[Ghanaian Chronicle]THE DEPUTY Chairman, Finance and Administration of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mr. Amadu Sulley, has called on the Ghana Police Service (GPS) to be proactive in handling flash points that the EC will identify and make available to the police.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]That Ghana's decentralisation programme is fraught with inefficiencies is never a far cry from reality. The decentralization programme which began in 1988 had an objective of promoting effective and accountable local government in the country with the ultimate goal of clamping down on poverty. Rather the significance of decentralization has been stultifying. Livelihoods in rural areas and even urban communities have increasingly been subjected to a quagmire of crushing poverty while the few so-called elite

[Ghanaian Chronicle]It is certainly going to be innovative. On Tuesday evening, all political activities in the country would be frozen, as the nation's attention is focused on the much-publicised Presidential Debate at the Radach Hotel in Tamale.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday unanimously declared the authority of the Local Government Minister under L.I.1983 to create electoral areas, as unlawful and unconstitutional.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]An Accra magistrate court has ordered three prime accused persons, standing trial for the murder of the late Chief of Oblogo, Nii Kwaku Bibini III, during a recent chieftaincy dispute, to be remanded into prison custody.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]A disqualified Presidential aspirant for the 2012 General Election has gone to court to protest against the Electoral Commission (EC) for prohibiting him from taking part in this year's presidential and parliamentary election.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has called on Ghanaians to vote for New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate, Nana Akufo Addo in the December 7 polls to enable him implement the free Senior High School (SHS) education policy.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Tears have not ceased from the eyes of traders at the Mallam market, as last week a raging fire destroyed their wares worth millions of Ghana Cedis and reduced their stalls into ashes.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Anyone with formal education has an Alma Mater to boast of. It is true not everybody is able and can reach the peak of the educational ladder.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Wa -The vice presidential aspirant of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has said that the phenomenal growth of the Ghanaian economy under the Kufuor administration was a result of deliberate policies, and a well-thought out project to grow the economy and transform the then HIPC economy into a lower middle income economy.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Yesterday, the national headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ghana Police Service announced that Prophet Daniel Nkansah, the self-styled Man of God and leader of the New Vision Party, who claimed to have bribed two leading officers of the Electoral Commission to register him to contest the 2012 presidential election, had surrendered.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]A visit to the proposed site for the construction of the Upper West Regional Hospital, in Wa, by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and a team of media men, indicates that nearly two years after the sod was cut for construction to begin, not even a single block has been laid on the site.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]It was a painful decision to take, but at the end of the day (yesterday), it was generally accepted by all, that the activities of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC) be grounded until further notice.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]He made history in 2008 as the first 'Prophet of God' who made an attempt to have a shot at the presidency. His hope was however, dashed when the no nonsense Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan, disqualified him after failing to meet the criteria set for the election.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Takoradi -Shareholders of the Ahantaman Rural Bank (ARB), located at Agona Nkwanta in the Western Region, have appealed to the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to speed up its investigation into the circumstances under which the bank lost a whopping sum of three billion cedis in a controversial loan agreement.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, Mr. Kale Caesar, has stated that since independence no government has kept faith with the people of the Upper West Region than the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

[Observer]Last year, Ian Mutenda defied all odds to win the Guinness Football Challenge.

[Daily Observer]The Alpha International Theological Seminar (AITS) has conferred Doctor of Theology on three Reverends for the successful completion of their research works. The conferment ceremony was held at the Glory Baptist Church, Old Jeshwang on Saturday.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Heavy metals are seldom heard of coming from men that deal with human lives, in spite of hazards that could accompany them, for they are present in our waters, and in traces, in the tissues of our body and "flesh" as well. Elemental Gold is the exception, in that it does not react with body fluids or natural water in the ground. It is not linked with any toxicity.

[Vanguard]Umuahia -FORMER Ghanaian President, Jerry Rawlings has indentified insecurity as the bane of the African continent even as he tasked African leaders to tackle the problem from the roots.