Ghanaian University to set up center for Asian studies
Professor Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Provost of the College of Humanities, the University of Ghana, Legon, was addressing delegates at the Africa-Asia conference held in Accra recently. He said within the...
View ArticleSetback: Ghana quest to reduce 60% rice production deficit
Minister of Food and Agriculture Fifi Fiavi Kwetey noted that the West African country consumed one million metric tons of milled rice of which only about 40 percent is produced locally. By last...
View ArticleRoad-show for Ghana’s 2015 Eurobond issue underway
The team, which also includes the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Henry Kofi Wampah, met investors in London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and New York. During these meetings, the investors were...
View ArticleTanzania’s electoral body promises smooth announcement of election results
Tanzania’s National Electoral Commission (NEC) said on Friday that it intended to meet government authorities attached to the electoral process to ensure that announcements of election results were...
View ArticleCyber Risk Should Not Deter Businesses From Emerging Technologies
The Africa Technology leader at Deloitte Consulting, Kamal Ramsingh has called on all business owners and chief integration officers in Nigeria to stop using cyber risk as an excuse not to adopt new...
View ArticleKenyan police officer shot in Mombasa
Mombasa police divisional police commander Martin Asin said the deceased was guarding a bank when three young men confronted him and grabbed his loaded G3 rifle. Asin said the assailants shot him three...
View ArticleBuhari Charged to Make Decisions on Devaluation, Deregulation and Fiscal...
President Buhari of Nigeria With much attention given to two of the three pillars, security and corruption on which President Muhammadu Buhari was voted into power, analysts said last night that the...
View ArticleHillary Miller-Wise Appointed As CEO of Esoko
Hillary Miller-Wise Esoko, a for-profit social enterprise offering a powerful communications platform for rural agri-businesses, today announced that Hillary Miller-Wise has been selected as the...
View ArticleAlisa Hotel Host 2015 Entrepreneurs Solution Summit
African Bagg, a recruitment consultancy that source international and locally based professional to rewarding careers in Ghana, on October 1, 2015, organised 2015 Entrepreneurs Solutions Summit at...
View ArticleKenya launches initiative to boost school enrollment in remote counties
Officials said the Operation Come to School project aims to enroll 300,000 children in the nine counties to a formal learning institution by 2018. “Provision of basic education for all children is...
View ArticleEU Hopeful for Ghana’s Economy
The European Union (EU) has expressed optimism in Ghana’s economy, saying it is confident measures being implemented by the government will put the economy on a strong footing in the coming months. The...
View ArticleGhana Local Rice Production Reaches 56% Demand
Reports gathered by the Business Day indicate that Ghana was about 56 percent self-sufficient in rice production. Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture in-charge of Crops Dr. Ahmed Yakubu Alhassan,...
View ArticleGovernment Augments Price of Cocoa
Government has increased the price at which it will purchase a tonne of cocoa from farmers by 21 percent. With this increase, a tonne of cocoa will now be sold at 6,720 Ghana cedis from 5,520, while a...
View ArticleKenyan leader seeks to revive ailing sugar sector
Speaking when he opened this year’s Nairobi International Trade Fair, Kenyatta said the move is meant to pave the way for privatization and make the firms attractive to investors. “My government...
View ArticleRice Importation Costs Ghana US $290 Million
Mr. Alhassan Imoro of the Crop Services Directorate of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture has announced that domestic rice production (milled rice) between 2009 and 2014 increased from 235,000MT to...
View ArticleRwanda’s Next Top Model to be Screened By CNN
Some of the models who participated in the Musanze auditions. (Photo by Hassan Mutuhe) The selection has been ongoing for the last two months. Sixteen models have so far been selected from previous...
View ArticleRwanda and Belgium Ink Cycling Partnership Agreement
Aimable Bayingana (left) with his Belgian counterpart Tom Van Damme. (Courtesy) The agreement was signed by FERWACY president Aimable Bayingana, and the head of Belgian Cycling Federation, Tom Van...
View ArticleI Am Not Close to Retiring From Music – Daddy Lumba
Though music trends die away, Highlife legend Charles Kwadwo Fosu (Daddy Lumba) has declared that he will not retire from doing music. In an interview with Kwame B on Aben Wo Ha on Kasapa 102.3FM,...
View ArticleUN Summit Was An Opportunity to Sell Our Young Talents – Becca
Ghana’s sensational songstress, Becca says her appearance at the recently held UN Summit was an opportunity to sell the country’s talented young population. Becca, who has since returned home and...
View ArticleIs It Just For Business Or Joey B and Pappy Kojo Are Just Friends?
Mention the Top 10 most relevant artistes in Ghana presently, and clearly, the average music fan would not blink to add the names of rappers, Joey B and Pappy Kojo. For the past year or more, they have...
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