The Ghana's Continental Shelf started oil and gas production in 2010 making it one of the youngest oil producing nations in the world. The production from the Jubilee oil fields is expected to create employment opportunities and make significant contributions to the national purse.

The Progressive People's Party (PPP) has proposed that to help tackle the unemployment problems in the country, there is the need for the State powers to make it possible for all Ghanaians to patronize made-in-Ghana goods. Mr. Alistair Jairo Nelson, National Youth Council Member of the PPP and spokesperson for the "Tweeaa" Tour, made the proposal when some executive members of the Progressive Youth Movement of the party, over the weekend, toured the Upper East Region to assess the level of the

Ghana's current economic down turn has been blamed on the lack of imagination, incompetence and indiscretion on the part of the managers of the economy. The Centre for Freedom and Accuracy (CFA) has observed.

According to information released by our colleague from Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana head coach Kwesi Appiah has already penciled 18 to 20 players who according to him are supposed to certainly make his squad to Brazil unless any of them is bothered by injury till the World's mass gathering.

After two games off, Emmanuel Adebayor found Sunday the net. The Togolese was author of the sole strike that offered victory to Spurs against Everton Sunday. Under the spotlight, the former Gunner prefers to speak of the collective feat. "I'm happy and excited not for my goal but for the victory. It was important to win for the team ", he has said on the club's official website.

Four Gambian officials from the Ministry of Justice, The Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA), and The Gambia Police Force (GPF) recently left the country to attend a U.S. government funded Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) course at the U.S. Department of State's West Africa Regional Training Center (RTC) in Accra, Ghana, according to the American Embassy in Banjul.

Those who think that the President and his ministers have answers to the seeming difficult times Ghanaians are going through, coupled with the continued depreciation of the cedi should startrevising his or her notes.

A GH¢46,000 floodlights project for the 4 Garrison Tennis Club has been commissioned in Kumasi.

The Catechist in charge of the South Baatsona congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Elizabeth Ashong, has urged the church to see the provision of the social and welfare needs of its members as an integral part of its existence.

There is an impressive amount of evidence that Ghana's economy is losing a lot of steam. Aside from the rise in imports, there is a developing downturn in cocoa and gold export receipts, which declined by $1.3 billion in the year (2013). The overall balance of payments deficit of $1.2 billion thus remained the same as in 2012.

Kenya's PesaPal has been launched in Malawi and is set to be launched next in Ghana, Nigeria and Zambia.