By Joshua Worlasi AMLANU &Ebenezer Chike Adjei Njoku
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has announced a significant increase in the price of cocoa for the 2024-2025 season, pegging the price at GH¢48,000 per tonne.
This translates to GH¢3,000 per 64-kilogram bag of cocoa, marking an unprecedented 129.36 percent increase from the...
By Juliet Aguiar DUGBARTEY, Takoradi
Tullow Ghana has inaugurated a 12-unit girls’ dormitory block for Takoradi Senior High School (TADISCO) in Takoradi to solve accommodation challenges.
The dormitory block's capacity accommodates 600 students, and this marks a significant milestone in the school's history.
Acting Western Regional Director of Education, Mr. George Effah,...
By Juliet Aguiar DUGBARTEY
Gold Fields Ghana Foundation has organised a free medical outreach at Brahabobom community in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region.
This is to ensure quality healthcare for all, to enable the individuals to know their health status, and then live a healthy lifestyle.
The community members...
By Ernest Bako WUBONTO
Chief Executive Officer-Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Yofi Grant, has urged African nations to monetise their natural resources to generate the revenue required for creating transgenerational transformative wealth.
With Africa recorded as being home to some 30 percent of the world's mineral reserves, 40 percent of the...
Kofi Anokye OWUSU-DARKO(Dr)
There are two press releases circulating on Informal Sector Pensions dated 26/08/2024 and 30/08/2024 issued by the National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA), bringing to the attention of the general public that informal sector pensions already exist. In the 30/08/2024 press release, the NPRA directly linked informal sector...
By Samuel Tetteh TEI
For anyone who cares about the future we’re leaving for the generations to come, the sight of polluted rivers by mining activities doesn’t just sadden the heart— it breaks your spirit. Once-clear waters have turned cloudy and toxic, leaving you to wonder whether our leaders genuinely...
By Kizito CUDJOE
The Ghana Civil Society Cocoa Platform (GCCP) has issued a stern warning to government, noting a looming threat of collapsing local Licensed Buying Companies (LBCs) as the country approaches its 2024/2025 cocoa season.
In their reflections on the 2023/2024 cocoa season, GCCP emphasised that the demise of these...
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is confident in its ability to help the government achieve its goal of converting 50% of Ghanaians to the use of gas for cooking by 2030, according to Dr. Joseph Wilson, Director of Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation at the NPA.
Dr. Wilson explained that this...
By Ebenezer Chike Adjei NJOKU
Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Bryan Achaempong, has announced that major cocoa processors, rather than banks, will be the primary sources of funding to address any shortfalls Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) may face ahead of the 2024/2025 season.
Addressing concerns about local banks' willingness to...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has defended its decision to move away from syndicated external borrowing, the reasons for which have sparked a heated debate.
In a statement issued yesterday, COCOBOD Chief Executive Joseph Boahene Aidoo rejected claims made by the Minority in parliament which argued that the cocoa regulator...