Chief Emeka Anyoaku, a former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth revealed last week that about 148 billion dollars "leaves the continent" each year due to corruption.

THE Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana, NETRIGHT, has donated GH¢1,000 (Ten Million Cedis) to the flood victims of the northern sector of the country.

West Africa has the most expensive, least efficient road transport in the world.

African Diaspora defined as peoples of African descent/origin living outside the continentplay an increasingly important role in the continent’s development, both through the financial resources they send back to their home countries and through their professional expertise.

Ghana has banned the overland transit of cocoa and cocoa waste from neighbouring states across its territory. This measure is designed to stop the overland transit practice being used as a cover for smuggling Ghanaian beans out of the country, officials said last Friday.

Ghana’s capital market is expected to witness a lot of activity as a number of planned issues are being released on the market.

Anglogold Ashanti last week presented to the general public, the performance of two of its mining centres in Ghana, namely Iduapriem and Obuasi.

Ghana currently has an active working population of more than six million but only 1.5million people are taxpayers.

THE British Government says businesses would in future face on-the-spot fines of £10,000 for every illegal immigrant they are caught employing.

THE Minister of Energy, Joseph Kofi Adda, has hinted that government will move to blacklist oil marketing firms which falsify wage bills, adulterate fuel, and engage in other illegal activities.