January 2011

Members of the Ghana National Seed Producers Association (GNSPA), has appealed to the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service, to act quickly and immunise the people of Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions against Cerebro…

Togbega Gabusu VI, Paramount Chief of the Gbi Traditional Area, on Friday, donated assorted medical items worth GH¢3,000 to the Hohoe Municipal Hospital. They include theatre coats, gloves and drugs, as well as bedsheets, pillow cases,…

Mr Paul Evans Aidoo, Western Regional Minister, on Sunday, asked Churches to look at ways through which they could help break some of the numerous societal barriers that restrict young people, with regard to employment generation. He made…

Alhaji Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, Member of Parliament (MP) for Asawasi, has called on the ward and constituency executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to double their efforts, by reaching out to the constituents to explain…

Help Age international, an Ireland-based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), in collaboration with Compassion Africa Aged Foundation, has rolled out a training programme to empower the aged, at Anloga, in Kumasi. The programme, which is…

Brent oil futures climbed near $100 a barrel and Asian stocks fell on Monday, hurt by fears that deadly protests in Egypt may foment unrest throughout the Middle East and choke oil supplies, accelerating a move out of riskier assets. More…

Alpha Natural Resources is buying Massey Energy in an $8.5bn (£5.3bn) deal that will create America's second largest coal miner. The move is further consolidation of an industry that is booming due to demand from energy-thirsty Asian…

Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs Group has tripled the base salary of chief executive Lloyd Blankfein to $2m (£1.3m), up from $600,000. And company filings show he was also awarded shares currently worth $12.6m, a 42% hike from the the stock…

The euro steadied against the dollar on Monday as moves to exit riskier positions tapered off, although market players remained wary of the risk that unrest in Egypt could spread across the Middle East. The Australian dollar also pared its…

Are you too late to the rally? One of the fastest bull markets in history pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to a close near 12,000 last week, the highest point for the index of 30 blue chip stocks in two and a half years. The broader…