There is heightened security along Ghana’s common borders with Burkina Faso in the Upper East Region, which were opened on Friday after a three-day closure following a military takeover in that country. Visits by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to the ... Read More

Three Ghanaian authors who have distinguished themselves in their literary writings were on Friday awarded the William Burt Award for African literature 2014. The Burt Award consist of monetary prizes of $ 9,000 for first prize, $ 7,000 for second prize ... Read More

The Standard Bank West African Investors Conference, a confab that enables investors to get first-hand information from listed companies on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), has been held in Accra. The Minister of Finance, Mr Seth Terkper, said the economy was ... Read More

Power Minister Dr. Kwabena Donkor has hinted that government will have to take a ‘tough’ decision regarding power tariffs in order for them to reflect the actual cost of generation. He maintained that “underlying the historic underinvestment in generation, transmission and ... Read More

Mr Babatunde Ahonsi, Country Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), on Tuesday indicated that over 50,000 new cases of Obstetric Fistula which affects women globally, were recorded every year. Obstetric Fistula is a disease which attacks women, and comes ... Read More

Officials and exporters at the 19th China International Fair (CIFIT) for Investment and Trade, say they had a good showing and high level of interest from investors, and their objective of striking partnership deals was largely met. Dr Henry Shirazu Alhassan, ... Read More

The Ecotec Ghana Technological Ecology Limited, a multinational company through its partners Fish and Company in Spain, have launched a business project to establish a tuna factory in Ghana. The project, aimed at creating a private sector growth, would also promote ... Read More

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, left Accra for the United States to attend the upcoming summit of the UN in New York, as well as other meetings with organisations on which he serves as board ... Read More

The World Bank Group says its support commitments in loans, grants, equity investments, and guarantees to its members and private businesses in 2014, amounted to $65.6 billion, compared with $57.6 billion in 2013. Compared with $40.37 billion disbursed in 2013, $44.4 ... Read More

The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority has agreed go to Portugal and inspect an aircraft and its maintenance base to enable Goldstar Airlines, a Ghanaian registered airliner, start flight operations to London and Washington next December. This follows Goldstar's acquisition of the ... Read More