GHANA is a powerhouse when it comes to football. We may not have won the World Cup yet, but it does not write us off when it comes to football globally. FOOTBALL powerhouses like England, France, Brazil, Argentina, Germany etc., give us lots of respect anytime they play against us. And it is not surprising … Read more
Often when I listen to Liberian radios or when I read in the papers on this year’s Liberian presidential election, I observe that some supporters of candidates focus on discussing negatively the opposing candidate or candidates and not talking about their supporting candidates. A Liberian talk show host, for instance, consistently criticizes a particular candidate … Read more
The Black Stars of Ghana have dropped one place to occupy the 54th place in the first Fifa ranking of the year. Ghana, however, remain ninth best team in Africa in the latest ranking released on Thursday, 12 January 2017 with only 12 A matches played since the final ranking of 2016. The Black Stars … Read more
The Coca-Cola Company will release fourth quarter and full-year 2016 financial results on Thursday, February 9, 2017, before the New York Stock Exchange opens, it has announced in a statement. The company will host an investor conference call at 9 a.m. EST on February 9, 2017 to discuss these results along with the 2017 outlook. … Read more
The Managing Director of Unilever Ghana Limited, Maidie Arkutu has taken a bow as the Managing Director of the company. Madam Arkutu has been elevated to the position of Vice President of Francophone Africa, within the Unilever Group. Her appointment takes effect 1st January, 2017. Mr. Yeo Ziobeieton now assumes the position as the new … Read more
The Managing Director of Unilever Ghana Limited, Maidie Arkutu has taken a bow as the Managing Director of the company. Madam Arkutu now becomes the Vice President of Francophone Africa, within the Unilever Group. Mr. Yeo Ziobeieton now assumes the position as the new Managing Director of the company effective January 1, 2017. Ms. Maidie … Read more
Africa’s women provide a large part of the continent’s entrepreneurial strength and potential. Aspiring entrepreneurs can learn from the powerful tips that five successful business women in different parts of the continent offer. “They have defied the norm that says they need to stay home. They are cut from a different cloth and set themselves … Read more
Sports ball manufacturers Alive and Kicking Ghana on Thursday afternoon donated twenty (20) hand stitched footballs to Images Image ahead of their Christmas Under 17 football challenge. The balls were donated by Mr. Wilson Duffour who is the administrator and also doubles as the financial manager presented the balls to Images Image led by its … Read more
Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI. BR) has agreed to sell its majority stake in Africa’s largest Coke bottler to the Coca Cola Company (COKE.O) for $3.15 billion, the final planned divestment following its purchase of rival brewer SABMiller. The world’s largest beer maker and Coca Cola said in a joint statement on Wednesday that they had agreed … Read more
Carrie Fisher says her affair with “Star Wars” co-star Harrison Ford wasn’t love — it was lust. “I was in infatuation,” she told Ellen DeGeneres on her daytime show Tuesday. “Probably, love is more mature.” Fisher says in her new memoir, “The Princess Diarist,” that she and Ford had an affair on the set of … Read more
How to outsmart fake news in your Facebook feed Fake news is actually really easy to spot — if you know how. Just because it’s on the internet doesn’t make it true. It seems so simple, but if everyone knew that, Facebook and Google wouldn’t have to pull bogus news sites from their advertising algorithms … Read more
As a team, we at Ogilvy & Mather are both honored and proud of our success at this year’s 10th annual Gong Gong Awards. Seeing our work acknowledged by our industry and peers, inspires us to keep pushing our strategic and creative limits and to aim for excellence. This is an accomplishment not only for … Read more
Everywhere you pass nowadays, you are likely to find a huge billboard with Prez Mahama’s photo on it. I mean every nook and cranny, trust me, there is a huge NDC billboard over there. Many have bemoaned the NDC splashing huge billboards everywhere, well, this time around Diamond Appiah says she just can’t think far … Read more
At the largest annual gathering of African entrepreneurs, held in Lagos, Nigeria, the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) hosted almost 1,000 women and men from 54 African countries, for the 2nd TEF Entrepreneurship Forum. The Forum celebrates the 2016 cohort of Elumelu Entrepreneurs, selected from over 45,000 applicants. It is the annual highlight of the Tony … Read more
The last we saw of President George W. Bush in Africa, he was literally dancing into the sunset of his presidency, on this occasion with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Monrovia, Liberia, America’s only former colony on the continent. There was much to celebrate. Despite the fact that his legacy was already being defined by … Read more
President Koroma of Sierra Leone, President Obasanjo of Nigeria, Governor Ikpeazu, Minister Lai Mohammed, Mrs. Folorunsho Alakija, join 1,000 African entrepreneurs at the 2016 Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum. The Foundation announced partnerships with African Development Bank, ECOWAS, Coca-Cola, Nigeria’s Ministry of Information. At the largest annual gathering of African entrepreneurs, held in Lagos, Nigeria, … Read more
The flagbearers of the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic are both scheduled to address their followers in Tema Sunday afternoon. play The NPP is launching its Greater Accra Regional campaign team at the Akojo Park in Community 1 while the NDC’s Ebi Bright will launch her campaign for the Tema Central Constituency with … Read more
The harbor city, Tema will be the centre of intense presidential political activity today as the flagbearers of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) pitch their campaigns there. This event is expected to attract thousands of Ghanaians to the township, which has already been flagged by the police … Read more
The Ghana Police Service says it has all security arrangement are far advanced ahead of the mammoth rally of the two biggest parties; governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Tema. Tema Regional Police Commander ASP, Juliana Obeng, says they are very much ready for the event such that if … Read more
In the beginning, God created the Heaven and Earth… and the Earth was NULL and VOID!” (Genesis 1:1-2a) That’s how the Biblical Genesis recounted the story of the genesis of this beautiful world you see today. In other words, there was a time when this Earth looked hopeless. In the beginning, the world was without … Read more