Ghana’s GDP up to 5.9% – Minister

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook, 2016 has put Ghana’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita for 2015 at $1,340.4 representing 5.9 per cent increase over the 2008 figure of $1,266.1. A statement signed by…

Ghana marks World Oceans Day

Mr Mahama Ayariga, Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI) said Ghana is losing at the minimum of 2.7 million square metres of its shoreline annually. He said this occurs alongside the destruction of the…

Vodafone says it is contributing to SDGs

Nana Yaa Ofori-Koree, Director of Vodafone Ghana Foundation and Sustainability, says the telecommunications company is contributing its quota to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the country. She said the…

YEA recruits 500 under Youth in Prisons Module

The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has officially inaugurated the second batch of the youth in prisons service module as part of the youth in security programmes. A statement to the Ghana News Agency explained that the inauguration was…

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf chairs ECOWAS

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been elected the Chairperson of the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS). She takes the position after Senegal’s President Macky Sall, who spent 14 months as head of the…

BIA to expose corrupt public officials

The Bureau for Internal Affairs (BIA), a centre for intelligence gathering for public concerns, says it has in its possession, a tape that has captured the fraudulent deals involving some corrupt forestry officials and small scale mining…