April 2011

Investment in agricultural research and development in sub-Saharan Africa increased by more than 20 percent from 2001-2008 but most of this growth occurred in only a handful of countries. Nigeria alone accounts for one-third of the…

MainOne Cable Company has appointed Mr Africanus Mensah, a Ghanaian Petroleum Engineer, as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the corporate entity in Ghana, effective March 24. Mr Mensah’s appointment confirms MainOne’s continuous…

Dr Kwasi Akyem Apea-Kubi, the Eastern Regional Minister, has appealed to chiefs to manage their differences and not to allow differences of opinion or diversities of thought to divide their ranks or be the cause of dispute, hatred and…

The Japanese Government has donated 100,000 bags of maize valued at GH¢3.2 million in support of flood victims in nine regions of the country. This was in response to an appeal made to it by the Government in the aftermath of the…

R&B singer Ne-Yo is billed to perform at this year’s Vodafone 020Live concert in Accra on Saturday May 7, 2011, sources within Vodafone Ghana have told ghanabusinessnews.com. The source related to the event told ghanabusinessnews.com…

25 tonnes of cocaine estimated at $1 billion shipped from South America have been allowed to pass through the borders of countries of the West Africa sub-region before reaching final destinations in Western Europe in 2008, a World Bank…

Mr Divine Agboadah, a Programme Officer of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Friday called on the Ghana Cocoa Board to market spoilt cocoa in Ghana and West Africa where it forms an important ingredient in the preparation of…

Journalists in the Upper West Region have been educated on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) integration processes to empower them to promote issues related to sub-regional integration. The capacity building workshop,…

The S.T. Nankani Scholarship Fund has within the past nine years supported 100 academically brilliant but needy students  of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) with a total of about GH¢2.5 million. Dr Ben Hagan,…

Residents of the Haatso-Papao community have expressed their unhappiness about the situating of a human waste dump on the slopes of their community. By clearing the sloppy area for the project, they have left us with no rain cover for the…