Ghana told to stop new oil drilling

>China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has started the first oil drilling phase in Hoima District. The drilling of Kingfisher 4 well, which started early this month, is the first since the exploration phase ended and will pave way for commercial production.

We will be farming down both Pangani and Kilosa-Kilombero licences and the process is being run by the UK-based First Energy, a brokerage company with experience in energy deals. We have about double digit companies interested to come-in. By the end of March, we hope the process will finish and then we will know who the potential partners are.

>Despite high level of unemployment, economic disparities with the whites and widening income distribution gap, it was wrong for South Africans to attack fellow Africans from outside; it has been observed.

Stop using youth for own gains, politicians told
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POLITICAL leaders here have been urged to refrain from using youth as weapons to stage demonstrations or engage in political chaos for their own gains because such actions endanger peace that has been prevailing in the country for years. On the same ...

Members of the Constituent Assembly (CA) have been urged to focus on improving the second Draft Constitution, instead of showing one another their political inclinations.

Fifa reveals it was prepared to pay Ghana's players their World Cup bonuses and deduct it from the Ghana FA's prize money.

Doctors in Ghana stop providing emergency services as they continue their strike over better allowances and free training.

We’ve so many gems crying out to be shared today. For this reason, we’ll skip the lectures and start dishing them out, starting with stuff from the Tuesday, Oct 7 edition of the tabloid whose boss endorses this columnist’s paycheque, entitled, “Political leaders urged to advocate peace.” Says the scribbler says in her intro:

Until a maritime territorial dispute between Ghana and Ivory Coast is resolved, drilling for new oil reserves must stop, says the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.