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The services sector emerged top as the leading employing sector of the economy, in 2014, contributing to more than half of the country’s GDP, that’s according to the Ghana Statistical Service. This was revealed at the launch of the additional reports of the Integrated Business Establishment Survey (IBES) Phase One Report. According to the report, over six hundred and thirty-eight thousand (638,000) non-household companies had been registered, with 83 percent of them being small scale enterprises. Deputy government’s statistician, Baah Wadieh explains further. “8 out of every 10 employees were employed by the services sector, according to the data, it…

Women love romance and its mysterious nature. There’s something about those intimate gestures of true love and deep affection from the one who gets our emotions flowing that stirs up our most passionate nature in an instant. When a man goes out of his way to make sure his woman knows he was thinking of her when she wasn’t around and no special occasion needed to be remembered, it reminds her of just exactly why he made her swoon when they first fell for each other. Romance is what makes the love between two people so damn amazing. It’s what…

Women love romance and its mysterious nature. There’s something about those intimate gestures of true love and deep affection from the one who gets our emotions flowing that stirs up our most passionate nature in an instant. When a man goes out of his way to make sure his woman knows he was thinking of her when she wasn’t around and no special occasion needed to be remembered, it reminds her of just exactly why he made her swoon when they first fell for each other. Romance is what makes the love between two people so damn amazing. It’s what…

Black Stars goalkeeper Razak Brimah has issued an apology for his unsavoury comments against people who have labeled him a bad goalkeeper. Brimah, who is first choice goalkeeper of senior national team, in a post on his Facebook wall stated that the words he used were “unacceptable and offensive” and did not represent his true values. The shotstopper on Monday, a day after producing some fine saves for Ghana against DR Congo, posted a video on Facebook, hurling insults on his critics. He later deleted the video after facing backlash from some fans who called for his immediate expulsion from the team’s…

Government has ordered eleven top management members of the Ghana COCOBOD to proceed on leave effective Monday 30th January, 2017. A similar order has been given to three senior managers of the Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC), a subsidiary of COCOBOD who are also leaving with immediate effect. The eleven COCOBOD senior management staff include Deputy Chief Executive – Agronomy and Quality Control, Deputy Chief Executive – Finance and Administration,  Deputy Chief Executive -Operations, Director – Human Resource, Director Civil Works, Deputy Director Civil Works, Procurement Manager, Director of Estates and the Deputy Director Finance. The three CMC managers ordered to…

The high school educational fair being organized by AB Review – an education research, school and career planning firm will be held on Friday, Feb 3 at the National Theatre, Accra. The one-day fair, which would be held under the theme “Before I Choose My School and Course” would provide a platform for final year Junior High School students and their parents to meet and engage with senior high school counsellors and students from selected public and private senior high schools. The first part of the event will involve short presentations from school counselors on why students should consider their…

Radio France International’s Jean-Baptiste Placca has apologized for comments he made on the station’s weekly programme “La semaine de Jean-Baptiste Placca” on Saturday January 21, 2017, during which he alleged that Ghana’s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings had called on the African Union to replicate the ECOWAS mission in the Gambia by removing Cameroun’s Paul Biya from office. In a letter dated January 24, 2017 and addressed to the former President, Jean-Baptiste Placca said: “I humbly and respectfully address my apologies to you for wrongly putting your name in the weekly analysis chronicle on Radio France International. I…

Ghanaian, Ambassador Kwesi Quartey has been elected the Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission. He was elected on Monday at the 28th Summit of Heads of State and Government at the African Union (AU) Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With over 35 years experience as a diplomat, Ambassador Quartey served in various capacities in Ghana’s Embassies and High Commissions in Cotonou, Cairo, Brussels, Havana, London and the Ghana Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. Ambassador Quartey was the Executive Secretary to former President John Dramani Mahama. He previously served as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional…

Ibu recalled he was kicked out by a friend he was squatting with and did not eat for three days. “Do you know that there was a day that I had prepared to kill myself in Ajao Estate? That day, I was prepared to jump into a well because of the situation that surrounded me,” Mr Ibu said. “Three days before that day, I had not eaten and I did not have hope of eating for the next week. I was only surviving on water and I hate it when I bother anyone. Most of my close friends were not…

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency in the Volta Region, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has expressed surprise over the Minority Chief Whip’s denial of a bribery allegation against the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko. “We are not saying he is part of the conspiracy to lie so it is up to him to conspire with them and lie to the nation”, Okudzeto Ablakwa who is also a Member of the Appointments Committee of Parliament told Onua FM’s Yen Sempa on Monday. The former Deputy Information Minister said “it is up to him [Mohammed Muntaka who is also the MP…