Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been re-elected for a second four-year term, the election commission says. The 76-year-old defeated his main rival, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, with a margin of nearly four million votes. Mr Abubakar’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the result. Turnout was 35.6%. Delays and violence marred the run-up to […]
The United Kingdom’s (UK) Minister of State for Africa, Harriet Baldwin has affirmed the UK government’s commitment to increase her investment in Ghana and ensure greater economic harmonization between the two countries. Recounting the economic gains and significant strides aimed at formalizing and improving the Ghanaian economy in the last few years, Harriet Baldwin, together […]
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has agreed to partner Ghana in a bid to aid the development and robustness of her capital markets infrastructure. The agreement was reached when Ghana’s delegation, led by Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, held a joint meeting with the leadership of the LSE, at the sidelines of the Ghana-United-Kingdom Business […]
ecowasThe ECOWAS, the AU and the UN has called on all candidates, political parties and all Nigerians to continue to exercise patience, calm and restraint, in order to allow for the full results of the election to be released by the Independent National Elections Commission (INEC). The call was necessitated by the rejection of the […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Resiliency in Northern Ghana project (RING), has presented two Nissan pick-up vehicles to two Assemblies to enhance monitoring and supervision of the project. The beneficiary Assemblies were Gusheigu Municipality in the Northern Region, and North Gonja District in the Savannah Region. Mr James Lykos, Deputy […]
The United Kingdom-Ghana Business Council Meeting underway in London from February 25 to 27, is part of efforts to accelerate “Ghana Beyond Aid” through a common purpose. A statement issued by the British High Commission in Accra and copied to the Ghana News Agency said the UK Government welcomes Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. The […]
Nigerian fuel suppliers, bus operators and some airlines are offering incentives for people to travel to vote in presidential elections this Saturday, including cutting petrol prices and discounts. The electoral commission announced the delay early last Saturday just Nigeria’s 84 million registered voters were preparing to head to the polls. The election is now scheduled […]
The Ambassador of the Republic of Iran to Ghana, Dr Nosratollah Maleki, has announced that in 2018 Ghana exported about US$52 million worth of goods to Iran while it received goods valued at about US$7 million from Iran. He stressed the need to increase trade between Iran and Ghana this year and beyond. So far, […]
Rwandan president Paul Kagame says the African Union could become a strong body as the European Union despite well documented hurdles. Kagame, who is the immediate past president of the AU (for the year 2018) stressed that a united AU will be well served if regional political, economic blocs unite at their respective levels. He […]
The International Perspective for Policy & Governance (IPPG) hosted a ‘Careers in Science Forum’ at St. Mary’s Senior High School in Accra to commemorate the 2019 International Day of Women and Girls in Science (IDWGS) on February 11. The forum presented a platform for science students of the school to be exposed to various fields […]
