Archive for August, 2011

Jubilant Tullow Oil reveals record profits thanks to Ghana’s Jubilee

Posted by on August 30, 2011 at 11:51 am in Business

Output from the Jubilee field off the coast of Ghana has helped Tullow Oil generate record revenues. By Eric Jackson Tullow Oil has provided one of this year’s most successful Anglo-African trade arrangements. The British company has announced record half year profits ­- a massive jump to $330m from $89m in the same period last [...]

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The State of Ghana’s Economy in 2011

Posted by on at 11:45 am in Feature Articles, Other Top Stories

Last week Thursday, a good friend of mine, Asiedu Acquah, a Ghanaian Harvard student currently undertaking research in London, posted these lines on his facebook wall, “No free access for me to the African historical collections at Oxford University because Ghana, by World Bank rankings, is a middle income country (not poor).” He then congratulated [...]

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Indian business delegation to tap Africa’s IT market

Posted by on at 11:43 am in Business, Other Top Stories

An Indian business delegation is to visit Nigeria and Ghana as part of an African tour in order to tap into the continent’s growing IT market which it said is headed for growth this year with market levels expected to reach $26.53 billion. The NASSCOM delegation is due to visit Ghana and Nigeria during Sep [...]

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Libyan Rebels Lost Legitimacy For Killing African Migrants!

Posted by on at 9:53 am in Feature Articles, Other Top Stories

I just read a report from the USAfricaonline.com,with the awful banner “KILLINGS: Libya rebels said to be murdering Black African migrant workers”, posted on Aug 29th, 2011, which has vindicates my position that Ghana needs not to rush in giving recognition to the rebels who have seized Tripoli with the aid of Special Forces from [...]

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Mills orders handing over process at NCC

Posted by on at 9:49 am in Other Top Stories

PRESIDENT’S INTERVENTION AT DEVELOPMENTS AT THE NATIONAL CARDIOTHORACIC CENTRE President John Evans Atta Mills has today met with surgeons and staff of the National Cardiothoracic Centre (NCC) following the exit of Prof. K. Frimpong Boateng as the Director of the NCC. After receiving a full brief and considering the petition sent him by surgeons and [...]

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BSG holds dinner to raise funds

Posted by on at 9:43 am in Other Top Stories

STORY: FROM JAMES APPIAKORANG JR., KUMASI, A/R The Bible Society of Ghana (BSG) has held a dinner in Kumasi to raise funds towards the realisation of their production of one million bibles for junior high school students in the country. Dubbed ‘Young Professionals fundraising dinner,’ the society targeted young persons from various parts of the [...]

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CPP donates to Chief Imam

Posted by on at 9:42 am in Other Top Stories

The Convention People’s Party yesterday presented food items and assorted drinks to the National Chief Imam, Dr. Sheik Usman Nuhu Sharubutu, for the celebration of this year’s Ramadan. The items, including 10 bags of rice and five crates of minerals, some cooking oil, frozen chicken and a sheep were presented by the party’s National Chairman, [...]

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DEATH SCARE HITS KORLE-BU

Posted by on at 9:39 am in Top Story

The Korle-Bu Cardiothoracic Centre is in total disarray. Hounds established a growing apprehension among patients, their relatives and other curious onlookers at the decision by Medical Doctors at the Cardiothoracic Centre not to work until their Director, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, was re-instated.

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