Gold Fields Ghana Limited’s Tarkwa Mine has emerged Mining Company of the Year at the maiden edition of the Ghana Mining Industry Awards, a statement from the Chamber of Mines has said. The company also placed second in the Best Performer in Innovation category.Other big winners on the day were Chirano Gold Mines, which won […]
A Cardinal of the Catholic Church, Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, has said the church is not against birth control.According to him, it is the belief of the Pope that spacing of children could help address issues of hunger and deprivation that the church is passionate about.In an interview with the BBC, Cardinal Turkson who is
A Nephrologist and President, Department of Internal Medicine at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Dr. Isaac Nana Ogyefo has disclosed that no scientist in developing countries has been able to manufacture kidney machine for treating kidney related diseases. He revealed that the dialysis treatment for patients suffering from kidney failure is very expensive, observing that
Former Black Meteors captain Yussif Alhassan Chibsah has revealed the Ghana FA never paid a total sum of $50,000 to five standby players who were in Germany for the 2006 World Cup.The five players were sent to Germany upon FIFA’s request for the Mundial during Ghana’s maiden appearance.The standby players were Philemon McCarthy (Fetteh Feyenoord),
British singer Billy Ocean revealed that his parents would “freak” if they knew he’d become a Rasta. The Caribbean Queen hitmaker says that his mother and father, who are both deceased, would have never accepted the Rastafari belief that the Messiah is the late Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie – a black man. Billy Ocean
President John Mahama has rejected a recent Transparency International report that Ghana ranks among the most corrupt countries in Africa. According to the report, the oil-producing West African country is only second to South Africa in terms of corruption perception. Mahama has described the media interpretation of the survey as “false”. “This survey was wrongly
Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister, Nana Oye Lithur, has called for a 10-year plan to guide efforts towards total elimination of teenage pregnancy in Ghana. Nana Oye Lithur described as unacceptable the high teenage pregnancy rate in the country, noting it disrupts efforts to achieve meaningful and sustainable development. The Minister’s comments Tuesday were
A founder-member of Ghana’s biggest opposition party, Joshua Attoh Quarshie, is charging the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo to step down for a more capable person to lead the party into the 2016 elections.Mr Attoh Quarshie believes the NPP will lose the 2016 presidential polls if Nana Akufo-Addo represents the party
Many youth who are migrating from the rural to urban arrears are receiving substantial benefits, according to the findings of a new research which looked at the economic and social status of migrants.The research was conducted by ‘Migrating out of Poverty’, a research program consortium coordinated by University of Sussex in partnership with the Centre
Mining production fell by 4.6% year-on-year in October, owing to a drop in coal, iron-ore, and gold output, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) revealed on Tuesday.Coal production was down 15%, iron-ore production fell 18.4%, and gold production declined 7.5%.Surprisingly, the embattled platinum group metals (PGMs) industry was a significant positive contributor, with production up 26.5%
