Archive for March, 2011

Missing Ghanaian Actress Found In Holland

Posted by on March 26, 2011 at 3:03 pm in Entertainment, Other Top Stories

News-One sources in faraway Holland say they have found Mavis Adjei, one of Ghana’s beautiful actresses in Holland. Mavis has been missing on Ghana’s movie screens close to three years. She is rumoured to have gotten married in Holland to her longtime boyfriend and currently has a baby. Mavis hails from the diamond town of [...]

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COTE D’IVOIRE: Our turn to flee

Posted by on at 2:59 pm in Other Top Stories

Photo: Alexis Adélé/IRIN One-way ticket – a bus station in Abidjan’s Adjamé District  (IRIN) – Rachel* is saving up to go to Ghana, pinning her hopes on a friend living in the Ghanaian border town of Elubo, three hours’ drive east of Abidjan. Rachel told IRIN that life had become intolerable. She had landed a [...]

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Bubble Seal™ to guarantee quality of Biliton wine

Posted by on March 25, 2011 at 3:30 pm in Business, Dinning and Wine

In choosing Bubble Seal™ by Prooftag, South African wine producer Bilton reassures their clients on the origin of their finest bottles, internationally positioning their value and authenticity Montauban (France), 25 March, 2011 – To ensure the origin of their bottles for clients all over the world, South African Bilton has chosen to secure their finest [...]

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Achiaman chieftaincy dispute

Posted by on at 3:27 pm in Other Top Stories

…Royal family reacts The royal family of Achiaman in the Ga West District of the Greater Accra region has vehemently rejected claims that its Secretary, Emmanuel Adjetey Okrang, is also behind the killing of the late Nii Kwartey Adjani I, who they claim was a self-styled chief of Achiaman. Nii Kwartey Adjani I, who was [...]

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Ghana Mining Commission Extends Term of African Queen’s License

Posted by on at 1:08 pm in Business, Mining, Other Top Stories

AFRICAN QUEEN MINES LTD. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that the Ghana Mining Commission has now extended the Term of the underlying Noyem-Nyafoman Prospecting License LVB 10244/1995 (the “License”) for a period of one year through March 22, 2012. Extension of the license, which recently was formally transferred to the Company’s operating subsidiary AQ [...]

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Roskam Meets with IL-06 Based Company in Ghana

Posted by on at 1:06 pm in Business, Other Top Stories

Congressman Peter Roskam (IL-06) traveled to Ghana earlier this week, leading a fact-finding mission focused on trade, energy, and other economic and social issues in Africa. Monday in Accra, Roskam met with Oak Brook, Ill.-based Opportunity International, a leader in providing financial services to people living in extreme poverty in the developing world. The group [...]

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MTN inaugurates $35m switch

Posted by on at 1:04 pm in Business, Other Business Stories

Telecommunications Network (MTN), a global telecommunications giant, has inaugurated a $35 million switch centre at Kaase in Kumasi to enhance the quality of its services. The ultra-modern centre is the second of its kind to be opened in the country by the company. Mr Ibrahim Misto, General Manger of Operations in-charge of the MTN Ghana, [...]

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Ghana – Turkey cooperate in tourism

Posted by on at 1:04 pm in Other Stories, Top Story, Travel & Tourism

Turkish President Abdullah Gul said, “the world will face with financial crises and even with more serious social and political problems as long as the social and economic difference between the North and the South is left unsolved.”

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