Why the Volta Region needs development finance partners for economic transformation

Dr. Elikplim Apetorgbor The Volta Region boasts vast untapped potential, spanning agriculture, energy, tourism, and logistics. But unlocking this promise requires catalytic, patient, and structured investment. Development Finance Institutions...

Volta: Ghana’s New Agribusiness Frontier

A Region Poised for Transformation The Volta Region stands at a defining moment in its development journey. Blessed with fertile lands, diverse agro-ecological zones, abundant water resources, and proximity to both domestic and regional markets,...

Nigeria’s Rig Count Jumps 762% To 69 As NUPRC Marks Four Years Of Growth

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) on Sunday, published a list of 16 high impact achievements four years after its establishment, listing as one of its highpoints, the geometric rise in Nigeria’s rig count from a low of...

Veep hails Asogli Yam Festival, reaffirms government’s commitment to food security

‎By Rachel Quartey & Rukayatu Musah ‎ ‎Vice President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has reaffirmed government’s commitment to agricultural transformation and food security, emphasizing that Ghana’s future lies in empowering farmers and...

Volta Region is Ghana’s new agribusiness frontier [Article]

The Volta Region stands at a defining moment in its development journey. Blessed with fertile lands, diverse agro-ecological zones, abundant water resources, and proximity to both domestic and regional markets, Volta has every ingredient to become...

Inside the EU’s private assessment on Trump’s massive aid cuts

Donald Trump’s deep cuts to US foreign aid open the door for the EU to wield greater influence abroad – but risk undermining health programs and fuelling a resurgence of ISIS in Syria, according to a confidential working paper, circulated among EU...

QNET Celebrates 27 Years Anniversary Thriving on Integrity, Transparency, Product Innovation and Service to Mankind – Chandrasekaran and Kuna 

QNET is officially 27 years old. Founded in 1998, QNET has surmounted challenges to emerge as one of the global leaders in direct selling impacting millions of lives across the world with its well-researched, quality and certified wellness and...

NUPRC Releases 4-year Scorecard, Nigeria’s Rig Count Jumps 762% to 69

*Says 400 dormant oil fields identified, quick actions to follow *N358.6bn remitted to host oil communities *Sahara Group targets 350,000 barrels per day oil production, acquires seven rigs Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja and Peter Uzoho in Lagos The...

Bridges, roads succumb to flood in Taraba, Kebbi, others

Bridges and roads are critical infrastructure that make the movement of people and goods from one location to another easy. However, in recent months, communities across many parts of the country have been grappling with the devastating impact of...

Africa Resilience Forum 2025: Development Leaders Call For High-Quality Border Infrastructure To Facilitate Free Movement Of Goods And People

(MENAFN- APO Group) The political will to build quality infrastructure at borders, including the construction of a single digitised checkpoint between two neighbouring countries, should facilitate the free movement of people and goods and help...

Stop glorifying dubious wealth – Togbe Afede urges Ghanaians

The Agbogbomefia of Asogli, Togbe Afede XIV, has called on Ghanaians to stop glorifying wealth of dubious origin and to stand firm against all forms of corruption, stressing that genuine wealth must come from hard work. He urged citizens to...

Asogli State celebrates 2025 Yam Festival with calls for uni...

Vice President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, Saturday graced the grand durbar celebration of the Te Za (Yam Festival) of the chiefs and people of Asogli in the Volta Region. The 2025 celebration, which was held in Ho, also coincided with...

Ghana Co-Hosts UN Reform and Reparations Event

West African nations champion institutional reform and justice during 80th General Assembly gathering Ghana and Togo co-hosted a high-level side event during the 80th United Nations General Assembly focusing on accelerating UN reform while...

Lancaster 9th Graduation Ceremony: Graduates urged to harness AI for innovation and national transformation

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly emerging as a tool Ghana cannot afford to overlook, with immense potential to drive research, innovation, and economic growth. Experts say generative AI and AI-driven analytics, in particular, can boost...

No wonder this new upscale Bay Area restaurant is packed. It has zero competition.

One of the Bay Area’s buzziest new restaurants, Valley Goat, is in the middle of what feels eerily like a food desert. The upscale restaurant, tucked inside the posh Treehouse Hotel in Sunnyvale’s booming tech district, is more than 3 miles from a...

Video: How China’s ‘Great Green Wall’ brings hope but also hardship

Inner Mongolian herder Dorj looked bitterly at the vast grasslands where his flock once grazed freely, before the practice was banned as part of a massive Chinese state greening project. This picture taken on August 12, 2025 shows an aerial view...

Leaders urge investment in single border posts, digital checkpoints to unlock AfCFTA potential

African development leaders and trade experts have renewed calls for urgent investment in modern border infrastructure and digital checkpoints to break persistent bottlenecks hindering the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), warning that...

Asogli State celebrates 2025 Yam Festival

Vice President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, Saturday graced the grand durbar celebration of the Te Za (Yam Festival) of the chiefs and people of Asogli in the Volta Region. The 2025 celebration, which was held in Ho, also coincided with...

Universities must evolve to build a more resilient economy, says Shorten

University of Canberra vice-chancellor Bill Shorten has called for a “fundamental re-imagining” of Australia’s universities as a “core instrument of our national power”. In his first major speech on the sector’s future, Shorten has urged breaking...

LONG READ: The GEMIs, the Global Emerging Markets' interlocking institutions

The international order is breaking up as the Global Emerging Markets (GEMs) build a raft of new non-Western interlocking international institutions to run their vision of a new multipolar world order. At the same time the incumbent...