African Means Business Project, a United Kingdom (UK) based media organisation, is training eight Ghanaian journalists on economic and financial reporting to improve public debate on finance and business issues. The three-day course, being organised at the School of Communication Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, also brought together eight economists who would swap skills with […]
Six players are expected to join the Ghana camp as the Black Stars set up camp in Ethiopia this week for next month’s World Cup qualifiers against Sudan and Lesotho. Nineteen players departed Accra, Thursday afternoon with head coach Kwesi Appiah after three days of training in the Ghanaian capital. The French duo of Mohammed […]
President John Dramani Mahama has warned that Islamist militancy poses a threat that could destabilise the whole of West Africa. Mr Mahama told the BBC that although Ghana had not been directly affected, no country was safe if insurgency was allowed to take hold elsewhere. He said intervention led by France had helped guarantee stability […]
The United Nations Peacekeeping Day Celebration has ended with a flag- raising and Wreath-laying ceremony in Accra. In an address, the Minister for Defence, Mr Mark Owen Woyongo, noted that, the International Day for the United Nations Peacekeepers was cerebrated every year across the world since 1948, in recognition of high of professionalism, dedication and […]
President John Dramani Mahama yesterday stated that, the only way Africa could develop and overcome its challenges is to provide a collective and common voice in pursuing development agenda. This, he suggested could be achieved through partnerships and integration that would provide a common platform for them to showcase their comparative advantage and specialisation and […]
Mrs Gifti Abasiya Ababulgu, Ambassador of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, has commended Ghana for its democratic dispensation and economic developments. “The people and government of Ethiopia would continue to derive considerable inspirations, from Ghana’s democratic achievement,” Mrs Ababulgu said in Accra on the occasion of the 22nd Anniversary of the overthrow of the […]
Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur says the country appreciates the impressive record of the development success story of China, and assured of government’s determination to replicate the example. Mr Amissah-Arthur was speaking at a meeting with M. A Blao, the visiting Vice Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference at the Flagstaff House […]
President John Dramani Mahama has pledged to respect the verdict and ruling of the Supreme Court in which his political opponents are currently challenging his legitimacy as the President of Ghana. “I swore an oath by the constitution of Ghana and will therefore respect the ruling, rules and regulations under the constitution after the ruling,” […]
Ghana’s logging permits have been messed up as three quarters of the permits will not fall within the legal definition the country agreed with the European Union, a new document has revealed. Obtained and published May 28, 2013 by Global Witness, a UK-based group that investigates corruption of natural resources, the document showed that majority […]
Kosmos Energy and Tullow say the Ghana government has approved the Plan of Development (PoD) for the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) oil project. Both explorers confirmed the approval in separate statements today May 30, 2013. According to Kosmos, approval of the PoD paves the way for partners like Tullow, Anadarko, PetroSA, and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation […]
