The Destruction of Our Future
Meet Kofi, a twelve-year-old boy who works at a gold mine in the Central Region. On Monday Kofi is working to bring home some money for his parents and five siblings. By Wednesday he is dead. His...
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US Moves To Seize $140 Mn From Nigerian Oil Corruption
US officials said Friday they plan to confiscate $144 million in corruption-tainted assets of Nigerian oil executives found in the United States including an $80 million yacht the "Galactica Star."...
Australia Cautiously Enters Medical Marijuana Market
At a secret location in Australia's southeast, Peter Crock delicately tends to a two-month-old cannabis cutting. Barely knee high, it is one of about 50 government-sanctioned "mother plants" to be...
Two Years On, Nuclear Deal Has Fewer Friends In US and Iran
Signed with pomp and fanfare on July 14, 2015, the Iranian nuclear agreement was heralded as a triumph for American diplomacy and international cooperation on nonproliferation. Two years later, it...
SRI EMAS Touts Role In Start of Oil Production At Cape Three Points
SRI EMAS Limited (SEL), the company responsible for the complete subsea architecture installation including Structures, Flowlines, Umbilical and Risers for the FPSO Kufuor has expressed its joy...
Dangote Invests $4.6 Billion Into Farming In Nigeria
Dangote Group, controlled by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, plans to invest $3.8 billion in sugar and rice and $800 million in dairy production in the next three years as the company seeks to...
Brazil’s Ex-President Lula Convicted of Corruption
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. The judge ruled he could remain free pending an appeal....
Akufo-Addo Bemoans Treatment of Ghanaians In Qatar
The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has expressed dissatisfaction about the way Ghanaian nationals are treated in the Gulf especially in Qatar. Speaking to the new...
Can Akufo-Addo Fight Corruption?
I’m not a pessimist, however, it is now becoming clearer to me that the much touted campaign promise by the then presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa...
Oil, Gas Key To World Energy For ‘decades To Come’
Oil and gas will remain central to the world's supply of energy for decades to come, despite a surge of interest in renewables, the chief executive of giant producer Saudi Aramco Amin Nasser said...
Agona East MP Donates To Veteran Actor Super OD
Member of Parliament for Agona East constituency, Honorable Queenstar Pokuah Sawyerr has reached out to legendary actor Asonaba Kweku Darko, popularly known as Super OD. The MP who was touched...
Iraq’s Second City and Cultural Jewel
Mosul, wrested from the Islamic State jihadist group on Sunday, is Iraq's second city and one of its cultural jewels. The jihadists seized it in a lightning offensive in June 2014 that humiliated...
GNPC Begins Processes To Relocate To Takoradi
The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, GNPC, has disclosed it has commenced processes to relocate the company’s operations to Takoradi in the Western region. According to the CEO of the GNPC,...
Kofi Buah Chides ‘hypocritical’ NPP Over FPSO Kufour
Former Energy Minister, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah says the NPP in opposition nearly thwarted efforts for the commercial production of oil from the Sankofa Gye Nyame oil fields. According to him, the...
7 Ways The Power Plant Will Improve Ghana’s Economy
President Nana Akufo-Addo, as well as other power stakeholders have revealed that the newly commissioned Floating Production Storage and Offloading Vessel (FPSO) named after former President John...
GNPC To Go Into Fertilizer, Ethanol Production – CEO Reveals
Chief Executive Officer of Ghana National Petroleum Commission (GNPC), Dr. Kofi Kodua Sarpong has hinted of plans by GNPC to venture into the production of fertilizer, ethanol and other petrol...
France To Ban Sales of Petrol and Diesel Cars By 2040
France will end sales of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040 as part of an ambitious plan to meet its targets under the Paris climate accord, Emmanuel Macron’s government has announced. The...
“Power Generation To Be Enhanced Significantly; Low Tarrifs Anticipated”
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says it is the expectation of government and Ghanaians that the Offshore Cape Three Point (OCTP) partners will ensure prudent management of...
Ghana Goldmine Death Toll Rises To 22
Twenty-two miners have now been declared dead after an illegal goldmine collapsed in western Ghana, police said, increasing the toll from 17. Nsuta district police commander Superintendent Atsu...
Pakistan Orders Shell To Pay At Least $2.4m After Tanker Fire
Pakistan on Friday ordered Shell Pakistan to pay at least $2.4 million in compensation after more than 200 people were killed when one of its tankers overturned and exploded in a devastating inferno...