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...
Brussels Airlines, an airline giant has made changes to its top management, appointing Christina Foerster as it new Chief Executive Officer effective April 1, 2018.
She becomes the first-ever female to head a Lufthansa Group airline replacing Bernard Gustin who has been at the position since June 1, 2012.
In a...
Government has launched a public register of petroleum contracts, agreements, authorisations and permits in a bid to enhance transparency and accountability in the upstream oil and gas sector.
The register, which was curated by senior staff of the Petroleum Commission, is hosted via a web portal and presently contains 17...
Fiscal policy think-tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), has commended plans by government to hedge the country’s oil imports as part of moves to ensure some form of price stability.
Speaking at a press conference in Accra, Prof. Newman Kusi-Executive Director of the institute, said the development is a...