Mrs Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts The 2013 PANAFEST and Emancipation Day celebrations was on Wednesday launched to kick-start activities lined up for this year’s programme. The celebration, on the theme: “Re-uniting the African family; Pan …

Martin Esson Benjamin – CEO of MiDA The Millennium Development Authority (MiDA), on Wednesday commissioned 45.86 kilometres of rehabilitated feeder roads in the Hohoe and Kpando Municipal areas in the Volta Region. The contract “Lot VR4,” estimated at $4,300,000, which …

The World Bank Group has announced an amount of $1 billion in proposed new funding to help provide better health and education services, generate more cross-border trade, and fund hydroelectricity projects in support of the Great Lakes peace agreement that …

The Wa East District Assembly in the Upper West Region on Tuesday failed to elect a Presiding Member (PM) to help run the affairs of the Assembly. The election, which was held during the first ordinary meeting of the assembly …

Ghana was on Wednesday given thumbs up for her consistent peacekeeping role in over 50 years despite the country’s budgetary and developmental constraints. “It is never easy for countries that are themselves facing budgetary and development constraints to muster courage …

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has signed a pact with Advans Ghana Savings & Loans Ltd to train a new set of 240 SMEs in Ghana under its Business Edge programme. The Corporation signed a similar agreement in February 2013 …

Could Africa's armed forces be a secret weapon in building roads and infrastructure across the continent?

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Mr Kwame Poku Boah, Counsel for the Lands Valuation Board, on Wednesday told the Judgement Debt Commission that the Attorney-General’s Department failed to inform his outfit of the payment of Ghc 27 million on stool land. Nana Owusu Akyaw Prempeh …

Tadias MagazineForum for past African presidents, prime ministers advocatedGhanaWebA former Egyptian diplomat, Ambassador Ahmed Haggag, has proposed the establishment of a forum for past African presidents and prime ministers to share their expertise with their current counterparts. The forum, which he said should be championed by ...African Union meeting kicks offAngolaPress50 years of African Union commemoratedWorkers WorldAfrican Union jubilee celebrationInformanteGo Jamaica -Citifmonline -Press Trust of Indiaall 52 news articles »

Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has confirmed he will release his final squad for June's World Cup qualifiers against Sudan and Lesotho by the close of the week.

Mr Johnny Owusu-Boadi, Obuasi Municipal Director of Education, has encouraged school-based girl-child coordinators to develop effective and educative programmes that would make the girls responsive to learning. They should also include in the programmes other social activities that would inculcate …

Mamelodi Sundowns will train in Ghana before the start of the 2013/14 season, GHANASoccernet.com can exclusively reveal.

A 26-year-old scrap dealer caught with stolen electrical cables and copper pipes valued at GH¢2,500.00 has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Kumasi circuit court. Yahaya Osman faced charges of stealing, causing unlawful damage and unlawful entry and …

A natural conservation manager has advocated the need for countries keeping national parks and conservation to include indigenous land owners of the areas in their management. Mr Steve Winderlich, Manager of the Natural and Cultural Programmes at the Kakadu National …

The  Ghana Government needs 225 million dollars annually to construct sustainable water and sanitation facilities to be able to meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of persons without access to potable water and sanitation facilities by 2015.…

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