A total of GH¢47 million has been paid by the government as ex gratia to the 230 Members of Parliament (MPs) who served in the Fifth Parliament of the Fourth Republic.

The Vice President is attending the inauguration and swearing-in of the President of Sierra Leone, Mr Ernest Bai Koroma, who was successfully re-elected for a second five-year mandate following last year's polls.

President John Dramani Mahama has nominated the following as Ministers of State designate:

The Convention Peoples' Party says it will use 2013 to concentrate on retrieving all assets confiscated by government during the 1966 coup.