Tourism is a strong pillar of the Ghanaian economy. In 2012, it recorded 993,600 international tourist arrivals with corresponding receipts of 1.7 billion USD. The industry provided employment for 359,000 people in the country.

President John Dramani Mahama has held discussions in Brussels with the President of the European Commission, Mr Jose Manuel Barroso, aimed at deepening relations between Ghana and the European Union.

Accra -THE Bank of Ghana (BoG) has downplayed the recent downgrade of the country's outlook from “stable” to “negative” by Fitch, an international credit ratings agency.

Accra -THE Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has maintained the policy rate at 18 percent, citing increase in domestic fiscal pressures such as exchange rate fluctuations, price volatility and weakening of some global economies resulting in limited capital inflow.

Accra -THE International Institute of ICT Journalism, Penplusbytes, in partnership with Revenue Watch institute - Natural Resource Charter (RWI-NRC) is organising a refresher course for more than 30 journalists that successfully completed exercises on energy reporting.

After the child naming ceremony, puberty rites are the next set of rituals of social status transformation which children undergo in Ghanaian culture. The most well preserved puberty rites are the Dipo of the Krobo ethnic group and the Bragoro of the Ashanti's.

On March 10, 2014, I gave a lecture on this topic to a large audience at the University of Ghana, Legon, sponsored by the Department of Political Science. It was followed by a seminar presentation at the Ghana Center for Democratic Development on March 13 on the related topic of "Development without Democracy in Africa: Confronting the Revisionist Paradigm". The text of the lecture is provided here along with a video of the sec

THE biennial Four Nation's Under-17 soccer tournament held during the Easter weekend at the coast returns again this year with the hosts Namibia up against South Africa, Ghana and regular visitors Westphalia.