The Donald Trump’s administration plan to trim the U.S national debt by selling off half of the nation’s emergency oil stockpile and the entire backup gasoline supply. Trump’s first complete budget proposal, released Tuesday, would raise $500 million in fiscal year 2018 — and as much $16.6 billion over the next decade — by drawing down the […]

A seminar designed to help mothers create wealth while at the same time keeping the home will be holding today. The Moms Start Business seminar, with the theme: Thriving in Recession  is for mothers who are tired of working reactively in business and want to become their own boss. It will offer strategy that will […]

Florence Avornyo-Badzi, a pupil of the Lartebiokorshie Presbyterian Junior High School, has won the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) pilot Spelling Bee Competition to educate the youth on the importance of the Constitution. The competition, sponsored by Indomie Instant Noddles, was keenly contested by 23 pupils drawn from three basic schools in the Greater […]

The Government of Kenya faces the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights, in Arusha, Tanzania as it delivers judgement in a long-awaited case brought before it, by the Ogiek indigenous peoples for consistent violations and denial of their land rights. The African Court will on Friday May 26 deliver judgement. “This case is of […]

With an infectious innocent smile and voice she answered when I asked ‘how long have you been singing for? ‘She said; ‘I have been singing ever since I was about 6 years old, whilst living in Atlanta Georgia with my family…’ ‘Ms Myra Kyeremeh’ being her official birth name is popularly known as ‘Myra Kay’ […]

May 25 marks the 54th anniversary of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the predecessor to the African Union formed in 2002. This continental organization brings together independent nation-states and the still colonized territory of the Western Sahara under Moroccan occupation. With the readmission of Morocco into the AU during 2016, some […]

Ghana’s Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) gas field is set to begin production three months ahead of schedule, operators Eni of Italy said Tuesday. According to a petroleum sector publication, Eni has launched production from the Integrated Oil and Gas Development Project in the Offshore OCTP block, off Ghana’s western coast. The fields have about […]

Over 3,000 people are expected on Thursday at the International Energy, Mining and Quarries Week (SEMICA) in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou, organizers on Tuesday said. The “public-private partnership” themed event will be held from May 25 to 27. In 2016, Burkina Faso’s mining related revenues reached 189,9 billion CFA Francs (329.68 million U.S. dollars), […]

Chinese construction firm China State Construction Engineering Corporation on Tuesday pledged to do a quality job for an ultra-modern shopping mall in Lusaka, the Zambian capital. The Chinese firm, which has won the tender to construct the 72-million-U.S.-dollar project being undertaken by state pension body, the Public Service Pensions Fund (PSPF), said it will ensure […]

The United Nations will honor two fallen Ghanaian peacekeepers during the observation of the International Day of UN Peacekeepers in New York on May 24, the UN Information Center said in a release on Tuesday. They are Lance Corporal Emmanuel Sakyi, who served with the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of […]

Zimbabwe climbed six places up to position 21 out of 54 countries in 2016 on the African Visa Openness Index (AVOI) measured by the African Development Bank (AfDB). The AVOI measures how open countries are when it comes to their visa regimes by looking at whether they allow citizens of other countries to enter without […]