Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are donating $100 million to a women’s empowerment fund proposed by Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump’s elder daughter and a senior White House adviser. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announced the contribution to the World Bank Women Entrepreneurs Fund at a meeting in Riyadh between Ivanka Trump and 15 Saudi women Sunday, ...
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15 Ghanaian students to take part in Huawei’s ‘Seeds for the Future’ in China
As the leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, Huawei Technologies has launched the 2017 edition of their flagship Corporate Social Responsibility initiative, Seeds for the Future in Ghana at a short ceremony at with the Ministry of Communications. This year’s edition will see 15 top university students travel to China to be trained in Beijing and Shenzhen, ...
Read More »Mahama boys thicken plot against Rawlings
As if it was not enough what loyalists of former President John Dramani Mahama did to the founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), former President Jerry John Rawlings, when the party was in power, they are on it again as their plot to expel him (Rawlings) from the party has been uncovered. This time around, the poodles of former ...
Read More »Harvard student submits rap album as final year thesis
A Harvard student has become the first in the university’s history to submit a rap album for his senior thesis. Student Obasi Shaw, who will graduate from the prestigious university next week, produced his album Liminal Minds while other classmates wrote novels, poems, and short stories. The 10-track album is the first to be submitted as a senior thesis at ...
Read More »Monaco won’t block Mbappe from making €100m Man Utd or Madrid move
Kylian Mbappe will be allowed to decide his own future, with Monaco owner Dmitry Rybolovlev insisting he will not block any bids for the club’s top talent. The teenage striker has emerged as one of European football’s most sought-after talents, with his 26-goal haul helping to secure Ligue 1 title glory and a run to the Champions League semi-finals. Monaco ...
Read More »UCC sued over suspension of 22 students
The Alumni of the Atlantic Hall has dragged the management of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to court over its decision to suspend 22 students of the hall. Management of the university over the weekend found 22 students culpable over clashes that ensued in the university during a hall celebration by the Ogua Hall residents – leading to the ...
Read More »Akufo-Addo to name, shame corrupt officials
President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his government intends taking the fight against corruption a notch higher by naming and shaming state officials who engage in graft. Speaking at the CEO’s Summit in Accra through Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo, on Monday 22 May, Nana Akufo-Addo said he will create an office at the presidency where business people can directly report ...
Read More »Kasapreko invests $7m into Ghana’s first honey drink
Beverage company Kasapreko has introduced the first honey drink, Royal Honey Bee unto the Ghanaian market. The company which is partnering with the Ghana Beekeepers Association is investing about $7 million into the project as the company will solely depend on locally-produced honey from farmers to produce the new drink. “We have decided to tap into the business of honey ...
Read More »Meet the former GPL Star who now roasts corn for a living
“The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed unless you create your own tomorrow”. These words from him were unremitting throughout the hour chat, and he was fully disposed to look on the bright side of it. Dodzie is a very familiar name in the annals of ...
Read More »PRO of Lands and Natural Resources Ministry ‘insults’ Kumasi journalists
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has courted the anger of journalists in Kumasi after its Public Relations Officer (PRO) Mr. Abrahma Otabil, last week Friday, May 19, 2017 made disparaging remarks about them in the Ashanti region. According to the incensed members of the inky fraternity who are considering a boycott of the ministry’s events in the region, ...
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