June 2011

A consortium of four Non-Governmental Organizations, (NGO) operating in the Northern parts of Ghana, are supporting four districts with a 150,000 dollar scheme to improve the standard of education towards transforming their societies. The…

West Africa’s largest private airline company, by number of passengers, aircraft and revenue, Arik Air of Nigeria is seeing the lack of a national airline in Ghana as an opportunity to develop its market in the sub-region. The airline says…

The issuance of the biometric passport is at moment centralized, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Chris Kpodo, on Wednesday said. He said though plans were advanced to have the system decentralized the centres established in the regions…

Mr Isaac Akudahu, a ticket seller of Priceline Consult Limited, a transport company, on Wednesday told an Accra Circuit Court hearing the mass bus rape case that management did not pay income tax on his behalf. In an answer to a question,…

The National House of Chiefs (NHC) has urged all well meaning sons and daughters of the Ga Traditional Area to work together to end the confusion that had arisen as a result of installing a rival chief. Wulugu Naba Pugansoa Naa Professor…

The Convention People’s Party, (CPP) has congratulated the leadership and entire membership of the Chinese Communist Party on the occasion of their 90th Anniversary which falls on July 1st. A statement issued and signed in Accra, on…

Government is poised to produce 20,000 metric tonnes of “highest grade” quality rice by 2012 to reduce rice importation. To this end, interventions such as providing the necessary machinery and promotion of Private Public Partnership…

Ghana’s industry sector is leading the country’s economy, according to the latest Quarterly Gross Domestic Product (GDP) statistics provided by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS). In the first quarter of 2011, the economy was valued at…

A Takoradi Circuit Court “A”, on Wednesday, remanded three suspected drug peddlers in custody for possessing narcotic drugs without authority. They are Samuel Quarcoe, 23, Eric Agyemang, 18, both fishermen and Victoria Addae, 23, who works…

Dr Edward Omane-Boamah, Deputy Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, on Wednesday said it was necessary for the country to take advantage of its enormous sunshine to generate solar energy. This, he said, would reduce the…