2015

A test trial to make sure that the spillways provided for controlled release of flows at the Bui Dam are in order, has been successfully carried out. Mr. Wumbilla Salifu, Manager, External and Community Relations, Bui Power Authority…

Mr Fiifi Fiavi Kwetey, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, says government has secured a budgetary support of 19 million Canadian dollars to help tackle food insecurity and fight poverty. The project, he said, was aimed at helping…

Mr Mahama Ayariga, Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation says he would encourage colleague cabinet ministers to patronise the vehicles of Kantanka Automobiles. This, he said, is part of President John Mahama’s…

Ghana has been cited by the new Africa Capacity Report 2015, for not having any capacity building programme in the last three years, which is targeted at strengthening Ghana’s financial sector for domestic resource mobilization.…

The Minerals Commission and the Chamber Of Mines have directed that from January, operators in the industry would be compelled by law to purchase majority of their raw materials locally. The move is in line with government’s effort to…

A court in France has ordered Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stand trial over her role in a pay-out of about €400 million to a businessman, Bernard Tapie in 2008. Reports from the…

News editor of Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang (VG) says they can live with the Chairman of AMERI Energy, Sheik Ahmed Bin Dalmook Juma al Maktoum calling their journalism malicious, but when the Dubai Prince says they have published…

News out of the UK says Stamford Bridge team, Chelsea has sacked coach Jose Mourinho. According to the BBC, 52-year-old Mourinho known as the ‘Special One’ was sacked today following the team’s latest defeat at Leicester City on…

A Magistrate Court in Accra was unable to deliver its ruling on a bail application put in by Gregory Afoko, the man who is alleged to have poured acid on the late Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Adams Mahama. The…

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo must extend a hand of reconciliation and give unconditional amnesty to all suspended Party members including elected officials who were recently suspended, Mr Kwame Pianim, an elder of the Party, has stated…