The Kingdom of Netherlands is working assiduously to reduce to a large extent its aid to Ghana and replace it with trade and investment, its ambassador to Ghana has announced. Ron Strikker said this has become necessary following the “enormous economic growth” of Ghana over the past 15 years. Ghana recently attained a lower middle … Read more
The hurling of stones at the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is wrong and underpins the need for more public education on how to conduct politics in a decorous and mutually respectful way, Irbard Ibrahim, Security Analyst and Peace Ambassador, has said. On Wednesday October 5, an unidentified … Read more
The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has vowed to recapture the Walewale and Kumbungu parliamentary seats in the Northern Region in the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections. The NDC lost the Walewale parliamentary seat in the 2012 general election to the New Patriotic Party (NPP); the NDC again lost the Kumbungu seat to the Convention … Read more
Supporters of Congolese President Joseph Kabila carry his portrait photographs during a rally Shortly after Congo President Joseph Kabila came to power in 2001, the U. S. embassy in Kinshasa sent cables to Washington exuding quiet confidence in the 29-year-old who had replaced his recently assassinated father, Laurent. In one, released later by Wikileaks, the … Read more
The UN Security Council has unanimously nominated former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres to be the next secretary general. The UN General Assembly is expected to meet next week to approve his appointment. Mr Guterres, 67, who led the UN refugee agency for 10 years, will take over from Ban Ki-moon early next year. Mr … Read more
Ghana’s contemporary international music icon, Stonebwoy, has hinted that he is adding farming to his occupation. Stonebwoy was crowned the brand ambassador for “Maso,’’ a programme to get over 80,000 youth in cocoa growing areas in the country to go into cocoa cultivation. He told the enthusiastic youth that he decided to associate himself with … Read more
A $74 million project focusing on creating employment opportunities for young people in the cocoa sector has been launched. The five-year project is targeting more than 200,000 economically-disadvantaged youth in both Ghana and Uganda, where the same project had also been launched. Dubbed ‘Maso’ literally meaning “lift up”, it is being implemented by a consortium, … Read more
The reigning queen of Ghana’s Most Beautiful Vera Oheneba Safoah popularly known as ESI has intensified her fight against teenage pregnancy by calling on religious leaders and organizations to help curb the social menace. ESI and members of her Pempamsie Foundation visited some mosques and churches in the Central Region to campaign against the high … Read more
Antonio Guterres led the UNHCR through the major crises in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan Portugal’s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is poised to become the next UN secretary general, UN diplomats say. Mr Guterres, 66, was the “clear favourite”, Russia’s UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin announced on Wednesday. A formal vote will take place in the … Read more
It would be recalled that somewhere in 2010, the United Kingdom media carried chilling reports about how the then Vice President John Dramani Mahama, was lobbied by a British Cabinet Minister to get a postponement for the ban imposed on Armajaro Holdings, one of the cocoa buying companies who were found culpable for smuggling the … Read more
Ghana today (October 4, 2016) expressed support for a United Nations General Assembly conference to discuss a universal and legally binding instrument that will prohibit the use of nuclear weapons and their total elimination. It affirmed that the best way to prevent non-state actors from acquiring and using Weapons of Mass Destruction( WMD) is by … Read more
The running mate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) Nana Gabby Nsiah Nketiah has disclosed that he is a member of the NPP. According to him, he is a good standing member of the elephant family with a party card. Gabby Nketiah, a retired diplomat, was announced running mate to the CPP flagbearer Ivor Greenstreet … Read more
The flag bearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, has a great chance of beating his competitors to win the 2016 presidential election, vice-presidential nominee of the party Nana Gabby Nsiah Nketiah has said. “Ivor has a chance of winning this election but we have not fielded enough [parliamentary] candidates. But for … Read more
The CEO of EIB Network, Nathan Kwabena Anokye Adisi, popularly known as Bola Ray, has been appointed as a “Made in Ghana” (MIG) Ambassador. His ambassadorial role will require him to support a campaign to change the negative perception of ‘Made in Ghana’ goods and services to increase demand for such goods and services. Others … Read more
President John Dramani on Monday received letters of credence of 11 new envoys with the promise to scale up Ghana’s relations with other countries in bilateral and diplomatic cooperation. The envoys are: Mr Andrew Barnes of Australia, Mr Andras Szabo of Hungary, Mr Henry Christoph Retzlaff of Germany and Mr Mohammed Maiga of Mali. The … Read more
In 2009, Kosmos Energy, a small oil exploration company in Texas, wished to cash in on its discovery of an oil field off the coast of Ghana — one of the largest found in West Africa in a decade. The company had an eager buyer in ExxonMobil. But some in Ghana believed the firm had … Read more
In Rumundele Community of Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, the residence threw open party recently in jubilation that over 200 youth from two bloody cult groups that had terrorised the area for months with property worth hundreds of thousands of naira destroyed and many lives lost, have openly denounced their membership in the … Read more
For more than two decades, Russia has been struggling to regain its Soviet-era economic influence, but such efforts have hit stumbling blocks which policy experts and Russian authorities themselves admittedly attributed to inadequate knowledge of investment and economic possibilities in Africa. Quite recently, Keir Giles, an associate fellow (on the Russia and Eurasia Program) at … Read more
The Chinese government has rated Ghana’s business environment highly, despite the current challenges associated with doing business in the country. China is not only investing in Ghana economically, but also contributing socially to its growth. As part of efforts to further foster the relationship between the two countries, the Chinese government has instituted a Confucius … Read more
Source: Permanent Mission of Ghana to the United Nations Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister Hanna Serwaa Tetteh has briefed Ghanaians working with the United Nations headquarters in New York on the situation at home. The meeting held on the side-lines of the 71st UN General Assembly was attended by members of the UN Social … Read more