$875 million FPSO to be named after Ghana’s founding President

The Floating, Storage, Processing and Offloading vessel or FPSO to be used in production of the country’s crude oil in commercial quantities is to be named after Ghana’s founding President Kwame Nkrumah. An advert sponsored by Kosmos Energy, one of the partners in the Jubilee Fields in the newspapers names the vessel FPSO Kwame Nkrumah. [...]

Asoma Banda Warns Ghana

…We Mustn’t Be Complacent and Neglect Other Sectors By J. Ato Kobbie, Managing Editor The Executive Chairman of Antrak Group, and member of the Council of State, Alhaji Asoma Abu Banda, has cautioned Ghanaians against allowing the production of oil to become the beginning of their problems, rather than a blessing. “I’m happy about the [...]

Fire In Court As MP Is Charged For Stealing

The trial of the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sene, Hon. Felix Twumasi-Appiah and his accomplice, Juan Carlos, a Spaniard, who have been accused of fraud and stealing, came to an abrupt end on Thursday, April 29 when there was a loud explosion at the Accra Circuit Court. The presiding judge, lawyers and other litigants [...]

Sub-Saharan African Stocks: Equity, Japaul Oil, Unilever Ghana

By Eric Ombok and Vincent Nwanma (Bloomberg) — The Nigerian Stock Exchange All- Share Index snapped seven days of declines, rising 0.7 percent to 25,789.53 at the close in Lagos. Kenya’s All-Share Index advanced 0.2 percent to 71.48 in the capital, Nairobi. Mauritius’s SEMDEX Index increased less than 0.1 percent to 1,687.4 by the close [...]

Fire Prophet to shake gospel music scene

STORY: WILLIAM BEEKO Gospel music, a highly emotional evangelical vocal music that originated among African American Christians in southern United States which made strong influence in the development of soul music has taken centre stage in the Ghanaian music industry. Ghanaians over the past years have given prominence to what has now become known as [...]

Festivals must unite us

Celebration of festivals is part of Ghanaian culture. That is why every tribe in this country takes pride in the celebration of its festival. Many of our tribes have a unique way of commemorating their respective festivals and it is therefore no surprise that people tend to travel to their home towns to partake in [...]

Man escapes lynching

But for the timely intervention of passersby, pedestrians and some good Samaritans, Theophilus Kwabena Offei, a man believed to be in his late 20s, would have been lynched by some irate prostitutes last Saturday, April 24th, 2010 at the Freedom and Justice Park, Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra.

ALAN CHOKES

…Under NPP plot

He was a loner at the last presidential nomination of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The ostracized Alan agenda became somewhat a joking mantra: “All But Alan”.