6 Shortlisted
Out of the over 60 companies that expressed interest in the Private Sector Participation (PSP) in the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) has shortlisted...
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Nigeria, India Top List of Countries At Greatest Risk of Zika Virus
Nigeria has emerged as one of the countries at greater risk of Zika virus transmission. According to a new study published yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, many countries across Africa...
Democracy Corrupts People
Motivated by Ms. Mawuena Trebarh, CEO of GIPC, Ghana and Church Member of Glorious Wave Church Int., Ghana Having been a Member of the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) for over 20 years had...
Report On Research Into Captain Smarts Alleged Magical Mosquitoes-Repellent Light Bulbs
On 25 August 2016, I caused an article to be published on Modernghana.com titled, “Captain Smart of Adom FM and the Magical Mosquitoes - Exterminating Electrical Bulbs”. It was published under...
Captain Smart and the Magical Electrical Bulbs
Captain Smart, a programme presenter at Adom FM, Accra, Ghana, in my estimation, has not been very fair with Ghanaians today, Thursday 25 August 2016. While preparing to go to bed, I heard him...
Mother Teresa Was No Saint
When Pope Francis canonizes the late Mother Teresa at the Vatican on September 4th, she will officially be recognized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. For her followers, the title is a mere...
Big Noise, Small Brain
Ghana is in Election campaign with upcoming voting sometimes later this year (which European country does not know at least 1 year before the exact date of an Election?) with much Noise by the...
More Than 34,000 Cases of Rape Reported In 2015
At least 34,651 cases of rape were reported across India last year, statistics released by the country's National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) have revealed. The figures, released on Tuesday, showed...
Transforming Communities Through Eco-Tourism
Many communities in Ghana have seen significant transformation through Eco-tourism. Like what has been done with cocoa, gold and recently oil, eco-tourism can be used to mobilize revenue for...
New Actor With Little Economic Clout In Africa
Lack of credit support and investment guarantees from the Russian government and financial institutions have been cited as the major impediments for Russian companies willing to invest in the African...
Mahesh Sharma Retreats From ‘skirts’ Comment
After drawing widespread criticism, India's tourism and culture minister has backtracked after suggesting that female foreign tourists should not wear skirts in the country. Talking to journalists in...
Tanzania Upstages Mozambique On Gas
Tanzania, which won the geopolitics battle with Kenya, by snatching away the pipeline deal, has also upped its stake with its gas plant, trying to upstage Mozambique, which is still reeling from...
African Govts Must Priortize Sanitation
Africa is a continent of astonishing potential. But if it is to build the future its citizens deserve, there is a need to increase efforts to remove the barriers holding it back. None is greater than...
The RTI Coalition Appeals To The President To Help Pass The RTI Bill This Year
The Right to Information Coalition (RTI) of Ghana has begun moves to hold government on its promise to pass the Right to Information bill into law this year. As part of the move the group had...
Complete Biography & Profile of Awo Quaison-Sackey,
Awo Quaison-Sackey heads AQ Solutions of New Haven, Conn., say Africa one day can rival India as a place for Western companies to set up offices to handle payrolls, entering data, word processing and...
Complete Biography & Profile of Rhian Benson,
Rhian Benson is enigmatic -- enigmatic because she defies categorization; enigmatic because her life and her music are framed by paradox. Complex and cerebral, Rhian's music is simultaneously warm...
Complete Biography & Profile of Mrs. Gladys Asmah, Former Minister of Women Affairs
Mrs. Gladys Asmah, was born on October 16, 1939, at Cape Coast, in the Central Region. She started her primary education at Wesley Girls School and then to the Ghana, National College, both in Cape...
Complete Biography & Profile of Professor Francis Kofi Ampenyi Allotey,
Professor Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey, the sweet-scented name that has for two decades and more, filled the scientific and academic world with its fragrance is a Professor of Mathematics, Scholar,...