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TOR shut down

TOR shut down
The Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) plant has been temporarily shut down for lack of crude oil. A source close to TOR who disclosed this yesterday said the refinery had remained shut for the past one and half weeks. A visit by Times to the refinery yesterday confirmed the non-operation of the plant. Some workers who...

Black Star’s goalkeeper ‘Olele’ to wed sweetheart

Black Star’s goalkeeper ‘Olele’ to wed sweetheart
In Proverbs chapter 18 versus 22, the Holy Bible says “He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favour from the Lord”. The former Accra Great Olympics goalie, Richard Paul Franck Kingson known in the popular ‘Kalypo’ advert as “Richard Kingson, 22, Black Stars” is set to...

Ghana vs. Serbia: Black Stars’ win puts Africa on the map

Ghana vs. Serbia: Black Stars’ win puts Africa on the map
Ghana today became the first African team to win a match in the first World Cup to be held on African soil. “I think it’s a piece of history that we just saw,” former German soccer star Jurgen Klinsmann told fellow ESPN commentators after the Ghana vs. Serbia game. “I think it’s awesome for this...

Ghanaian Developers Excite Google

Ghanaian Developers Excite Google
Senior Google executives are enthused about the level of training and education of Ghanaian web developers, which they say makes the country an icon in the technology world. Google’s Vice President of Engineering for Europe, Middle East and Africa region, Dr. Nelson Mattos, told B&FT in an interview...

Diff’rent Strokes star Coleman dies

Diff’rent Strokes star Coleman dies
Gary Coleman, the child star of the smash 1970s TV sitcom Diff’rent Strokes whose later career was marred by medical and legal problems, has died at the age of 42 after suffering a brain haemorrhage. Utah Valley Regional Medical Centre spokeswoman Janet Frank said the actor’s life support machine...

50 Cent Loses 50 Pounds For New Movie Role

50 Cent Loses 50 Pounds For New Movie Role
Take a look at the incredible transformation of 50 Cent. The rapper and part-time movie star lost over 50 pounds (23 kg) to play the part of an American football player who has been diagnosed with cancer in upcoming film, Things Fall Apart. Fifty (or Curtis Jackson as his mum calls him), normally weighs in...

Like David Beckham …Michael Essien will be Offered backroom staff role in South Africa Black stars midfielder, Michael Essien has been ruled out of the 2010 Fifa World Cup. The decision was arrived at during a crunch meeting between the Chelsea midfielder, his doctors and the medical team of the Black...

Atta Mills – 6 Dismissals…Who Is Next?

Atta Mills – 6 Dismissals…Who Is Next?
Just 16 months after President John Evans Atta Mills took over the Presidency, after winning the election on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), it is becoming more evident that the people who were dying to serve in his government knew very little of the principles of the soft-spoken law...

Essien For Real Madrid?

Essien For Real Madrid?
JOSE MOURINHO has told Real Madrid to make a £50?million move on his old club Chelsea for Michael Essien and Ashley Cole. Mourinho, who had talks with Real on Monday and is expected to be named as their new boss within the week, has already lined up a hitlist of summer targets with an expected £100m budget...

Ghana bids to break Africa’s oil curse

Ghana bids to break Africa’s oil curse
Oil could transform Ghana in a decade * Escaping “resource curse” top challenge * Transparency lacking but modest reserves may prove boon * Discipline lures stock investors, but liquidity tight ACCRA, May 26 (Reuters) – As Ghana awaits the first riches from one of Africa’s top oil...

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