A Tullow report sighted here on Thursday indicated that the production challenges on Ghana’s Jubilee field were not over yet as solutions could stretch into 2018. According to the report, a Tullow Trading Update on its Ghana website, the Jubilee Floating Production, Storage and Offloading ( FPSO) Kwame Nkrumah faces extended shutdown for mooring realignment. […]

A reinstatement of the death penalty in Turkey will inexorably be a deal breaker for already faltering relations of the NATO country with the European Union. But is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan really serious on this or was it purely a nationalistic rhetoric used for winning the crucial referendum extending his powers? Just a few […]

Dating to a thousand years before Christ in the building of Solomon’s Temple, Hiram Abiff, the Masonic legend, is believed to be the master builder of the temple. It is believed that God had spoken to Solomon directly and Hiram Abiff knew the secret word to becoming an expert in masonry. Three apprentices wanted this […]

I acknowledge with great esteem the wonderful piece in response to my personal opinion on the need to appoint a Chief Imam from amongst the three deputy Imams presiding over the Friday prayers in rotation at the national Mosque Abuja. I must assert that I wrote from my own view point, not representing any sect, […]

Ransomware attacks on businesses around the world rose 50% last year, research into successful cyber-breaches shows. Its popularity means malware is now responsible for 51% of all the incidents analysed in the annual Verizon data breach report. This analyses almost 2,000 breaches to find out how firms were caught out by cyber-thieves. It also found […]

President of Myanmar U Htin Kyaw is in China for a state visit at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. The visit, which started on Thursday, will last until Tuesday. U Htin Kyaw, 71, was born in Yangon, Myanmar. He holds master degrees of economics and computer science. Starting from 1975, U Htin Kyaw […]

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg is in China for an official visit at the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. The visit, which started on Friday, will last until Tuesday. Solberg was born in Bergen, Norway on Feb. 24, 1961. She graduated from the University of Bergen. Since 1989, she has been a member of […]

Ecuadorian ruling party candidate Lenin Moreno won Sunday’s presidential election runoff, the National Electoral Council (CNE) said on Tuesday. Moreno garnered 51.16 percent of valid votes while opposition challenger Guillermo Lasso grasped 48.84 percent, with 99.65 percent of votes counted, CNE President Juan Pablo Pozo said at a press conference. The CNE confirmed that Moreno, […]

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will pay a state visit to China from March 28 to April 1 at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Nikolic, 65, was born in Kragujevac in central Serbia and received a master’s degree in economics at Novi Sad University. Nikolic is the founder of the Serbian Progressive Party. He […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday will start a four-day official visit to China at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart, Li Keqiang. Netanyahu was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1949. He completed his academic degrees in architecture, business and political sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. He […]

Mr Ambrosse Dery, the Minister of the Interior, has assured management and staff of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) of the Ministry’s commitment to ensuring that the Narcotics Control Commission Bill, 2015, is passed this year. The Bill, which was laid in Parliament last year, was not passed due to challenges including the busy schedule […]

A hilarious play titled “Judas and Delilah”, would be premiered at the International Conference Centre in Accra on May 6 and 7, 2017. A statement issued and signed by Latif Abubakar, the Producer of the play and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra, said the play would educate the public with basic and […]

The Ghana Taekwondo Federation (GTF), as part of towards the 2017 World Taekwondo Open Championships, has donated protective equipment to the Regional Associations. The donation was through the support of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Foundation Peace corps. The equipment includes, head gears, shin, groin and fist protectors. Mr. Frederick Lartey Otu, President of the […]

Media practitioners in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions have been urged to use their skills and platforms to encourage duty bearers on education to improve on the quality of education in the country. The Northern Network for Education Development (NNED) made the appeal at a day’s forum it jointly organised with the […]

The Biakoye District Assembly has failed to meet its revenue target of GHC 40,572 for the first quarter of this year, 2017. Alhaji Zaidu Tamimu, the District Coordinating Director who disclosed this at the Assembly’s Fifth Ordinary General Meeting said the Assembly generated only GHC 20,282,-half of the estimated revenue target. He said the shortfall […]