Newmont Ghana has cut down from 600 to 472, the number of workers it intended to lay off. This follows an agreement between the company and the Ghana Mine Workers Union (GMWU) on Wednesday. Newmont early on in the year announced a plan to lay off about 600 of its workers as part of a ...
Until a few months ago, the part of New York City where crowds will gather on Thursday morning to mark the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States had been mostly fenced off to the public. This year, for perhaps the first time since the attacks, a sense of normalcy and ...
Black Stars coach Kwesi Appiah has heaped praise on his players for picking up all three points against the Sparrow Hawks of Togo in their second 2015 African Cup of Nations qualifier on Wednesday. The Black Stars, who crashed out of the 2014 world cup in the group stages have been under constant verbal attack ...
Twitter says it plans to raise $1.3 billion by issuing convertible senior notes, its first debt offering since its market debut in November. Twitter shares fell about 1.5 percent in extended trading on Wednesday. The company plans two offerings worth 650 million each in convertible senior notes due to mature in 2019 and 2021, the microblogging ...
President John Mahama has served notice to his political detractors predicting his electoral defeat in 2016, that they will be disappointed if they hinge their analysis on the prevailing economic challenges. He has reassured the nation that the economic situation will turn around in no time. President John Mahama was speaking in Tamale in the ...
A former Director of Finance and Administration of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Opare Hammond is threatening legal action against the party if he is not reinstated immediately. Mr. Opare Hammond was asked to proceed on leave for alleged financial impropriety and disobedience to the National Chairman, Paul Afoko. He has since denied the allegation. ...
US President Barack Obama says he will not hesitate to take action against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria as well as Iraq. In a nationally televised speech outlining his strategy against IS, he said that any group that threatened America would “find no safe haven”. He also announced that 475 US military personnel would be ...
The People’s National Convention’s (PNC) General Secretary, Bernard Mornah has said that he is not challenging the enforcement of the “No Verification No Vote†provision in the name of the party. He said his decision to go court is in the public interest and not that of the PNC. Mornah is in court to challenge ...
Lead contender in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flag bearer race, Nana Akufo Addo has stated that he won the party’s super delegates congress on merit. He therefore debunked widespread assertions by opposing forces within the party that the delegates were coerced to overwhelmingly endorse his candidature. According to Nana Akuffo- Addo, the delegates who ...
South African Judge Thokosile Masipa is due to give her verdict at the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius. The Olympic double-amputee sprinter faces 25 years in jail if found guilty of premeditated murder. He denies intentionally killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day last year, saying he thought there was an intruder. The judge ...
Kwadwo Opare Hammond, a former Director of Finance and Administration of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has appealed to the party’s National Council of Elders to immediately resolve the various conflicts and issues raging in the party. Opare Hammond was relieved of his post for gross disobedience, impropriety in handling of party finances and his ...
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