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...
The National Accreditation Board (NAB) has said it lacks the power to close down the close-to-50 unaccredited tertiary institutions it has identified.
Following a recent publication in the B&FT on the said unaccredited institutions, there have been calls for the board to deal with such institutions instead of simply publishing...
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has welcomed moves by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government, to hedge its oil imports under a new risk management strategy to keep fiscal consolidation on track as global crude prices recover.
According to the civil society group, moves to hedge the country’s oil...
Over 500 children, the majority being girls, have received bicycles for commuting to and from school to enhance their academic work in the Northern Region.
The initiative, introduced by the Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (CCFC), is to reduce the frustration that schoolchildren go through in rural areas as well...
The Department of Communication Innovation and Technology (CIT) of the University for Development Studies (UDS) is to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) to deepen its relationship for a joint communication programme.
This is to enhance the capacity of students trained at the...
Africa cannot depend on others to finance education on the continent when it has the wherewithal to do so, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said.
He said Africa has the resources and capacity to finance access to quality education of its citizens, and also promote the continent’s interests.
"If we...
Government has secured US$20m from the African Development Bank (AfDB) for constructing a link road between Volivo to Dorfor Adidome, the site for constructing an alternative bridge across the Volta Lake, Kwasi Amoako-Atta, the Roads & Highways Minister has told Parliament.
Even though government has already secured Japanese concessionary funding...