As the world turns attention to promoting a green clean environment devoid of pollution, one thing that has become a major cause for concern is the issue of plastic waste swallowing countries, especially, developing ones. It is reported that approximately 380 billion plastic bags are manufactured annually and only...
An annual campaign has been launched in the Northern Region to spray households to prevent the spread of malaria. The spraying is known as “Indoor Residual Spraying,” which is the application of long-acting insecticides on the walls of houses in order to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes that land close to...
Global financial leaders convened in Washington, DC, last week for the annual spring meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund.
This year, they asked the world’s taxpayers to grant the World Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) more capital to fill global infrastructure gaps.
Increasing the...
Josephine Dossah, President of the association, presented programmes of activities at its quarter general meeting at Ghana Reinsurance Company’s conference centre in Accra last week.
The presentation of activities for the year was done under the theme ‘The Contemporary Woman in the World of Business’. The President told the gathering...
The National Service Personnel Association (NASPA) officially launched the 8th Terminal Congress at Cape Coast today.
The 2-day congress will see delegates from various Regions come together to elect executives to man the association for the next Service year.
The congress which was held under the theme, “Entrepreneurship and Capacity Building;...
Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in the Western and Central regions are expected to have their financials probed from the 2015-2016 Auditor-General’s report later on Monday when the Public Accounts Committee(PAC) continues its regional sittings.
The public engagements in Takoradi, with support from USAID and GIZ will see the...
Kicks out BXC before announcing winning bid
Meralco emerges sole contender and adjudged winner
Contrary to claims by the Millennium Development Authority’s (MIDA) that the two companies which bid for the ECG concession were both evaluated on their merits, it has emerged that one of the finalists - BXC...
Aviation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, is upbeat that the completion of the Terminal 3 at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) would increase passenger throughput by 50 percent.
“I believe we could grow by 50 percent. It is not beyond us, because in the West Coast, Accra is a major connecting...
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has set aside GH₵25m to put up district offices across the country before end of the year.
NHIA district offices are for the purpose of decentralising operations to enable easy access to the services rendered by the Authority, and for that matter health care,...
Dinosaurs are extinct for a reason. They didn’t get the memo. It is a measure of how often we don’t actually read the small print, that the quietly potent announcement issued by the Millennium Development Authority was duly reported and allowed to sink, without a ripple or comment. Until...