Brazil's humiliating loss to Germany in the semi-finals of the ongoing FIFA World Cup on Tuesday had a telling effect on its national media as well. While vernacular newspapers used extreme adjectives to express dejection at the decimation of Brazilian ...

Netherlands' Arjen Robben (right) warms up ahead of his team's World Cup semifinal against Argentina. Photo: Reuters. Sao Paulo: With a rampant Germany awaiting in the final, Argentina and the Netherlands face selection dilemmas going into their World ...

The widely implied definition of subsidies in Ghana is the provision of goods and services at no cost or below market cost. Subsidies are direct expenses borne by the government with the central aim of lessening the burden of the cost of living on the poor, who make up 28.5% (2006) of the national population[1]. ...

Nine African countries, including Ghana, have been chosen to receive funding and operational support from the Climate Investment Fund’s (CIF) Scaling-up Renewable Energy in Low Income Countries Programme (SREP). In their final decision, the SREP sub-committee agreed that it will provide up to US$300,000 for each country to undertake development of an SREP investment plan. ...

Defender Kingsley Nteng has undergone medical at Asante Kotoko and set to join the Ghana Premier League champions.

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has said Africa lacks leaders to push its development agenda and to add value to what they inherit. According to the former President, “Africa has had rulers but not leaders,” adding, “rulers never add to what they inherit but leaders do.” Mr. Kufuor was speaking at a ceremony to outdoor ...

Emile Heskey and his new wife Chantelle Tagoe, a Ghanaian, have gone back to school by dressing up in uniform for a fancy dress party.

Ghana goalkeeper Fatau Dauda says he will be 'hugely disappointed' in Adam Kwarasey if he said the Black Stars shot-stoppers' trainer is not fit for the position in the wake of the team's exit at the 2014 World Cup.

ACCRA, July 9 (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana raised its prime interest rate by 100 basis points to 19.0 percent on Wednesday, citing risks to the West African nation's fiscal outlook.

Two traders have been arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court for human trafficking. The accused persons, Nana Yaw Kwakye and Jonson Kissi, both traders, denied the charges preferred against them. At Muus in Taifa, a suburb of Accra, the two were said to have agreed and acted together with a common purpose to recruit one […]

Inflation rate for the month of June 2014 is 15.0 percent, up by 0.2 percent from the 14.8 percent recorded in May. The rate of inflation for June is the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The year-on-year non-food inflation rate for June 2014 was 20.3 percent compared to the 20 percent recorded ...

Kosmos Energy Ghana (KEG) has partnered with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to train journalists in oil and gas reporting.

Tenants should prepare to pay more rent in the wake of the recent increase in the price of cement, the main ingredient used in the construction of houses. The determination of rent has been at the behest of landlords over the years. Most of them demand outrageous rent from tenants, especially in Accra and other […]