Kenya Doctors Jailed Over Strike
A judge in Kenya has handed a one-month sentence to leaders of the doctors’ union in the country amid an ongoing strike over pay and service conditions. “The duty of physicians is to preserve and...
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OPEC Delivering On Agreed Oil Output Cuts
The OPEC oil cartel has implemented more than 90 percent of its agreed output cuts aimed at curbing a glut on world markets, Kuwait's oil minister said on Monday. OPEC and non-OPEC producers...
Ghana Wins Back Mining Investors; $500m Pledged
MARK Bristow is unlikely to return to Obuasi, the Ghanaian gold mine he has twice stalked in the past 20 years before declining to invest. But he declares a ready interest in Ghana for its...
Vodafone Gives Val’s Day Package
Mobile telecommunication network, Vodafone Ghana, is set to reward thousands of active broadband customers with unlimited data on Valentine’s Day. The move is to enable customers connect to loved...
Ghana Must Tighten Its Consumer Protection Standards – World Bank
The World Bank Group has called on the government of Ghana to, as a matter of urgency, tighten its consumer protection standards to promote the health, safety and security of consumers. According to...
BoG Urged To Fast-Track Corporate Governance Guidelines
A banking professional, Judith Haizel, has appealed to the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to ensure that it introduces the corporate governance guidelines in the first quarter in order to encourage banks to put...
IMF Lauds NPP Tax Cuts Reforms
International Monetary Fund (IMF) is confident the plans outlined by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government to cut down and eliminate some taxes will restore fiscal discipline, promote debt...
Financial Stocks Lead Market Revival
Most of the regularly traded financial stocks are recovering from two consecutive years of battering occasioned by a harsh macroeconomic environment which wiped billions off their worth. The stock...
Airtel Joins World To Commemorate Safer Internet Day
Airtel, Ghana’s leading company for Corporate Social Responsibility joined the international community to mark Safer Internet Day on 7th February – the day commemorated around the world every...
The Fishy Tale That Won’t Go!
If you ignore a problem over a long period, it becomes part of the status quo. This is what we have done when it comes to protecting the fish stock in Ghana’s waters. We have allowed Illegal...
‘Media Spin Unholy’ – Sam George
Ningo-Prampram MP, Sam George Nartey, has accused the media of mischief over comments he made that some of the vehicles the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government purports to be missing were sold to...
Samsung Chief In Second Grilling Over Corruption Claims
Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong is being questioned for a second time as a suspect in South Korea’s biggest political corruption scandal. Prosecutors are expected to decide based on the hearing whether...
Samsung Scion Summoned Again Over Corruption Scandal
Prosecutors summoned the scion of South Korean giant Samsung again on Monday in connection with a corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-Hye. Lee Jae-Yong, Samsung...
NLC Faces Danger As Workers Divided On Political Lines
The Employment and Labour Relations Ministry is to investigate the claims of the officials of the National Labour Commission (NLC) wanting their boss sacked. Staff of the NLC are demanding the...
Tesco Customers Overcharged By Out-of-Date Offers
Tesco customers are being short-changed by promotions which have expired but are still advertised on the shelves, a BBC investigation has found. It revealed shoppers were overcharged at two-thirds of...
How Kyei Mensah Bonsu Engineered Ghana’s Embarrassment At the ECOWAS Parliament
Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu’s decision, to reconstitute delegates on the majority side of Ghana’s Legislature, to the ECOWAS Parliament without consulting his colleagues is what has...
Public School Sticks It To Trump On NY Runway
Fashion week's determination to subvert the Donald Trump presidency put "Make America New York" hats on the runway at Public School, while Victoria Beckham offered classic luxury to counter troubled...
Listen: Aliko Dangote (Prod. By Da Maker) Lyrics and Download
Listen to the lyrics of Aliko Dangote (Prod. by Da Maker)and download the mp3 track for the newly released track titled: Aliko Dangote (Prod. by Da Maker). This is a special dedication from the...
Numbers In Your CV
As an active recruiter (I am the owner of HIREghana, www. HIREgh.com ), my associates and I come daily through several candidates' CVs (we have a repository of 30000+ Ghanaian CVs). Over the years, I...
Ghana Needs More Trade Not Foreign Aid – Bawumia
Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says the government wants a relationship with the international community driven by trade rather that aid. According to him, such position will help Ghana position...