Ghana’s Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia left here on Tuesday as head of the country’s high-powered delegation to the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Washington DC, United States, a release from the Ministry of Finance has said. The meetings are scheduled from April 18-28, 2017. Also travelling with the […]
From practicing as a lawyer to starting creative fashion brand Style House Files, Omoyemi Akerele is woman who knows all too well about the challenges of being a successful entrepreneur. However, when she found herself stuck with no idea what she wanted to do with the rest of her life, instead of doing what most […]
Leading Pan African bank, Ecobank has teamed up with the prestigious Forbes Woman Africa magazine to launch a 12 part series celebrating the achievement of exceptional women in business. The program, “Against All Odds” seeks to tell the story of inspirational powerhouse women who have defied all odds to achieve remarkable success in their respective […]
A leader of a sweeping hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails was put in solitary confinement on Monday as Israel was seeking to break the protest, officials and local media said. Assaf Librati, a spokesman for the Israel Prison Service, said the hunger strikers will be “disciplined.”He also said Marwan Barghouti, a high-profile […]
A hot job posting has appeared on the Buckingham Palace website — the Royals are looking to hire a new “world-class” trainee butler with an annual salary of 18,850 pounds (23,620 U.S. dollars). Other benefits include a 33-day paid holiday and access to a 15 percent pension scheme. You even have a chance to live […]
A plan for Australia’s largest solar farm has been lodged to the local Council in the township of Gympie by Queensland State company Solar Q, it has been announced Wednesday. Located 170 km north of Brisbane, the 2-billion Australian dollar (1.5-billion-U.S. dollar) proposal aims to build three million solar panels across a 17 square kilometre […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May’s announcement of early general elections in June boosted the pound sterling against the U.S. dollar, and drew favorable comments from economists. However, May must wait until Wednesday for the House of Commons to decide on her proposal to bring the elections forward to June from its set date of May […]
Two Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers have been accompanied by U.S. F-22 fighter jets on a patrol mission over the neutral waters near Alaska, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday. “On April 17, 2017, two Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers successfully performed the regular aerial patrol mission as scheduled. The flying route was above the neutral waters […]
A Taliban shadow governor was killed together with six other militants after Afghan air force struck a militant hideout in the northern province of Baghlan overnight, a local official said Wednesday. The Taliban (Pashto: ??????? ??lib?n “students”), alternatively spelled Taleban, which recently changed their name and identity to Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), is a […]
Immigrants to New Zealand will need to meet a higher bar for residency after the government Wednesday unveiled new rules to “improve the quality” of migrants. People coming to New Zealand on low-skilled work visas would be allowed to stay for a maximum of three years before having a “stand down period” and becoming eligible […]
Case IH took part, for the seventh year running, in the Annual Africa Sugar Conference held in Nairobi, Kenya from April 4th to the 6th. The two-day event, which was covered by the international business and trade media, gathered in Nairobi around 200 participants representing senior decision makers from government, industry bodies, millers, traders, advocacy […]
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is the United States’ most popular active politician, viewed favorably by 57 percent of registered voters, according to a new poll. Sanders is particularly popular aged 18 to 34, who gave him a 62 percent approval rating. He also has majority support among those over the age of 50, according to […]
Some 600,000 Namibians have either received or will receive rice donated by China amid food shortages as a result of three-year-old droughts in the country, said a senior Chinese Embassy official on Tuesday. Li Nan, charge d’affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Windhoek, said China has donated 4,000 metric tons of rice to the southwestern […]
Two U.S. drone airstrikes have killed at least seven suspected al-Qaida operatives in Yemen’s northeastern province of Marib, a security official said Wednesday. “Two al-Qaida leaders, Saleh al-Awlaki and Saeed Ba-Kadir, were targeted and killed along with five others in two separated U.S. drone strikes in late night of Tuesday,” the official told Xinhua on […]
Over 500 members from seven churches in and around the GA-West Municipal Assembly namely Pure word for all Nation lead by its founder Prophet Joseph Asamoah, Favour of God Church by its General Overseer Rev. Theophanous Kyei, The Word of God, lead by its General Overseer Rev. Oppong Kyekyeku, Gospel Home led by its founder […]
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