Bishop Vincent Sowah Boi-Nai, Catholic Bishop of the Yendi Diocese has appealed to Mr Kofi Dzamesi, Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs to help Kingmakers of Dagbon to come out with a clear succession plan.
The plan, he said s…
A video featuring a pregnant nurse treating patients in a hospital in the virus epicentre of Wuhan has sparked a backlash across China.
The video by state media outlet CCTV was meant to portray nine-month pregnant Zhao Yu as a hero.
…
Kenyan students living in China's Wuhan city, the epicentre of the of the coronavirus outbreak, are better off left there to minimise the risk of the virus spreading, a government spokesman has said.
https://twitter.com/SpokespersonGoK/…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region is calling for stakeholder engagements to stem secessionists agenda in the Region.
Mr Henry Ametefe, Regional Chairman of the Party, in a release copied to the Ghana News Agency…
Mr William Yamoah, one of the six candidates who have picked nomination forms to contest in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primaries in the Asante-Akim South Constituency, has successfully submitted his forms.
Accompanied b…
Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, Afigya-Kwabre South Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has stressed the need for consensus building among Party executives and opinion leaders in the constituencies in the selection and approval of…
Once fully implemented, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will unlock significant but uneven growth opportunities on the continent. According to research from Baker McKenzie and Oxford Economics, AfCFTA's US$ 3 trillion Oppo…
“Go and register, I appeal to every Ghanaian to go and register, it is our civic right to do so,” were the words of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as he delivered the 2020 State of the Nation Address in Parliament on Thursday.
Th…
2.9 million people, including 1.6 million children, affected by one or more of humanitarian crises in Niger
UNICEF took this opportunity to appeal for solidarity to help the Government of Niger and its partners meet the urgent needs of …
People fleeing the violence report attacks on their villages by militant groups, killing, raping, pillaging
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s pre…
Following a meeting between Ms Kaag and Prime Minister Abiy, the crown was officially handed over at a special ceremony
Today the Dutch government returned an important religious crown, the property of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, to …
An estimated six million South Sudanese people face severe food insecurity and are in need of humanitarian aid
Church leaders in eastern Africa are calling for increased action against desert locusts which have terrorised the region sin…
Polio-Nigeria leaves no stone unturned, targets over 55 million children in house-to-house nationwide campaign
The February 2020 four-day campaign, targeted children of 0 – 59 months of age to be reached in their houses, markets, school…
Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has failed to appear in court to face charges of murdering his estranged wife in 2017.
An aide and Mr Thabane's son say the 80-year-old leader is receiving treatment in neighbouring South Africa.
…
Wedding bells will ring in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, on Friday as President Julius Maada Bio waits for his lady love to walk down the aisle.
President Bio and First Lady Fatima Bio will be exchanging their vows again in a Cathol…
Dozens of protesters in a Ukrainian town have attacked buses carrying evacuees from coronavirus-hit China.
The evacuees were brought to a health spa in Novi Sanzhary, in the central Poltava region, where they will be held in quarantin…
Tens of thousands of people attended vigils for the nine victims of a far-right extremist who opened fire on two shisha bars in Hanau, Germany.
At the vigils on Thursday in Hanau and Berlin people carrying candles and white roses gather…
The Parliamentary Candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), in the Effutu Constituency of the Central Region, Mr Victor Yankson, has stepped down with barely 10 months to the 2020 general election.
According to sou…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that the government’s fight against illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, has chalked some successes despite the challenges.
According to him, the alternative livelihood programmes i…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that his administration has fixed the broken economy it inherited and placed it in good health through good and competent management.
“We have done much more than we inherited; we are c…
Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane, 80, is to be charged with the murder of his estranged wife Lipolelo Thabane, police have said.
Mr Thabane announced he would be stepping down in July because of old age, without commenting about …
In a punchy debate worthy of Las Vegas, billionaire Michael Bloomberg came under attack from all sides.
The field of candidates for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination has been shrinking for months, but on Wednesday night in …
Mr Ridwan Abass Dawuda, the incumbent Member of Parliament for the Sissala East Constituency has appealed to delegates in the impending Parliamentary primary to exercise their franchise wisely to elect someone to carry their development ag…
The Member of Parliament for Tema West in the Greater Accra Region, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, has predicted a massive victory for President Nana Akufo-Addo in the December Presidential election.
"If you look at the huge things that thi…
The Ada West District Assembly has for the third time failed to elect a Presiding Member(PM).
Another election has been slated for the foreseeable future as more intensive consultations are being done among members.
In an intervie…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the exclusive constitutional responsibility of the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile electoral voter register has not changed since 1992.
He said none of the registers compiled by the EC…
The African Union has unanimously endorsed a Ghanaian, Dr Edward Kwakwa, as the sole African candidate for the position of Director General of the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
The decision was taken at a…
The Minority in Parliament Tuesday rejected the adoption of the Finance Committee's Report to approve US$23,983,033, being tax waiver on materials, plant, machinery and equipment by Platinum Properties Limited.
The materials would be us…
Mr Henry Nana Boakye, National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on members of the Party's Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) to help secure victory for the Party during the 2020 general elections.
He said …
The Juaben Municipal Assembly in the Ashanti Region, has failed to elect a Presiding Member (PM) after two voting attempts, supervised by the Electoral Commission (EC).
None of the two contesting candidates - Mr. Joseph Kwaku Asare, rep…
Mr. Vincent Ekow Assafua, Head of Public Relations, Ministry of Education and an aspiring candidate for the Tafo-Pankrono New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Primaries, has called for decent campaigns amongst contestants.
"We should…
Mr Kweku Quansah, contesting the National Chairmanship position of the Convention Peoples' Party (CPP), has pledged to reinvigorate the Party by putting in place infrastructure to make it capable of winning the 2020 election.
He said th…
President Nana Akufo-Addo has expressed the sympathies and well wishes of his government and Ghanaians to the Chinese government over the outbreak of Coronavirus, which claimed over 1,800 lives with more than 60,000 people infected.
"To…
Participants at a two-day consultative workshop on the evaluation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) vision 2020, in Ho have asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration to sensitise the citizenry o…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has advised against the politicisation of whether or not the government should evacuate Ghanaian students from China following the outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus.
According to President Akufo-Ad…
Two Japanese passengers who contracted the new coronavirus on board a cruise ship quarantined in Japan have died, officials say.
Both were in their 80s with underlying health conditions. They were being treated in hospitals after being ta…
The governor of one of the regions that is worst affected by Boko Haram attacks has said the Nigerian army needs more manpower to neutralise the militants.
Nigeria's Borno state Governor Babagana Zulum said the country needs an extra 10…
Members of Parliament (MPs) from the Minority side on Thursday boycotted the 2020 State of the Nation Address (SONA) by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Clad in black, the Minority MPs chanted the National Anthem as they walked ou…
A Kenya-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would build on the success Kenya has experienced in producing and exporting a range of value-added products to the U.S. market
Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) (CorporateCouncilonAfrica.com) in p…
The number of new businesses created across the European Union (EU) remained static, significantly below UK new business starts, as both sides jockey for position ahead of post-Brexit trade talks.
EU chief trade negotiator Michel Barnie…
After continuing expansion throughout Southern, Eastern and Western Africa, Andersen Global strengthens its presence in Northern Africa via a Collaboration Agreement with Morocco-based advisory firm M.A. Global Consulting (MAGC).
MAGC w…
By helping to reduce the size of the swarms, this aid is expected to have a positive impact on affected communities throughout the Horn of Africa
In response to the outbreak of desert locusts in East Africa, the United States, through t…
Dr Humphris will begin by outlining some of the highlights of the long-term collaborative relationship between the British Institute in Eastern Africa and the Ethiopian Cultural Heritage Authority
In commemoration of BIEA's 60th anniver…
Martin Dougiamas is the Founder and CEO of Moodle, an open source learning platform. The company was founded in 2002, and since then has grown to have over 100,000 registered sites with more than 130 million users worldwide. Moodle provide…
Food security worsened significantly in areas hit by last year’s floods
Some 6.5 million people in South Sudan - more than half of the population - could be in acute food insecurity at the height of this hunger season (May-July), three …
Boeing's crisis-hit 737 Max jetliner faces a new potential safety issue as debris has been found in the fuel tanks of several new planes which were in storage, awaiting delivery to airlines.
The head of Boeing's 737 programme has told e…
Every child in the world is at risk from ecological degradation, climate change, migration and "predatory" marketing practices that push heavily processed food, warns a joint report by the UN, the World Health Organization and the Lancet m…
A leading opposition figure in Benin has been barred from taking part in any election over the next four years and ordered to pay a fine of $8,200 (£6,300), for overspending on his 2016 presidential election campaign.
Lionel Zinsou will…
Mr. Robert Ahomka-Lindsay, the Deputy Ministry of Trade and Industry, has filed his nomination as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate for the Kumawu Constituency in Ashanti.
The Deputy Minister who is a first timer in the parliamen…
Mr Alfred Tuah-Yeboah, aged 45, a New Patriotic Party (NPP) aspirant for the Sunyani East constituency has lauded the Election Committee set up to manage the Party's upcoming parliamentary primaries in the Constituency.
Leadership of t…
info@businessghana.com
