AKWAABA Forum Comes Off Today
The AKWAABA Forum, designed to address challenging issues in the tourism and hospitality industry will come off this morning at the Alisa Hotel, 9:30am. The forum which is part of the Citi Business...
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Angolan VP To Be Tried For Corruption In Portugal
Angolan Vice President Manuel Vicente will face trial in Portugal over allegations he bribed a magistrate to drop two investigations against him, according to a Wednesday ruling cited in Portuguese...
Ghana To Lose GHc7 Million Over Sale of Contaminated Fuel
Ghana is likely to lose about 7 million cedis in revenue following attempts by the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) to sell contaminated fuel to some oil marketing...
KKDA Takes Measure To Cut Down On the High Fuel Consumption
The Kpone-Katamanso District Assembly (KKDA) is considering abolishing the fuel coupon system as a measure to cut down on the high fuel consumption by officials driving the Assembly’s vehicles. Mr...
Three Things To Watch As Saudi Names New Heir To Throne
Mohammed bin Salman, named Saudi crown prince on Wednesday, becomes first in line to the throne as the historically conservative nation faces challenges at home and turmoil abroad. Here are three key...
Saudi King Salman Presides Over Reform Effort
Saudi King Salman, who ascended the throne in January 2015 and the last of the "Sudairi Seven" to rule, has presided over wideranging efforts to transform his oil-dependent, conservative Islamic...
Saudi King Appoints His 31-Year-Old Son As Crown Prince Over Cousin
Mohammed bin Salman has been promoted to crown prince and heir to the throne of Saudi Arabia in a shock move by King Salman. It comes after a suspected power struggle between 31-year-old Salman, who...
Assin South Inaugurates Muslim Council
Assin South District Chief Executive Derick Owusu Ambrose has inaugurated the Muslim Council for the District in the Central Region. The Council, which is tasked with the responsibility of ensuring...
10 Yrs After Oil Discovery, PIAC Member Laments Nation’s Failure In Properly Managing Resource
Co-chair of the Ghana Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) Dr. Emmanuel Steve Asare Manteaw, who is also a member of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), has said...
Polio Paralyses 17 Children In Syria
A polio outbreak in war-ravaged Syria has paralysed at least 17 children since March, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, describing the situation as "very serious". Fifteen more cases have...
#CitiBizFestival To Host Tourism Forum On June 22
The next outdoor event on the calendar of the Citi Business Festival is the AKWAABA Forum, designed to address challenging issues in the tourism and hospitality industry. The forum which will come...
Good Job FDA, But…
JUST last week there was a report of an arrest of two women suspected to be involved in artificially colouring oranges. THE arrest, which was made by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), followed a...
Chevron Prevails In Ecuador Pollution Battle At US Supreme Court
Oil giant Chevron prevailed in a long-running legal battle over pollution in Ecuador, with the US Supreme Court blocking villagers from collecting a $8.65-billion foreign judgment against the...
Help Age Ghana Receives GHc4,000.00 Items From Accra Golden Lions Club
The Accra Golden LIONS Club has donated some assorted items and drugs worth GHȼ4,000.00 to the Help Age Ghana as part of its annual exercise to help the facility. Items donated included; bags of...
C. Africa Sapped By Decades of Strife and Misrule
The government of the Central African Republic on Monday signed an "immediate ceasefire" deal with rebel groups aimed at ending violence in the strife-torn country. One of the world's poorest...
ACEP Opposes Hedging, Wants Stabilization Fund Fortified
The African Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) has opposed calls for Ghana to hedge its oil against global price fluctuations. According to the Executive Director of ACEP, Benjamin Boakye, the move will...
AKWAABA Forum Comes Off This Week
The next outdoor event on the calendar of the Citi Business Festival is the AKWAABA Forum, designed to address challenging issues in the tourism and hospitality industry. The forum which will come...
Russia’s Oil Firm Rosneft Finds New Oil Field On Shelf
Russia’s oil giant Rosneft said Sunday it had discovered a new oil field near the Laptev Sea, which could be the biggest on the shelf. Rosneft said in a statement that it had discovered new...
Fathers Asked To Rely On Gods Words In Times of Difficulty
Reverend Joseph Obodai, a Retired Minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG), on Sunday urged fathers to fortify themselves with the word of God to enable to withstand the challenges that...
US Billionaire Brings Dutch Painters To China’s Masses
Standing in a dimly-lit gallery space in China's National Museum, the owner of the world's only privately-held Vermeer gazed at the small oil painting for a long moment, before showing it to the...