Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) has expressed interest in moving upstream to become a major player in the exploration and production business. Its Board Chairman, Kwamena Bartels, told shareholders at their 49th Annual General Meeting that the company intends to partner an international player with proven technical competence to operate...
Cocoa sector says sustainability efforts have fallen short Companies, governments, NGOs pledge joint action going forward Chocolate companies, cocoa buyers should pay fair price Origin countries must limit output, curb deforestation Companies and governments have pledged to tackle poverty, deforestation and human rights abuses in the cocoa supply chain,...
A team of officers from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is in the Central Region visiting selected communities as part of a nationwide door-to-door LPG safety campaign. The team, from the Corporate Affairs Division, visited several eateries in the Mankessim, Komenda and Cape Coast areas, where vendors were educated on...
Smaller crops, more demand pave way for balance in 2017/18 Cargill looking to expand origin processing, focus on Africa Company to work with Ivory Coast on high-yield seed concerns Cargill sees the cocoa market broadly balanced in the current 2017/18 season and is aiming to expand its processing capacity...
Some foresters have expressed disgust over impediments being put in their way by officials of the Forestry Commission, the police and other law enforcement agencies when conveying lumber from their plantations and sawmills to the markets. They complain of being constantly harassed and their truckloads of certified lumber impounded by...
Nyonkopa Cocoa Buying Limited a subsidiary company of Barry Callebaut, the world leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products has paid a of GH¢ 8,839.993 as premium to farmers at separate durbars this year for sustainable cocoa production. As a tradition of the Horizon program, all trained and certified...
Four major oil-funded projects that were listed as completed in the Northern, Upper West and Brong Ahafo Regions cannot be traced, Kumasi Institute of Technology, Energy and Environment (KITE) has revealed after a visit to proposed oil-funded project sites. The four missing projects were: a 3-unit classroom block at Soo...
1,000ha of cocoa trees to be replanted in 4-yrs Cocobod has announced plans to undertake a nationwide exercise to remove all swollen shoot-affected cocoa trees, to prevent spread of the viral disease. The control programme, which has received government’s approval and is expected to commence soon, will include replanting...
A team of officers from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is in the Central Region visiting selected communities as part of a nationwide Door-to-Door LPG Safety Campaign. The team, from the Corporate Affairs Division, visited several eateries in the Mankessim, Komenda and Cape Coast areas, where vendors were educated on...
For the first time in the history of the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), which is held annually in the American city of Houston, Ghana will have a Pavilion at the April 30 to May 3, 2018 event. This is according to the Commercial Section of the United States Embassy in...