Ghana Looks to Retool Its Economy as it Reaches Middle-Income Status

The recent production of oil in Ghana has led analysts to revise upwards the country s gross domestic product (GDP), spurring hopes for greater strides in the fight against poverty. On July 1, the country moved from low-income to lower middle-income status, according to World Bank country classifications.

COCOBOD Rolls out Innovative Program to Connect Ghana Cocoa Farmers Through Mobile Phones, Improving Livelihoods and Helping Families

(BUSINESS WIRE) — The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) announced today that its CocoaLink program is now providing text messages to all Ghanaian farmers with access to cell phones. CocoaLink, a unique farmer outreach program with the World Cocoa Foundation and The Hershey Company, expects to reach 100,000 Ghanaians in cocoa communities by 2014. “CocoaLink — [...]

Justice is not synonymous with morality – Legal practitioner

A Tamale based legal practitioner, Mr Mohammed Alhassan, said the judiciary administered justice according to the law and not based on morality or necessarily the ordinary man’s sense of justice. He said the general notion of justice by the people was synonymous with morality and therefore to them when a decision of a court did [...]

How mobile banking can promote financial inclusion in Nigeria .

credit: Ben Uzor Jr . .With about 67 percent of Nigeria’s adult population being unbanked, and a meagre 30 percent of the adult population with bank accounts, the pain still resides in the neck of financial experts to seek ways to foster financial inclusion and aid the unbanked. Mobile banking through cell phones, however has [...]

Kosmos strikes thick water-bearing sands at Makore-1 well offshore Ghana

credit: EBR Staff Writer Kosmos Energy said that its Makore-1 exploration well on the West Cape Three Points Block, offshore Ghana, encountered 37m of good-quality Campanian-age water-bearing sandstone reservoirs and 46m of good-quality Turonian-age water-bearing sandstone reservoirs. The well was drilled by the Atwood Hunter semi-submersible rig in a water depth of 1,409m to a [...]

BEGGARS TAKEOVER ACCRA

…Harass pedestrians on streets

Reports indicate that pedestrians in the capital city are angry at the mayor of Accra and have sworn heaven and earth to deal seriously with him and his task force.

Finally, Jerry Rawlings Gets Democratic Shower

The so-called founder of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), ex-president Jerry Rawlings, is an unhappy man. By nature he is at home with dictatorship, loud noise and being at the center of the stage. Rawlings didn’t get all these at the national delegates’ congress of the NDC in Sunyani, Brong Ahafo on July 9 [...]

National Policy and Funding for Post-Graduate Education – Nduom

Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG) University of Education-Winneba: National Policy and Funding for Post-Graduate Education July 14, 2011 I appreciate the opportunity given by the Graduate Students Association of Ghana to share my views on post-graduate education in Ghana. Education is an important requirement in setting a strong foundation for building a solid future [...]