The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Jon Benjamin has said the eight years and eight months jail sentence given to the cocaine courier, Nayele Ametefe is within existing guidelines for that particular offence in the United Kingdom. There have been comments in the media suggesting that the jail term given Nayele was not deterrent […]
President John Mahama last Thursday held brief discussions with the Federative Republic of Brazil, H.E. Dilma Rousseff. This was shortly after her swearing in for a second four-year term on January 01, 2015. The inaugural ceremony was attended by Heads of State from various African and Latin American countries including Guinea Bissau, Portugal, Venezuela, Uruguay, […]
Anthony Banbury, outgoing Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), has said the ongoing Ebola crises could be brought to an end this year. A statement issued by UNMEER and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Monday said Banbury gave the assurance over the weekend in his final review of […]
The recently appointed British High Commissioner to Ghana, Jon Benjamin, has joined the GUBA Advisory Board for the GUBA 2015 awards. The Ghana UK Based Awards Advisory board is a body consisting of prominent and experienced individuals who advise on the proceedings, legal, progressive growth, format and general management of the organization. Mr Benjamin has […]
The United Nations has appointed Brigadier General Stanley Brian Alloh of the Ghana Armed Forces as the Chief of Staff for its mission in Liberia. Brigadier General Stanley Brian Alloh is assuming this appointment with vast experience having served the Ghana Armed Forces for over three decades. He is a graduate of the Ghana Military […]
Israeli Ambassador, Sharon Bar-li, with the Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Netherlands; Caecilia Wijger, joined President John Dramani Mahama, to inspect the completion of Accra Tema Metropolitan Area Rural Rehabilitation Project. Israel provided $19 million, while The Netherlands contributed € 41 million, to support the project, designed and built by Israeli engineering, […]
The government and people of the United States of America are investing an amount of $71 million to support Ghana’s educational institutions over a period of five years. The US Embassy in Accra, Ghana says the USAID awarded the Partnership for Education: Learning, its flagship education project, to FHI 360, an international human development NGO. […]
Microsoft Lumia is offering to send three Ghanaian couples to the world most attractive tourist sites in Singapore through its “Make It Happen” promotion, running till the end of December. Ghanaian couples could go on the all-expense paid trip holiday to Asia in the New Year with a ‘selfie’ taken with Lumia 530, 630, 535, […]
UNICEF has commended Ghana for significantly reducing children less than five years mortality in recent times. It noted that for the past 10 years, out of every 1,000 children born alive in Ghana 111 children would die before celebrating their fifth birthday but since 2011 it dropped to 82 children dying before reaching the age […]
The value of trade between Ghana and China reached US$4billion as at the end of September making China the single biggest trading economy with Ghana. Most of the goods that Ghanaian businesses exported to China, however, were mainly primary commodities such as cocoa, oil and gold. The Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Sun Baohong, said even […]
