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The Ghanaian Times is a state-owned daily newspaper published in Accra, Ghana. The newspaper was established in 1957. [ 2 ] It has a circulation of 80,000 copies and is published six times per week.
news from Ghana and Africa, politics, entertainment, world, health, business and sports Today Newspaper: North Ridge, Accra 2007 Ghana Sports Publications Limited w.todaygh.com: private Free Press: private The Gazette Newspaper: weekly newspaper The Ghanaian Chronicle [3] Accra 1996 [4] privately owned daily Ghanaian Times: state-owned daily
There are a total of 276 constituencies in Ghana. The 9th Parliament is set to convene on 7 January 2025 to elect a Speaker and Deputy Speakers as well as for the administration of oaths to the Speaker and Members of Parliament. One new constituency, Guan was contested for the first time in this parliament. [3]
This record saw Ghana surpass South Africa in output for the first time, making Ghana the largest gold producer in Africa. [143] In addition to gold, Ghana exports silver, timber, diamonds, bauxite, and manganese, and has other mineral deposits. [144] Ghana ranks 9th in the world in diamond export and reserve size. [145]
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The area of the Republic of Ghana (the then Gold Coast) became known in Europe and Arabia as the Ghana Empire after the title of its Emperor, the Ghana. [1] Geographically, the ancient Ghana Empire was approximately 500 miles (800 km) north and west of the modern state of Ghana, and controlled territories in the area of the Sénégal River and east towards the Niger rivers, in modern Senegal ...
Following the 6 March 1957 declaration of independence by Ghana from the United Kingdom, there were only around four newspapers.Leader Kwame Nkrumah eventually controlled all the press in Ghana and saw it as an instrument of state authority, providing propaganda that encouraged national unity and creating a hierarchal system of state apparatus to manage the media. [1]
1972, April 27 - Kwame Nkrumah, 63, first President of Ghana, natural causes in Romania, (born 1909) [23] 2012, July 24 - John Atta Mills, 68, then sitting president, died, and was in less than 12 hours time, succeeded by John Dramani Mahama, then Vice-president. 2012, November 16 - Aliu Mahama, 66, Ghana's first Muslim Vice President died. [31]