The Government of Ghana and the parent companies of AirtelTigo, Bharti Airtel Ghana Holdings B.V., and MIC Africa B.V have concluded negotiations and signed an agreement to transfer the shares of the company to the Ghana Government following the announcement … Continue reading Ownership of AirtelTigo officially transferred to the Government of Ghana
The barrier for women in our society has always been high. Despite the very hard work put in by them and all who support their cause, lip service has at best been paid to gender equality. At worst, women have … Continue reading Loved face, doubted brain, veiled hypocrisy
The Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Professor (Mrs.) Rita Akosua Dickson has revealed plans for a collaboration between KNUST and Kumasi Compost and Recycling Plant ( KCARP) Limited, a subsidiary of the … Continue reading Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to partner Kumasi compost and recycling plant to solve sanitation problems
The University of Cape Coast, in collaboration with the Students Financial Support Office, has held the Maiden UCC Scholarship Awards ceremony for needy-but brilliant students in the University. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong, in his opening remarks as the … Continue reading University of Cape Coast awards scholarships to needy-but brilliant students
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Cape Coast North, Dr. Kwamena Minta Nyarku, has presented his three months’ salary to some constituents for the confidence reposed in him during the December 2020 polls. He said the gesture was to appreciate … Continue reading Cape Coast North MP gives three months’ salary to constituents
Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has been appointed as a member of the Parliamentary Service Board, Chaired by Speaker Alban Kingsford Bagbin. The other members are Mr Cyril Nsiah, Clerk to Parliament, … Continue reading Johnson Asiedu Nketiah appointed to Parliamentary Service Board
Thousands of people on the Bamenda-Babadjou road network that links the Western and Northwestern regions of Cameroon were stranded for several hours last week, after a section of the 35-kilometer dilapidated network collapsed due to heavy rainfall. Further subsiding also … Continue reading Heavy rainfall breaks up major roads in Cameroon [Video]
On Friday 19th March 2021, His Excellency the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana announced 27th June 2021 as the Census Night date for the upcoming Ghana’s 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC). The day marked exactly 100 days … Continue reading Ghana’s 2021 PHC: 27th June 2021 declared Census Night, Whither shall we go?
The Executive Director of the Ghana Enterprises Agency, Kosi Yankey-Ayeh has hinted that the activities of the new entity will rely significantly on Information Technology. The Ghana Enterprises Agency Bill which was passed recently, converted the National Board for Scale … Continue reading ICT will be critical in Ghana Enterprise Agency’s operations – Kosi Yankey-Ayeh
A total of 186 students of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) School of Business have received the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence after their exceptional academic performance during the 2019/2020 academic year. The students who received certificates and books … Continue reading UCC School of Business awards 186 students for exceptional academic performance
The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has engaged three inmates of the Nsawam Medium Security Prison as facilitators for the university’s Distance Learning Programme at the prison. The inmates include Dr Sulley Ali-Gabass, a medical doctor. As facilitators, Dr Ali-Gabass, … Continue reading UCC appoints prison inmate Dr Ali-Gabass as distance learning facilitator at Nsawam
Despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, investors continued to believe in the potential of North African and Middle Eastern tech start-ups. The growth in venture capital investments in MENA countries in the latter portion of 2020 speaks volumes about the expected … Continue reading Innovation and flexibility allowed North African and Middle Eastern startups to raise over $1 billion in 2020
Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Mr. Osei Assibey-Antwi, has directed authorities of basic schools to imbue in their pupils and students the habit of tree planting. Nurturing the concept of nature preservation, especially in the formative years of the Ghanaian … Continue reading Project to improve vegetation in basic schools in Kumasi underway
A founding member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and former Central Region Minister, Ama Benyiwaa Doe, says the party’s former regional chairman Bernard Allotey Jacob’s recent rants would not affect the party in anyway. To her, Mr Alottey Jacobs … Continue reading Ama Benyiwaa Doe blasts Allotey Jacobs; says he has no influence in NDC
One person is reportedly dead with three others in critical condition after a Trotro driver allegedly set the room of his girlfriend ablaze at Meduma in the Kwabre East Municipality of the Ashanti Region. The suspect, who was identified as … Continue reading Trotro driver sets girlfriend’s room ablaze, burns 10-year-old boy to ashes
Most families in northern DRC’s Tshopo province, can’t afford electricity to cook. Instead, they rely on locally-produced wood charcoal to feed their families. Prosper Matondo is an environmental technician at a Belgian development agency called Enabel. He says that more … Continue reading DR Congo: How women are making money from charcoal alternative
Africans have values to keep and teach the rest of the world. I chanced on a picture of teacher carrying a baby at her back while teaching at a university. I’m what comes to mind immediately after seeing the picture … Continue reading A professor held her student’s baby while giving a 3-hour lecture so the mother could take notes
The budget statement for the 2021 fiscal year which was presented to Parliament by Leader of Government business Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has revealed that the total revenue to be generated from the petroleum sector this year year will be US$885.7million “The … Continue reading Ghana Budget: Total petroleum revenue for 2021 will amount to US$885.7m
As part of increased efforts to provide infrastructure in the implementation of the Free Senior High School Programme, 28 community day secondary schools were completed in 2020. This was made known in the 2021 budget statement and economic policy of … Continue reading 2021 Ghana Budget: Akufo-Addo completes 28 of Mahama’s E-blocks
A local Nigerian fisherman is making rounds on social media for eating a Blue Marlin fish reportedly worth $.26million moments after it was captured. The fisherman, whose name is not yet known, captured the Blue Marlin fish in the Andoni … Continue reading Nigerian fisherman captured Blue Marlin Fish worth $2.6 million but ate it with his friends
