Cedi Depreciates At 5.2% So Far
Barely two months into the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led administration, a failing local currency means the authorities would have to dig deep into their policy armory to deal with a familiar old...
Day: February 28, 2017
Digital TV Regime Gold Mine For Content Developers – Adom-Otchere
Broadcast Journalist, Paul Adom-Otchere, says the shift from analogue to digital television, presents a huge opportunity for content developers to make more money. This he said will be achieved if...
Veteran Coach J E Sarpong Tips Aduana and Hearts To Fight For League Title
Former Ghana U17 coach, J. E Sarpong, says Hearts are looking a formidable side and will be one of the favourite to win the 2016/17 Ghana Premier League (GPL) title, if they can keep winning at home....
See How Your Stars, Others Reacted
Shatta Wale and Yaa Pono’s beef is still on fire! After two songs from both camps, social media has reacted accordingly and here are the highlights. Here’s how Edem, Wanlov and more reacted;...
Tokyo Won’t See Rio-Style Golf Pull-Outs, Says Park
Olympic golf champion Park In-Bee on Tuesday said she didn't expect Tokyo 2020 to be hit by serial withdrawals, after a number of top men's players skipped the Rio Games last year. Park, who won...
Packed Thai Prisons Need Urgent Reform
Thai prisons are massively overcrowded with some inmates forced to sleep sideways, a rights group said Tuesday, urging reform in a country with the world's sixth largest jail population. The...
Every Ghanaian Owes GHC4,519
Latest figures from the government on Ghana's total debt stock suggests that every Ghanaian, including new born babies, now owe four thousand five hundred and nineteencedis (GHC4,519) as at December...
Experts Condemn Akufo-Addo’s Appointment of GOIL MD
Energy experts have criticised the appointment of a new Managing Director of the Ghana Oil Company (GOIL), arguing that the government got it all wrong in that move. Former deputy Attorney General...
SpaceX To Fly Two Tourists Around Moon In 2018
US private rocket company SpaceX has announced that two private citizens have paid to be sent around the Moon. The mission is planned for late 2018, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said, adding that the...
Prez Has Not Appointed Osei Prempeh CEO of GOIL – Eugene Arhin
The Office of the President has lambasted the board chairman of Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) for criticizing the president based on false media report on the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer...
Managing Our Own Resources
It’s time for Africa to take a firm grip of its resources. As a matter of fact the time is long overdue. The continent has iron, cobalt, uranium, gold, salt, diamond, copper, silver, bauxite,...
Volta Chiefs To Take Over Flagstaff House If…
The chiefs and elders of Agavedzi division of Somey Traditional Area in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region whose area faces extinction as a result of tidal waves are set to storm the...
Asiacell To Offer Free Access To Wikipedia In Iraq
The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, said Tuesday that telecoms operator Asiacell will offer free access to the website to its nearly 12 million mobile phone customers...
Burkina Jihadists Claim Attack On Police Positions
A night attack on two police positions in Burkina Faso was claimed by jihadists who killed 12 soldiers in the area in December, a senior official said Tuesday. There were no deaths in the raids,...
North Korea Diplomat In China Amid Coal Cut Tension
A senior North Korean diplomat arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for talks with government officials, the first known visit since a missile test by Pyongyang that prompted China to sever coal imports...
Zlatan Revels In EFL Cup Glory
Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has likened himself to a lion after his brace in Sunday's 3-1 League Cup final win over Southampton took his goal tally to 26 this season. Ibrahimovic has...
Egypt Lawmaker Says His Expulsion Is Warning To Opposition
An Egyptian lawmaker who was one of the few dissenting voices in parliament said Tuesday his expulsion over accusations of leaking a draft law to foreign embassies was a warning to the opposition....
SAGE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ENTREPRENEURSHIP COMPETITION 2017
It’s another year of business smarts demonstration and Students in Advancement for Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE) Ghana, seeks to crown the national champions for the 2017 High School...
Bangladesh Starts Head Count For Rohingya Relocation
Bangladesh authorities have began a census of Rohingya refugees living in the country's southeast as part of a controversial move to relocate them to an uninhabited island, officials said Tuesday....
Every Ghanaian Owes GHC 4,519
Latest figures from the government on Ghana's total debt stock suggests that every Ghanaian, including new born babies, now owe four thousand five hundred and nineteencedis (GHC 4,519) as at December...