Nigeria Jollof Delicious
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has described Nigerian jollof as delicious after tasting the meal for the first time during his visit to Africa’s most populous country earlier this week. The...
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UK-Ghana Chamber Of Commerce Launches Investment Tour To Accra For British Businesses
UK brands, SMEs and investors invited on multi-sector business trip to meet key regulators, potential local partners, and leading private sector players in technology, tourism and agriculture....
Facebook CEO Goes To Nigeria To Witness Africa’s Tech Revolution
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) (http://www. Facebook.com) CEO Mark Zuckerberg is visiting Nigeria this week on his first trip to Africa, using his time in the country to visit the Yaba technology hub in Lagos,...
Internet Society Study Points To Reasons For Slow Internet Growth In Africa
Internet access and availability are not enough to get people online, says a new Internet Society (www. InternetSociety.org) study released today at the African Peering and Interconnection Forum...
How the Lebanese Community Came To My Rescue
By Tryphena Lizzert Yeboah In 2015, The African-American Institute (AAI) released a report about the state of education in Africa; showing only 6 percent of younger people in sub-Saharan Africa were...
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...
Japan, African Countries Team Up To Boost Food Security
Boosting agricultural productivity and food security in Africa will require collective efforts by African countries and their partners. Japan already plays a significant role in boosting sustainable...
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...
Econet Group Unveils Free Sports Channel
The channel will air some English Premier League matches at no cost Econet Group has launched a free sports channel – Kwese Free Sports – in Kenya, in its latest expansion plans. The channel...
Trade Ministry To Support Local Industries Under AGOA
The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) is to give leverage to local companies exporting to the United States (US) to enable them to double their exports. The initiative forms part of a four- step...
Boko Haram’s Shekau Vows To Fight IS Group Rival For Leadership
A struggle within Nigeria's Islamic extremist group Boko Haram is playing out in public, with a new leader named by the Islamic State group accusing the longtime leader of killing his own people and...
Complete Biography & Profile of Hawa Yakubu,
THE GENESIS To the body politics of women, a soon to be trailblazer had been born. In the tropical darkness of sub-Saharan Africa a soon to be torchbearer and a doyen of Ghanaian politics was born....
Complete Biography & Profile of Alan John Kojo Kyerematen, Former Minister for Trade & PSI
Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen (popularly called Alan Cash) is a Ghanaian politician, a corporate executive, a diplomat and an international public servant. Kyerematen made an attempt at the leadership...
Complete Biography & Profile of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, NPP Vice Presidential Candidate
Mahamudu Bawumia (born October 7, 1963) is an economist and banker. He was a Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana until his nomination as Vice Presidential candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP)...
Can Russia Regain Its Economic Influence in Africa?
As already well-known since Soviet days, Russia has pursued a pragmatic policy aimed at enhancing multidimensional ties with the countries of the continent on the bilateral and multilateral basis....
Ghana Chosen as Venue for 2017 Russian-African Forum
Acknowledging the huge untapped economic potentials in the relations between Russia and Africa, Ekaterina Dyachenko, the Founder of the B2B Export Group of Companies said in an interview Thursday...
Uber Partners with SMSGH to Offer Cashless Payments in Accra
Uber, the innovative app that connects riders with drivers, has partnered with SMSGH to provide mobile payments to the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA). Uber’s African expansion has...
Too Young to Marry but Old Enough to Have Sex?
Each year, 15 million girls marry before the age of 18 around the world. Breaking this down - everyday 41,000 girls get married; every minute 28 girls get married; every 2 seconds a girl gets...
Uber Starts Operations in Ghana with Accra Being It’s 467th City
Accra is the latest city to join the African network of the multinational taxi company Uber. “Uber is excited to explore the potential of this dynamic city,” the ride-hailing company said in a...
Ghana Ranks 34th in Slavery with over 103,300 People Enslaved in the Country
Ghana has been ranked the 34th country with the most modern slaves out of 167 countries in the world, with survey results estimating that there are 103,300 people enslaved in the country.
According...