The commendation was made after a panel presentation by Mr Sylvanus Kofi Adzornu, the Head of the Urban Development Unit, at the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development at the country side event organised by the Ministry at the Habitat III Conference. The panel also included Mr Kofi Yeboah, Physical Planner at Ningo-Prampram, Mr […]

Coalition of Ga-Dangme Youth has demonstrated through the principal streets of Labadi a suburb of Accra in protest against the entrenched position taken by the transferred Registrar of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs (GARHC), Harry Anthony Attipoe not to respect the transfer order. The youth have thus launched their anger at government for […]

The farmers, including those from the Upper East, Upper West, Northern, Volta and Brong Ahafo Regions, have appealed to the government consider supplying them with improved cowpea seed varieties that could withstand the insects. The farmers expressed the concern at Nyankpala in the Tolon District at a day’s sensitisation seminar organised by the West Africa […]

— Ethiopia on Wednesday joined African Trade Insurance Agency, thus enabling the agency to start insuring political risk in Ethiopia, one of the continent’s fastest-growing economies. (Fana Broadcasting Corporate/FBC) — Following the joint efforts carried out by the public and the Command Post established to oversee the implementation of the state of emergency, suspects in […]

— Students are expected to march on the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Thursday to call for free tertiary education, after another day of student protests. But police said students don’t have permission to march to the Union Buildings. (News24) — The Democratic Alliance’s youth league has officially laid charges at the Sunnyside Police Station […]

A new report dubbed Package Holiday, launched by a global research firm, keenly points to a growing interest in all-inclusive holidays, despite earlier reports by World Bank marking it as the least gainful for local communities. In an earlier study by the World Bank, all inclusive beach holidays in the Kenyan Coast contributed the least […]

The waste and management company received the commendation from the participants after a presentation done by Mr Mohammed Mahama Adams, a Communications Officer at the side event of Ghana at the ongoing UN-Habitat Habitat III Conference in Quito, Ecuador. The participants were particularly pleased about Zoomlion’s innovative initiative in waste and sanitation management in Ghana […]

Madam Dzifa Gomashie, the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, has thrown a challenge to Ghanaian Book Publishers to improve on the quality of their works and to also forge ahead in unity. She said a united front would improve the quality of output from the local industry and enable them to compete […]

The longest-serving Local Government and Rural Development minister since independence,Professor Kwamena Ahwoi, has revealed that Kofi Abrefa Busia would have resigned from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to the join the ruling National Democratic Congress if he was alive. According to him, the flag bearer of the NPP,Akufo-Addo and his henchmen have divided the party […]

The performance stage of the 2016 All Africa Music,Awards, AFRIMA, will come alive on Sunday, November 6 at Eko Hotels & Suites, Lagos in Nigeria as African music stars line up for pulsating and emotive tribute performances in honour of Manu Dibango, King Sunny Ade and late Papa Wemba, three of Africa’s renowned music legends. […]

In under two weeks the 23rd Africa Oil Week will begin, and if you’re in African oil and gas, you must be at Africa Oil Week / Africa Upstream, 2016 Register now to be part of the largest Oil & Gas event in and on Africa from Monday 31st October – Friday 4th November. In […]

Any NDC member or political appointee who today thinks he or she is on a solid ground better think twice. Again, any NDC political appointee who falsely believes it is the sole responsibility of President Mahama to campaign relentlessly to retain power come December 7 may be in a dreamland or at best hallucinating. The […]

The Obuasi Municipal Security Council (MUSEC) under the Chairmanship of the Honourable Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi has in a circular ordered owners of Drinking pubs and Night Clubs in the Municipality to close their establishments exactly at 11pm during holidays and Weekends. This current security order comes after recent clashes between […]

“For there are Danquah-hating characters on the campus of the University of Ghana who, based on the blighted logic of anti-Gandhi faculty members like Professors Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Obadele Kambon, ought not to be teaching at Legon.” OUR TAKE A casual reading of the afore-cited quotation might seem as though it was “dictator” Kwame […]

The mayor, who was on his house to house campaign tour in Mamprobi interacted with people including children who he met as he walked through the community explaining the NDC’s vision and his own agenda for transformation to them. People, came out to welcome him as he passed on could not hide their admiration when […]

Google unit and automakers objected on Wednesday to California proposals to set new, mandatory rules for testing self-driving cars in the state, which industry officials said could hobble their efforts in the home to much of self-driving vehicle testing and development. Automakers and Google raised a litany of concerns about California’s proposal at a hearing […]

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has hit hard at President John Mahama once again, saying corruption is the “hallmark of his government”. The vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) said the NDC government has sullied its image with the “theft of public funds through various schemes and the overpricing of project costs.” “Corruption is […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the 8th BRICS Summit to be held in Goa, India on October 15 and 16. Experts pointed out that the Goa summit, themed “Building Responsive, Inclusive and Collective Solutions”, will see continuity in the agenda with the just-concluded G20 Summit. The Goa Summit, coming one month after the leaders […]

Another slow year Crop production for the 2015/16 growing season, which spans October to September, reached 690,000 tonnes, although this fell short of the 850,000-tonne projection made by the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), the state promotion and oversight agency. Yields from both the main harvest and the secondary harvest, which began in late June, were […]

During the just-concluded BRICS Summit held in Goa, India, Chinese President Xi Jinping and leaders of other BRICS nations signed a series of important agreements and discussed continued cooperation in the areas of new energy and basic infrastructure. The world is now looking to BRICS to help increase participation of developing countries in global governance […]