Happy 98.9FM has engaged key personalities namely Edward Boateng, Ghana’s Ambassador to China, Zhu Jing, Charge D’Affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Accra and Musa Frimpong, Founder of the Duapa Africa initiative in a gripping conversation on Ghana-China relations, COVID-19 and the way forward as the two countries mark...
The Institute for Energy Security (IES) is predicting a marginal increase in fuel prices at the pumps for the first half of January 2021.
According to the institute, the increase is caused by 5.03% increase in price of International Benchmark- Brent crude, 8.44% increase in price of Gasoline, and a...
Ghana’s forests require better care if cocoa farming is to be sustainable. Wikimedia Commons
Cocoa production has been the backbone of Ghana’s economy since the 1870s. It dominates the agricultural sector and contributes about 30% of the country’s export earnings. Cocoa employs about 800,000 farmers directly. It also supports the...
From a new digital marketplace to connect Africa’s creatives with global markets, to masterclasses to help designers share and learn, and webinars to inform and inspire: the African Development Bank’s flagship Fashionomics Africa(link is external) initiative has taken great strides this year.
The website and mobile app were unveiled at...
“The American president was the quintessential repository of stately virtue, democracy, legitimacy, wealth, elegance, majesty and freedom! Like the women of Jerusalem who cast down their garments on the highways for Christ’s motorcade, American presidents before Trump enjoyed such audacity of praise that even the angels coveted!”
Since 1788 when...
Without knocking, a novel virus entered the lives of Ghanaians – and others the world over – at the beginning of the year, just as farmers were getting ready to celebrate the end of harmattan and begin their crop production plans. Unlike other countries, the Ghana Government was proactive...
The local mining industry can fully harness its potential with long-term capital which can only be realised from the stock market, Director General of the Securities Exchange Commission, Daniel Ogbarmey Tetteh, has said.
He said the business of minerals exploration and exploitation is capital-intensive in nature, and as such requires...
The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has handed over 100 Daewoo Zyle buses funded by the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) to the Intercity State Transport Company (STC) Coaches Limited.
At a cost of US$13million, with a three-year repayment period, the bank provided 75 percent of the funds with STC providing...
Agriculture remains the mainstay of many economies in the world. This view is further strengthened with onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a major challenge is limited access to the use of mechanisation in the production process.
Rudimentary tools such as the hoe and cutlass are still used as the...