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Listeners to local radio stations were calling in, before dawn, with prayers for peaceful presidential and parliamentary elections. With the polls being held for the first time on a Sunday, many churches had held services the day before to…

Ghana is set to begin biofuel production very soon, despite mounting evidence of biofuels' effects on the current global food crisis. Only recently, the government of Ghana gave approval for a Norwegian biofuels firm ScanFuel to start…

One of the two Indian men arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks was a counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission, security officials said Saturday,…

The Ghana Consolidated Diamonds Limited, the state own diamond mining company that has been on the divestiture list for some years now, has finally found an investor. The company is to be taken over by an American investor, the Deputy…

The global financial crisis has crept into Zambia as a significant power project meant to aid the country’s power deficit will be delayed several months as a result of the slow down in the world economy, said an official from the World…

Senior media practitioners are expecting Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary elections across Ghana to be the most credible, peaceful and cleanest in the nation’s history. Pollster, Ben Ephson, Media Commission’s Executive Secretary,…

About a year ago, precisely on September 10, 2007 I wrote an article on the above subject drawing attention to the issue of high cost of the internet in Ghana, which was published elsewhere.

The App Store has been an undeniable hit, as iPhone and iPod Touch users have downloaded mobile applications at a rapid rate. Apple announced Friday it has had over 300 million downloads from its App Store, a whopping total considering the…

Introduction The issue of full cost recovery at Ghanaian universities has become an untouchable subject because of its sensitivity. But as difficult as it is a subject for discussions, it will not easily go away. Sooner than later, it…

Introduction It is not possible to recount the history of the African continent without talking about the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and its impact on the continent’s economy. Indeed, a cursory look at Africa’s current economic…