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Ghana's efforts in reducing the time and cost of doing business has reflected positively in the World Bank Trading Across Borders Indicator for 2017.

And, according to the World Bank Ease of Doing Business 2017 Report, Ghana ranks number one in West Africa and Top 10 in sub-Saharan Africa.

Nigeria have been drawn in Group A to play Ghana, Egypt and Cote d’Ivoire in the 2016 CAF Beach Soccer Cup of Nations holding between December 13-18 at the Eko Atlantic City, Lagos State.

Disclosing this weekend, the Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee of the tournament, Seyi Akinwunmi assured that the competition will set a mark for other major beach soccer competitions glob-ally.

Accra, Oct. 31, GNA - Goldstar Air, a wholly owned Ghanaian airliner has announced that it is accepting applications from suitably qualified Ghanaian pilots and engineers for Boeing 737 or Boeing 767 operations.

The company says its focus is to promote and protect the interest of Ghanaians.

Journalists interested in covering the 2016 general elections are expected to pay in order to be issued with accreditation for the national exercise.

The amount to be paid is yet to be determined by the Electoral Commission, a statement by the electoral body said. “Accreditation tags will be given to only those who have formally applied for it and for a fee to be determined by the Commission,” the statement signed by Eric Kofi Dzakpasu, Head of Communications at EC, said on Monday.

A new airline that will bridge the gap between equatorial Guinean’s capital Malabo and Accra, was greeted with cheers and applause at the airport, Friday.

The new airline, Cronos Airline will be flying from Accra to Malabo twice in a week and hopes to increase its frequency with increasing traffic.

Ghana’s aviation industry continues to receive many international airlines with increasing volume of traffic.

Nigerian billionaire Mike Adenuga has been conferred with the Ghanaian national award of ‘Companion Of The Star of Ghana’, the highest national honors in Ghana.

At a televised ceremony in Accra, Ghana on Saturday, Ghanaian President John Mahama bestowed the honor on the Nigerian tycoon in recognition of the immense contributions he has made to Ghana’s economic growth. Adenuga, who is referred to as ‘The Bull’ in Nigerian business circles, has assets worth more than $8 billion in Ghana alone, according to a citation read during the ceremony by President John Mahama.

Results of presidential and parliamentary elections would be announced within three days of casting of the ballot, the EC has announced.

EC Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, is confident the use of manual and electronic transmission of results will enable the Commission collate and declare results within 72 hours.

The Commission has been evaluating documents of telecom companies bidding for Virtual Private Network.

The secured network will enable results to be transmitted from 275 Collation Centers to the head office of the Electoral Commission.

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has allayed fears that country may be falling back into its power crisis days by explaining that the recent wide-spread outages were as a result of scheduled maintenance works on some Bulk Supply Points (BSPs).

At a press conference to explain the current happenings, the ECG’s Director of Operations, Engineer Tetteh Okine said the maintenance works on BSPs ended this past Sunday with work in Mallam and Baatsona.

The Chief Justice Mrs Georgina T. Wood said the Judiciary has men and women committed to safeguarding and protecting electoral rights based on the fundamental rights of all individuals.

She has therefore called for stakeholder collaboration and cooperation to ensure that electoral disputes were dealt with smoothly, timely and successively.

Mrs Justice Wood was speaking at the opening of the ninth edition of the Annual Chief Justice’s Forum in Accra on the theme: “The Judiciary and Election 2016.”