In just six months of governance, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s administration has unveiled commitments totaling over $2.5 billion to propel the establishment and revival of private sector led initiatives aimed at creating the much needed jobs for the teeming unemployed Ghanaians to kick start an industrial revolution. In recognition of the World Bank data … Read more
For years, Iranians have had to put up with the likes of “Mash Donalds” and “Pizza Hat”. Now real Western food franchises have finally arrived, but doing business in Iran is not for the faint-hearted. Despite strict international sanctions being eased under a nuclear deal with world powers last year, the Iranian economy remains bogged … Read more
The persistent low state of development in sub-Saharan Africa has become a global challenge. Academics and think-tanks continue to search for solutions to Africa’s longstanding problems. Studies have proven that the entire region is essentially confronted with a crisis of social structures and government and the fragmentation of authority is the hallmark of this crisis. … Read more
Somalia rejoined the world wide web on Monday, more than three weeks after internet access was cut when a container ship damaged an undersea cable connecting the Horn of Africa nation to the world. “The technical issue, which has disrupted the internet connection, is resolved and the service is now resumed,” telecommunications minister Abdi Anshur … Read more
A deputy National Coordinator of the National Youth Employment Programme , Jacob Adongo, has accused former Sports Minister, Kofi Humado of being involved in almost all the stages leading to the payment of GHc4.1 million to Goodwill Ghana limited. Mr. Adongom, who was testifying as a defence witness in the ongoing GYEEDA trial, told the … Read more
The Civil Society Organisations’ Platform on Ghana IMF programme says an extension of the package will best serve the nation’s interest since it will allow for better implementation of the structural reforms. Dr Godfred Alufar Bokpin, a Lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School, said there was the need to extend the agreement in … Read more
The Civil Society Organisations Platform is advocating an extension of Ghana’s IMF programme, saying the package will best serve the nation’s interest since it will allow for better implementation of the structural reforms. Dr. Godfred Alufar Bokpin, a Lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School, said there was the need to extend the agreement in … Read more
The Electricity Company of Ghana would soon be compelled to install prepaid meters across the country to reduce the system and revenue losses bedevilling its operations and ultimately saddling it with debt. The power distributor is estimated to lose between 30 and 40 percent of expected revenue from the power it distributes, according to the … Read more
Voters went to the polls in legislative elections in the oil-rich Republic of Congo on Sunday, the first since a violence-marred presidential poll last year which returned Denis Sassou Nguesso to power. The first round of polling to elect National Assembly members as well as local councils is taking place with the opposition calling foul, … Read more
In a cottage in rural Lesotho, Tisetso Litheko lays out six full passports packed with immigration stamps showing his constant movement across the border to neighbouring South Africa. The 31-year-old former shepherd is one of more than 400,000 Lesotho nationals who live for much of the year in South Africa, forced by decades of a … Read more
Congo voters go to the polls Sunday in legislative elections in the oil-rich African country, the first since violence-marred presidential polls last year which returned Denis Sassou Nguesso to power. While no fresh violence is expected opposition parties have cried foul, as over 2 million voters are expected to cast their ballots in the first … Read more
Guess What? Another national service period is about ending! And what next? Well, your prediction is right; aside the 91,871 new service personnel who are ready to start their service from September 1, over 70,000 new graduates will be released into the Ghanaian economy by end of July! Adding on to the existing thousands of unemployed … Read more
The school year is ending in the west African nation of Guinea-Bissau, but some pupils will hardly notice the difference. Long-running pay disputes have kept teachers out of the classrooms for long stretches of the last four decades in this former Portuguese colony, where a dysfunctional government struggles to provide basic services to its citizens. … Read more
Dangote Group, controlled by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, plans to invest $3.8 billion in sugar and rice and $800 million in dairy production in the next three years as the company seeks to expand and deal with a shortage of dollars in its home market of Nigeria. The conglomerate plans to increase its production … Read more
Pakistan will raise the rate of contraception use to at least 50 percent within the next three years, the health minister has said, in a bid to help control its fast-growing population. Observers have warned that Pakistan’s population boom is negating any economic progress, using up valuable resources in a young country where jobs are … Read more
Last month, a baby was born in the Somali capital Mogadishu with a terrible eye defect that requires treatment abroad. The infant was cleared for treatment in Turkey but before the paperwork was complete a container ship, believed to be the Panama-flagged MSC Alice, docked outside Mogadishu port, accidentally dragging its anchor through the main … Read more
She’s not just any weightless propagandist or faceless serial caller whose words ought to be disregarded or treated with contempt. She is a lawyer. She is the Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, the second biggest constituency in Ghana in terms of voter population. She is the Deputy Majority … Read more
Embattled Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya Constituency of the Greater Accra Region, Sarah Adwoa Safo, says she did not turn out during the commissioning of the controversial Community Senior High School in her constituency because the function was largely an NDC rally. Political Aide to the Dome-Kwabenya legislator, Dr. E. Y. Boakye, said no one … Read more
Syria’s six-year conflict has ravaged its infrastructure and caused losses to its economy of $226 billion, according to estimates published by the World Bank on Monday. The devastating war has killed over 320,000 people and displaced more than half the country’s population since it began in March 2011. The World Bank said the destruction ran … Read more
Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya Constituency Sarah Adwoa Safo has been urged to do the honourable by apologizing for her claims over the building of a community day senior high school in her constituency. In a video that recently went viral on social media, Ms Safo is heard telling some constituents that she was directly … Read more