First Atlantic Bank has added three new branches to its network of branches in the country. This brings total number of network to twenty-seven. Two of the branches are in Accra at Dzorwulu and Ring Road Central respectively. The third, which will be launched on Thursday, is located at Market Circle in Takoradi in the […]
The Member of Parliament for North Dayi, Jocelyn Tetteh, has joined calls for the decentralization of the training of lawyers in Ghana. Ms. Tetteh argued that, reforms that would liberalize the training of lawyers which is needed to ease the pressure on the Ghana Law School, which is currently the only centre for training lawyers. […]
A portrait of the late George Michael by artist Damien Hirst has sold for just under half a million pounds at a charity auction. The money raised from the sale of Beautiful Beautiful George Michael Love Painting will go to HIV/Aids charity The Goss-Michael Foundation. The charity was founded by Michael and his former partner […]
Brong Ahafo Region recorded 1,224 cases of unsafe abortion among teenagers in 2016, the Ghana Health Service report has revealed. The report said the figure represented 12.7 percent of 9,612 cases of unsafe abortion recorded in the country within the period. Mr Raphael Godlove Ahenu, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF), an […]
This year’s West African Senior School certificate Examination (WASSCE) is currently underway with a total of 289,207 final-year public and private Senior High School (SHS) candidate sitting for it. Nine high school candidates from Togo, a French-speaking country, are taking part in this year’s examination for the first time. The WASSCE is designed for Senior […]
The West Africa Gas Limited (WAGL), an Energy company owned by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Oceanbed (a member of the Sahara Group), has taken a step further towards becoming a fully-integrated energy company by ordering and completing the construction of a Liquefied Petroleum Gas vessel for commercial activities. The feat, the first […]
Note: This report was written and delivered in part to the Midwest Regional Conference on Socialism and National Liberation held in Detroit, Michigan at Wayne State University on March 25-26, 2017. The Conference was sponsored jointly by the WSU chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Detroit branch of Workers World […]
The refusal by most Ghanaians who trade with China to adopt the Chinese Renmimbi as the medium of exchange has slowed efforts by the central bank to make the Chinese currency a traded one on Ghana’s Foreign Exchange (FX) market,Abdul-Nashiru Issahaku Bank of Ghana Governor disclosed here on Monday. Addressing the media at the press […]
What is the circumference of the planet earth? No need to be specific, but we know it would make a baobab tree look very, very small. With that in mind, consider this, if all the people living in rural areas without access to clean water stood in a queue it would go around the earth […]
The 8th of March was International Women’s Day and a lot was done worldwide to celebrate Women. The day has been observed since the early 1900’s. It is now an official holiday in some countries. During the celebrations people focus on different things depending on their country situations. Whilst some women in the US undertook […]
Westinghouse, Toshiba’s US nuclear unit, has filed for US bankruptcy protection. The US firm has struggled with hefty losses that have thrown its Japanese parent into a crisis, putting the conglomerate’s future at risk. Westinghouse has suffered huge cost overruns at two US projects in Georgia and South Carolina. The Japanese government confirmed on Wednesday […]
An investigation has been launched after ‘human waste’ was found in Coca-Cola cans at a factory in Northern Ireland. Police were called after reports that a consignment had been contaminated at a factory in Lisburn, County Antrim. The incident involved a shipment of empty cans that were delivered to the factory ahead of being filled […]
file photo The new Board Chairman of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Hackman Owusu-Agyeman, believes the slashing of the “outrageous” salaries of COCOBOD’s top management is only a reasonable step to align the Board with the state remuneration structure. “COCOBOD is a state institution. It cannot be taken out of the context of the overall […]
NPP Logo The Ashanti Regional Communication team of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) which include radio/TV communicators, serial callers and social media communicators are threatening to suspend Radio/TV activities in the region. The group in a statement signed by the Communicators said ‘This decision has been necessitated by the gross disrespect and disregard of our contributions and […]
Government says it will ensure that all non-residential facilities, including Ministries, Departments and Agencies countrywide, will adopt the solar rooftop programme initiated by the Energy Commission to help reduce their utility tariffs on electricity consumption and enhance their productivity levels. Mr. Boakye Agyarko, the Minister of Energy, said the current rapid decline in the price […]
Namibia’s Ministry of Health and Social Services recorded 7335 cases of abortion between April and December 2016, said Bernhard Haufiku, Minister of Health and Social Services on Monday. Of the 7335, only 138 of the recorded cases of abortion during the said period were carried out on medical grounds while the 7197 were carried out […]
Following the strike notice by students at the University of Burundi over the stipend loan issue, the Burundian president’s office has urged students to reconsider their plans, the Burundian president’s spokesman said Monday. “Students should know that the decree establishing the stipend loan as of the next academic year is a result of recommendations of […]
Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) the nation’s foremost indigenous oil marketing company (OMC), has equipped its dealers in the southern and Tema zones with modern trends in downstream oil marketing. The more than 120 dealers in GOIL products as well as some zonal managers who attended the conference were schooled in safety measures, equipped to […]
Forty percent work has been completed so far on the 3.6 kilometers runway of Nigeria’s capital city airport which was shut down for repairs on March 8, the Nigerian airport management authority said on Monday. The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) said the remaining 60 percent repair work on the airport runway will be […]
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