: ?Revival Series Business Management: Edition Three?, in Accra. The book, authored by Mr. Samuel Oppong Mensah, a Course Tutor of the University of Cape Coast, has been prescribed for use in the second cycle institutions by the Ghana Education Service. The occasion coincided with the outdooring of another a book titled ... Read More

The body of an unidentified man was found in a pit at the Kwadaso under-pass of the Sofo-Line Interchange Project site in Kumasi, on Friday. This brings to five the number of people who have drowned in the same pit at the project site, this year. The first incident occurred in February when an unidentified man fell into it and died. Suntreso police have confirmed the latest tragedy to the Times, saying they one still investigating the matter, the fact that there one some knife marks on the ... Read More

The Governing Council of Accra Polytechnic has inducted Dr. Sylvester Achio as the new Rector of the polytechnic. The chairman of the Council, Prof. Joshua Alabi, on Friday, administered the oath of office, in line with the Polytechnic Act of 2007 (Act 745). Dr. Achio, 54, until his appointment, was a senior Lecturer and Head/Co-ordinator of the Research and Innovation Centre of the Accra Polytechnic, and a student academic counsellor. In 1997, he took up lectureship appointment in the ... Read More

Luck eluded a porter, Daniel Adjei when he was caught red handed on close- circuit television camera (CCTV) stealing a plasma television from the Cardio-thoracic Centre at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. The Accra Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Patrick Eden Timbilla who confirmed this to the Times in Accra last Friday said the 36-year old porter and resident of Bukom on June 4, went to the conference room of the Cardiothoracic Centre and stole a- 32- ... Read More

Confederation of African Football (CAF) Champions League debutants, Berekum Chelsea, on Saturday established themselves as an emerging force on the continent with a real display of character that saw them come from behind twice to defeat experienced Zamalek of Egypt 3-2 in their CAF Champions? League group B opener at the Accra Sports Stadium. And though it was a collective effort, the name of striker Emmanuel Clottey reverberate the whole stadium after the blast of the final whistle of ... Read More

A two day coaching seminar has been held for hard ball level one cricket coaches in the country as part of programmes to upgrade the technical know-how of the participants at the Achimota Senior High School, Accra. The seminar, which began on Saturday, July 7, 2012 and ended on Sunday, July 8, 2012, was organized by the Ghana Cricket Association (GCA) under the auspices of International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Africa Cricket Association (ACA). It was also aimed at enhancing and ... Read More

The Tarikpah and Somoah Primary Schools in the Savelugu-Nanton District in the Northern Region, have received English and Mathematics textbooks, and dictionaries, worth GH¢4,000 from Gaidoo Foundation, a non-governmental organisation. The Executive Director of the Foundation, Mrs. Abena Awuku, made the donation at Savelugu, last weekend, remarking that despite the high enrolments at the basic level, schools in the rural areas still lacked the resources with which to educate the ... Read More

Government has been urged to create sustainable employment under the National Youth Employment Programme for ex-convicts. That, the Vice President of the Pan African Bible Seminary, the Very Reverend Fredrick Akakpo, said would help reduce crime and facilitate the integration of release prisoners into the society. He made the call at a doctorate award ceremony for Reverend Dr Gabriel Kwesi Dankwa, Chaplain General of the Ghana Prisons Service on Friday. The award was conferred on him by ... Read More

The Governing Council of the Dominion University College (DUC) was inaugurated in Accra last Thursday. The 15-member Council is chaired by Dr Justice Emile Francis Short. The other members are Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams (Chancellor); Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah, (president); Kwame Acheampong-Kyei; Dr. Jendayi Fraser, a former United States Secretary of State for Africa; Professor Samuel Bonsu; Mrs. Obiageli Ezekwesili, a former vice president for Africa at the World Bank, Mrs. ... Read More

Libyans have been voting in their first free national election for 60 years.