Archive for April, 2011

TUC to start talks to raise salary base

Posted by on April 26, 2011 at 3:46 pm in Other Top Stories

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is to begin fresh salary negotiations with the government to raise the base of workers’ salaries to a more appreciable level. That, according to the TUC, would not only improve workers’ salaries as they migrate onto the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS), but also enable them to enjoy better service [...]

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Racism, France and Afrika: Dr. Kwame Osei

Posted by on at 3:42 pm in Feature Articles, Other Top Stories

The current Ivorian crisis which saw the removal from power of Laurent Gbagbo by White French mercenaries is yet another episode in the unsavory and barbaric nature of French imperialism in Afrika. I wrote an article recently called “no smoke without fire” – parts of this article highlighted innate and callous French corruption in Afrika [...]

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“Absolutely” I will contest Mills – Konadu

Posted by on at 2:46 pm in Other Top Stories, Politics

The campaign by Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings to become Ghana’s first female president received an enviable endorsement from a packed audience at the International Conference Center in Accra when she attended the FAMOUS 5 concert on Good Friday. Though Mrs. Rawlings, former First Lady, was not billed to perform, her presence was conspicuous and her [...]

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CPP reacts to Freddie Blay’s move to NPP

Posted by on at 2:30 pm in News From Other Newspapers, Politics

The Convention People’s party is bidding its former parliamentary guru and member of high repute, Hon. Freddie Blay, a fare well after he resigned from the party to join the opposition New Patriotic Party. A statement issued by the party, and signed by Ekow Duncan, CPP’s Shadow Cabinet Member for Political Affairs, concludes “Fare thee [...]

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Why Africa needs its own business school model

Posted by on at 2:27 pm in Business, Other Top Stories

In a recent article for the Financial Times, Prof Walter Baets, director of the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business wrote that Africa should prepare itself for a second wave of colonisation as foreign “western-style” business schools look at boosting their presence on the continent. He said that because Africa has a unique [...]

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Kosmos Outlines DOJ Declination Letter

Posted by on at 2:25 pm in Business, Other Top Stories

By Samuel Rubenfeld Kosmos Energy Ltd. was informed by the Justice Department in a letter on May 12, 2010, that the agency had declined to take any bribery enforcement action for the company’s conduct in Ghana, according to a securities filing. Kosmos, majority-owned by private equity titans Warburg Pincus LLC and The Blackstone Group LP, [...]

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New base strengthens Expro’s position in Ghana

Posted by on at 2:24 pm in Top Story

Leading international oilfield services company Expro has officially opened its new custom-built facility in Ghana.

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Bank to upgrade to more secure network

Posted by on April 21, 2011 at 6:08 pm in Business, Other Business Stories

Written by The Editor MTN Business was chosen to upgrade Standard Bank Namibia’s network infrastructure, the internet service provider announced this week. The company has been awarded the contract to deliver a fully managed multi-protocol switch labelling (MPLS) network to Standard Bank’s 115 sites, including its business branches, all agencies, as well as all the [...]

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