A young Ghanaian Islamic cleric has given a rare spiritual insight into the missing Malaysian airliner, decrypting what has defied all efforts at resolving, many weeks after the aircraft went missing. All the passengers onboard the ill-fated flight, he said, were dead. Speaking to DAILY GUIDE, Shamuna Ustaz Jibril, a native of Bawku in the […]

Nii Kotey Amon III (middle) at the ceremony The Nikoi Olai Stool Family of Asere Djorshie has outdoored Nii Kotey Amon III, the newly-installed Asere Djaasetse at a colorful ceremony in Accra on Saturday. Nii Kotey Amon III succeeds Nii Tafo Amon II, who passed away in September, 2008. Nii Kotey Amon III served as former […]

The former Member of Parliament (MP) for Asante Bekwai, Adusei Poku, has denied an allegation that he owed a diesel dealer an amount of GH₵3,900 and had refused to pay.  A diesel dealer at Wassa Bodie in the Western Region, one Nana Owusu-Afriyie, has accused the former MP of refusing to pay for gallons of […]

Bukari Bari and Jibrila Barisa Police in Bunkpurugu in the Bunkipurugu-Yunyoo District of the Northern Region have arrested two of three robbers – all of Fulani extraction – believed to be involved in a series of robberies in the area.  Bukari Bari and an unemployed Burkinabe, Jibrila Barisa, a herdsman and Amadu Fulani, leader of the group, currently on […]

Kofi Asamoah, TUC Boss The Secretary-General of the Trades Union Congress, Kofi Asamoah says failure to develop purposeful goals with efficient institutions that design and implement smart rules has rendered the country deformed and weak. Addressing a pre-May Day forum in Tema, Mr. Asamoah called on Organised Labour to salvage and restore the nation to […]

Andrew Bauer Andrew Bauer, an economic analyst with New York-based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Revenue Watch Institute (RWI), has advised Government to use unsaved revenue from the country’s oil sector for investment. This comes at a time when Ghana faces volatility in its non-oil revenue and increasing deficit and national debt levels. Bauer, who made the […]

Kofi Yamoah Mega African Capital (MAC) Limited, a private investment company, on Wednesday listed its shares on Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), becoming the bourse’s first listing in nearly three years. It is also the first-ever listing of a company which invests in equities across Africa and the real estate sector. The company, which is owned […]

Seth Terkper, Finance Minister Government is expected to pay 25.5 percent as interest on the three-year bond sold on Thursday. The bond, which was sold by the Bank of Ghana (BoG), got GH¢419 million worth of bids from investors, although it wanted to raise GH¢400 million. However, government accepted GH¢207 million worth of bids by investors. The […]

Clement Humado Ghana spends about $200 million annually to import meat and meat products to satisfy local demand. Clement Kofi Humado, Minister of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), who disclosed this at a press briefing in Accra last week, said poultry imports alone constitute about 80 percent of total meat imports. He said Ghana’s total meat […]

Jim Baiden  Fidelity Bank Ghana Limited has held its final draw of the ‘Big Fat Zero’ promotion as part of the bank’s deposit mobilization campaign. Lilian Esi Mortotsi of the Osu Oxford Street Branch was adjudged the grand winner of the promotion. Two zeros were added to her maintained balance of GH¢1,000 to make it […]

ATC TOWER Limited and Helios, a HTG Managed Services company, have joined the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications. The two infrastructure companies join five multinational mobile network operators who are foundation members of the Chamber, which was established in 2010. Thomas Sonesson, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ATC Ghana and Reine Tieku, General Manager (GM) of […]

Roshi Motman Millicom Ghana, parent company of Tigo Ghana, a leading telecommunications network, has announced an upgrade to its dynamic tariff plan with a campaign themed: “Real gifts are forever.” The new Free ‘Bonto’ is expected to offer customers the opportunity to use their bonus credit whenever they want “because their bonus credit will never […]

Asare Akuffo HFC Bank Limited improved its after-tax earnings significantly for 2013 by 158 percent to GH¢39.3 million. While growth in loans and advances increased by 56 percent, the bank’s total assets reached GH¢999 million, up 68 percent from the previous year’s figure. Customer deposits, on the other hand, increased by 45 percent to GH¢454 […]

Rev John Nkum THE SUSTAINABLE Services at Scale (Triple-S) Project being implemented in three districts in Ghana is expected to come to an end in November 2014. The project, an initiative of IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, is a six-year multi-country learning project which seeks to improve rural water services. It is aimed at […]

Ghanaian Delegates and Honorary Members at the WARSO Executive Committee Meeting The West Africa Road Safety Organisation (WARSO) has conferred Honorary Membership on Daasebre Kwebu Ewusi VII (Paramount Chief of the Abeadze Traditional Area in the Central Region of Ghana), Ing Noble John Appiah (Managing Director of Metro Mass Transit Ltd) and Noble Dr Justice […]

Over 90 unpaid producers of exercise books for the government’s free supply of the stationery to public schools are no longer able to hold on indefinitely not knowing when to pick their cheques for their service. Having produced thousands of the exercise books beautifully embossed with the inscription, “Developing A Better Ghana Through Education,” some […]

Members of the Brandies Graduates’ Association in a group photograph Brandies Graduates’ Association (Ghana), an alumina association of Brandies University, has been launched with the initiation of a business programme aimed at forming a hybrid organization that is simultaneously entrepreneurial and charitable in nature. The focus of the programme, according to interim president Samuel Kwotuah, […]

Raymond Folley, Network Planning Engineer at Airtel Ghana, a telecommunication company, has revealed that cutting of the company’s fiber cables was on the ascendency in the Western Region, particularly in Tarkwa. He explained that fiber cables served as a medium for transmitting high speed and high capacity data across communication nodes. He noted that regions […]

Naa Professor John S. Nabilla Naa Professor John S. Nabilla, President of the National House of Chiefs, has questioned the continuous existence of an unemployed association when a lot of job opportunities have remained unexploited. He said the world has become more complex, but within that nexus of complexity exist many opportunities not ever tapped […]

IN THEIR avaricious desire to make some undeserved profit, most fuel station attendants have designed a cunning way of outsmarting the unsuspecting customer. Anytime you drive to a fuel service centre – either for a top-up or fill your vehicle tank – focus your gaze on the meter of the pumping machine and make sure […]