Source: Nana Sifa Twum, London Ghanaians in the Diaspora are set to benefit from the country’s first ever fully electronic payment system in a move to ease bureaucracies and fraudulent activities in both foreign and local business transactions. The system which takes off this year will be operated by the Omanye E Payment Systems with [...]
Read the rest of this story »By Brian Swint (Bloomberg) — Tullow Oil Plc said an exploration well in offshore Ghana close to the Jubilee field found 27 meters of hydrocarbons. The Teak-2 well in the West Cape Three Points license was drilled in the fault block between Jubilee and the Teak-1 discovery, Tullow said in a statement in London today. [...]
Read the rest of this story »The attacks on Libya by American, British and French forces has shown that the very same people who advocate peace and respect for human rights are in fact the very same people who have no regard whatsoever for these two principles. The situation in Libya where some of the population are demanding true and fair [...]
Read the rest of this story »Drogba scored twice to maintain the Ivory Coast’s perfect start to the 2012 African Nations Cup qualifiers on Sunday while other top contenders Ghana, Nigeria and Zambia also won. Algeria won the eagerly-anticipated north African derby against Morocco but needed a penalty to take the points. The Ivorians are now effectively one win away from [...]
Read the rest of this story »Cameo … England have allowed John Terry to return to his club after controversially reappointing him as captain. Source: AFP Capello on defensive over captaincy England football manager Fabio Capello admits he mishandled his decision to reinstate John Terry as captain. ENGLAND coach Fabio Capello will have to choose another captain for this week’s [...]
Read the rest of this story »By The Associated Press 2012 African Cup of Nations Qualifying Group A Cape Verde Islands 4, Liberia 2 Group B Nigeria 4, Ethiopia 0 Madagascar 1, Guinea 1 Group C Mozambique 0, Zambia 2 Group D Algeria 1, Morocco 0 Group E Republic of Congo 3, Mauritius 0 Group G Niger 3, Sierra Leone 1 [...]
Read the rest of this story »Simon Akam/Reuters If you want to help a Liberian kid in a refugee camp struggling to realize his artistic dreams, you may want to go through an established aid agency to give the help. Dave Bidini found out the hard way that it can be tough to do it all on your own. By [...]
Read the rest of this story »As many as a million people have fled Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital, Abidjan, due to intensified fighting.
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