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A survey conducted by Center for Democratic Development (July 2-18) has revealed that at least 70% of Ghanaian citizens are of the view that the economy of the country is not on a sound footing. The survey further found that Ghanaians habour a fear that a degradation in their economic life could ruin them ultimately.

A court in Canada has sentenced a 58-year-old Ghanaian man to eight months in jail after he accepted responsibility for child pornography found on his cellphone as he entered the North American country.

A sachet water producer in Accra has accused workers of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) and some Police personnel of stealing over $80,000 from his house.

A couple accused of using cannabis (wee) in the preparation of light soup in their chop bar were on Friday nabbed by the Ashaiman Divisional Police Command.

An Accra Circuit has remanded into police custody a 27-year-old trader for allegedly defiling a 13-year- old girl.

A 30-year-old farmer is currently been sought by the police after he allegedly butchered his brother-in-law, Kwaku Dada, whom he mistakenly thought was his rival, at Akyem-Pankese near Nkawkaw in the Kwahu West Municipality of the Eastern Region, on Monday dawn.

Anas Aremeyaw Anas has revealed the conditions under which he and his Tiger Eye team would open an investigation into the Electoral Commission of Ghana.

Curiously enough acerbic MP, Kennedy Agyapong has opined that the four-month sentence handed down to the ‘Montie 3’ is tough adding a two-month sentence would have sufficed to teach the brazen men that no one is above the law.

Communications Minister, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah has risen to the defence of his boss, parrying claims of nepotism made by former GIMPA rector, Professor Stephen Adei.

Two Ghanaian professors from the Valdosta State University in USA recently undertook investigations into how some prominent Ghanaians earn Honorary Doctorate degrees and concluded that many of the private universities dishing out the degrees were unaccredited.

It’s been a decade since the Persons with Disability Act (715) of 2006 was passed by parliament to entrench right of persons with disability. The law among other things required owners of buildings to make their facilities disability friendly.

Chief of Staff Julius Debrah has, on behalf of President John Mahama, presented to the Council of State petitions received over the jailed Montie trio.

Even though it is not certain that President John Mahama and the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) would be in power after the general elections slated for December 7, 2016, the Office of the President has started placing orders for a presidential diary for the year 2017.

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced the five persons arrested for attacking an employee of the Koala Shopping Centre in January this year to a total of 150 years with hard labour by an Accra Circuit Court.