Fossil fuel consumption is inevitable in both obvious and subtle ways. The widespread use of these resources have immensely improved living conditions across the globe. From the use of electricity, the vehicles we operate and most of the goods consumed, fossil fuels are arguably the spine of modern society...
Mobile data will be used in Ghana to track and control epidemics, helping prevent a repeat of the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, in a pioneering programme announced by Vodafone Foundation on Monday.
The initiative will use aggregated anonymised mobile data to track real-time trends in population movement, the charitable...
The second edition of the Ghana Manufacturing Awards will recognize achievements from local and international manufacturing companies and reward those that played a defining role in moving the sector forward.
The event, scheduled for Friday, May 24, 2018 at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel in Accra, will be held in...
The Institute of Distance Learning at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has inaugurated its Takoradi City Campus at Kansaworodo, a suburb of Takoradi, to enable working class people, in particular, to upgrade themselves academically.
The campus project was financed from the university’s Internally Generated Fund (IGF)...
The volume of gas supplied to Ghana by Nigeria for thermal power production has reduced by about 50 percent.
Natural gas supplied by NGas via the West Africa Gas Pipeline Company Limited (WAPCo) now averages about 60mscf per day as against the contractual volume of 123mscf per day.
The situation has...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has expressed worry over the increasing use of bleaching pills in the country, saying it has not approved any pill, tablet or cosmetic for skin-lightening purposes - and that it is an offence for anyone to use them.
“The use of these drugs has...
The Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE) has officially launched its Golden Jubilee anniversary celebration at the Engineers Excellence Awards (EEA) night.
The year-long celebration, which was launched by the President of GhIE, Ing. Mrs. Carlien Bou-Chedid as part of her welcome at the Engineering Excellence Awards, is under the theme...
Ghana International Bank (GHIB) has reiterated its commitment to use its Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) programmes to support its developing partners in the country to help alleviate poverty and improve health care delivery and education.
The Ghanaian-owned international bank based in London makes annual donations of one percent from its...
As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility agenda for the year, Ecobank Ghana, joined hands with its other subsidiary companies and numerous customers to donate blood to various blood banks across four centres in Ghana.
Dubbed “The Ecobank Blood is Life Exercise”, the event was held on Wednesday, 14th February,...
Computing from the Bank of Ghana data, the non-performing loans of the banking industry stood at about GHc6.16 billion in 2016 and GHc8.56 billion in 2017 representing a growth rate of about 39% in nominal terms. The non-performing loans ratio was 17.3% by the end of 2016 and it...