The government of Ghana and Eni Exploration have sealed a $6 billion deal to allow the Italy firm start oil and gas exploration at the Offshore Cape Three Points block in the Western region. Under the deal, Eni will also ... Read More

The First Lady of the Republic of Ghana, Mrs Lordina Dramani Mahama, has been decorated with a Global Inspiration Leadership Award and inducted into the Global Women Leaders Hall of Fame. The award is in recognition of her hard work ... Read More

UN Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon The deadly Ebola outbreak can be ended "by the middle of next year" if the world speeds up its response, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said. But he warned that although the rate of new ... Read More

The Australian Government has awarded Masters Scholarships to 14 Ghanaians, amongst more than 200 African scholarship winners to study in Australia in 2015. The Australian High Commission's Chargé d’Affaires, Mr Tim Millikan said farewell to  them at an official reception in ... Read More

The Government of Ghana and the China International Water and Electric Corporation, have signed an agreement for the construction of a 60-megawatt hydro-electric dam at Sekyere-Hemang in the Wassa East District of the Western Region. The project, estimated at a cost ... Read More

British High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr. Jonathan Benjamin The British Embassy in Accra has denied collaborating with Ghana’s Narcotic’s Control Board (NACOB) in a case in which one Ms Nayele Ametefeh was arrested at the Heathrow Airport with 12 kilogrammes ... Read More

President Mahama’s meeting with Lt Col Zida Wednesday morning at the Libya hotel in Ouagadougou President John Dramani Mahama will be leaving for Burkina Faso Friday to witness the investiture of former Foreign Minister Michel Kafando as interim president. Authorities ... Read More

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Member States have been tasked to protect widows from performing negative rites of sleeping beside dead husbands for purification in the face of the Ebola virus disease. Rituals for widowhood rites in some ... Read More

William Hanna - Head of EU in Ghana The Head of the European Union (EU) delegation to Ghana, Mr William Hanna, has called on Ghana and other West African countries to sign on to the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). According to ... Read More

UN Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, has appointed Prof Henrietta Mensah-Bonsu, Director of the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD) as a member of a 14- member High Level Independent Panel on ... Read More