The Embassy of the United States of America (USA) in Ghana has urged the government to conduct a thorough forensic audit into claims of fraud regarding its contract with Power Distribution Services (PDS). The move, the US believes, will help establish the full facts surrounding the contract. The call was contained in an email from […]
Ghana and Burkina Faso have opened talks to formalise trade relations in food crops, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has announced. To this end, Dr Akoto and his Burkinabe counterpart, the Minister for Agriculture and Hydro-agricultural Equipment, Mr Salifou Ouedraogo, met in Changsha, China, to identify ways to capture data […]
United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described as a transformative experience the time spent in Ghana’s coastal city of Cape Coast as part of her official visit to the West African country. Pelosi told lawmakers in an address on Wednesday that visiting the Cape Coast Castle located in the Central Region was revealing not only […]
A UN report released Tuesday documented that the level of grave violations against children worldwide last year was on the rise. The 2018 Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict said that more than 24,000 grave violations against children were verified by the United Nations in 20 country situations. Continued fighting between parties to conflict, […]
In his first cabinet since taking over the leadership of the Conservatives party and becoming the United Kingdom Prime Minister, Boris Johnson named a UK-born Nigerian as one of his junior ministers. 39-year-old Kemi Badenoch (full name Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch) was named the new Minister of Children and Families by the new PM. The official role title […]
Mrs Nancy Patricia Pelosi, Speaker of the United State House of Representative, has called for the deepening of security ties between Ghana and the United States for the mutual benefit of their people. She said the ties between the two nations dates back six decades ago and have endured because of their common history, adding […]
Israel has upgraded its ten years old Neonatal Units at the Kumasi South and Suntreso Hospitals in the Ashanti Region to help enhance infant delivery and reduce mortality. At a ceremony to inaugurate the upgraded units, doctors at the facilities who have been trained by Israeli specialities revealed that every year, each unit saves the […]
The Speaker of the United States (US) House of Representatives, Ms Nancy Patricia Pelosi, has lauded Ghana’s pivotal role in securing peace and security in other parts of the world, especially Africa. “We compliment you on the strength of your role as an exporter of peace and security on this continent and also having peacekeepers […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives in the United States, Ms Nancy Pelosi, on Monday afternoon laid a wreath at the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park in Accra on behalf of the government and people of US and signed the book of condolence. She arrived at the museum with a Congressional delegation and was welcomed […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, Ms Nancy Patricia Pelosi, is scheduled to address Ghana’s Parliament on Wednesday, July 31, 2019. The Majority Leader and Chairman of the Business Committee of Parliament, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, made this known Friday, July 26, 2019, when he presented the business statement of […]
