Oil Marketing Company, Kabore Oil Limited has presented a 49 inch tevelevsion set and a citation to police General Sergeant Ndago Osman, of the Nsawam District Police Command. The cost of the 49 inch Samsung television set was GHc3, 000. The General Manager of Kabore Oil Ltd, Mr. Tamim- Daari Froko who made the presentation […]

We have always known that Chairman Jerry John Rawlings was the pet political horse of some deep-pocket Nigerians who were hell-bent on hijacking Ghanaian democracy by illegally funding the then-opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) which, in the lead-up to the 2008 general election, had been out of power for nearly 8 years. Mr. Rawlings’ handpicked […]

The World Bank has approved a $150 million International Development Association (IDA) credit for the Transport Sector Improvement Project (TSIP) in the country. It will help improve regional connectivity in the Northern Region, involving rehabilitation of road links from Tamale to Yendi and Tatale on the Eastern border with Togo, and about 200km of feeder […]

Members of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Works and Housing on Wednesday visited housing units, being put up for personnel of the Ghana Navy to ease their accommodation challenges. The visit was to enable the parliamentarians to familiarise themselves with the extent of work done and advice government accordingly. The project, which is more than […]

Liverpool have formally ended their pursuit of Southampton’s captain Virgil van Dijk, and apologised to the club for “any misunderstanding” regarding the player. This withdrawal was communicated after Southampton FC threatened to file an official complaint the Premier League accusing Liverpool of illegally approaching the defender. Hitherto to this withdrawal, Liverpool Jurgen Klopp had made […]

Advocacy for Resources for Malaria Stoppage Initiative (ARMS) has recorded significant impact in the country’s health sector, showing impressive gains in reducing malaria cases, behavioural change and promoting the use of insecticide treated bed nets. ARMS aims at reducing malaria prevalence by advocating for malaria testing with Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDTs) before treatment and […]

CARE International is to pilot a new learning initiative aimed at improving how organisations formulate and evaluate the outcome of development interventions. Dubbed the “Halcrow Project,” it would employ a new evaluation approach called Contribution Tracing to conduct a pilot of the Ghana’s Strengthening Accountability Mechanisms (GSAM) project. At a press briefing held in Accra […]

Ever since the beginnings of FinTech and the boom that followed the 2008 financial crisis, newly-founded financial technology companies and initiatives have posed competition to the more traditional financial institutions. This is according to White Label Crowdfunding (WLCF), a UK-based Software as a Service company that creates, launches and hosts crowdfunding platforms. Many of the […]

Albania will prepare a legal package with main acts for climate protection within 2018, sources from the Ministry of Environment told local media on Wednesday. According to ministry’s representatives, this package aims at air decarbonization and keeping parameters according to the terms of the Paris agreement. In order to implement this agreement, the Environment Ministry […]

Dr. Sultan Al-Jaber, United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of State, said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua that his country expects from fellow Gulf state Qatar “to stop blatantly and openly working against the stability and security of the UAE and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.” Three days after the UAE, Saudi Arabia and […]

When nature strikes humanity, we call it disaster since it is uncontrollable. But it is sad to note that “Man’s inhumanity to man,” is the leading cause of pain to the human race worldwide. The gruesome pain and death visited on Captain Maxwell Adams Mahama, while at the service of his country, is a classical […]

U.S. President Donald Trump offered to help Qatar and the other Gulf nations resolve their differences, including through a meeting at the White House if necessary, the White House said Wednesday. In a telephone conversation with Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani of Qatar, Trump reiterated that a united Gulf Cooperation Council and a […]

Ten peacekeepers of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) have been injured when their vehicle drove over an unexploded ordnance in Sudan’s West Darfur, according to the mission spokesman Wednesday. “This incident took place Friday when a patrol of the mission was on its way back to the mission base in al-Tina town, […]

It’s the most famous front door in the world, home to British prime ministers since 1735, and this week the focal point of Britain’s snap general election. The way people vote on Thursday will determine whether Theresa May hangs onto the keys to 10 Downing Street, or unceremoniously hands them over to a new occupant, […]

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo on Wednesday reiterated that the empowerment of women and the youth was the surest way of rooting out poverty and guaranteeing progress and prosperity of Ghana and Africa. Addressing the opening of the 2017 European Development Days Conference in Belgium, a leading forum on international cooperation and development, Akufo-Addo said this […]

The Parliament of Zimbabwe has written to Chinese contractors to expedite commencement of construction of a new parliament building in the outskirts of Harare. Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda told a press conference Wednesday that the Chinese contractors had planned to start construction of the new parliament building in December after giving the Zimbabwe government […]

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) closed lower on Wednesday, following news that South Africa entered into a recession. The all share was 0.26 percent weaker at 52,217.82 points, its weakest point since April, and the Resource 20 index was off 0.23 percent. On the JSE, Anglo American was up 0.71 percent to R173.45, Glencore gained […]

Kenya is planning to expand its flower exports to China as part of its diversification strategy, an industry official said on Wednesday. Kenya Flower Council (KFC) chairman Richard Fox told a media briefing in Nairobi that currently less than 1 percent of all flower exports goes China directly. “We are encouraging flower producers to establish […]

Drought-hit livestock farmers in Namibia are expected to benefited from a coming European financial grant program, which will run over a period of six years worth 20 million euros. EU Press and Information Officer Susan Lewis on Tuesday said the Namibian government and the EU will launch the program called “Support to the livestock sector […]

Ghana will from this year introduce human pollinators in its cocoa industry to enhance yields, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) announced late Tuesday. Joseph Boahen Aidoo said through hand pollination, the country would be able to reverse the long period of low crop yields being experienced by farmers. Addressing the […]