Africa
Sunday, 20th May, 2012 - 18:11
[Ghanaian Chronicle]
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has launched its annual report on petroleum revenue management for 2011 in Accra yesterday with a revelation that revenue from petroleum helped the government to shore-up the investment in the road sector
Sunday, 20th May, 2012 - 18:09
[Ghanaian Chronicle]
The Bank of Ghana has observed, since the last meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) that the transactions market for foreign exchange remains broadly stable, consistent with economic fundamentals. However, speculative activity of currency traders in the inter-bank foreign exchange market continues to exert pressures on exchange rates, resulting in continuing depreciation of the Ghana cedi.
Sunday, 20th May, 2012 - 18:07
[Ghanaian Chronicle]
Offinso -
One of the three demonstrators shot by the police at Offinso in the Ashanti Region last week has died at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), where he had been rushed for treatment.
Sunday, 20th May, 2012 - 18:06
[This Day]
Alice Ugo Bassey, a former Nigerian judoka, is a beneficiary of the on-going sports revolution in Cross River State. Bassey had resigned to fate after endless search for funds to treat the knee injury she copped at a pre 2007 All Africa Games camp produced no result. She was no longer talking about Judo that was her first love any more. Instead, she was beginning to feel used and abandoned. The worst of all was the manner of walking she suddenly picked up from the injury was unladylike.
Sunday, 20th May, 2012 - 18:04
[Ghanaian Chronicle]
Barring any unforeseeable challenges, the University of Health and Allied Sciences in the Volta Region would start admitting students for its 2012/13 academic training programme in September this year, Minister of Education Lee Ocran has disclosed.
Sunday, 20th May, 2012 - 18:03
[Vanguard]
Former Super Eagles coach, Chief Adeboye Onigbinde has lamented the neglect and poor treatment of national heroes who have served their fatherland by the various levels of governments in the country.
Sunday, 20th May, 2012 - 18:02
[Times of Zambia]
THE Zambian Government has signed a US$30 million finance contract with the European Investment Bank (EIB) for upgrading of the Kafue-Livingstone electricity power transmission line.
Sunday, 20th May, 2012 - 17:59
[New Vision]
About 68 passengers survived death Friday afternoon when a Jaguar bus they were traveling in overturned in a valley on Mbarara-Kabale road, a few kilometers after Nyihanga trading center.
Sunday, 20th May, 2012 - 17:59
[New Times]
The meeting that will be held from June 4 to 7 will bring together hundreds of leading ICT experts, regulators, companies, among others from Africa and beyond.
Sunday, 20th May, 2012 - 17:31
[UN News]
The United Nations envoy in Somalia, Augustine P. Mahiga, today expressed concern over recent violent clashes in the northern city of Hargeisa, located in Somaliland, between Somaliland security forces and citizens which allegedly resulted in the deaths on both sides.
