The African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Ghana is rallying stakeholders, including industry and the Diplomatic Corps, to support government’s bold ambition to transform Ghana’s development through research, innovation and the practical application of mathematical sciences. The President and CEO of AIMS, Thierry Zomahoun, speaking at an exclusive partnership event...
Under the guise of staging mock examinations and extra classes, basic school authorities have resorted to charging pupils high registration fees for the Basic Education Certificate Examination, in spite of heavy government subsidy. Checks by the B&FT from various basic schools revealed that some school authorities charge as much as...
Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) Alumni Association (GAA) has sworn-in national executives to see to the development of the school in Takoradi. Also, it is to recognize the executive and make them more functional, promote the interest of the students and the alumina. The executives are Gaint Wing Comdr. Rtd William...
  Prior to the formation of the European Union (EU), the history of Europe has been described by historians in several literature as centuries of warfare - bloody wars among neighbours and countries in Europe which culminated into the Second World War. In 1950, the European Coal and Steel community began...
He is a man of many parts, and he undertakes each of these with so much dexterity; it is difficult to tell which of these roles suit him best. Olufemi Muraino, until recently, was the Chief Executive Officer and Country Director of Global Solutions, an ICT and Infrastructure services and...
A young business entrepreneur has instituted an awards scheme to reward the best student entrepreneur at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The award, “The K.C. Amese Award” established by Kormi Courage Amese, a former KNUST student and co-Founder of Bluevyne Limited, an Accra-based startup publishing company...
Academy Award-winning film-maker Steve McQueen is to direct a documentary about the life of Tupac Shakur. McQueen, who won an Oscar for 12 Years a Slave, has been signed up to make the film by the late hip-hop star's family. Shakur, who was murdered in 1996, had only a five-year career...
One of the famous streets in London is the Oxford Street. It has some of the most expensive and famous shopping malls and eating places like Selfridges, Debenhams, House of Fraser, Marks and Spenser, John Lewis Russel & Bromley and others. Streets are well kept, public double decker red...
A self-styled contractor of the Electricity Company of Ghana working around Oyarifa-Teiman in the Greater Accra Region is, in connivance with some opinion leaders of the area, charging residents between GH¢370 and GH¢490 under the pretext of providing them with ECG meters. The said contractor, whose name the B&FT could...
Trade and Industry Minister, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, has indicated that government is considering various interventions in the energy sector that will make power more reliable and affordable, as it seeks to empower the private sector to create the much-needed jobs to drive the economy. “Very soon, if you want to...