The Grand Final of the 2017 United Bank for Africa Foundation National Essay Competition was held at the Bank’s Corporate Headquarters in Accra, last Tuesday. The event saw 16-year-old Jason Emmanuel K. Asante Ghansah, from the Presbyterian Boys Senior High School, emerge as winner. The 4th edition of the contest brought...
The Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL), Petroleum Commission of Ghana and Ghana Ports and Harbour Authority (GPHA) Takoradi have expressed confidence in curbing the menace of illegal bunkering that has damaged the country’s oil and gas. After an inspection by a delegation from the Petroleum Commission at the US$15m Marine...
The second edition of the Poultry Value Chain Fair (PCVF) will be held in the Brong Ahafo Regional capital of Sunyani, from March 21 to 22, 2018. The event will be on the theme ‘Employment creation along the poultry value chain: the public private partnership approach’. The Fair is an...
Sahara Group has refurbished the Metal Works Technical Workshop of the Manhean Technical School as part of its corporate social responsibility. Working in concert with other stakeholders, Sahara Group’s intervention has transformed learning experience in the school. The renovation of the workshop included the construction of a shed to accommodate the...
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA), has expressed displeasure at some groups’ decision to demonstrate against recent increases in prices of petroleum products at the pump by some oil marketing companies. Following reports of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) and Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)’s intended demonstration this week,...
While politicians and civil society actors continue to haggle over the Plant Breeders bill, the global seed market reached a value of more than US$58billion in 2016 and is expected to reach over US$86billion by 2022. Commercial production of seeds is increasingly becoming the norm across the globe, but farmers...
tapping into great opportunities, but facing grave risks On Safer Internet Day, UNICEF calls for urgent action to protect children and their digital footprint More than 175,000 children go online for the first time every day – that is one child every half second – UNICEF said today...
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) is on a hunt for diverse natural predators in the country to help with biological control of Fall Armyworms (FAW). “As an option to control FAW, a research team is moving around the country to collect the larvae and eggs of FAW and...
The minority sounds plain panicky as it continues to attack the finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta's stay in office. They accuse Ofori-Atta of violating constitutional statutory regulations and guidelines when he issued the US$2.5billion bond Once upon a time, when Ofori-Atta presented his first financial budget he named the 'Asempa Budget', the...
GCB Bank has successfully completed the full integration of the systems of the erstwhile UT and Capital banks to offer customers a wide network of some 183 branches across the country. The integration included the consolidation of core banking applications, procedures and processes, the training of staff and the streamlining of...