September 2012

Banks and other financial institutions were on Saturday advised to make the necessary investments in Anti-Money Laundering, Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) to strengthen and protect the banking industry from machinations of…

The Chartered Institute of Bankers at the week-end conferred an honorary fellowship on Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur. The award was in recognition of the special role the Vice President, who was the immediate past…

The first batch of 130 Ghanaian pilgrims on Saturday afternoon departed the Tamale Airport to the Kotoka International airport in Accra to enplane to Saudi Arabia for the Islamic Holy pilgrimage. Alhaji Alhassan Issahaku, Northern Regional…

The need for a continental free trade area has gone beyond talk to action as stakeholders at the Second Africa Trade Forum (ATF II) reach consensus on its establishment. The ATFII was held from September 24 to 26, 2012 at the UN Conference…

Telecoms service provider, Alcatel-Lucent is to establish a national data centre for Ghana. The project is in partnership with Hewlett-Packard and IPMC, a local IT service provider. The company announced this September 29, 2012 after it…

Tony Blair could have stopped the Iraq war had he decided to walk away from a partnership with the US, the former UN secretary general Kofi Annan has claimed. In an interview to launch his memoirs, Annan said he had reflected on what…

The report on the controversial CI 78 which seeks to create 45 new constitutions was on Friday adopted by Parliament. Mr Edward Doe Adjaho, First Deputy Speaker referred the report, " Report of the Committee on Subsidiary Legislation on…

Mr Cletus Apul Avoka, Majority Leader, on Friday announced that the House is expected to rise sine die on Tuesday October 2, 2012. He made the announcement on the floor of Parliament when he read the explanatory memorandum on the business…

Ghanaian workers were on Friday advised to patronise mortgage schemes with the hope of owning their own houses at the prime period of their lives. Mr Enoch Teye Mensah, Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, who gave the advice,…

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday presented assorted food items to flood-affected victims in the Upper East Region. The items comprising 220 metric tonnes of food commodities included 3,624 bags of Maize, 518 bags…