by Sophie Curtis Groups of women Shea nut harvesters in Ghana are using SAP smartphone software to increase their incomes and improve efficiency For many women living in the North of Ghana, the Shea nut industry is one of the few ways to earn money and provide for their families. But due to a lack [...]
Read the rest of this story »Accra Brewery Limited (ABL) has revealed that there is a possibility of relisting on the Ghana stock exchange following moves to get the company back to making profits. Huge debts in the books of the company forced it to delist in August in 2010. ABL’s parent company, SAB Miller Africa is said to have pumped [...]
Read the rest of this story »by: Helena Selby The Northern Region is the largest region in Ghana. It is sometimes considered the land bank of Ghana, since it has about 70,380 square kilometres land area. It has an estimated population of 2,300,000, with rural population of about 1,600,000. The population density per sq km is 26, and has a land [...]
Read the rest of this story »The 2008 flag bearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has funded and donated two offices for the party at Assin Nyankumasi-Ahenkro in the Assin South Constituency and Elmina in the Komenda-Edina- Eguafo- Abirem Constituencies of the Central Region. The commissioning of the offices was done by Dr. Nduom with support [...]
Read the rest of this story »Anxiety appears to have gripped the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) over the supposed intention of the party’s founder and former President Jerry John Rawlings to defect to the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). The Al-Hajj newspaper, a pro-NDC tabloid owned by Alhaji Iddrisu Bature, yesterday reported that Mr Rawlings was in talks with the [...]
Read the rest of this story »President John Evans Atta Mills on Tuesday said the World Bank was supportive of Ghana’s initiative to access $3 billion Chinese assistance for the development of infrastructure. The Bank, he said, in no way frowned on the assistance from the Asian nation, but was supportive of Ghana’s efforts to access and make funds available to [...]
Read the rest of this story »The STX housing project which is expected to roll out 30,000 affordable houses may never see the light of the day as the project is fraught with problems that have caused critics of the deal boasting in town that this is one project they have predicted may never take off. Almost 10 months after President [...]
Read the rest of this story »A 70-year-old woman is in the grips of the Central Regional branch of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) for attempting to steal a three-year-old baby girl. Esi Bentsiwa, a resident of Abura, a suburb of Cape Coast, was said to have travelled from Brafoyaw in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese (AAK) District to steal the [...]
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