As part of activities marking Ghana’s 60th independent anniversary, the French Embassy in Accra, will organise a series of events to showcase Ghana-France 60 years’ relation. A statement issued by the French Embassy and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Wednesday said: “2017 marks Ghana’s 60th independence anniversary obtained on the 6th of March, […]
Madam Lulu Xingwana, the South Africa High Commissioner, has called on African business leaders to consider rural areas in their investment options. She said the business community should look at projects, which could be operated in the rural areas to create the needed development to their various countries. Madam Xingwana was speaking during a business […]
New guidelines from the WHO launched on World Cancer Day on February 4, aims to improve the chances of survival for people living with cancer. It would ensure that health services could focus on diagnosing and treatment of the disease earlier. New WHO figures released this week indicated that 8.8 million people died from cancer […]
Emirates Airlines has extended the use of its luxury lounges at Dubai International Airport to its Loyalty Programme members and their guests, at a minimal fee regardless of their class of travel. The pay-per-visit access will be available to Emirates Skywards members and their guests travelling on Emirates. Business Class travellers also have the option […]
African leaders wrapped up their summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, yesterday, with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo urging them to ensure that the decisions taken at the summit were implemented to give more meaning to the values of unity, solidarity and cohesion on the continent. He described the 28th Ordinary Session of the African Union […]
The British High Commission has expressed the UK’s commitment to widen the scope of scholarship to Ghana to benefit more Ghanaians in future. Officially welcoming the 2016/2017 beneficiaries of the Chevening Scholarship back to Ghana, at a ceremony in Accra on Tuesday, the British High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Jon Benjamin, said the UK government […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has called on the new Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, to champion reforms at the UN that would promote and deepen international co-operation. According to President Akufo-Addo, it is important that during Mr Guterres’s tenure of office, he should ensure the implementation of reform of the UN Security […]
Today, we honour the victims of the Holocaust, an incomparable tragedy in human history. The world has a duty to remember that the Holocaust was a systematic attempt to eliminate the Jewish people and so many others. It would be a dangerous error to think of the Holocaust as simply the result of the insanity […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo on Friday left Accra for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to join other African leaders for the 28th African Union (AU) Summit – his first as president of Ghana. The 28th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union would open on Monday, January 30, 2017. The […]
Madam Sun Baohong, the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, has donated some farming inputs to the people of Pankese and Kyenkyenku in the Eastern Region to enhance farming activities. The items were 300 cutlasses, 200 wellington boots and 150 spraying machines. Madam Sun Baohong, at the presentation of the items at Pankese in the Birim North […]
