2017

Dr Steve Manteaw, Co-Chair of the multi-stakeholder committee of the Ghana Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (GHEITI), has said natural resources in a given society is a key component for enhanced development. However, he…

The $95 million Kumasi City Mall, officially opened for business on Thursday, drawing a lot of excitement by shoppers in the nation’s second largest city. Spread on a 15.4-acre stretch of land, it has 74 different shops, which include…

The hearing of the case by the Supreme Court in Russia in which the Government of Russia was planning to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses Thursday enters its sixth day. On Wednesday, April 19, 2017, some 300 people gathered for the fifth day of…

Bechem United Football Club (Hunters) has established a vigilante group to deal with recalcitrant supporters and fans at its home grounds at Bechem in the Tano South District of the Brong-Ahafo region. According to Mr Kingsley Owusu…

Two persons, Yaw Akando, 40, and Mawusi, 39, natives of Nkonya in the Volta Region are confirmed dead following a shooting incident in the area on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. Klabi, a middle-aged man, who was with the two persons on their…

African governments have been advised to engage in more transparent procurement processes and also introduce more competition in procurement systems to help reduce corruption. “Procurement is one of the areas that corruption develops so…

There is an ongoing conversation between the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI), Microsoft and Techsoup to find avenues for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), to be more efficient and impactful through digital transformation.…

The number of people enrolling in higher education in Ghana has increased dramatically in nine years, just as the number around the world has gone up, a new UNESCO report has found. According to the Global Education Monitoring Report, a…

Mr John Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has said the Minerals Commission would engage the illegal miners and integrate them into the mainstream mining with proper mining practices. He said the government…

The Attorney General’s Department has called for the docket on the case involving the alleged assault of the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator by 13 members of a group calling itself the “Delta Force”, and reported to be aligned with…