The two-week conference was a follow up to the Paris Agreement, signed in December 2015, to find concrete ways to implement the agreement by 2020. The Conference, which was also the 12th Session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, and the first Session of […]
Professor Emmanuel Asante, the Chairman of the National Peace Council, who made the call in Accra, on Saturday, explained that for Ghana to be violent free before, during and after the 2016 General Election, it was expected of citizens to take the responsibility of maintaining peace, being tolerant and living for others to also live. […]
Big Boss beat three other participating schools, St Francis of Assise Girls Senior High School, Archbishop Porter’s Girls Senior High School in the Western Region and Oti Senior High School, respectively. The winner received a trophy and additionally benefit from a health and sanitation project, valued at GHc 10,000, which is being sponsored by the […]
New Patriotic Party (NPP) standard bearer Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has promised a ‘new beginning’ as Ghanaians prepare to elect a new president on December 7. It is going to be a simple decision, either to retain incumbent President John Mahama and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) or change them; and ahead of the crucial […]
Samsung Electronics Vice Chairmen Lee Jae-yong and Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Mong-koo will be summoned as witnesses together with chairmen of LG, SK, CJ, Hanwha, Hanjin and Lotte. Choi Soon-sil, President Park’s decades-long friend, was indicted on Sunday on pressuring 53 conglomerates into donating tens of millions of U.S. dollars to two nonprofit foundations […]
Trade and investment are two pillars of China-Australia ties, which in turn support the development of an increasingly open economy so that the relationship continues to be mutually beneficial, Australian officials and analysts said. “China and Australia are located in the most exciting, fast-growing part of the global economy. We work with China and other […]
“My restaurant is relatively new and the doors only opened two months ago, but already I’m overjoyed with the turnover we’re achieving everyday and I’m making a good living,” Farzana Ludin, the manager of Afghanistan’s first-ever female-run restaurant, told Xinhua recently. The restaurant was established with the support of a non-governmental organization called the Afghan […]
The strike hit the Military Engineering Base in Sawan quarter east of the capital, about 500 meters east of the U.S. embassy. The truce went on effect on Saturday noon local time (0900 GMT) between Saudi-led coalition and Yemeni dominant Shiite Houthi group controlling most part of north Yemen, including the capital Sanaa. Similar previous […]
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) flag bearer Nana Akufo-Addo has promised the people of the Volta region he will be committed to develop their area if he comes to power despite their love for the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC). “If this new dawn of the relationship between the Volta Region and the NPP materializes […]
By William Yaw Owusu There appears to be some behind-the-scene moves between the Electoral Commission (EC) and the Ghana Police Service to introduce more names into the already compiled special voters’ list, raising questions about the commission’s sincerity. The move is likely to cause outrage and further raise doubts about the EC’s neutrality ahead of […]
Pope Francis has named 17 new cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church from around the world, many of whom will help choose his successor. The new cardinals come from five continents, and include the Vatican’s envoy to Syria. The range of backgrounds “represents a break with custom”, said the BBC’s David Willey in Rome. Pope […]
Samira Bawumia, the wife of the Vice Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has called on Ghanaians voting in the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections not to renew the mandate of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC). Addressing supporters of the party at Seketia in the Jaman North constituency of the […]
The disqualified Presidential candidate of the Democratic People’s Party Thomas Ward-Brew has filed a suit at the Supreme Court praying the apex court to suspend the upcoming polls. He said the court should put the election on hold in order to allow him correct the errors on his nominations forms that led to his disqualification […]
President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter, Zahra Buhari, has set December 2 2016 as the wedding date with Ahmed Indimi, son of billionaire oil magnate Alhaji Mohammed Indimi, owner of Oriental Energy. Ahmed Indimi is a director of Crude marketing at his father’s Oriental energy, a firm that deals in oil exploration and production with several projects […]
Aasha Game Playing Cards Club of Teshie were declared winners of the 2016 Greater Accra Regional Playing Cards Competition sponsored by Miksi. The event which took place at the Nungua Traditional Council over the weekend saw Aasha Game coming out of tough pairings and building full of confidence to bye past popular clubs and finally […]
The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average gained 138.61 points, or 0.77 percent, from Friday to close at 18,106.02, marking its highest closing level since Jan. 6. The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, meanwhile, finished the day 14.47 points, or 1.01 percent, higher at 1,442.93. Local brokers said the […]
Wonders, they say shall never end, otherwise how do you explain a situation whereby the NDC which has been referring to the NPP in derogatory terms, now have an uphill task in convincing Ghanaians that their contraption does not harbor, assassins, rapists, arsonists, cut-throats, necromancers, fraudsters and many anti social elements. I challenge the Nefarious […]
Rwanda celebrated the Africa Day of Information, early this month, a day that many African countries have forgotten. Established in the days of the Organization of African Union (OAU), the African day of Information was to raise Africa’s voice in telling Africa’s story, which is usually distorted by Western media for their own interests. More […]
Foreign opinion leaders visited JAC. [Photo by Han Jitao / China.org.cn] The south central city of Hefei in Anhui Province is embracing its flagship policy of boosting “innovation” and “entrepreneurship” amid lackluster global economic growth, and aims to build itself into a high ground of innovation based on its scientific and educational strengths. Home to […]
Investors digest the ups and downs of the stock market in Nantong, Jiangsu province, on November 10. Ample liquidity and solid fundamentals are seen supporting the current upswing in China’s stock markets. [China Daily] The effect of Donald Trump’s election as the next US president on China’s A-share market will be neutral in the short […]
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