NAIROBI, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Thursday. - - - - - GLOBAL MARKETS U.S. Treasury yields eased in Asian trade on Thursday as a week-long surge that followed Donanld Trump's shock election win subsided further, helping Asian stocks gain and dragging the dollar off a more than 13-1/2 year peak set overnight. WORLD OIL PRICES Cr

Hillary Clinton has laid bare her disappointment at her election defeat to Donald Trump in her first public appearance since she lost a week ago. The Democratic candidate said in a speech in Washington DC that she had never wanted to leave the house again. She told a children’s charity that the election had prompted ... Hillary Clinton has laid bare her disappointment at her election defeat to Donald Trump in her first public appearance since she lost a week ago. The Democratic candidate

Comedienne Afia Schwar has openly disclosed that yes, she’s no more shy to admit she’s ugly.

This was part of schedule of payment as agreed between the banks and government. The Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Ghana (BoG), and the Ghana Bankers Association in August announced a roadmap aimed at clearing the Volta River Authority’s (VRA) ‘legacy debt’ of GHS4.4 billion, after an initial payment of GHS250 million. The President […]

Progressive Peoples Party’s (PPP) parliamentary candidate for Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem (KEEA) is promising to revive the Komenda Sugar factory to create employment for the youth in the area.

LIMA, Peru – Donald Trump will be on the minds of world leaders as they gather for an Asia-Pacific trade summit. The president-elect has made it clear that he is hostile to the kind of free trade deals that tend to be the focus of the annual Asia ...

The Sankofa Gye Nyame Oil and Gas project, is the largest gas well which will soon produce natural gas for onwards refinery by the Ghana Gas Company at Atuabo for both industrial and domestic use. The expected arrival of the FPSO will mark a great milestone in the country’s history of oil and gas production. […]

On a day the A-G has been criticised for failing to show commitment to collect a ¢51 million judgment debt illegally paid to Mr. Woyome, president Mahama has lauded his principal legal advisor.

President John Mahama has denounced suggestions that his administration has gone back on its decision not pay trainee nurses' allowance in order to cop their support ahead of the December polls.

This relief comes to reduce the initial projects cost, as it reduces the expenditures of the construction companies. The tax waiver was granted last week when Parliamentary Select Committee on Finance in a report tendered before the House recommending for the House to “approve a waiver of US$185million for a period of five years for […]

Politics intruded on this year’s awards ceremony, where Mr. Whitehead, whose novel explores the horrors of American slavery, urged writers to “fight the power.”

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Donald Trump will be on the minds of world leaders as they gather for an Asia-Pacific trade summit. The president-elect has made it clear that he is hostile to the kind of free trade deals that tend to be the focus of the annual Asia ...

By January next year, the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced it will begin rolling out a new policy which will see Ghanaian tax evaders denied access to passports, driver’s licenses and visas. The introduction of the new policy follows the implementation of the revised tax law – 2015 tax Act. Ghanaians are therefore advised […]

After a public announcement of the intent by the VRA to venture into coal for electricity power generation in the country, several environmentalists and anti-climate change organizations have kicked against the move. The experts cited a number of momentous consequences the carbon emissions from the plants would have on the residents of Ekumfi and its […]

Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama has denied claims suggesting that he ordered the country’s Attorney General to discontinue a case at the Supreme Court that sought to retrieve GHC51 million...

You have heard it a couples of times that, don't go into a relationship to seek happiness and you wonder, does that mean I will remain single forever?, since you don't want to go into relationship to seek sorrow either.

Pupils from the Mataheko Roman Catholic JHS, who are part of Airtel Ghana’s STEM clubs held an exhibition within their school premises to showcase various experiments in chemistry, physics and biology using every day materials.

Young and vibrant rising rapper, 4ties, is leading a campaign to expose the corrupt activities of Ghanaian politicians ahead of the December polls.

Machakos, November 16TH 2016: Orphans, older vulnerable women and people living with disabilities are groups most likely to be left behind as the government implements the sustainable development goals unless it finds ways to address salient problems they face, a grassroot forum organized by the SDGs Kenya Forum, HelpAge International and the Catholic Dioceses of […]

The donation forms part of the foundation’s objectives of providing care for the needy in the society. The Global Heart Foundation (GHF) is a Ghanaian non-profit organization dedicated to improve lives of the needy, and put smiles on the faces of people and restore’s hope in them. The foundation’s activities are funded through contributions from […]