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Top on the list is cassava, which could be used to produce ethanol for industrial use and other frequently utilized home products, according to a Senior Advisor at the Bank. Martin Fregene, an Advisor to the Bank’s Vice-President of Agriculture, Human and Social Development in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, said the Bank’s Feed Africa Strategy, which advocates for large-scale investment in the cassava crop and its rapid industrial processing, provides the best avenue for more farmers of the crop to benefit. Fregene made the comments at the 7th African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Abidjan during a session on the “Rise of the African…

Actress Rebel Wilson has been awarded A$4.5m (£2.7m; $3.6m) in Australia’s largest payout for a defamation case. Wilson successfully argued that a series of magazine articles had wrongly portrayed her as a serial liar. In June a jury unanimously sided with the star, who had claimed the articles stifled her career in Hollywood. She has said she will give the money away. Bauer Media has always denied the articles were defamatory. A lawyer said it would consider the judgement. Wilson sought A$7m during the trial but had offered to settle for A$200,000 before it went to court. Justice John Dixon told…

The government has been reminded that the use of the oil revenue to fund the Free Senior High School Policy (Free SHS) will affect other sectors of the economy. A Senior Lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba, in the Central Region, Dr. Ahmed Jinapor, who made the observation explained that “the question we [Ghanaians] need to ask ourselves is, the money that we get from these natural resources, are they lying idle?” The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday while launching the government’s flagship programme, “Free SHS” said Ghana’s oil revenue will be used to fund the Free Senior High…

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, left Accra on Tuesday September 12, 2017 for Geneva, Switzerland to attend a High Level Panel Discussion organised by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The discussion will be under the theme “Accelerating Progress in Building Productive Capacities in Least Developing Countries and Other Vulnerable Developing Economies.” Vice President Bawumia is expected to analyse the development challenges faced by Africa in general and Ghana in particular, and stimulate discussion on measures to facilitate greater trade and investment on the continent. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), is the…

An Executive Order by former President John Mahama, promoting Tamale Polytechnic into a technical university in 2016 has been reversed by the government, the school claimed. This has incurred the displeasure of the Technical University Teachers’ Association of Ghana (TUTAG), Tamale Chapter, Technical University Administrators’ Association of Ghana (TUAAG), Tamale Chapter, Technical University Workers Association of Ghana (TUWAG), Tamale Chapter, Alumni Association, and the SRC leadership. A press statement endorsed by the five bodies on Tuesday, “observed with grave concern that the current government has cleverly taken a covert step to downgrade Tamale Technical University back to a polytechnic by…

The ABN Group owners of Forbes Africa and CNBC Africa platforms have appointed Peace Hyde as its new Head of Digital Media and Strategic Partnerships. Hyde will still be maintaining her current role as the West Africa Correspondent for the leading business publication but will also head the new digital platform, www.ForbesAfrica.com and drive user and engagement as well as create ongoing partnerships with brands and affiliates to cement the dominance of the magazine which is the number 1 read business magazine amongst Africa’s affluent according to a recent Ipsos EMS Survey. “The publishing game has changed dramatically in recent years. Forbes…

The Asokwa suburb of Kumasi on Tuesday hosted hundreds of small scale miners who trooped from various mining districts in the Ashanti region to join in a protest march. Clad in red and black apparel, the miners had planned to hit the streets in a demonstration dubbed “Yere bere”, to wit ‘we are suffering’. Their goal was to prevail on the government to lift a six month ban on smallscale mining. “We are legitimate small-scale miners; we have acquired our licensing and we have also acquired loans from the banks and other financial institutions, so our investments need to be…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has encouraged students who could not enjoy the government’s free senior high school policy because they failed in their Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) to re-sit. About 36,000 students who failed in either English or Mathematics were deemed unqualified to pursue free education under the policy for the 2017/18 academic year. Rewriting the examination papers is the surest way they could stage a comeback to benefit from the much touted policy which became operational on Monday and was launched a day after. Over 400,000 students are expected to receive a three-year government’s scholarship package which…

While Hurricane Irma keeps sweeping through the states of the USA, Hurricane Marriage is also speedily sweeping through Media General, especially TV3. For two consecutive weeks, staff of the media group have had their Saturdays booked as the weddings would not stop. On the 2nd of September 2017, Assignment Editor and one of TV3’s senior journalists, Thomas Adotei Pappoe, tied the knot with his heart throb Jessica Aklerh Dosoo, a former staff of TV3. The two law students trended on social media with their beautiful and well-organised white-themed wedding, held at the Arakan Mess at Burma Camp. Exactly a week…