The MasterCard Foundation has launched a six-year $17.6 million initiative in partnership with Oxford Policy Management to increase the range of financial services available to poor, rural populations in Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia.The “Savings at the Frontier” project will employ a unique approach to connect 250,000 people to the formal banking system by designing new […]
The President of the National Association of Nigerian Prostitutes, Jessica Elvis is dead. Elvis died Sunday afternoon in an undisclosed hospital in Benin after battling a protracted heart-related disease. Confirming the sad development to DAILY POST on Sunday afternoon, the Secretary General of the association, Tamar Tion in a terse text message described Elvis’ demise
President John Dramani Mahama has encouraged Africans to be proud to speak about what they had achieved instead of dwelling on what they lacked.“What I have noticed is that, it is our tendency in Africa to speak of what we do not have, how we are lacking in this or that, why we have not
Hailing the aging revolutionary icon’s continued work in actively promoting “African peace”, the African Union chairman was selected to win the Confucius Peace Prize. Mugabe was said to have been chosen for “serving as the Zimbabwe president from the 1980s.” “Overcoming a number of difficulties. Contributing to building the government, economy, and order in the
The wife of the President of any country is supposed to be a role model to the women of that country, not just in terms of morals, but also fashion and stylishness. Appearance matters a lot and a person’s appearance tells you a lot about them and out first lady’s aren’t an exception. We decide
CAF boss Issa Hayatou will take over as acting FIFA President following substantive boss Sepp Blatter’s provisional suspension. The 90-day suspension, imposed by a FIFA ethics committee kicks in on Thursday, a statement at the world football governing body headquarters has confirmed. Hayatou, who has led the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for several decades
The Manwerehene of Manhyia, Baffuor Osei Hyiaman Brantuo has noted with regret the relatively high prevalence rate of HIV and AIDS in the Ashanti region, compared with the national average. The 2014 National Sentinel Survey shows that Ashanti region is ranked as the third region with the highest prevalence rate of two-point-three per cent. It
Nigeria was a colony of Great Britain until it became an independent nation on 1st October, 1960. At present Nigeria is a fast growing nation with impressive foreign exchange earnings from petroleum industry. About 2000 years ago, Nigerian people having Nok culture exchanged slaves, Ivory and kola nuts for salt, glass beads, coral, cloth and
President John Mahama will today leave Accra for an extraordinary session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government to discuss the political situation in Burkina Faso.The Abuja meeting follows days of mediation efforts led by ECOWAS after a military coup by the Burkinabe Presidential Guards.The Government of Ghana had in an earlier
Austrian officials now say more than 70 bodies, thought to be migrants, were in an abandoned lorry found on a motorway. They originally estimated that between 20 to 50 people died in the vehicle, found near the Hungarian border. Police discovered the decomposing bodies on Thursday morning after being sent to investigate the dumped lorry
