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China makes good its promise to aid Ghana’s Military

  • July 14, 2017

China, on Thursday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ghana, for the provision of a 50-million Chinese Yuan Renminbi aid to the Ghana Armed Forces to execute its mandate effectively. The Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Madam Sun Baohong, signed on behalf of the Ministry of National Defence of the People’s Republic of China, while […]

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Early Grade Reading Programme to cover over one million pupils

  • July 13, 2017

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ghana Education Service (GES), is scaling up the GES’s Early Grade Reading Programme to 6,866 schools. The programme would develop improved teaching and learning materials and train 28,000 teachers, head teachers, and curriculum leads on the phonics-based […]

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Sudan-Ghana Expo participants optimistic about trade prospects

  • July 13, 2017

Participants at the Sudan-Ghana Business, Culture and Education Expo have expressed optimism about future trade prospects between Sudan and Ghana based on relations established during the Expo. The Expo had been a success with several Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) due to be signed between some of the companies and their Ghanaian counterparts. Speaking to the […]

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Ghana Switzerland Commit to Deepen Relations and Expand Trade

  • July 13, 2017

Ghana and Switzerland have agreed to expand co-operation and explore opportunities to boost the volume of bilateral trade for the mutual benefit of its peoples. Thus, the two nations have committed themselves to undertake joint projects aimed at increasing cocoa production in Ghana and enhancing value addition to the commodity, and to improve the competitiveness […]

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Ethiopian to include Kaduna in its vast global network

  • July 12, 2017

Ethiopian Airlines, the largest and the leading Pan-African airlines, has finalised preparations to start scheduled thrice weekly services to Kaduna, Nigeria, from August 1. Kaduna, located in North-Western Nigeria, is a trade centre and a major transportation hub for the surrounding agricultural areas with its rail and road junction. Mr Tewolde GebreMariam, the Group CEO […]

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EU Hails Ghana’s Democratic Credentials

  • July 7, 2017

Mr Stavros Lambrinidis, the European Union Special Representative for Human Rights, has lauded Ghana’s democratic credentials. He said Ghana’s democratic experiment, which had so well often been cited as a model democracy for Africa and the rest of the world was worth emulating. “I believe rightly so. Ghana has a very vibrant civil society that […]

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Ghana-US Partnership identifies two constraints to economic growth

  • July 7, 2017

The Ghana and the United States Partnership for Growth initiative, have identified unreliable and inadequate supply of electric power and access to affordable credit as binding constraints to Ghana’s private sector development and economic growth. In the quest to address these constraints, a five-year joint Country Action Plan (JCAP),has been developed consisting of two components- […]