Black Stars Coach, Avram Grant has named a 26-man provisional squad to represent Ghana at the 2017 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Gabon, which commences on January 14, 2017.

The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Christopher Rowley, yesterday held a closed-door meeting with President John Dramani Mahama at the Flagstaff House.

President John Dramani Mahama has stated that the fight against corruption is an uphill task which needs "a partnership of the willing" to be able to tackle.

President John Dramani Mahama yesterday joined other world leaders at an Anti-Corruption Summit being organised by the UK Government.

A Policy Dialogue on Revenue Management in the Extractives Sector— minerals and hydrocarbons (oil and gas)— which aims to promote knowledge exchange and peer learning  on how public spending can be more effective, efficient and economic, is underway in Accra.

Government would support cashew farmers to achieve their production levels to ensure the availability of the crop for both domestic industries and for export, President John Dramani has said.

Ghana and 170 other countries on April 22, 2016 made history with the signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

Government will build two new shea butter processing factories in the Upper East and Upper West Regions, President John Dramani Mahama has announced.

The Vice President, Mr K. B. Amissah-Arthur, on Monday called for greater collaboration between India and Africa.

President John Mahama has said the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) was back on track and would be the vehicle to promote investment in the savannah regions for development.

President John Dramani Mahama will on Sunday 6th March review a national parade of school children, voluntary organisations and security services at the Black Star Square to commemorate the 59th Anniversary of our Independence.

President John Dramani Mahama on Friday tasked Mr John Kudalor, the new Inspector General of Police and the police administration to thoroughly investigate the circumstances that led to the death of over 60 persons in Wednesday’s horrific accident.

Italian Prime Minister, Mr. Matteo Renzi, will arrive in Accra on Monday for a two-day working visit.

President John Dramani Mahama yesterday announced that government through the Ministry of Chieftaincy Affairs is working around the clock to promote more chieftaincy divisions to paramountcy levels.

Robert Porter Jackson has been sworn in as the new United States (US) Ambassador to Ghana. This was contained in a press release from the Public Affairs Section of the Embassy on January 13, 2016 and signed by Sara Veldhuizen Stealy, an Information Officer. The Oath was administered by the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Linda Thomas –Greenfield.

Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minister for Local Government and Rural Development has inspected the ongoing redevelopment of the Kejetia Lorry Park and Central Market project, in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.

President John Dramani Mahama has appointed Mr. Kenneth Wujangi, a management and integrated rural development specialist as a deputy chief of staff (operations) at the flagstaff house.

 Ghana is among 56 countries in the world that have taken about 680 detainees that were transferred from the Guantanamo Bay, following the decision of the American government to close the camp that has become a blot on the latter's human rights record.

President John Dramani Mahama and the Prime Minister of Norway, Ms Erna Solberg, have been appointed Co-Chairs of a group of sixteen (16) eminent Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advocates to support the Secretary-General in his efforts to generate momentum and commitment to achieve the SDGs by 2030.  

The vice President, His Excellency Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, has criticized the lack of progress on the West Africa Economic and Monetary Union, otherwise referred to as the Economic Integration Agenda or the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Single Currency Programme.

The Vice President, Mr K. B. Amissah‐Arthur, yesterday met with the Ameer of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana at its headquarters in Accra.

Government in an attempt to beef up security in the country has increased the number of the police service from, 26 000 to 32 000 through massive recruitment exercises which have resulted in a reduction of crime incidence by five thousand in the country.

The immediate past Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), Ambassador Kabral Blay-Amihere, has described the New Acting Director of the Information Services Department (ISD), Mr Francis Kwarteng Arthur, as a man of great competence and fit for the position.

The Acting Director of the Information Services Department (ISD), Mr Francis Kwarteng Arthur, yesterday urged Public Relations Officers (PROs) of the Department to support his restructuring effort to enable it become relevant in these contemporary times.

President John Dramani Mahama yesterday received the outgoing High Commissioner of Sierra Leone to Ghana, H.E. Osman Foday Yansaneh, at the Flagstaff House to announce the end of his tour of duty.

Ghana longest bridge – the Adomi Bridge – was re-opened to traffic last Saturday after 22 months of rehabilitation works.

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Mrs Nana Oye Lithur, has pledged to ensure that all bottlenecks to the empowerment of women in Ghana are removed through the appropriate legal and policy framework.

The Acting Director of the Information Services Department (ISD), Francis Kwarteng Arthur has called on staff of the Department to step up their efforts to remain relevant to the needs and aspirations of the government. This he said would make ISD regain its past glory as the main publicity arm of government.

Tullow Ghana, operators of Jubilee field, and Kosmos, operators of Mahogany and Teak presented a Plan of Development (PoD) for the Greater Jubilee Full Field to Government ahead of schedule.

President John Dramani Mahama yesterday announced a logistics package for the staff and management of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) to enhance firefighting performance in the coming years.

Fellow GhanaiansMy Brothers and Sisters

It gives me great pleasure to join you in bidding farewell to 2015 and welcoming a new year. This  is a time for celebration, a time to express gratitude for the good fortune and blessings bestowed upon us throughout the course of this past year, not least of all, the blessings of good health and life itself.

President John Dramani Mahama last Friday conferred a total of 33 National awards on 28 Ghanaians and five foreigners for their distinguished services in various disciplines of national development.

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has injected dynamism into the 2015 celebration of the International Human Rights day with the release of “CHRAJ 2015 State of Human Right,” report in Accra.

President John Dramani Mahama has announced changes in the top hierarchy of the Ghana Armed Forces.

President John Mahama yesterday delivered his statement at the Leaders Event of the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 21) in Paris, France.

The Chairman of the Internet Society (ISOC) Ghana Chapter and Africa Internet pioneer Prof. Nii Narku Quaynor, has been awarded the 2015 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Multi-stakeholder Ethos Award during the opening ceremony of ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIB), Ghana in a shot ceremony in Accra, has presented an honoury award to the Vice Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies (UPSA) Prof. Joshua Alabi.

A National Stakeholders’ Validation Workshop, which aimed to address the challenges identified in the Broadcasting Bill and to fine-tune it for submission to Cabinet for approval, has taken place in Accra.

The Minister of Finance, Mr Seth Emmanuel Terkper, has asked Ghanaians to focus on the positive developments ongoing in the country, instead of harping on the challenges.

All flags will fly at half mast today, Monday, as we begin 3 days of national mourning for the persons who lost their lives through a fire and flood disaster on Wednesday June 03.

We have just finished a National Crisis Meeting to review the national disasters that have hit our nation, leading to what the security and emergency services have officially counted to be about 150 deaths.

President John Dramani Mahama, yesterday urged Real Estate Developers to make their houses available and affordable to the average and lower income-earning Ghanaians.

Ghana over the weekend, held a  Wreath-laying ceremony to climax a week-long commemoration of this year’s International Day of United Nations (UN) Peace Keeping here in Accra.

President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday joined hundreds of mourners who thronged the premises of the State House to pay their last respect to Mrs Theodosia Salome Abenaki Kumea Okoh, designer of the national flag.

Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has charged oil companies to use the local content policy as the basis to create employment for the people.

President John Dramani Mahama said on Wednesday that the government has the biggest investments in roads construction in the history of the country.

Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has called on the Chinese private sector to take advantage of the favourable environment to invest in the country.

Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has on call on African governments to confront head-on the problem of youth unemployment, which he said has the potential to cause mass social unrest and agitation on the continent.

Ms Hanna Tetteh, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has said Africa needs to do more to empower its women in the quest to achieve the Africa Union’s (AU) agenda 2063 adopted in January 2014.

Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has called on authorities of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to find solutions to problems militating against the development of the capital.

President John Dramani Mahama on Friday called on Africans all over the world to be the front liners in telling their own success stories, since others are interested in the negative aspects.

President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday promised to take action against persons or group of persons found culpable in the Judgement Debt Commission report.

President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday said members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) would in the coming years focus on job creation in the sub- region.

President John Dramani Mahama yesterday inaugurated the Eastern Corridor Fibre Optic Backbone Infrastructure Project at Ho in the Volta Region.

Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has received a number of ECOWAS leaders who are in Accra to attend the 47th Ordinary Session of the Authority of the Heads of State at the Jubilee Lounge of the Kotoka International Airport.

President John Dramani Mahama today reminded political appointees that their appointment was an opportunity for them to contribute their quota towards nation building.

President John Dramani last Friday in his capacity as Chair of the Economic Community of West African States left Accra for Bamako, Mali to preside over the signing of a peace and reconciliation agreement.

Government had fulfilled its obligations under the United Nations (UN) Commission on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to address the needs of the vulnerable and has prioritized its interventions for girls.

Ghana, Togo and Burkina Faso have signed an agreement to foster trans-border relations between them.

President John Dramani Mahama and his Ivorian counterpart, Mr Alassane Quattara, yesterday expressed their commitment to promoting discussions that favour their integration in the West African Sub Region.

Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has commended participants at the 2nd forum on the implementation of the Single Spine Pay Policy (SSPP) for their insightful contributions to the process.

President John Dramani Mahama last Friday tasked the Public Services Commission (PSC) and other relevant stakeholders to step up supervision in the public sector, to maximize production and performance.

Vice-president Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has asked faith-based organisations to support the government with prayers as it strives to overcome the economic difficulties confronting the nation.

Ghana’s total export to Italy in 2013 amounted to 751 million dollars dominated by petroleum oils, cocoa beans and tuna, Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Minister of Trade and Industry has said.

The Minister for Communications, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, has commissioned and handed over an Enhanced Community Information Centre (E-CIC) to La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipal Assembly in the Greater Accra Region under the e- governance project.

The European Union says it is optimistic of resuming its budget support to the Government of Ghana following the adoption of the IMF’s three year extended credit facility programme.

Karpowership, Turkish floating Powership Maker, says it will go all the way to ensure that Ghana overcomes the current electricity power challenges by building the infrastructure for its medium to long-term electricity supply needs.

President John Dramani Mahama yesterday called on workers in the power sector to exhibit a high sense of professionalism and fairness that would satisfy Ghanaians in the current energy challenges.

Dr Kwaku Agyeman Mensah, Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, has visited the Sakumono coastal stretch to inspect the sea defence project being constructed by Amandi Holdings.

President John Dramani Mahama yesterday held a closed-door meeting with two neighbouring heads of state at the Peduase lodge, in the Eastern Region.

Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur yesterday said the government ss taking the right measures to ensure the country moves into the future with confidence.

Ghana last weekend joined 28 other countries from around the world to participate in this year’s Carnival International de Victoria in Seychelles.

President Mahama Calls For Packaging Innovations

Government To Deepen State-Church Relations

President Mahama Announces Incentive Package For Cocoa Farmers

Government to Build Eleven Thousand Affordable Houses

Veep calls for efforts to protect country’s vegetation

Xenophobic attacks will hinder Africa integration – Mahama

Flags To Fly At Half Mast In Honour Of Mrs Theodosia Okoh