Africa World Airlines (AWA) is set to start the commercial use of the Ho airport which has been lying fallow since its completion in 2016. The facility, according to the Ghana Airport Company Limited, will cut travel time between Ho and Accra from 3 hours by road to about 30 minutes by air. The Head […] The post Africa World Airlines to begin

TRIBUTE BY MARTIN A. B. K. AMIDU TO COMRADE CHAIRMAN AND FORMER PRESIDENT EMERITUS FLT. LT. JERRY JOHN RAWLINGS I was taken aback on 29th September 2020 when after paying my condolences and expressing my experiential emotions of what a toll the passing of your dear mother could have had on you despite your old […] The post Martin Amidu pays tribute to former

The Supreme Court has dismissed an application filed by the legal team of the petitioner in the ongoing Election Petition case, John Mahama, seeking to strengthen their argument asking for a review of the court’s ruling on some questions they had wanted to ask the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Adukwei Mensa. The Justices […] The post Mahama’s

The Spelling Bee 2021 national finals will come off on February 6, 2021, drawing the curtain on another successful edition. The closed-door event will be held with only spellers, parents, and guardians in attendance adhering to strict COVID-19 preventive measures. “Though the pandemic persists, we’ve resolved to celebrate the commitment, trust, and resilience of our […] The post Citi

The Street Children Empowerment Foundation (SCEF) has distributed school supplies and other items to over 100 street-connected children as part of this year’s Back to School event, dubbed ‘Take me back to school’ The supplies, which are aimed at equipping the children, especially SCEF scholarship recipients to go back to school was donated by Adenia […] The post Over

Farmers in the Upper East Region could record high yields by applying fertilizers from the Agricultural Manufacturing Group Limited (AMG), this is according to research conducted by CSIR-SARI Manga station in Bawku. In a field demonstration of AMG fertilizers and other fertilizers to crops like maize, soybeans, okra, garden eggs among others, AMG fertilized crops […] The post U/E:

The launch of Samsung’s latest S Series has been met with amazing reviews across the world. The device empowers you to easily share and connect with state-of-the-art camera and video, a bold new design and streamlined connectivity capabilities. For Ghana it also represents a giant leap forward in how we can now use our phones. […] The post Samsung launches its first 5G-ready

Bernard Avle, Kojo Akoto Boateng, Godfred Akoto Boafo, Kokui Selormey and Nathan Quao discuss Ghana government’s recent effort to provide free testing for all Ghanaians in public labs. There is also a conversation on measures being put in place to curb the spread of the virus. They also discuss Ghana’s ambulance system and briefly fallouts […] The post Citi Breakfast

It’s day 4 of week 4 of the Effective Living Series. Robert Bennin was on the segment with Bernard Avle to share more insights to strategies for accelerating transformation in times of uncertainty. Robert Bennin has for the past decade been sharing his ideas on leadership, strategy, talent development and enterprise transformation as a Keynote […] The post Strategies

The Anglican Bishop of Asante-Mampong, the Rt. Rev. Cyril Kobina Ben-Smith, has been elected Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Ghana within the Church of the Province of West Africa. A special meeting of the Internal Province of Ghana Synod gathered on 15th January 2021 at the Cathedral Church of St Cyprian the Martyr to […] The post Rt. Rev. Dr.

In the 1980s, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings launched heritage tourism as a means to economic development in Ghana. Under his initiative, Ghana’s forts and castles – where enslaved Africans were forcibly put on slave ships to cross the Atlantic Ocean into slavery in the Americas – were turned into heritage sites for tourism. It […] The post How

We maintain a bullish outlook for global equities in general for 2021. However, we are switching our bias from a preference for the so-called Quality and Growth stocks to an increasingly optimistic outlook for Value equities. At a high level, Growth stocks are companies with a high expected earnings growth rate. Value stocks are companies […] The post Tilting towards value with stocks

Ghanaian highlife musician Terry Asare Boamah, popularly known as Dada Hafco has penned an open letter to the President, Nana Akufo-Addo, detailing some of the problems bedeviling the arts and entertainment industry and how they can be remedied. In the letter, the ‘Playboy’ singer mentions poor royalty system, lack of proper regulations of foreign content […] The post Our

A former Secretary for the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), Joyce Aryee has described her working experience with the late ex-president, Jerry John Rawlings as tumultuous. According to her, “he was very intense about certain things and usually thought things could happen at the snap of a finger because of his military background and often […] The post Working

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A former aide of ex-president Jerry John Rawlings, Kofi Adams says the late leader would have preferred that citizens including leaders embrace the principles of probity and accountability rather than having monuments named after him. He made the remark in reaction to the announcement by President Akufo-Addo that the Tamale campus of the University for […] The post Living

Apple sales have hit another record, as families loaded up on the firm’s latest phones, laptops and gadgets during the Christmas period. Sales in the last three months of 2020 hit more than $111bn (£81bn) – up 21% from the prior year. The gains come as the pandemic pushes more activity online, fuelling demand for […] The post Apple Christmas sales surge to $111bn

MPs in the Democratic Republic of Congo have voted to remove Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilukamba from power. Mr Ilukamba, who was not present during the no-confidence vote in parliament, has been given 24 hours to resign. The lawmakers accuse Mr Ilukamba, an ally of former President Joseph Kabila, and his ministers of poor performance. […] The post DR Congo’s PM loses

South Africa will on Monday receive one million Covid-19 vaccine doses from India, according to Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. The AstraZeneca doses would undergo technical processes on arrival, including quality assurance, he said. “These processes will take a minimum of 10 days and a maximum of 14 days to complete, upon which we will be […] The post South Africa

The Health Ministry in a circular has directed all public health testing laboratories not to charge residents in Ghana for COVID-19 testing. In a communiqué to all public health testing laboratories dated January 27, 2021, the ministry said it “has decided that public COVID-19 testing laboratories providing walk-in services can charge only charge travellers for […] The post COVID-19