Oil and gas producer Occidental Petroleum Corp is in talks to sell $4.5 billion worth of energy assets in Africa and the Middle East to Indonesia’s PT Pertamina in a bid to ease its debt load, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. Pertamina is negotiating the acquisition of oil and gas stakes in countries including
Following the success of previous editions, insurance group, Hollard Ghana has announced the August edition of its“H.Insured: All About Insurance” webinar series to be held on Friday, August 7, at 4 pm. The virtual event meant to demystify sentiments related to insurance, is under
Telecom operator, AirtelTigo, has launched a new promotion to offer customers opportunity to speak for free for six months. Dubbed ‘Free Morning Offer’, the promotion which would end in January, 2021, is intended to offer new and existing customers free AirtelTigo to AirtelTigo calls from 5am to 10am everyday for six months. In addition to … The post AirtelTigo launches
Wilfred Kweku Osei “Palmer” has quashed earlier reports claiming his outfit has received an Executive summary verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the much-anticipated case involving himself and the Ghana Football Association (GFA). Techiman Eleven Wonders chief executive Albert Commey
Ace Ghanaian music diva, MzbeL known in private life as Belinda Nana Ekua Amoah, has called out Tracey Boakye, to apologise to the youth of Ghana for fake motivational messages. According to MzbeL, Tracey had always paraded herself as self-made entrepreneur enjoying the success of her
Referees manager for the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Alex Kotey, says it is no surprise that no Ghanaian referee was included in the FIFA pre-selection list for Africa referees to officiate in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The list released last Monday had referees from Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Senegal, Ethiopia
The late Dr Doris Yaa Dartey will be laid to rest today at a private burial ceremony in Accra. The private burial would follow a funeral ceremony for the former member of the National Media Commission (NMC) also in Accra. Ms Darkoa Ofori-Yirenkyi, daughter of Dr Dartey, announced
The Chief Executive Officer of the MacDan Group of Companies Daniel Mckorley, has commended government for initiating a GH¢100 billion recovery programme to revitalise and grow the Ghanaian economy following the outbreak of the Coronavirus disease in the country. According
The Electoral Commission (EC), yesterday inaugurated a 16-member Adjudication Committee to clean the new voters register to ensure a credible 2020 polls come December 7. At an induction ceremony at the Commission’s office in Accra, the Electoral Commissioner, Mrs Jean Mensa, said that
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Mpohor in the Western Region, Alex Kofi Agyekum, is demanding action from the Ghana Cocoa Board on cocoa road projects that have stalled. He contended that the neglect of the projects in most cocoa growing areas without any explanation to the communities and leaders leaves much to be desired. … The post Mpohor MP questions lack of progress
The District Registration Review Committee (DRRC) has disqualified Anthony Ayitey, the Assemblyman for Kwame Akura West electoral area in the Krachi East Constituency of the Oti Region, for alleged provision of false information during the voter registration process. By this verdict, Ayitey would not participate in the forthcoming general elections. The DRRC is made up … The post Registration
The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu has said the monetisation of partisan politics is creating an unstable parliament and endangering the country’s democracy. Mr Iddrisu who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale Central said the phenomenon has led to a high attrition rate in the
Sunday the 21st of June, 2020 witnessed one of the saddest event, in living memory, in Kumpese in the Amansie-West District of the Ashanti Region. It’s Chief (Odikiro) Nana Ofori Amanfo II, popularly called Akropong, passed away in the morning at the Agroyesum Catholic Hospital. Nana Ofori was born in 1953 at Akropong, a village … The post NANA OFORI AMANFO II, CHIEF
Niagara Falls is one of the most breathtaking spectacles in the world. Every hour thousands of tons of water flow along the Niagara River and cascade down several hundred feet of rock into the churning, raging waters below. Through man’s ingenuity the powerful force of this falling water has been harnessed and now provides an … The post HARNESSING THE VISION OF THE FUTURE appeared
Egypt has decided to withdraw from the latest round of tripartite negotiations over Ethiopia’s multibillion-dollar dam on the Blue Nile for internal consultations after Addis Ababa proposed a new draft of filling guidelines. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which is being built about 15km (nine miles) from the Ethiopian border with Sudan on the … The post Egypt
The trial opened Monday of Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni, who has become a figurehead of press freedom in the North African country, with the prosecution calling for a four-year prison term. The prosecutor at the Algiers court also called for Drareni’s two co-accused to be jailed for four years,
The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, announced in Parliament during the mid-year budget review on July 23, that the government intends to launch a GH¢100 billion economic recovery programme amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We have brainstormed over the crisis with the view of using the challenges it presents rather as an opportunity to transform Ghana … The post COVID-19
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is to procure the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) recommended electronic sealable weighing scales, as part of measures to stop cheating in the cocoa purchasing value chain. The scales, according to the COCOBOD, are tamper-proof to safeguard cocoa farmers from being shortchanged by Local Buying Companies. These reform and preventive measures, … The post COCOBOD
A 31-year old security man, Joseph Kodua, has been sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment in hard labour by an Accra circuit court for defiling his 12-year-old daughter. The court presided by Mrs Christiana Cannhasr, also convicted Kodua for issuing death threats to her daughter.
A woman, identified as Christiana, is being sought by the Eastern Regional Police Command for allegedly beating her rival to death. Christiana, accused her rival, Millicent Opoku, 40, of flirting with the husband at Trom Francis, a suburb of Koforidua, in the Eastern Region, and attacked her with a stick, inflicting bruises on her face … The post Police hunts woman
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