The best gift card exchange platform is now in Ghana. If you have been wondering why the air feels different today, that is most likely why.  Ghana is one of the biggest innovative and productive nations in Africa. There is so much being done in the country, loads of tourist attractions, and also a lot … The post Chale ! You Can Now Sell Your Gift Cards in Ghana 

Months of drama end with major changes looming on the horizon The on again, off again, off again, on again saga of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s planned acquisition of Twitter has finally come to an end. Having signed off on the deal reported to be worth as much as $44 billion, Musk has wasted no … The post Elon finally gets his Musk all over Twitter with

It was inevitable, really, but following the EU’s legislation requiring USB-C to become the common charging standard, Apple has now confirmed that it will comply with the law, and switch from Lightning to USB-C on future iPhones. Greg Joswiak (Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing) said as much in a Wall Street Journal video … The post Apple

Israel and Lebanon have signed an historic agreement setting their borders in the Mediterranean Sea. The neighbours, which have technically been in a state of war since Israel’s founding in 1948, had been in a dispute over rights to a gas field there. Hezbollah, the powerful militant and political group in Lebanon, had threatened to … The post Israel-Lebanon deal starves off

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has accused Russian commanders of “craziness” in their efforts to capture the eastern town of Bakhmut. The town – which sits in the Donetsk region and had a pre-war population of 70,000 – has been the centre of Russian attacks for months. Despite a looming Ukrainian advance on the key city … The post ‘Russian tactics on

The world faces “probably the most dangerous” decade since the end of World War Two, Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has warned. In a wide-ranging speech in Moscow, he sought to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a move that has left his country internationally isolated. Mr Putin also accused the West of nuclear blackmail against Russia … The post Putin:

Mali’s security situation has become “significantly worse” due to the ruling junta’s choices, including an alleged decision to partner with Wagner, a Russian private security firm, a senior US official said Wednesday. Mali‘s ruling junta, which seized power in 2020, has turned away from its traditional ally France and towards Russia in its fight against a decade-long jihadist insurgency … The post Wagner

Two organisations from Ethiopia’s Oromiya region have accused the army of conducting air strikes there in recent days which they said had killed hundreds of civilians, just as peace talks on the separate Tigray conflict were about to start. Government and army spokespersons did not respond on Thursday to requests for comment on the accusations … The post Ethiopian

Namibia’s Minister of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, Pohamba Shifeta, on Wednesday urged African countries to lay down concrete and result-based actions on adaptation and mitigation, including means of implementation, particularly the provision of adequate, new, and predictable finance to address climate change. Speaking at the 10th Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa in … The post African

Institutions in the country have been urged to provide professional training to pesticides retailers, distributors and farmers, in order to reduce the risks associated with applying these agro-chemical products by end users. Miss Akua Tiwaa Sebe, the Ahafo Regional Officer, Plant Protection and Regulatory Services (PPRS), at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), asserted … The post ‘Handlers

The Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI) is developing a framework and technology facilitation mechanism to mainstream Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in all the productive sectors of the economy. According to Dr Kwaku Afriyie, Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, the move was to enable the scientific community play the leading … The post MESTI

The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has urged stakeholders in the Ghanaian football fraternity to right the wrongs of the Black Stars at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil as the team prepares to make its fourth appearance in the same competition in Qatar next month. According to the Speaker, the global … The post Let’s inspire Black Stars to glory –

A former Chairman of the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA), Mr George Lutterodt is optimistic the Black Stars will shock the world by qualifying from their tough group at the World Cup in Qatar. Ghana was drawn in a difficult group with Portugal, South Korea and Uruguay, leaving a section of fans pessimistic over the capability … The post Lutterodt: Black

William Amponsah – one of Ghana’s leading long-distance athletes, is set to participate in the 2022 Kushea Marathon tomorrow, in Assin Kushea in the Central Region. Amponsah, who has swept almost all glories on the local scene and represented Ghana at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, would be making his second local race in … The post Amponsah to participate in Kushea

Lionel Messi is now just 11 goals short of Cristiano Ronaldo’s all-time Champions League scoring record after another virtuoso performance from the Paris Saint-Germain forward on Tuesday night. The Argentine scored twice and assisted two more as PSG thrashed Maccabi Haifa 7-2, moving on to 129 Champions League goals in the process. A record 80 … The post Messi

Barcelona exited the Champions League at the group phase for the second season running on Wednesday, a 3-0 home defeat by Bayern Munich rubbing salt in the wound after their fate was sealed 700 kilometres away. Inter Milan beat Viktoria Plzen at San Siro before kick-off at Camp Nou, ensuring Barcelona would drop into the … The post Barca crash out of UCL again …despite

VAR is once again in the crosshairs following the controversial decision to rule out Harry Kane’s last-minute winner in the Champions League on Wednesday, with some players and pundits saying the system is killing the excitement of the game. Tottenham Hotspur’s Kane fired home from close range in the fifth minute of stoppage time against … The post VAR

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced remarkable performance in its unaudited financial results for the third quarter of this year, recording impressive growth across all its major indices. This replicates the commendable performance it achieved in the first two quarters of the current fiscal year. Specifically, the bank’s gross earnings rose to $1.4billion, … The post UBA records

The Transport Forum (TTF) Ghana, has been launched in Accra on Wednesday as part of efforts to sanitise the transport and logistic industry. It is also expected to make the industry more efficient and serve as a panacea to transform Ghana’s economy. The forum with support from various industry players including the Ghana Maritime Authority … The post TTF launched

The Capital Finance International magazine has named the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) Africa’s top investment promotion organisation for the fourth consecutive year. The CFI.co’s award citation according to a statement issued by the Centre in Accra yesterday read “GIPC actively defended the nation’s favorable foreign Direct Investment status with a focused digitalisation effort that … The post GIPC