July 2012

Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Mr Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has been named Vice President of Ghana, spokesperson to the President John Mahama, John Jinapor confirmed on Joy FM news monitored by ghanabusinessnews.com July 31, 2012. The Vice…

US President Barack Obama on Monday July 30, 2012 called Mrs. Ernestina Naadu Mills on phone to express his condolences for the passing of her husband, the Late President John Evans Atta Mills. A White House statement July 31, 2012 says…

The Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has developed a technology for the processing of peanut spread for the local and international markets. The Peanut Collaboration Research Support for Peanut (CRSP) project,…

The Ghana Cocoa Board in the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District, has within the past one year supplied 463,500 hybrid cocoa seedlings to farmers in the area, as part of efforts to increase cocoa production in the country. The beneficiaries…

Most traders and commercial drivers at the Tema Station in Accra failed to join the nation to observe a minute's silence in honour of the late President John Evans Atta Mills as directed by the Government. Although a handful of individuals…

The Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA) has called off its strike as a mark of honour to the late President John Evans Atta Mills. A statement signed by the National President, Mr Joseph Gordon Mensah, and made available…

Exactly at 1415 hours, President John Mahama led Ghanaians to observe a minutes’ silence for late President John Evans Atta Mills, who passed away on Tuesday, July 24. At the Efua Sutherland Children’s Park thousands of mourners had…

Members of Parliament on Tuesday suspended sitting to console former First Lady Ernestina Naadu Mills at her residence, as part of the one week celebration of the death of President John Evans Atta Mills in Accra. Mr Cletus Apul Avoka,…

Hundreds of people from all walks of life on Tuesday gathered at the Prempeh Assembly Hall in Kumasi for a non-denominational church service, organised by the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council, to observe  one week of the death of …

The Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission on Tuesday said this year's “Close Season” begins on Wednesday, August 1. A statement issued in Accra by Nana Kofi Adu-Nsiah, Executive Director of the Commission copied to Ghana News…