Trump Wants To Dump New Air Force One
US President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to cut government costs by cancelling the order for new planes to carry the American president. Six weeks ahead of taking office, he tweeted:...
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‘Total Electrical Failure and Without Fuel’
Three players, two crew members and one journalist survived, Colombian authorities said. Just before LaMia Flight 2933 crashed into a hillside near Medellin, Colombia, a crew member onboard told air...
Jet May Have Run Out of Fuel
As air safety officials begin their investigation into the deadly crash of LAMIA flight 2933 near Medellin, Colombia, the final resting place of the jet's wreckage may prove to be a central clue in...
Mugabe Opens $150m China Funded Victoria International Airport
The airport is expected to be able to handle up to 1.5 million passengers each year Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, on Friday officially opened the Victoria Falls International airport. The...
SpaceX Aims To Launch Internet From Space
Private rocket firm SpaceX has applied for government permission to launch satellites that will provide global broadband internet access. In a filing to the US Federal Communications Commission...
Works On Kumasi Airport Restricted By Encroachment
Plans by the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) to extend the runway of the Kumasi Airport to carry bigger flights have been restricted due to encroachment on the land originally acquired for the...
A Nonviolent Strategy To Liberate Syria
In early 2011, as the Arab Spring was moving across North Africa and the Middle East, small groups of nonviolent activists in Syria, which has been under martial law since 1963, started protesting...
New African Airline Sets Sights On Baltimore
New Ghanaian carrier Goldstar Air plans to start services to Baltimore Washington International (BWI) in 1Q 2017, according to CEO Eric Bannerman. The small West African nation has lacked a national...
Trump, Iran and Europe
It was one of the worst deals the U. S. ever negotiated, according to Donald Trump. But will he now try to kill the historic agreement with Iran over its nuclear program and reimpose sanctions? Last...
Donald Trump Under Perspective
The 1920’s was an extraordinary period for Germans. It was a period of extreme economic hardship, occasioned, not by a sharp drop in oil prices as is the case with Nigeria, but as a comeuppance of...
China Air Show Seals US$40b Worth of Deals
The PLA Air Force’s next-generation stealth jet fighter J-20 conducts an unscheduled flight on Nov. 1, the opening day of the six-day Airshow China 2016 held in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province. A...
Ghana Is A Haven For Investors – French Ambassador
Mr Francois Pujolas, the French Ambassador says the political and socio economic stability in Ghana has made it a haven for investors the world over. He said business organisations in France were...
Ghana Is A Haven For Investors
Mr Francois Pujolas, the French Ambassador says the political and socio economic stability in Ghana has made it a haven for investors the world over. He said business organisations in France were...
Goldstar Air To Train Ghanaian Pilots In Lithuania
Goldstar Air, a wholly owned Ghanaian airline as part of efforts to indigenize its operations and rely on Ghanaians, is to employ retired Ghana Air Force pilots to man the company’s aircrafts. The...
Plane Catches Fire At Chicago Airport
An image of the plane on fire that was taken from a video filmed by one of the passengers An American Airlines plane has caught fire on the runway of Chicago's O'Hare airport while taking off. The...
World Stocks, Commodities Climb As Economic Confidence Lifts
World markets had a swagger about them on Tuesday as upbeat economic data and signs of a revival in inflation pushed up stocks and commodity prices and kept the dollar at a nine-month high. Factory...
REBUTTAL; You Love Northerners, But Whats There To Show.
I read with deep concern the article published on Manasseh’s folder on a very sensitive and potentially divisive subject of love for Northerners by political players. In the said article, Manasseh...
Ethiopian Airlines and Ghana Airways
A tale of two airlines: Ethiopian Airlines and Ghana Airways Anis Haffar The in-flight magazine of Ethiopian Airlines – Selamta – adorned the cover page of its Sept/Oct 2015 issue with a picture...
Tiny Machines Win Chemistry Nobel Prize
The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded for the development of the world’s smallest machines. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa will share the 8m kronor...
Trump Kids Worried About Erratic Behavoiur?
Last Wednesday, as the Republican presidential nominee spiraled down into a week that would ultimately be dominated by his personal attacks on a former Miss Universe and his seething response to poor...