Accra -Panic has gripped Weija and surrounding areas in Accra, Ghana following an earth tremor hit the region on Thursday evening.

THE YEAR-on-year producer inflation for all industry was 33.1 percent in June 2014, representing a 0.1 percentage point increase relative to 33.0 percent recorded in May 2014. The monthly inflation rate was 0.7 percent. The utilities sub-sector recorded the highest year-onyear producer price inflation of 56.9 percent followed by the mining and quarrying subsector with […]

Prof Aryeetey (extreme right) and Frank Adu Jnr (middle) cutting the tape to inaugurate the new edifice Frank Adu Jnr., Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CAL Bank Limited, has challenged professors and lecturers of the country’s universities not to limit their knowledge to the four corners of their campuses but proffer workable solutions to the […]

From left: Eunice Sackey and Dr Gloria Quansah,Deputy Director of the GHS at the meeting The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has begun this year’s World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) campaign with a call for an improved breastfeeding practice among mothers. The service revealed that there has been a decline in the rate of exclusive breastfeeding due […]

An example of the slit lamp equipment that was donated Members of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints, Dr Jesse Hunsaker and Diane Hunsaker, have donated $35,000 worth of equipment to Save the Nation’s Sight (SNS) Ophthalmology Clinic at Madina. The two travelled from their hometown near Salt Lake City, Utah (USA) to […]

The new Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome/Kwabenya, Sarah adwoa Safo, has admonished the Muslim community to use the period of ramadan to pray to allah to heal the country’ sailing economy which has brought untold hardship on the citizenry. According to her, the present economic situation as highlighted by the Finance […]

French forces secured the site of a crashed Air Algerie flight in Mali, and found one "black box" but no survivors, French President Francoise Hollande said Friday.

President John Mahama has faced fresh protests from workers across the country over worsening economic conditions underlined by record inflation and a currency that has lost almost 30 percent of its value to the dollar in seven months. Thousands of workers boycotted work yesterday to express their frustration over what they described as the “prevailing high cost of living.” The protests, led by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), are the latest in a series of actions criticising what have been called

Government Statistician Dr. Philomena Nyarko this week expressed worry over the trend of rising utility prices as this has a drastic impact on the cost of living for households in the country. In October 2013, government announced major hikes in electricity and water tariffs after more than a year of subsidies. The hikes were followed by increases in January and July, causing power and water tariffs to jump by 96 percent and 72 percent respectively over nine months. “It will really impact on households.

KANO (Reuters) - A bomb hidden in a refrigerator killed one and wounded eight at a crowded bus park in northern Nigeria's biggest city of Kano on Thursday, police said.

Aluworks Limited, the aluminium products manufacturer, says its market share has shrunk as cheap imported substitutes continue to undercut its business. Kwadwo Kwarteng, board chairman, told the B&FT in Accra on the sidelines of this year's annual general meeting that the company’s market share has dropped from 25 percent in 2012 to 15 percent currently. He blamed this on the inability of government to introduce countervailing measures that local manufacturers have proposed against cheap

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - As a recent ceasefire deal boosts prospects for peace in Central African Republic, a key medical aid group warned on Thursday that malaria was the leading killer in the impoverished landlocked country.