Readers were welcomed back from the weekend with the release of Ghanaian-Lebanese Pilot and Author, Fadi Daboussie on Sunday. 

He was reportedly arrested on Friday afternoon for consistently making offensive and scalding comments against President John Mahama in articles.

Also, the Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) justified the dismissal of 13 workers and the withholding of the August salary of 42 others after they violated company rules and engaged in an illegal strike.

At dawn on Tuesday was the showdown of the much-awaited debate between US presidential aspirants Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Again on this day, a veteran NPP Member of Parliament for Kwesimintim Joe Baidoe-Ansah was defeated in the parliamentary primaries by Joseph Mensah.

The election was held after Joseph Mensah's disqualification by the party was reversed by a court. At the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, an attempt to elect a presiding member resulted in a brawl.

On Wednesday, the Electoral Commission (EC) said aspiring presidential and parliamentary candidates could be disqualified from contesting the 2016 election if they failed to declare their assets with the Auditor General.

And in business news, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved the disbursement of some $116 million to Ghana.

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) on Thursday said the president breached the country's gift policy in accepting the controversial Ford gift given by a Burkinabe contractor Djibril Kanazoe.

Although the PPP and CPP youth leagues who petitioned CHRAJ over the issue felt vindicated, the Commission said that President Mahama's action did not breach the bribery, corruption or conflict of interest laws of the country.

Also, presidential and parliamentary candidates trooped Electoral Commission offices across the country to file their nomination forms.

Vice President Amissah Arthur filed on behalf of President Mahama.

Due to a case filed by the PPP challenging the legality of the Commission’s decision to take the deposits, the Commission declined a GH¢50,000 filing fee from the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP's) presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

And in Sports, President of the Ghana Football Association Kwesi Nyantakyi became the first Ghanaian to serve on FIFA's powerful cabinet after securing one of two FIFA Executive Council slots.

Presidential and Parliamentary Candidates continued to file their nominations on Friday but the EC shockingly accepted the PPP's È»50,000 filing fee.

With 67 days to the elections, the NDC withdrew its parliamentary candidate for Kwahu Affram Plains South, Joseph Appiah.