[allAfrica]Notwithstanding the fact that the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has few real powers as executive head of a member-driven organization, it is one of the most coveted high-level international posts. With the incumbent, Pascal Lamy of France, expected to step down when his term of office expires at the end of August 2013, the contest to succeed him is underway.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Accra Hearts of Oak have terminated the appointment of team manager Patrick Madjitey, the club has officially announced.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Supreme Court yesterday witnessed great legal arguments, interspersed with lectures on the law, as it commenced hearing a case which is described as one of the biggest test cases in the country's history.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." - Henry Brooks Adams

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kade -The office of the Kweabibirem District Assembly in the Eastern Region was virtually reduced to a boxing ring on Thursday, as the District Coordinating Director (DCD) of the Assembly, Mr. Stephen Aduama-Larbi, nearly used the District Chief Executive (DCE), Emmanuel Reginald Aboagye Osae, and some executive members of the Assembly as punching bags.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]If immediate attention does not come from the government to salvage the situation, the remaining local steel companies, namely Sentuo (formerly WAHOME) and Special Steel, cannot survive the first quarter of this year, a frustrated local steel operator has bemoaned.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters went on rampage within the precincts of the Supreme Court yesterday, attacking everybody, including hawkers, teenagers and a pregnant woman, who were going about their normal duties and had nothing to do with the case the New Patriotic Party flagbearer for the 2012 elections, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, had filed at the court.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The year 2013 seems to be the year the Good Lord has chosen for Ghana to get to the roots of our filthy and insanitary conditions.Oon the last day of 2012, former President Jerry John Rawlings, in his address at the 31st Anniversary of the 31st December 1981 Revolution, made a heartfelt appeal to all and sundry to curb our insanitary habits. Currently, the 64th Annual New Year School and Conference, which opened in Accra on Monday, is on the theme "The Key to the Future of our Nation: Improved Water, Sanit

[Ghanaian Chronicle]THE African Union Commission (AUC) and Consortium of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR Consortium) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in an event that highlights continued progress towards African agricultural sustainability.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kumasi -The long cherished dream and aspirations of many residents in the Ashanti Region, particularly members of the management body of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), to see the successful completion of the age old Maternity and Children Block, appears to be gradually coming into reality.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kumasi -Communities and individuals responsible for the arbitrary construction of speed ramps, commonly known as "bumping", would soon be made to face the full rigorous of the law.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Ghana will arrive in Port Elizabeth today, ahead of their opener against DR Congo this Sunday.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Minority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, says the article that appeared in one of the 'criminally rented NDC press' suggesting that he and some members of the New Patriotic Party Parliamentary Caucus were planning to replace the chairman of the party, "could only exist in the figment of the writer's imagination."

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Waste management giants, Zoomlion, have made a cheque donation worth $50,000 to the Ministry of Youth & Sports. The amount is to assist the ministry in funding 1,000 fans drawn from the National Supporters Union to South Africa, to support the Black Stars in their quest to lifting the AFCON Trophy a fifth time.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Ivory Coast defender Kolo Toure believes Ghana are the favourites to win the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. The Black Stars aim at winning the tournament in South Africa for the first time in 31-years.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Justice Jones Dotse, a member of the Supreme Court panel adjudicating the election petition filed before the court, has emphatically denied ever being a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), or held any executive position of the party in the Volta Region, as was being speculated by some members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kumasi -The Asante Development Union (ADU) has filed thousands of questions to President John Dramani Mahama over the National Health Insurance Capitation, which is currently being operated in the Ashanti Region on a pilot basis.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Tamale -The Coordinating Director of the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly, Alhaji Shehu Awudu Kadiri, has announced plans by the Assembly to tackle the concerns being raised by the chief and people of Tamale, concerning poor waste management, hawkers on pavements, and stray animals.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]On Monday, 10th December 2012, about 10hrs after Dr. Afari Gyan declared John Mahama winner of the 2012 elections, a friend visited me. He is an NDC guy, in quite a top position. I jokingly congratulated him for the election victory and added "Honorable, but they say you people have stolen the victory". His response: "They say all die be die, so all win be win".

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Immediately after the coup of February 24, 1966, it was alleged that a lot of Kwame Nkrumah's seemingly previously trusted lieutenants deserted him, stabbed him in the back by denouncing him and making uncomplimentary comments about him.