2017

TAP Portugal has announced a 36 per cent increase in its traffic results from Africa in December 2016 and a 10 per cent total growth for the whole year. The airline said it carried 800,000 passengers on it African routes, an increase of…

The Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP) has called on the Ghana Police Service to deal with politically tinted crime to restore the sanctity of our democratic dispensation; “We must immediately depoliticize crime and deal with all…

The Ghana government has sent 205 soldiers to join the ECOWAS Mission in the Gambia (ECOMIG) to remove Yahya Jammeh from power and install elected President Adama Barrow. A press release from the Office of the President says the Head of…

The photo of President-elect, Adama Barrow has replaced that of incumbent President Yahya Jammeh on the Gambia government website announcing January 19, 2017 as the inauguration date. The website until some minutes ago this evening…

The number of Ministers resigning from the Cabinet of Gambian president, Yahya Jammeh has risen to five as at today January 18, 2017. The Minister for Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology and Religious Affairs, tendered in…

Even though the West African regional bloc, the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS), has indicated its intentions to intervene militarily in the political crisis in The Gambia in support of the will of the people, hours…

The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has called on the Ministries of Finance and Energy to urgently prevail upon the Volta River Authority to settle its indebtedness to the Ghana National Gas Company. It said this was…

Ghana’s first ethanol plant at Hodzo, in the Ho Municipality has produced 150,000 litres of ethanol from cassava between June and December, 2016. Kasapreko Company Limited (KCL), a large importer of ethanol, with 40 per cent shares in…

Cocoa farmers have appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to appoint a Minister for the cocoa sector. They said this was the way forward to bring more efficiency into the organization and management of the cocoa industry - the…

Prices of major food commodities declined for the fifth year in a row in 2016, averaging 161.6 points for the year as a whole, some 1.5 per cent below their 2015 levels, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Bumper…