[AMLF]Dakar -The Ghanaian-born Professor George Ayittey Thursday stressed the importance of media and free flow of information on the advancement and development of societies, saying "radio is the death and life of Africa".

[State Department]Washington -The first evaluations of farmer training programs in five countries that received funding from the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation show that the training led to increased production and incomes, the agency says.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Both Dr. Mahamudu Bawumiah and Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah Arthur yesterday, demonstrated their prowess when it comes to economic matters, with the duo punching holes in arguments made by each other.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Airtel Ghana has handed over various prizes to two beneficiaries of their corporate social responsibility initiatives, Touching Lives. The two, Rebecca Kwapong and Emmanuel Martey, are both residents of Asesewa in the Manyo Krobo District of the Eastern Region.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Ho -The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has promised to build an excellent relationship between the people of the Volta Region and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) when voted into power, to ensure the rapid development of the region.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Cape Coast Anglican Diocese has climaxed its 30 years Anniversary celebration with the cutting of the sod to commence work on a multi-million office complex befitting the status of the Church, as Philip Quaicoe Anglican Church was filled to capacity.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The National Media Commission (NMC), on Tuesday reiterated calls on journalists to engender public debate and disseminate truthful and unbiased information to enrich Election 2012.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Scores of people are still feared trapped under debris, after a six-storey shopping mall, located at Achimota and a rented property of Melcom Group of Companies, collapsed in the early hours of yesterday.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]On the part of the NPP MP for Aburi-Nsawam, till date the EC has not fulfilled its constitutional mandate in making available to the political parties copies of the certified voters and provisional register.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Joy Herbal Centre, producers of herbal products, has sponsored this year's Kumawood Award, which is meant to award Kumasi-based actors and actresses, producers and other players in the film and television industry.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs, in collaboration with the Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (CIKOD), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Ghana, has developed a Charter to guide the management of natural resources in various traditional areas in the Brong Ahafo Region.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Ghana and the African Development Bank on Wednesday signed two financing agreements totalling 135 million dollars, to enhance the capacity of private sector institutions and to promote technical skills development.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Koforidua -Residents of eight (8) communities in the Kwahu South District of the Eastern Region have petitioned President John Dramani Mahama to immediately institute a commission to investigate a whopping GH¢ 4.7 million that has been paid to a contractor for a job not done.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Faced with several attacks from prospective Presidential aspirants of political parties whose forms were rejected, the Electoral Commission (EC) is yet again expected to face a new legal battle in an Accra Fast Track Court (FTC), where the Democratic People's Party (DPP) and its presidential nominee, T.N. Ward-Brew are complaining of being handed a raw deal.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Asokore-Koforidua Seventh-Day Adventist Senior High School in the New Juaben Municipality of the Eastern Region, notwithstanding its numerous challenges, has held its first Speech and Prize Giving Day, since its establishment ten years ago.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Ever since President Rawlings hosted his longtime political rival, the New Patriotic Party's Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, at his Ridge office last October, political pundits have since been trying hard to solve the puzzle that lay deep at the heart of that historic meeting.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]An Accra High Court yesterday, dismissed a request from the New Vision Party (NVP) seeking to prevent the Electoral Commission (EC) from printing Presidential ballot papers for the up-coming general elections slated for December 7, this year.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The first ever National Rice Festival has opened at the Efua Sutherland Park, Accra. The two-day event of training workshops and local rice exhibitions formed part of the 8th General Assembly of the Ghana Rice Inter-professional Body (GRIB) - A national umbrella organization of rice stakeholders.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Since the stadium disaster which struck the nation in 2001, Ghana has not experienced any major disaster to the magnitude of what happened in Accra yesterday. The structure housing the Melcom Shopping Mall at Achimota, a suburb of Accra, caved in, killing three workers and trapping several others. As at the time of going to press yesterday, rescue efforts were still ongoing to save the lives of those still trapped under the debris.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Ms. Charita Sarpong Kumankoma, the running mate of Dr. Abu Sakara Foster on the ticket of the Convention People's Party for next month's Presidential and Legislative elections, says corruption and greed on the part of the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had reduced the country into a land of broken dreams.