3rd July 2014 Still talking Hollywood, award-winning American writer Darryl Wharton-Rigby has been commissioned by US production company Bugeater to work on a thriller movie based on Ghana’s World Cup $3million drama. The script is about a courier who is tasked with transporting $3million to an African football team, which has refused to play until ... Read More
22 May 2014 South African Food retailers Johannesburg-listed food retailer, Famous Brands, has announced its intention to launch 41 new restaurants across its “brand repertoire” in Africa. The company has also shared its intention to begin operations in Ghana and Angola where it has no operations. The company is also looking at increasing its operations ... Read More
07 Mar 2014 More sports news, but this time from Modern Ghana with the report that Ghana’s U20 women’s team have drawn hosts Canada, Finland and Korea Republic for the 2014 FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup. Two years ago in Japan, the Back Princesses lost all three matches to finish ... Read More
27 Feb 2014 Citizens of Ghana are still commenting on a rather controversial decision to ban the use of popular slang “tweaa” from parliamentary proceedings. The word is an Akan interjection used mainly to express contempt for a statement and had started to gain widespread use in parliament, with members of parliament using the word ... Read More
19 Feb 2014 And over to the Global Newsreel to share the news that the USAID-Financing Ghanaian Agriculture Project has launched in Accra, Ghana. The five-year, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) project focuses on attracting finance options for rice, maize and soy value chains in Northern Ghana and ... Read More