Standard Chartered has committed itself to financing more than US$2 billion energy projects under the Power Africa Initiative.

Lawyers  for the petitioners challenging the declaration of President John Dramani Mahama as the winner of the December 7 and 8, 2012 presidential polls yesterday brought out an additional 553 unsigned pink sheets to disprove claims by the Electoral Commission (EC) that only 905 pink sheets were unsigned.

Stephen Atubiga, the member of the communications team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who was sentenced to three days’ imprisonment by the Supreme Court for contempt, yesterday regained his freedom after serving the jail term at the Akuse Prison.

As prosecutors arrested dozens of top Muslim Brotherhood members, a senior Egyptian jurist was sworn in as acting head of state.    

The Court of Appeal yesterday stayed the execution of the judgement of the Commercial Court that awarded $91-million judgement debt against the National Investment Banks (NIB).

The Police in Tema has intensified its  search for the suspected arsonist  who attempted to burn down  the Tema market last Tuesday night. It has also instituted day and night patrols in and around the market at Tema Community  One.

The Minister of Transport, Ms Dzifa Attivor, has charged the management and staff of the Metro Mass Transit Limited (MMTL), to work assiduously towards eliminating corruption that is militating against the growth of the company.

The widow of a Tunisian opposition leader reluctantly becomes a political celebrity as she fights against political Islamists and for justice.

Philips, manufacturers of electrical appliances, is to install 26 solar-powered lighting systems in some rural communities as part of its corporate social responsibility.

Fiber glass canoes and boats were introduced to the fishing community at the James Town Beach in Accra yesterday to replace wooden ones.

Even though Mr Michael Kobla Adzaho, the District Chief Executive of Agotime Ziofe District Assembly, has been re-nominated by the president, the chiefs and people of Agotime Traditional Area have kicked against any move by the National Democratic Congress government to retain him.

A former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Nii Ayikoi Otoo has suggested the Bar Association can do more to help improve the poor state of infrastructure of courts across the country. His suggestion followed a Joy News report which highlighted that … Continue reading →

Parliament has approved the re-introduction of the National Fiscal Stabilisation Levy (NFSL) for a period of 18 months to raise funds for fiscal stabilisation of the economy.

One aid worker was killed and three others wounded when a grenade hit their office during a gunfight between competing security forces in Darfur.    

Muslims who intend to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca this year have been offered a novelty package to take care of their needs.

The Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Kojo Bonsu, last Tuesday undertook a historic visit to the Ashanti regional offices of two opposition parties — the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Convention People’s Party (CPP) —  to find ways of working with all the political parties to build a better Kumasi.

Ghanaians will soon have the benefit of reading a comprehensive compilation of documents, articles and pictures describing at first hand the issues leading to and surrounding the Presidential Election Petition sanctioned by the National Executive Committee of the New Patriotic Party with Nana Akufo-Addo, Dr. Bawumia and Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey as the petitioners.