The murdered soldier has been named as 25-year-old Drummer Lee Rigby The soldier killed in an attack on a London street has been named as Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Drummer Rigby, 25, from ... Read More

The Russian Embassy in Ghana, on Thursday donated 250 books valued at GH¢6,000 to the Russian section of the Modern Languages Department, University of Ghana (UG). Mr Igor Degtyarev, Minister-Counsellor of the Russian Embassy, said the donation aimed at promoting the ... Read More

Social protection policies can play a key role in the fight against child labour, which currently affects some 215 million children worldwide. The International Labour Organization (ILO), an body of the United Nations’ Organisation, in its report on child labour, economic ... Read More

President John Dramani Mahama President John Dramani Mahama will leave Accra today to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to take part in activities to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the formation of the Organisation of African Unity, now the Africa Union. A statement ... Read More

President Mahama with President Abdullah Gul of Turkey Ghana and Turkey have affirmed their commitment to increase their trade portfolio from the current $500 million to $1 billion by 2015. President John Dramani Mahama and the outgoing Turkish Ambassador, Mr Aydin ... Read More

Deputy Western Regional Minister, Mr. Alfred Ekow Gyan Boarder Information Centres to provide adequate information for travellers between Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire have been established at the Elubo and Noe side of the Ghana-Cote d’Ivoire borders. This is to ensure that ... Read More

The World Food Programme (WFP) says it has signed an agreement with a Chinese company, HNA Group to provide school meals for children in Ghana. The deal is worth $1.6 million. According to the UN agency, the new partnership with HNA ... Read More

Ghana was on Wednesday given thumbs up for her consistent peacekeeping role in over 50 years despite the country’s budgetary and developmental constraints. “It is never easy for countries that are themselves facing budgetary and development constraints to muster courage and ... Read More

Mrs Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts The 2013 PANAFEST and Emancipation Day celebrations was on Wednesday launched to kick-start activities lined up for this year’s programme. The celebration, on the theme: “Re-uniting the African family; Pan Africanism ... Read More

The World Bank Group has announced an amount of $1 billion in proposed new funding to help provide better health and education services, generate more cross-border trade, and fund hydroelectricity projects in support of the Great Lakes peace agreement that ... Read More